Cool theory I have crazy theory too, Bruce Wayne is Batman

So your "theory" is just the plot of the movie? Great job ...

Here's another theory. The kid at the airport grows up to become the guy who goes back in time.

So the theory that is being proposed is simply the actual plot of the movie?

In the last scene, the person who is carrying the virus, is sitting next to a woman, who was the same woman with the glasses, from the future, who says "she's in 'Insurance." Either he's not going to make it to their destination, or she's going to be infected, and take it back to the future, to manufacture a vaccine. I loved this movie.

did anyone else notice a line in the movie? where Bruce Willis and Madeline Stowe came out of the Theatre after Cole just killed the 2 guys...... Madeline Stowe says, "those men were dead" and then Bruce Willis says "I see dead people all the time"...... virtually the same line said TO Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense.

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the background music is a tad too loud having throuble hearing the narration.

I'm curious... what did YOU think the movie was about before this theory dawned on you?

Three minutes of video. One minute of speech that states the plot of the movie.

Isn't this just exactly what happens in the movie? Did I miss something?

If Cole did kill that guy with the viruses then the whole movie would’ve never happened.

At the end, the doctor from the future time travelled to get the virus in its pure form. After Cole makes that last call, everyone shows up. Notice how she is the same age as she is in the future.

When the professor we see from 2035 is on the plane she says she’s in insurance because she was purposely sent back in time for insurance just in case Bruce Willis’ character doesn’t get the job done. The movie was cool but we just never got that we saved the world feeling I was hoping for

It's an interesting theory that, if you went back in time and tried to change the past, you would just end up making it happen. It isn't addressed in this movie except for that one point where Cole thinks he gave Jeffrey the idea. Turns out he was wrong on that one.

Music too loud yo.

It was always implied that Cole was the unknowing catalyst of the outbreak, but the plot line that he was 'directed' to it is unfounded. At every turn they were looking to punish him when he went off script as just an 'observer' to the point that they were upset about him "drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes".

My theory is that: The old man who asked James to remove his teeth, was older James Cole because it is also shown that younger james cole saw the present James Cole get shot. B) The lady who was in the last scene with the Red Head Apocalyptic Dude was actually in cahoots with him to spread the virus

Spoilers: This movie drew me to the triclinium table james cole goes to the "party" at. Reminded of the last supper of Jesus before his betrayal. The 12 monkeys were released by each one 12 times creating an apocalypse scenario. It was written on the walls as "we did it" in graffiti. Like jesus and the 11 apostles they all had to die in order to save the planet. Im sure there is more to it but that's s little gem i found in the movie. Crazy if you think about it too much wink wink

The ending of the film is not ambiguous.

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This movie haunted my childhood. Its creepy how it frazzled my mind.

This is a plot-story idea I'd not considered. It supports the concept that we are unable to escape our fate.

with this loud music, only other peoples comments made clear for me, that you have just stated the plot.

cole is also a duality he is the cause/source and effect at the same time.

Wow!? I knew this since 1995! Maybe next vid is about that the Wizard of Oz is a man behind a curtain?

Really good movie just saw it for the first time. I'm reading all these comments about the second Cole seeing the first Cole die. To me that makes no sense, it's the same person. It just so happens that in this movie time travel exist, so Cole gets a rare gift or curse of being able to see how his life ends. I believe according to the movie, time is relative and everything past, present, and future already happened. Cole states he's from the future, but he is not. He keeps having the same recurring dream, meaning all that is going to happen in the movie, has already taken place. Which you can argue it hasn't taken place for Cole yet, but we the audience know it has. Cole was never going to change anything. We were just shown Cole's part in the grand scheme of things, and how they eventually got the virus in its purest form.Which was always going to happen. I believe the movie set the rules of the concept of time being simply an illusion. Everything that has ever been and ever will be is happening right now. Again this is just my take on how I perceived the movie. All the theories are fun the read.

it isn't possible James inspired the idea as originally he was meant to be sent directly to 1996 with the virus already thought off. He was accidently sent to 1990 in the mental institution where he mentioned the idea, whether he mentioned the idea or not the virus was meant to be. I agree James will now be in a continuing loop as he died in the past, while the present and future go about living a normal life finding a cure. Young James will live into the future and be sent back and die, repeating the same act again and again. unless his employees resurrect him and teleport his body back to the future/real present where he can live his life. Maybe that's why the psychiatrist smiled at the boy as she knew he will still be alive.

Brad Pitt's acting in this was some of the best I have seen him deliver.

what's up with the background music being louder than the actual dialog and voice over. lower the music more, I can barely hear you or the actors speaking.

20 years after that ? we already knew that..

Can you imagine the old woman being injected into that crazy time machine?

