Gotta love an explanation for the three seashells being in this WhatCulture video a week after it was in a different video about questions that will never be answered. I know the people behind these videos are working super hard, but it really feels like the channel's quality has fallen off a cliff.

There's a line in Independence Day where they stated that all our modern technology came from studying the crashed ship. Phones, computers, etc. So there is a reference and somewhat of an explanation in the movie.

The Kessel Run issue was resolved over 20 years ago in a book by Kevin J Anderson which gave the same explanation as the Solo movie.

I absolutely loved Pulp Fiction but I never once cared who the heck the Gimp was. Not once !

The Kessel Run parsec mystery was answered in dead tree format decades before the Solo movie. 'Course that's all dust in the non-canon cosmic wind after the Mouse Empire swept through the galaxy making 'improvements'.

So that Cloverfield mystery was never a mystery, if you knew where too look. While now very common in modern horror games, but very rare in movies, the Cloverfield franchise has a massive advertising plan and lore details hidden in a MASSIVE ARG. I won't hold this against this episode's writer, since many casual fans don't know this, but I will say they got the info for this list wrong. As in I think they may have either made it up or souced their info from someone who did make it up. If you want to see the huge amount of lore that the vast majority of the movies' fandom doesn't know exists, look up the videos made by KZfaqr Inside the Mind.

I always assumed Galactus was inside the clouds. We were just not gonna see him until the third one.

An even bigger "Independence Day" mystery is how the hell did Will Smith knock out an alien and not break his hand when he punched the alien's helmet? Also, in the case of John McLain knowing Hans Gruber was a bad guy, I always figured that John being a cop simply wouldn't just trust anyone considering what was going on. What if the terrorists had an inside man? What if Bill Clay tried to use John as a bargaining chip to secure his release from the building? John might have just been using his cop instincts to play it safe.

All i know is I'm glad for all of us they made Die Hard 4 and 5 to let us know how Lucy and John Jr. turned out. Important lore.

“Reverse engineer” doesn’t mean what you think it does.

The explanation of Han Solo's "Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs" line was in A. C. Crispin's "The Han Solo Trilogy" ("The Paradise Snare," "The Hutt Gambit," and "Rebel Dawn") published in 1997-1998. Once explained, it actually makes sense.

I love how Ryan Reynolds went back in time to kill Ryan Reynolds before he made Green Lantern. A stroke of genius

Also, John's a cop. He noticed how Hans held the cigarette in his fingers. Thumb and trigger(pointer) finger, European style.

The explanation regarding "DieHard" makes the end of Gruber even more satisfying since it was releasing her watch that has Gruber falling.

The star-child was explained in the 2001 sequel books.

Wrong on the Die Hard explanation. John was on top of the elevator car when Hans went in a spoke with the other henchman. There are holes in the ceiling for decoration and he could actually see Hans clearly.

It’s funny that if they cared enough the explanation is simple. In the comics he is humanoid because that is what the humans understood, in the movie they perceives him to be a cloud. He isn’t supposed to be humanoid, he looks like a human in our minds.

I recall that the explanation of the end of 2001 was in the book written by Arthur C. Clarke. It made sense to me at the time.

Jurassic Park: Dodgson told Dennis the shaving cream cannister only had enough coolant for the embryos for 36 hours.

The Kessel run was never a plot hole. When a craft bends spacetime as part of its propulsion like in Star Wars and Star Trek and Halo, then in a matter of speaking, you could say the ship traveled a certain distance by only traveling a different shorter distance. This does match the conversation because, at the time, Solo was bragging about the ships speed capabilities.

Even George Lucas explained the use of parsecs. In space everything constantly moves so ships use celestial bodies as reference points to calculate a path. The millennium Falcon isn't fast in speed but it's ability to calculate a path around obstacles with fewer reference points.

Just read the books 2001, 2010, 3001 and very good explored what happens to the astronauts and their part and fate is later in the Story incl Hal. Especially 3001 is very interesting there

The Die Hard one was always explained in movie. These guys are mostly European judging by their clothing labels and [dramatic pause indicating foreshadowing] cigarettes. Then, he gives him the pack of said foreign cigarettes, and Hans doesn't remark on the brand, and pockets the pack.

