I tried searching around for similar theories before posting but found nothing, so here goes: In Toy Story 3 we learn Buzz has a demo-play switch when Lotso reverts him back to factory settings in his jet pack/battery insert. When the switch is flipped back to “demo,” he’s become his former self from Toy Story. He believes himself to be a ranger and that Zurg is his sworn enemy. I believe that in Toy Story, Buzz’s failed attempt at flying was so traumatic on impact that it flipped his switch from “demo” to “play.” It’s not until he watches the Lightyear commercial in Sid’s upstairs that Buzz actually feels doubt and tries to prove he’s a ranger by jumping from the railing. It’s the flipping of the switch itself that allows his toy personality to fully realize what he is and is overcome with major depression.

Spatula151

Having say down and watched each movie back to back, I've started to grow suspicious of a certain main character. Namely, Dewey. There are certain things that have happened in every movie that have led me to believe that he may the one behind everything.

He is always there. This, on it's own means nothing, because so are Sidney and Gale, but when combined with the other things, it seems more significant for Dewey.

In every movie, he has been very close to the killer without even getting attacked. The only times he has ever been attacked, barring the Billy Loomis and Stu Macher killings, he has been in view of another character, and even then, it wouldn't be strange to believe that he was in front of the camera that Gale put there.

He is always either incapacitated or otherwise busy during the final showdown. This is the big one, for me. During this time, he could be acting. If he's in on it, he's nothing to lose with either side. He could be waiting for them to finish, so that he can take the side of the one that wins.

zionhyome

Groundhog Day Ned Ryerson is the devil, and imprisons Phil Conners in the time loop when Phil refuses to purchase Ned's insurance. The only way Phil escapes is by finally agreeing to buy it.

First and foremost:

When Phil first encounters Ned he insults him. Immediately after the insult Phil steps into a puddle, and Ned remarks, "Well-ha-ha! Watch out for that first step, it's a doozy!"

The "first step" Ned refers to literally the first step Phil takes after being placed into the time loop, and Ned is laughing at the irony that Phil's first step was so unpleasant. It's a cruel irony that only Ned is fully able to enjoy.

Secondly:

On the last day of the loop we see that Phil has purchased insurance from Ned, much to Ned's pleasure. This is actually the act that frees him from the time loop, not him successfully getting Rita sexually interested in him.

SuperConductiveRabbi

Starship Troopers – Buenos Aires was a false-flag operation to justify the Arachnid war.

Summary: Carmen Ibanez is an agent for Games & Theory, working with Carl. She deliberately flew her ship into the path of the meteor so that it would collide with Earth.

The meteor that ultimately crashed into Buenos Aires was somewhere near Jupiter (when Carmen broke up with Rico over video-mail, her ship was orbiting Jupiter). At their closest distance, Earth and Jupiter are about 630 million miles apart, or about 4.2 astronomical units. The odds of any meteor at such an extreme distance eventually hitting the Earth are almost zero.

If we believe Federation propaganda, the bugs launched the meteor from Klandathu, which is on the opposite side of the galaxy. This is clearly a weak cover story, since the Federation also believed at the time that the arachnids weren’t intelligent. One scientist found the very notion of a “bug that thinks” offensive. The other scientist was just speculating that there might be a more intelligent caste, and that was after the attack.

Sarlax

He had a quiet way about him, a walk and a talk that just wasn't normal around here. He strolled, like a man in a park without a care or a worry in the world, like he had on an invisible coat that would shield him from this place…

..because he was a sociopath, and he was guilty.

First off I love the Shawshank Redemption (I’ve seen it over 50 times). I also like to watch movies with a different twist, so I’m going to pose this theory out there for everyone to think about and discuss. Warning— as I started writing this up I got sad with the prospect it may be true. If you don’t want to maintain the purity forever click away now.

Andy Dufresne is in fact an “icy and remorseless” killer who manipulated everyone around him.

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TL: DR - Vincent kills Marvin on purpose because he tought him a traitor for not warning him that there was a guy hidden on the bathroom with a gun. He tells Jules it was an accident because he could not fully prove Marvin's intentions.

Tecla_SAP

After having some fun in the car in the cargo hold, Jack and Rose run up to the well deck in the front part of the ship, laughing, shouting and kissing.

