• @[email protected]
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    892 months 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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      672 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      222 months 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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      182 months 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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        122 months 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.

  • dream_weasel
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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.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 months ago

      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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    482 months 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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    432 months 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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      162 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 months 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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    392 months 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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      82 months 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.

    • Fishbone
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      22 months 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?).