Boom, solved! 20 years later! Crazy! Good job! Awesome job! Good work! Great work! You did it! You solved it! You figured it out! You're the guy! Congratulations! You really did it! Finally! 20 years later! Imagine that!

Background music needs to be a little lower

Dude, the music is louder than your voice.

The scientists do not want to change what happened. Cole never states at any time that he has been sent to change the past, only to collect a sample and find the source so that they can test their anecdote. This is confirmed by the fact that he winds up in WW1. They are working on the anecdote already because cole is unaffected by the mustard gas. But Cole gets confused, falls in love and decides to change his mission. However he did locate the source, so they sent the other scientist to continue the mission, perhaps to test the anecdote again. Seems like Jeffery Goins knows whats going on and is not crazy so Im not really sure where he fits in. Maybe he's just trying to throw off James cause he's in on it but then why does he help him escape? Then later he pretends he doesn't know him but then he tries to make James think it was his comment about monkeys that started the plan. Odd to think that the scientists accidentally sent James to the hospital where he actually instigates the whole thing. No, I think Jefferey is very quick on his feet and decided to fuck with James at that moment. My favorite movie and very hard to figure out!

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The main character of the film is a homeless, former patient of a mental hospital, whose name is Bob, who suffers from a split personality. Or rather, not that suffering - he invented Cole and the world in which he lives for fun. Bob knows that Cole's world is not real, but the fictional Cole is not. Bob takes some of the ideas for Cole's world from his surroundings, where he lives - and he lives on the street, where he has the opportunity to see various inscriptions, graffiti, near a store with a pig's head on a sign - he weaves them into the world he invented. In Bob's homeless world, the air is dirty, there is a stench around - both the fictional world and Cole himself have the same features - he is dressed like a homeless person, and behaves the same way. The airport murder is Bob's flashback. The Boy in the well is Bob's childish trick. Cole's ripped teeth are a copy of Bob's actions. Ideas about total surveillance and control - Bob's ideas. Bob periodically talks to Cole when he becomes too "independent" person, or gets lost, to give a hint on what to do next. Twice Bob even "appeared" in person in front of his heroes - and they did not understand anything. But they are not given - after all, they all are Bob. By the way, pay attention to the appearance of Cole in front of the psychiatrist for the third time - first she collides with Bob, he cautiously retreats, she writes an inscription on the wall and suddenly - Cole is standing behind her, in clothes - although after a jump in time he should be naked - how did he get there? The entire movie - in the best traditions of Philip K. Dick - is just a fantasy in the head of an episodic character that no one pays attention to. All the heroes of the film are part of the life story of Bob himself, even Goins in the psychiatric hospital - Bob in his youth.

Did anyone notice the Nas - Illmatic album poster at 2:12

I heard it was a sequel coming out soon but at this point it doesn't make sense to do another one

But what I'd like to know is why Kathryn says she somehow knows/recognizes Cole the first time he is taken to the mental ward when prior to that she hasn't seen him and the movie doesn't really indicate otherwise. The only example could be where she has a picture that shows him in world war 1 but she doesn't even mention that until her presentation that takes places after her first meeting with Cole.

Me and my mates had figured it out 20 years ago when we left the cinema. So: congrats. :-)

1% of people survive, such a symbolic number, when it's said that the world is actualy own and rule by 1% of humanity

Why is the music so loud???

I had the same idea after I watched the movie that the past can not be changed. Cole failed I mean the virus was already released when Dr. Peters opened the test tube to the officer at the airport.

The background music is too loud, i cant hear the clips and sometimes your voice too

i can’t hear the music. turn it up!

background music sucks, can't hear a thing

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I can barely hear the dialogue at 2:18 because of the music.

Wow amazing!!!!! I have no words!!

Was the scientist shaking his hand to get a pure sample?

You may want to seriously consider the possibility that you are either unintelligent or bad people.

Thank You Sir.

Plot theory: James Cole, initials JC! Jesus Christ.

I've literally just saw this movie and like many others I am confused but I fucking loved this movie man ... was it basically a sad ending ? They fell inlove in the end I could just tell what happened to her afterwards my head hurts guys help lol x

give back my 3:17 mins

The film is a never ending loop? Like Looper, a sci fi movie where Bruce Willis goes back in time 30 to change the future and another actor plays the younger version of himself?

My theory: The lady on the plane at the end, is the same lady in the "lab" in the future. She comes up with an idea to make money in insurance, by sending James back to help find a cure. It's all about money (monKey). Money = Key. EDIT: There are 12 US Dollar Denominations.

I've looked at this 3 times and it is definitely a film

Is this a prediction of future events? Sounds like the snow is happening now.

If I was my own descendants ancestor, they would have to send me back in time just to exist.

wow, what a revolutionary idea, I mean you could also watch the film and figure it out, because that's like, the whole point of the movie.

my god....can someone please tell me the name of the track in the background......its too loud and too awesome.....

