{"id":10060,"date":"2011-09-29T13:08:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T18:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10060"},"modified":"2011-10-03T13:06:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T18:06:59","slug":"wait-a-minute-that-thing-from-that-30-year-old-movie-doesnt-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/29\/wait-a-minute-that-thing-from-that-30-year-old-movie-doesnt-make-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait A Minute, That Thing From That 30-Year-Old Movie Doesn&#8217;t Make Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, in the 1982 film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0084516\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Poltergeist<\/em><\/a>, at the very end, the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=41tO0xwSsco\" target=\"_blank\">You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn&#8217;t you?<\/a> thing?  <em>That doesn&#8217;t make sense.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I mean, look at it: it&#8217;s a completed subdivision with fire hydrants, roads, and basements.  There would have been a lot of construction, digging by a lot of different groups of people, from the water company to the electric company, not to mention the people putting in the houses and the swimming pools and whatnot.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not going to cover up leaving the graves.  Seriously, they would have plowed up a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>29 years after the film comes out, I&#8217;m suddenly bothered by this.<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"red\">UPDATE:<\/font><\/b> So I&#8217;ve heard that it makes perfect sense in California, where due to homes on slabs, corrupt contractors, and lack of a frost danger meaning they leave the utilities lying on the ground instead of burying them deeply, that <em>Poltergeist<\/em> is accurate.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll broaden my point: That state where this 30-year-old movie was set doesn&#8217;t make sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, in the 1982 film Poltergeist, at the very end, the whole You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn&#8217;t you? thing? That doesn&#8217;t make sense. I mean, look at it: it&#8217;s a completed subdivision with fire hydrants, roads, and basements. There would have been a lot of construction, digging by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10060"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10083,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060\/revisions\/10083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}