There are three crew members keeping watch at that moment: First Officer Murdoch on the starboard bridge wing, and the lookouts Fleet and Lee in the crow's nest.

When Jack and Rose enter the well deck, we see Murdoch look down at them when he hears the noise. Murdoch then turns away grinning, possibly to give the couple some privacy.

The lookouts, on the other hand, do the opposite: when they hear the clamor, one tells the other to look as well, and they both look down at Jack and Rose.

In other words, because Jack and Rose were clamoring on the deck, the only three people who could realistically have seen the iceberg turned their backs at the exact same time to what is in front of the ship.

altazure

The Matrix - Morpheus is the leader of a personality cult and Cypher is the only sane person on the ship.

When Morpheus gives someone a choice to leave or stay in the Matrix he makes very little effort to describe what the Matrix or the real world actually is. He does not inform them of what they're getting in to. He doesn't say, "Take the red pill and you will be plunged into a post-apocalyptic dystopia where the Earth is dead and you have to fight an impossible battle against machines where you will probably die." He says some spooky ambiguous, "No one can be told what the Matrix is, they have to see it for themselves," which is bullsh*t. The Matrix isn't particularly hard to explain. Why would someone so obsessed with truth and enlightenment be so resistant to informing a potential initiate of the situation they're in?

Morpheus dangles a big fat question mark in front of people's heads so they won't be able to resist the temptation of the mystery. When someone chooses to leave the Matrix they aren't even partially informed as to what that decision would entail. The reason why morpheus withholds this information is that if he told them what they were getting into, no one would join, and he wouldn't have a crew for his ship.

Talking_Sandwich

Cole's teacher was a murderer.

So it is established that Cole can talk to ghosts. They seek him out and they want help from him. Before he learns this he is tormented by them and doesn't know what they want.

Cole attends a school in Philadelphia that used to be a courthouse long ago. He frequently sees ghosts in the hallways, people who were hung or otherwise executed for their crimes back in the 1800's.

During the classroom scene, when Cole gets agitated over the look his teacher gives him he begins calling the teacher Stuttering Stanley. This elicits a fairly powerful response from the teacher who begins to regress into a stutter that we are lead to believe he used to get picked on for. Then in a violent outburst Stanley slams his fist on Cole's desk and calls him a freak. Obviously this guy has huge baggage if he is going to call his nine-year-old student a freak.

Valorumguygee

John Doe was just the patsy.

Somerset was the real killer.

In the beginning we see a ton of Christmas Tree air freshners on the desk of Somerset.

Somerset doesn't want Mills as lead detective on the case, why? Mills has a lot of detective experience, he would have been more than capable of leading the investigation.

Somerset can be seen fleeing one of the crime scenes covered in blood.

doclestrange

In Aladdin, Jafar was the good guy. The city of Agrabah was ruled by an uncaring monarch (the Sultan) who played with toys, clearly ate too much, and lived in an extravagant palace. Meanwhile, his people were starving and lived in severe poverty, barely surviving as bandits, brothels, and beggars populated the streets. And the Sultan's naive, silver-spooned daughter thought she understood the people's lives after spending, you know, like 2 hours outside.

So, as the Grand Vizier (that's like a Prime Minister), Jafar got fed up and did the only thing he could to save his people - orchestrate a coup d'état to seize power from the ineffective Sultan. Sadly, his plans were foiled by the selfish Aladdin. Aladdin was a self-admitted thief and con man who stole from poor people. He only cared about himself - he got three wishes and used them to become a fake prince in order to hit on the only rich girl in town, save his life from a jam he got himself into, and then freed the Genie (probably in the hopes of having an all powerful ally). What did he do for his people? Nothing. Jafar did everything he could to save Agrabah, but in the end, Aladdin prevailed, moved into the palace with the princess, and the Sultan continued ignoring his starving populace.

The entire animated movie we saw was told by the Genie to paint Aladdin and himself in the best and most sympathetic light. Revisionist history at its best.

Jafar was the good guy.

StephanT51

Kevin McCallister (Home Alone, Home Alone 2) grows up to become Jigsaw (Saw).

