| # | Author | Message |
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| DlandDug
Mon 6/15/2009 11:23a | Great link in post #111. According to the press material from Pixar, Carl floats away on 360,000 balloons. So that, anyway, is in the realm of possibility.
Troubling, though, is how he manages to blow them all up and tether them in a single night! I checked with a balloon vendor at Disneyland, who said that working at absolute top speed, a single person can inflate and tie off 1,000 ballons in an hour. So, 360,000 balloons would take 360 hours (or 15 straight days and nights), working non-stop at top speed.
Clearly, this movie is ridiculous! |
132
| Dabob2
Mon 6/15/2009 12:22p | I really loved this movie, but all this talk about plausibility did bring one thing to mind that I hadn't thought of before:
Why the different languages when you clicked the dial on the dog collars? It made for a nice gag, but why would Muntz have bothered with any language but English? Was he planning on international visitors? |
133
| Dabob2
Mon 6/15/2009 12:23p | I really loved this movie, but all this talk about plausibility did bring one thing to mind that I hadn't thought of before:
Why the different languages when you clicked the dial on the dog collars? It made for a nice gag, but why would Muntz have bothered with any language but English? Was he planning on international visitors? |
134
| Disney and beyond
Mon 6/15/2009 12:42p | I thought that he might try to sell off the technology once he captures Kevin and returns to the real world. Having different languages would be helpful for international selling.
Maybe I'm thinking this too thuroughly... |
135
| skinnerbox
Mon 6/15/2009 1:37p | <<Maybe I'm thinking this too thuroughly...>>
Not really. Two things REALLY bothered me about the film, other than the ones already mentioned in the thread:
1) All of the dogs speaking were clearly male. Where were the female dogs (you know, the 'b' word) to create the puppies to replace the dogs lost in the labyrinth or to old age? And where were the puppies? All of the dogs were clearly adults. No way all of these dogs could be decades old like Muntz.
2) Muntz mentioned the 'labyrinth of rocks' that the dogs get lost in and never return from, where Kevin lives. Uh, Muntz? You have an airship. Why can't you hover over the labyrinth and guide your dogs? Or better yet, map the damned thing from the air.
The guy can talk to dogs and teach them how to fly planes but cannot find a 20 foot multicolored bird for decades. Suspension of disbelief snapped for me like a twig. |
136
| DlandDug
Mon 6/15/2009 1:43p | I wondered where all the girl dogs were, too.
Every time we saw the labyrinth of rocks, it seemed to have mist hovering over it. Also, it is safe to assume there were caves and pitfalls.
Suspension of disbelief is in the eye of the beholder... |
137
| DlandDug
Mon 6/15/2009 1:45p | While we are at it, what about the staggering amount of waste produced by all those dogs? And there was no sign of a shoe scraper at the entrance to Muntz's airship. That's a deal breaker, as far as I'm concerned... |
138
| Jim in Merced CA
Mon 6/15/2009 1:49p | ^^okay, now you're just being a wise guy :) |
139
| DlandDug
Mon 6/15/2009 1:52p | Nah, I'm just being snarky and provocative. But I must admit that when we first saw the open cave floor in front of Muntz's airship, I was scanning the 3D foreground and thinking, "That's one well trained pack of dogs!" |
140
| Dabob2
Mon 6/15/2009 2:14p | If they can cook dinner and pick out just the right Bordeaux, they can take themselves for a walk a little ways away. |
