• the post of tom joad
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      361 month ago

      Aaaaahahahaha i must tell you, this brightened my day. Good one

  • @[email protected]
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    841 month ago

    I think they just did some camera trick to cut out most of the travel time and not make the movie longer.

    • @[email protected]
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      621 month ago

      Exactly. They did the same thing in The Lord of the Rings movie. Rivendell is about 300 miles from the Shire. The hobbits leave the Shire at about 40 minutes in, and arrive in Rivendell roughly 35 minutes later. I’m sure they saved time by not stopping for second breakfast, but that would imply traveling 300/35 = 8.6 miles per minute non-stop with their stubby little legs.

      Or maybe some people complained the movie was already too long (these people are wrong) and didn’t want to watch hobbits walk 300 miles in real time.

      • the post of tom joad
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        381 month ago

        This is it frodo. If i take one more step it will be the farthest from the shire ive ever been

        • @darkdemize
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          341 month ago

          You may already know about this, but there’s an edit of Fellowship of the Ring where Sam says this line every time he takes another step. It makes the movie over 9 hours long.

          • the post of tom joad
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            131 month ago

            Haha yeah i was trying to kinda reference that cut as similar to how watching this imaginary movie would feel. I want to link it so others may appreciate the effort too but Youtube DMCAd it.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 month ago

            If they had snipped it down to just him saying those words instead of the whole exchange the joke would have landed even better.

          • the post of tom joad
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            Hehe have you seen “version” of the fellowship where every time Sam takes a step on screen it goes back to that moment in the movie? I watched it for like 30 minutes just in awe that someone took the time to create it

    • @[email protected]
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      201 month ago

      Now I’m just imagining in every movie or TV show if we had to watch people travel in real time to wherever they were going lol. Sounds painful.

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      151 month ago

      Why haven’t my Disney characters not all exploded from how much they don’t go to the bathroom?

      • @[email protected]
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        111 month ago

        Time moves differently during a musical number, anyway. They regularly skip forward to the next scene that can be hours or even days away.

    • @[email protected]
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      281 month ago

      That’s the thing where you tie each other up for sexual gratification, right? Like in that Twilight fanfic? 😛

    • @[email protected]
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      81 month ago

      Do they think movies play in real time? What do they think when there’s a scene change?

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        The camera is jumping to an alternate reality where events happened just a little bit sooner than in the previous universe, but time is constant across universes.

    • @Socsa
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      21 month ago

      It can’t be a montage if they are singing, unless we assume they skipped verses or repeated the song. Either way, I can tell you from personal experience that singing the same song for hours at a time does not make a good date

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    I prefer to think they sang the song over and over again on the round trip and the movie just splices it down to one time through the song.

    In reality, these tortured souls rode through the frigid sky with no food or sleep for days on end with only the words of “a whole new world” to maintain their sanity. Their love was obviously forged through shared suffering.

    • @SomeAmateur
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      Lol just imagine thinking you’re going on a sweet spontaneous date only to start flying and realise you’ll be getting blasted by this hurricane force wind for hours

  • @[email protected]
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    421 month ago

    Also keep in mind that they witnessed the Great Sphinx being carved- time travel was clearly being used.

  • @[email protected]
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    411 month ago

    You’re such a mathematician. Saying something is real because your calculations say its real. Eventhough the evidence that’s right in front of your eyes, clearly shows that they are stil alive and unscathed, they didn’t even appear to have noticed the immense speed that they were traveling.

    Clearly this is the work of aliens with a technology so advanced that our smooth brains can’t even comprehend the math necessary to calculate it. So that explains everything, you’re welcome.

    • Björn Tantau
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      151 month ago

      Or they’re just about 10 to 20 thousand years in the future which is why Genie can dish out so many 20th century references.

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    381 month ago

    I was going to rip on taking a cartoon too seriously, but then I remembered getting annoyed at superwhy, which is an ABCs show for toddlers. They had an episode where they landed on Saturn, and it was sandy. I had a to give my then 2 year old an impromptu lesson on what a gas giant was and that her favorite show was fucking wrong. I was so irritated that an education show would do that lol.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 month ago

      Early versions of magic carpets kept arriving with charred piles of ash instead of passengers until they figured that one out.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 month ago

      I just assume that it was time dilation due to editing. The actual journey was much longer. Don’t think about it too much cause then you’ll start to wonder how long that song actually is, and then you’ll start to question why anyone randomly breaks out into song to begin with, and how everyone seems to know the lyrics despite being complete strangers.

      • Rhynoplaz
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        71 month ago

        No no no, he’s a mystical creature that just happens to look like that.

        • @mindbleach
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          51 month ago

          Yeah, Toriyama’s actual black characters look way worse.

    • Fishbone
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      21 month ago

      What game are we playing? I feel like i’ve said this while playing starcraft 2 about the tier 1 protoss ranged units (stalkers?).

    • @JadenSmith
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      71 month ago

      I like that I wasn’t the only person to think of Tyson.

    • @crazyCat
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      21 month ago

      I dislike that guy so much.