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The entire hijacking plot was authorized by President James Marshall (played by Harrison Ford) for political purposes.

President Marshall wanted to have a policy of "never negotiate, no longer tolerate, no longer be afraid" with terrorists, but his senior advisors chastised him for it in the limo after his speech. The national security advisor was the most harsh with him, and so of course he was the first hostage to be executed by the terrorists. He's out of the way. His chief of staff (Paul Guilfoyle) also took a dim view of the policy, and he got shot as well. With his opponents in his inner circle out of the way, he can get on with business.

But didn't Marshall break down and negotiate in the end? That will be covered up by the government. Marshall has plausible deniability because he went through Petrov, and Petrov has no reason to go public with it because it will make him look like a weak puppet of the United States, which isn't what he needs right now. The public will just be made to think that Marshall stonewalled the terrorists until he heroically killed them all, and Radek was shot trying to escape. It will look like the "never negotiate" policy worked exactly as intended.

aerostotle

No matter how many times I watch T2, one scene that always annoys me is in the final act when the T-1000 stabs Sarah and asks her to call out to John. Why would a machine designed specifically to well, terminate waste his time torturing Sarah, a potential threat when he could just kill her and imitate her. The T-800 even says, quote "The T-1000's highest probability for success will be to copy Sarah Connor and wait for you to make contact with her". There's also the fact that during the final scene in the steel mill, the T-1000 is moving much slower than we know he's able to move, almost walking towards the trio when he sees them.

Over the course of the movie, the T-800 is shown to develop not only an understanding of human emotion, but also the ability to feel compassion and empathy for others. So if a less advanced model like the T-800 can develop emotions, it stands to reason that under the right circumstances, so could the T-1000.

That's where my theory comes in. I believe that the T-1000 develops desires of it's own. More specifically the desire to hunt, and torment his victims. In the early scenes of T2. he'll try to kill any bystanders that get in the way as quickly as possible, such as the mall employee and John's foster parents. But starting with his attack on the mental hospital starts to prolong his killings like when he sneaks up on and stares down the night guard for a few seconds before killing him, and why he wastes time trying to stab them through the elevator when he's clearly shown to be able to melt through the elevator.

Finally, he takes his time in his fight against the Terminator and Sarah, throwing away multiple perfect opportunities to kill them. Why? Not because he' a shitty Terminator, but because he enjoys fighting them, torturing them, feeling their fear while he's terminating them.

Azumarill99

I don’t think it’s coincidence that Dodgson planned the embryo heist at the exact same time that the investor’s evaluators were touring the site. Dodgson works for InGen’s rival genetics engineering company Biosyn. The competitor is 10 years behind InGen and they desperately need to catch a break.

What if Dodgson’s plan was to not only to steal the embryos, but also to completely destroy InGen’s funding prospects? Think about it; Biosyn was probably courted by the same investors as InGen and they would likely know that InGen was the frontrunner due to their advances in gene sequencing technology, but their safety record was suspect after the raptor incident. Biosyn could have been aware that the investors mandated a 2 day expert evaluation before the next round of funding was released to InGen.

If Dodgson could meddle with the investors evaluation tour, he could crush any chance of InGen receiving funding and possibly secure investments for Biosyn. It makes sense for Biosyn to go to this is extent, the park is estimated to have higher attendances than zoos and even sports. This is next multi-billion dollar entertainment industry (as per the slides shown in Jurassic Park’s restaurant).

TheOrdinaryCritic

I think Tyler Durden in the movie at least was modelled by the narrator's unconcious mind partially on Brad Pitt. In the film version of Fight Club we see something interesting in one frame a sign for Seven Years in Tibet. This shows us Brad Pitt exsits in the Fight Club universe as an actor. We can fairly assume that he enjoyed roughly the same career he does in the real world. So in 1997-1998 when the inception of Tyler Durden happened Brad Pitt would be a world famous matinee idol.

We also know the Narrator watches and consumed way to much media often in a semi concious state. So he probably knows of or has seen media with Brad Pitt in it even if he doesn't remember it given Pitt's media saturation.

We can conclude that Tyler Durden appearance wise at least was modelled on Brad Pitt. He was often touted in the 1990s as the epitome of the ideal male body which would have influenced the narrator's mind in creating the character who as Mr. Pitt says " Looks like how you want to look".

