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It's been a long while since I saw that movie, but I'm fairly certain that it was way more complicated than your synopsis.

mikeash 10y ago
There's a ton of other stuff in the movie that attempts to make the case against testing, but IMO it's all overshadowed by the main plot wherein a failure of testing likely results in a major problem for an important mission.
- rosser 10y ago
  You'll have to remind of of the part in the movie where dude's presence on the mission is a problem for the mission. Or, wait, is that just your conjecture? Sorry. My bad.
  - mikeash 10y ago
    He was the navigator. That seems kind of important. If it wasn't, why would they bother to bring him along?
    - rosser 10y ago
      You either missed or evaded my point, simply to re-state your own. (Also: nice shadow-edit.)
      - mikeash 10y ago
        I don't see where I'm evading or missing your point. Perhaps you could explain? And I didn't make any shadow edits. You sound rather paranoid.
        maxerickson 10y ago
        Did he die during the mission? Did he really have a heart condition?
        mikeash 10y ago
        He really had a heart condition which put him at high risk of death during the mission. That is stated in the movie. We don't know if he died during the mission, but I didn't say that, merely that it was likely.
        maxerickson 10y ago
        I'm pretty sure that in the movie they say that the genetic tests point to a high probability of a heart condition. It's left ambiguous as to whether he actually has a deadly heart condition. There's the scene with the treadmill, but that can just be to show that he is normal.
- Oletros 10y ago
  Perhaps that happened in Gattaca 2 because the movie ends at the launch and there is no problems
  - mikeash 10y ago
    It's stated that his heart condition is likely to kill him before the mission is over. This is like, "Perhaps that happened in Thelma & Louise 2, because the movie ends with them alive and in midair."
politician 10y ago
Nope, he's correct, and his synopsis would make a great episode of "How it Should Have Ended". The protagonist wasn't an idiot, but the rest of that is accurate.

mikeash 10y ago

There's a ton of other stuff in the movie that attempts to make the case against testing, but IMO it's all overshadowed by the main plot wherein a failure of testing likely results in a major problem for an important mission.

rosser 10y ago
You'll have to remind of of the part in the movie where dude's presence on the mission is a problem for the mission. Or, wait, is that just your conjecture? Sorry. My bad.
- mikeash 10y ago
  He was the navigator. That seems kind of important. If it wasn't, why would they bother to bring him along?
  - rosser 10y ago
    You either missed or evaded my point, simply to re-state your own. (Also: nice shadow-edit.)
    - mikeash 10y ago
      I don't see where I'm evading or missing your point. Perhaps you could explain? And I didn't make any shadow edits. You sound rather paranoid.
      - maxerickson 10y ago
        Did he die during the mission? Did he really have a heart condition?
        mikeash 10y ago
        He really had a heart condition which put him at high risk of death during the mission. That is stated in the movie. We don't know if he died during the mission, but I didn't say that, merely that it was likely.
        maxerickson 10y ago
        I'm pretty sure that in the movie they say that the genetic tests point to a high probability of a heart condition. It's left ambiguous as to whether he actually has a deadly heart condition. There's the scene with the treadmill, but that can just be to show that he is normal.
Oletros 10y ago
Perhaps that happened in Gattaca 2 because the movie ends at the launch and there is no problems
- mikeash 10y ago
  It's stated that his heart condition is likely to kill him before the mission is over. This is like, "Perhaps that happened in Thelma & Louise 2, because the movie ends with them alive and in midair."

politician 10y ago

Nope, he's correct, and his synopsis would make a great episode of "How it Should Have Ended". The protagonist wasn't an idiot, but the rest of that is accurate.