Id4 - my understanding was that it was explained in the comics that we got our computer tech from them. Fantastic Four - my understanding was that they were TOO true to the comic book canon. Which IS that Galactus is not a corporeal being, but appears to the planet 's residents as a version that they can comprehend and that because earthlings had no concept of Galactus (like others in the universe) took on a form more true to his actual self.

I stop asking questions when Jeff Goldblum is it the movie.

My head cannon for the 3 sea shells were that they were really like remotes. One flushed, one turned on the badai(sp?), and the other air dried.

Everyone knows that your supposed to eat those seashells, so as to not poop next time

1:36 is a toughie since so many are setups and not pay-offs. We could discuss it over shawarma...

The Kessel Run being measured by distance does make perfect sense as it would follow simple physics. So we start with a course. Point A is the beginning and Point B is the end. Between A & B is a blackhole. Now, when you move closer to a massive object, time is slowed down. The same if you are moving the speed of light or faster. So measuring how long it takes by using time isn't really feasible. What is feasible is using distance. The faster you are moving, the closer you can get to the blackhole with out being pulled in. A slow craft would have to go way around to maintain distance and not get pulled in. A faster craft is able to get closer. So him saying he can do the run in 12 parsecs is a perfectly fine method of measuring how fast Han Solo can do the run. SCIENCE!

Hats off to Tamara Chambers. She nailed it in 2015.

Just Look into encodings and you will realize: Binary isn't simple.

I think all smokers notice the Die Hard one. Johns a smoker. He borrows a cigarette from Hans and you can tell from the pack that it’s not an American brand plus Hans holds his cigarette European style

My favorite post credits scene was Super Mario Bros (1993)

Technically, it was slightly more than 12 parsecs, but the fact that he made the run in less than 15 parsecs instead of the 18 meant that he had bragging rights. Completing the Kessel Run two thirds less than the standard was impressive.

The Bruce Campbell one from evil dead 2013.

Even as a child I didn't see the ID one as a plot hole as, to me, it was obvious that Earth's computing tech was based on that tech so compatible. In the film I think. Also (many years later) it's another nod to War of the Worlds that the aliens are so unchallenged they forgot about viruses

Best post credit scene for me would be when Tony Stark talked to Ross after the Incredible Hulk.

The Independence Day exclamation is not an explanation... that's like dating they use the same alphabet... that still doesn't let you communicate with them.

didn't John see Hans kill Takagi in the conference room? I need to rewatch the movie again

Cloverfield: I've rewatched that beach shot numerous times and I never see anything landing in the ocean. How am I missing it? Will no one "zoom and enhance" the part of the screen where I should be looking? Is it me?

Def called it "Space Oddity" like Bowie at 3:11

The explanation for the end of 2001 was always in the book... which came out at the same time as the film. Anyone who read it knew exactly what was happening at the end.

the best explanation for mcclane knowing that hans was a terrorist is that he didn't! he felt hans was suspicious so gave him an empty gun as a test, which hans failed.

The Galactus thing I remember an article from back then because some VP or CEO at the studio hated Giant characters. He killed the Sentinels appearing in the early Xmen Movies and made them go with the cloud for Galactus among others. Can't remember that guys name but there was a list of movies where he'd objected to larger than life characters.

The fucking 3 seashells

"The Soopa Koopa brothers!" Iggy and Spike.

That space odyssey one was on the last list. You owe us 1 more.

I thought the Hans Gruber thing was the watch coupled with the way he held his cigarette since Europeans tend to hold it with index and thumb rather than in the fingers.

Amazing video.

All I want to know in my whole life is what Bill Murray said to Scarlett Johansson at the end of Lost in Translation. If I could get that one answer, I could happily live with all the other movie unknowns. Edited to add: I know there are theories and enhanced sound and etc etc. I'm talking about a definitive answer from someone who's in a position to know, someone who was actually there. Nit-picky, yes, but even after seeing those theories my brain just won't let go of it. 🤷🏻‍♀

What ever happened to just enjoying a movie??? Now we gotta pull it all apart and find plot holes, secret worlds, hidden meanings and missing parts.