Salmanbhairocks

This is probably something that is super obvious to everyone, but it was a revelation to me today when I watched Lion King with my son, so....

Simba caused the drought in Pride Rock. The past kings, like Mufasa, are in the sky. Specifically the clouds as shown by Mufasa talking to Simba when he is with Timon and Pumba. The clouds, which carry the rain, left to follow the rightful king when he left Pride Rock.

Simba spends years with Timon and Pumba in an apparent tropical jungle that obviously gets plenty of rainfall. When he is shown going back towards Pride Rock, the clouds roll in behind him. They seemingly follow the rightful king back to the pridelands and it begins raining shortly after.

For years, it bugged me how Scar taking power somehow caused a drought. It really wasn't Scar seizing control or the hyena population explosion that caused a weather issue, but the rightful leader abandoning his people and taking the wisdom of the elders with him.

Spixdon

Many viewers have wondered how Tarzan knew to wear clothes. He was raised by gorillas, right? And gorillas don't wear clothes, they have their privates proudly exposed for the whole world to see. How did Tarzan know he needed to cover his junk?

Well...a lot of people don't know this, but humans are actually unusual for having proportionately HUGE d**ks compared to other ape species, possibly as an adaptation for walking upright. Seriously, a gorilla penis is only two and a half inches in length when fully erect. If any of you guys are ashamed of your teeny weenie, just be thankful you're not a gorilla.

Even as a child, Tarzan would've had a bigger penis than the other gorillas. And he was already freakish enough with his lack of fur. Who knows how much bullying he faced from the other gorilla kids when they saw how big his kid wiener was compared to theirs? The bullying was so bad he ended up having to cover up his junk with leaves or animal skin or whatever his loincloth is made of.

Even after he became fully accepted by the rest of the gorilla clan, childhood bullying trauma prevents him from exposing his freakishly massive d**k to the world, hence why he continues to wear it at the end of the film and in the spinoff series.

SummerAndTinkles

James Bond and Mission: Impossible are the two biggest and most lucrative spy movie franchises in the world right now, both of them are famous for featuring larger-than-life protagonists who pull off ridiculous death-defying stunts and battle comically evil villains, and both of them have their roots in 1960s pop culture; one is a movie series that's been running since 1962, and the other is a very loose continuation of a TV show that first started airing in 1966.

They're also known for being relatively light on plot, but also very self-aware of that fact. It's pretty well-known that most people only watch them for the crazy stunts and over-the-top action, which is why even movie critics are generally willing to forgive them for having rather one-note characters and somewhat clichéd stories. In short: they're a classic example of dueling franchises, and they're aimed at exactly the same target audience.

I'm old enough to remember when the third Mission: Impossible movie was just called Mission: Impossible III, with the official poster even abbreviating its title as M:I:III. Since then, the series has stopped putting numbers in the titles of its sequels, with the fourth movie being called Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol, the fifth being Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation, and the sixth being Mission: Impossible: Fallout.

Why is that? It could be because the studio doesn't want to advertise the fact that the series has been running since the '90s, lest audiences worry that it's getting stale. It could be because their stories are almost entirely independent from each other (most people don't watch them for the stories, remember), and they don't want audiences to feel like they're missing something if they haven't seen the other movies. Or it could be because they really didn't want to call the sixth movie Mission: Impossible 6, since fans would inevitably abbreviate its title as "MI6"—which happens to be the name of the spy agency that James Bond works for.

Ever wonder why the people behind the Fast and the Furious franchise were perfectly alright with calling their sixth movie Fast & Furious 6, but the people behind Mission: Impossible insisted on calling their sixth movie Mission: Impossible: Fallout? I have a feeling that's why.

themightyheptagon

Think about it? It seems ineffective to call on a vigilante by shining a light in the sky. There is a huge chance he won't see it, or notice it in time for the crime to still be stopped. My theory is that the bat signal itself doesnt actually apply to batman, but rather it is a warning to criminals, like saying "we called him, nows your chance to drop everything, go home, and turn your life around", and there is a silent alarm mechanism within the signal that sends a signal directly to batman's computers

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