He was sent to find the source and inadvertently created the catastrophe

Is the narrator Ricin Toxin?? I recognize that voice!

How is this a crazy theory when its the fricking plot of the movie? If theirs anything crazy is your ability to name things, it doesnt exist like the theory thats not in this vid.

That theory is so obvious, he was the guy with the idea

She literally says thats she’s in insurance right at the end of the film... nobody got that glaring obvious clue then?

Soo does the scientist lady at the end just infect herself and travel back and kills the last 1%? Lol

The background music should be in the background and not louder than what youre saying…

So.. what was the original destination of those vials. that past has changed if she takes them to the future.

For me the film is a critique on mental illness. Seeing someone die at an early age causes trauma. None of the events happen in real life.

It's basically the grandfather paradox; how could you go back in time and kill your own grandfather. This of course discounts the many world's theory; that every change just create another of infinite timelines.

This was a really good movie.

The problem is this movie could be understood in 2 ways. The entire movie is based upon his dream. That's the only thing we know is real. We know for a fact Cole saw someone die as a young child but what we don't know if the rest of the movie is based on reality. If you notice his dream starts to become more clearer as the movie goes on which can be explained in one of two ways, both of which contradicts each other because there's ample evidence against either "realities." 1) Cole is a mentally ill man and as he meets people in the mental institution he infuse them into his reality. This can be seen in the early part of the movie where Cole is placed with other people who share an alternate reality suggesting that Cole has a similar mental problem. Also, the MRI machine he seen during his escape attempt explains how the time travel machine works which seems to confirm he's mentally ill and infusing what he sees to explain what he saw as a child. 2) The events in the movie is real and as the story goes on, Cole is able to understand his dream better because he's starting to see who the players are in this dream. Since he saw the dream as a child, he could not explain it very well but as the movie plot goes on, he has a better understanding of what he's seeing in his dream. Either way, both endings are happy ones. In the sense that he's mentally ill, he can move on knowing that he's living in a fantasy reality. As the movie goes on, Cole can be seen as accepting that he is mentally ill and begins to fill in the pieces of the story until it finally concludes in his "death" which can be seen as a rebirth freed from his mental illness since he can explain the dream despite being an alternate reality. Then there is the flip side that Cole really did die in the end but since he's able to figure out the key players of this virus, the people in the future can change it as seen by the lady scientist who sits next to the person in the end. Cole would be alive but since the future never happens, the events at the airport will just haunt him but he will go on to live his life having never met the Dr or go on this wild time travel from 2035. He explains early in the film that he has a recurring nightmare and it didn't make him insane so that would mean the adult Cole in the alternate future would simply suffer the same issue but would otherwise be normal.

I fucking feel devastated after watching such triangle shaped movies.....

There is no way cole could be a time traveler if he was infected at the airport. They would have tested him and denied the new hell of existance.

It's the Chinese version of James Cole (James Co) who released the virus in 2019

This is in my top 10 monkey movies that are about monkeys

Patient 1 was the TSA worker who was exposed to it.

Time travel is a funny thought, but consider instead that physical reality is merely a conduit and time itself is the traveler.

what is the music playing?

I have never even heard of this movie or book but I really want to see or read it.

The homeless guy who pulls out his teeth appeared to be right since they were not able to pull him back to the future after he pulled his own teeth. Yet when he returns to the future, he hears that man talking to him again who seems confused at why he would pull his teeth out. Suggesting that he had not traveled back in time yet and that he got the idea to pull out the teeth from Cole. Which creates a paradox loop. Not sure why the homeless guy doesnt recognize the psychiatrist later maybe he is pretending he doesnt?

Pretty poor. You also didn't need the music.

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Great theory! I theorize water is wet!

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That's the plot

The film bore this out pretty clearly all on its own. So did the TV adaptation, except it arguably centered on Cole as more than just the cause of the effect which sent him back in the first place - he was also literally a living paradox which would eventually cause time itself to collapse if he was not removed from all of causality.

1995 was an amazing year

It was about a crazy guy and doctors trying to cure him.

What happened at the end if the old lady clearly is one of the scientist sent to the past if she poisoned the guy with the drink ?

Yes when the scientist from the future sits next to the scientist who spreads the virus and says she is in insurance, well I was left with the question what is she insuring? That the virus actually spreads or that she is the one to take out the man with the virus? I had never thought of the continuous loop. That is very interesting.

"his mission was never to change the past, as the film states, the past cannot be changed, but rather to affect the future" Um. As long as the future being affected is before 2035, where they're time travelling from, then Cole would in fact be "changing the past"

the series is freakn awesome, best time travel show of all times and this is the best time travel movie of all time!!!

this movie reminds me of another movie Bruce Willis was in called I think Looper were he has to kill his future self