Jurassic Park is awesome 😎

-Die Hard? I though Hans Gruber was smoking a German brand of cigarettes??? Anyone else?- My mistake, it was McClane that offered the cigarette to Hans anyway. Just watched the scene on KZfaq. 🙃

Die Hard: while it is good to know there was intended to be an explanation of this, it never even occurred to me that it was a problem. If you are fighting your way through a building swarming with ruthless terrorists and suddenly come upon someone you don't know, it is surely safer to assume that they are one of the bad guys. It is always hugely annoying in films when characters act stupidly and do the exact opposite of what any normal sane person would do for the sole reason of adding a plot twist.

Did you say a parsec is a unit of measurement, not a unit of time?

Cloverfield was a bit of a let down here. I always thought it was something from an alternate earth that was now on the planet because of the blending of time and space in the third movie.

Independence Day: No, you can't "reverse engineer" binary code by swapping the 0s and 1s. That's just scifi twaddle bollox.

The embryos in the can had a limited lifespan. I don't remember how many hours it could support them. But by the time anybody would have figured out about the can they all would have expired. All of the trouble he caused was for nothing.

Binary code is not a thing. Or, better put, every computer on earth “thinks” in binary, and encodes its data and programs in that. But That doesn’t mean you can hack them by inverting the bits.

What you said about the can in number 4 Jurassic Park it also appears in Jurassic Park the game

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They honestly could have covered up the Galactus thing in the next movie by having the dust cloud effectively be his ship that converts planets into a digestible form for him. Not seeing Galactus himself at the end of the movie didn't feel like the end of the world, or for the series. The movie feeling merely mediocre, despite all the spectacle, did more of that for me.

4:41. Captured Alien Pilot: Die...Die!!!!!!!

You mean "tortured" not "trained", right? Trained implied that it was voluntary.

Looks like the what culture people have never read the book 2001 which came out at the same time as the film 😂

but the dino eggs needed to be in a cold fridge not open ground so anything would been long dead when found later

2001: read the book!

The "12 Parsecs" thing was always just a mistake, using a distance measurement instead of time, not worth the brainpower spent trying to make sense of it. "Kessel Run" sounds like a standard delivery run, or possibly a race. The solution presented in "Solo" is silly because you'd never call a robbery of a mine "The Kessel Run", especially since you should not be bragging about a robbery that you pulled off.

What happened to the dinosaur embryos in "Jurassic Park"? They drowned in the mud, obviously.

So wait…they didn’t know how to introduce Galactus into the story because he’s from space? Just say that he’s a planet eater from Deep Space… simple as that in my opinion

For those that don't know, 2001 is one of the most over-hyped movies ever created. Read the book, or listen to it on Audible. The story maintains the important mystery but also explains the BS that Kubrick focused on. The opening scene in the book is _waaay- longer and the reader is informed as to what is going on. Kubrick was a great filmmaker, and made some amazing movies, but everything he made was not gold.

I will always hate the Kessel Run explanation. It's so much better as just a two-bit criminal trying to BS two local outer rim rubes

A Wizard did it.

Galactus is not a Celestial... And then your very next sentence you complain about not sticking to the source material...

If the aliens used the technology on earth against us in ID4 why do you need an explanation how the humans can do the same thing?

No one was asking who the gimp was

I hate Cloverfield.

change 1's to 0's and 0's to 1"s ??? that is the stupidest thing i have ever heard

"No body cares, no body cares."

Just wondering why you do a weird inflection at the end of sentences? It is super annoying. "Film-makingah" "...that endingah" well annoying

Real answers are ignorant, stupid, and/or lazy writing.

I think I'm actually first for once ! Not that I care as I have a life.

2001 is hot garbage Sorry, not sorry

Good content. However: your narrator is extremely(uh) annoying(uh)