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Why was the new Death Star larger than the original Death Star?
The new Death Star, under construction in Return of the Jedi (1983), is markedly larger than the original Death Star in A New Hope (1977).
Graphical comparisons appear to vary widely, but this image ...
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Why didn't Harry answer Harrison's logical question about finance?
Wealthy individual Harrison's son, Harry, expressed concern to Laszlo,
the architect hired by Harrison, about information from Leslie, the builder,
that Laszlo planned to reinvest his fee. Harry ...
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Movie perhaps called "America," following an immigrant and his rich best friend, and featuring the Apollo 11 moon landing
I'm trying to identify a movie I remember having watched in the 1980s that has stuck with me since then. It tracks a young man and a friend, and, while I think I know the name of the movie, it seems ...
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What is Oppenheimer dismissing or rejecting here?
In film Oppenheimer, there's this conversation between Oppenheimer and Colonel Groves. This is the first time they met, and Groves came to see Oppenheimer to recruit him as the director of Manhattan ...
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Why does a bite kill you when everyone is already infected in The Walking Dead?
The Walking Dead follows one of the most basic principles of zombie fiction: you get bit (or scratched), you turn. It's later revealed that everyone who dies (no matter the method) will turn because ...
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How did Steve obtain elytra in A Minecraft Movie?
In A Minecraft Movie (2025), Steve is shown as having at least three elytra. In the game, elytra are only obtainable in end cities and can only be returned to the Overworld by defeating the Ender ...
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Unrecognized lyrics in "Immolation" from Schindler's List soundtrack
Whenever I google for the Lyrics of
Immolation (With Our Lives, We Give Life) I get "This is an instrumental" but that is clearly wrong. People sing something which sounds almost like ...
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Movie about a monster made of garden tools and a goat skull who abducts a cow using a chain and flies away spinning
Looking for a movie, I saw a random scene from out of context on social media. In a minute-long sequence, a monster made of three radial garden hoes with a goat skull in the center rolls into a barn, ...
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How does the alarm system work in "Emergency!"?
I'm a big fan of the show Emergency!, but I'm confused by an element of it -- the alarm sounder.
In some episodes, the alarm tones are an attention getter before every call and the station has to stop ...
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In Widows, what is Amanda referring to when she says, "I got the impression from Jimmy he wasn't so sure about this one"?
In Widows (2018), Veronica Rawlings, the widow of Harry, is on a mission to recruit other widows for a daring heist to steal $5 million from Mulligan’s home. At the restaurant, Veronica meets Amanda ...
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What exactly is Chef Slowik asking them to forgive?
At restaurant, Chef Slowik gives a speech to customers:
Slowik: Over the next few hours you will ingest fat, salt, sugar, protein,
bacteria, fungi, various plants and animals, and, at times, entire ...
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Why does Braxton call his brother Chris?
In The Accountant 2, Braxton sits and talks with his brother and calls him "Chris." This is a reference to the name Christian Wolff which the accountant used in the first movie. But this was ...
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Was the ghost terminology in Ghostbusters made up for the movie?
The Ghostbusters (1984) use formal descriptions for the ghosts they encounter:
Ray: Peter, at 1:40 PM at the main branch of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue, ten people witnessed a free ...
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Why did Ethan and Benji use the eye-tracker projector screen in Mission: Impossible 4 given their disguises?
An iconic scene in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) is when Ethan and Benji sneak into the Kremlin archives using the eye-tracker projector screen to trick the archive guard into thinking ...
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2000s animated movie where a boy goes through a car crash that kills his parents, ending with a replay of the scene where his parents survive
I'm trying to identify an animated movie I remember watching on a DVD player that had this specific scene repeated twice:
A young boy is traveling by car—his dad is driving and his mom is in the ...
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