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Is there already a thread for my previous post about jamie and lily...or does no one really want to talk about it?[/quote]

**Posted:** Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:41 am

the rat · Boot Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 16 Location: Gilbert, Az

In the movie ROB says its Saturday May 23rd. Now The 23rd doesnt fall on saturday until 2009 or 2015, take your pick.

**Posted:** Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:38 pm

zaneosak · Greenhorn Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 8

Does no one think that all these different times could just be a plot error ? Or just that the movie and internet things just do not match up because they got ahead of themselves with little things like the timestamp on the photos being on 1-18 instead of 5-23?

**Posted:** Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:59 pm

rhesusmonkeyboy · Decorated Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 183 Location: SEARCH

I missed the director quote

**Posted:** Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:08 pm

ajspring · Boot Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 10

**Posted:** Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:45 pm

Lupinicus · Veteran Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 92

Love the movie, but I'm definitely annoyed by all this date stuff. My main problem is that the ARE threw so MANY dates at us. Chuai opened in Sept 2007, all the TIDOWave posts, MySpace pages, the news reports of Chuai being destroyed. It doesn't affect how I feel about the movie, but I'm definitely frustrated at this ARE.

**Posted:** Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:58 pm

Euchre · uF Game Warden Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 3342

The MySpace comments place it in absolute real time, which totally conflicts with the film. It's a continuity screwup, no question. The fact the day vs date is also broken is just another continuity failure. Rob says right to the camera at the end that it's a Saturday, and the MySpace puts that day of the week as being right - so the error is not just because of the ARG. The whole thing is askew.

I find it an annoyance, but not enough to make it ruin the film for me. Don't let it ruin it for you.

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:05 am

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6slushos · Veteran Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 118 Location: Singapore

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:11 am

FromTheDeep · Boot Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 28

didn't anyone notice that in the original trailer the people at the party aren't dressed for winter, and that the outside street and skyline didn't look like winter?

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:29 am

Roe · Boot Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 58

I think personally the idea of the ARE is to make it real time and believable, to an extent. Its how all the video's are portrayed, the news accounts, the updates on all the sites with their various memos and so on.

ARE is about advertising, after all, and it wouldn't make sense to not have it align with the release date, as opposed to the date the movie takes place.

As suggested elsewhere by many of you, there are too many obvious connections with the Myspace postings of a surprise party and the Jamie videos the few days before release, to the first 20 minutes of the movie.

Maybe JJ and company just hit a snag with when they needed to release the movie after production was started, and they just made the best of what they had.

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:52 am

adriansd1986 · Boot Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Posts: 62

JJ Has soimething up his sleeve

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:38 am

Slusho Addict · Entrenched Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 920

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:48 am

Trixx

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:54 am

6slushos · Veteran Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 118 Location: Singapore

Re: JJ Has soimething up his sleeve

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:28 pm