07-02-2012, 06:03 PM
MIB 3 again. Having seen it for a second time has confirmed it: there are some serious problems with the time travel in that movie. I mean, Back to the Future had a few snags but the general story worked. This, however, has really got some stuff out of place.
[SPOILER=An example, don't read if you haven't seen it]
When J asks why he's the only one who remembers K, that dude gives the vaguest explanation ever. "You were there." I mean, at the end of the movie you can speculate a few possibilities, but there's no pure explanation of why. And don't go telling me that him meeting K as a kid explains it: that is by no means any reason why he should remember K.
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But hey, this isn't really a time travel movie anyway. That is, it's more about the aliens and all that, and the time travel was just a feature, it wasn't meant as the crux of the story (unlike BTTF). So no big deal.
[SPOILER=An example, don't read if you haven't seen it]
When J asks why he's the only one who remembers K, that dude gives the vaguest explanation ever. "You were there." I mean, at the end of the movie you can speculate a few possibilities, but there's no pure explanation of why. And don't go telling me that him meeting K as a kid explains it: that is by no means any reason why he should remember K.
[/SPOILER]
But hey, this isn't really a time travel movie anyway. That is, it's more about the aliens and all that, and the time travel was just a feature, it wasn't meant as the crux of the story (unlike BTTF). So no big deal.