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eh but I dont think that was ever implied...the parallel universe in the future, yes. but I dont think it was implied for him to go into the past, alternate universe.

the premise is hes somehow able to gather information from the dudes memory...and after that basic premise the logic goes all over the place :heh:

I mean, I could live with the fact he could interact with the world but once he got off the train and shyt I was like :beli:

I actually kept waiting for writers to show that hes imagining shyt/made it up like in brazil's ending...but that never came.

:rudy:

at the end of the movie, he sent the bish an email telling her they created a whole nother world and shyt:whoo:
 

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at the end of the movie, he sent the bish an email telling her they created a whole nother world and shyt:whoo:
dog...did you read anything I posted ? :what:

I said it wasnt implied throughout the whole movie that him going in the past...was a different timeline.

they created 'another world' by neutralizing the terrorist, ie there is a different timeline for the future.

but what about the past ? you telling me each time he went back to the train it created alternate timelines from one past in one particular timeline ?
 

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"The Source Code allows its user to experience the last eight minutes of another compatible person's life within an alternative timeline."

This just allows for a ton of possibilities. If you're okay with there possibly being technology like this, but you're not okay with being able to walk outside of the train? They essentially create an alternate universe everytime he goes into the source code. Other beings are existing within this universe as well..
:what: no...... I get that you liked the movie and when you made the topic you thought everybody was gonna high five you because they felt the same way......like when someone makes a "The Wire" thread. But again, you just can't make it up as you go along and then get a pass.

In that movie it was specifically stated that you could explore the final moments of the victim. That in itself is a good premise, but it will take a very good writer to write around that one very problematic rule. That meant that in reality he would have only been able to observe the people and what they were doing up until the bomb went off. But how weak of a movie would that have been? So, they allowed him to explore the train. We gave that a pass. But then they let him run all outside of the train and chase n!ggas around. WTF? That just doesn't make sense based on the rules THEY created. Its no debating it. You can still like it, fine, but that sh!t doesn't make sense and for a lot of people I know, that killed the movie for them.

Just off the top of my head, one thing they could have done was said that, anything that the person does outside of the known available memory sequence, would all be a guess. So for instance, if the person whose memory you are exploring, if they never saw a bomb, yet during the exploration of said memory you locate the bomb like in the movie, it would be noted as an approximation based on the data that you have. They could have then taken that data and in some "science fictiony" way got to the bottom of the situation based on that analysis. That helps to explain the flawed logic somewhat better. If I can come up with a more plausible explanation just sitting at the PC chillin, then these professional writers should have been able to come up with something better.
 

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Props for this thread man. I saw it coming on showtime earlier and I remember seeing this thread. shyt was dope but like someone else said it sucks for the dude whose life he took over :manny:
 

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for example...how is the protagonist able to find the terrorist outside of the train ? :what: when the memory of the person hes in is confined to the train itself ? technically speaking all interaction he does on the train should be imaginary too...


Well I rationalized it that each time he went back in the past he was in fact creating an alternate timeline and universe. The alternate universe he would go back into would just be a continuation of the previous event. He just would always go back to the original timeline. That also explains

The email he sent to Goodwin that the Source Code effectively allows the user to change history within alternative timelines

Unbeknownst to the scientists they were not only sending him back to the past, but creating alternate universe timelines based on the past events
 

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"The Source Code allows its user to experience the last eight minutes of another compatible person's life within an alternative timeline."

This just allows for a ton of possibilities. If you're okay with there possibly being technology like this, but you're not okay with being able to walk outside of the train? They essentially create an alternate universe everytime he goes into the source code. Other beings are existing within this universe as well..


This.

That pretty much explains the premise of the movie. If you don't follow this then the movie makes no sense
 

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Got two sci-fi movies in the top 10 this century in two tries. Moon might be top 10 all time.
 

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Well I rationalized it that each time he went back in the past he was in fact creating an alternate timeline and universe. The alternate universe he would go back into would just be a continuation of the previous event. He just would always go back to the original timeline. That also explains

The email he sent to Goodwin that the Source Code effectively allows the user to change history within alternative timelines

Unbeknownst to the scientists they were not only sending him back to the past, but creating alternate universe timelines based on the past events

but whats the point of trying to figure out the bomb/terrorist if in an alternate timeline he'll still exist ?
thats my point, why even do anything if its finna spawn off an alternative timeline anyway ? might just say fukk it and live it up in one...thats kinda what he did in the end I guess but still..
 

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but whats the point of trying to figure out the bomb/terrorist if in an alternate timeline he'll still exist ?
thats my point, why even do anything if its finna spawn off an alternative timeline anyway ? might just say fukk it and live it up in one...thats kinda what he did in the end I guess but still..


Not true. Point is in the original timeline time is moving forward and there is no ability to change their past. If you change the past it's creates a new timeline. Finding the bomber in the original timeline does not change the train from blowing up, but it helps prevent the dirty bomb from being detonated in Chicago.
 

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My honest opinion is the only two movies that accurately predict time travel is the movie primer and timecrimes. Either way people never seem to 'get' time travel
 

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Got two sci-fi movies in the top 10 this century in two tries. Moon might be top 10 all time.

I got moon a few months ago after i saw someone on her mention it..will peep within the next week
 
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