View Full Version : I just don't get it?!?!(end of Magnolia spoilers)
sinclairtyler
11-08-2006, 11:46 PM
After episode 50 i decided to finally watch magnolia. Over all i liked it but the FROGS. I just don't understand what that was supposed to mean. It just went right over my head. I was wondering if anyone could help me find some clarity and also i was wondering what movies made you feel the same way?
psbp516
11-08-2006, 11:47 PM
My middle name is sinclair
xxxthundercatxxx
11-08-2006, 11:52 PM
My middle name is sinclair
Their last name is also Sinclair...
http://www.df.lth.se/~ola/pictures/sinclair.jpg
psbp516
11-08-2006, 11:56 PM
That show kicked so much ass. Except for the baby. He was an asshole.
bravestarr
11-09-2006, 12:00 AM
the frogs were a deus ex machina. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina)
sinclairtyler
11-09-2006, 12:06 AM
That baby haunted my dreams after i saw the episode when he did the head spin exorcist thing.
madripper1
11-09-2006, 12:08 AM
not the baby not the baby
slowmtnsilhouette
11-09-2006, 12:12 AM
not the baby not the baby
not the momma not the momma
bravestarr
11-09-2006, 12:13 AM
not the baby not the baby
you mean not the momma?
that's what he called the dad (how the hell do i know that?)
xxxthundercatxxx
11-09-2006, 12:29 AM
Dinosaurs was a pretty smart comedy. I kinda hope Adult Swim picks it up some time so I can see the old episodes again. My favorite episode is where Robbie and Charlene end up protecting the last two of a species of rodents, who want to die... later Robbie becomes the dinosaur equivalent of being gay and comes out that he's a herbivore. People always say that Family Guy ripped of the Simpsons but I think there's more simularities between the characters in Dinosaurs than there is to the Simpsons. Except for the clever writing, they couldn't copy that at Family Guy.
soundwave2-0
11-09-2006, 12:32 AM
baby said...
"i'm the baby...gotta love me!"
originx
11-09-2006, 01:31 AM
People always say that Family Guy ripped off the Simpsons; but I think there's more similarities between the characters in Dinosaurs than there is to the Simpsons.
Simpsons did it!
narco
11-09-2006, 02:58 AM
After episode 50 i decided to finally watch magnolia. Over all i liked it but the FROGS. I just don't understand what that was supposed to mean. It just went right over my head. I was wondering if anyone could help me find some clarity and also i was wondering what movies made you feel the same way?
It's been a while since I've seen the movie, so I can't remember everything. I do know that the frogs dropping had something to do with the bible. Throughout the movie, you'll see signs and numbers that show a specific passage in the bible. It was something like 3:16 or one of those type deals. Try to look for them and read the passage in the bible.
Once I saw all the signs of that specific passage and actually read it, it made me like that scene the best.
fushna
11-09-2006, 05:19 AM
Their last name is also Sinclair...
http://www.df.lth.se/~ola/pictures/sinclair.jpg
I have a customer that looks exactly like the grandma in that show.
xxxthundercatxxx
11-09-2006, 05:27 AM
I have a customer that looks exactly like the grandma in that show.
If you were waiting for the right time to stop selling your body on Craigslist and start attending classes again, now would be that time.
fushna
11-09-2006, 05:35 AM
I just realized how that sounded so let me rephrase it, at the restaurant I work at we have a customer that looks exactly like the grandma from that show. Plus Thundercat old farts need loving too.
abacusand13south
11-09-2006, 03:34 PM
I always thought the grandma had a face like a Battle Toad.
ali_pinto
11-09-2006, 05:46 PM
It's been a while since I've seen the movie, so I can't remember everything. I do know that the frogs dropping had something to do with the bible. Throughout the movie, you'll see signs and numbers that show a specific passage in the bible. It was something like 3:16 or one of those type deals. Try to look for them and read the passage in the bible.
Once I saw all the signs of that specific passage and actually read it, it made me like that scene the best.
It's Exodus 8:2, which is the story about the 10 plagues. Exodus 8:2 is the plague of frogs. However, I do remember reading an interview in which PT Anderson stated that he never knew that Exodus 8:2 was the plague of the frogs but I don't believe that.
fluxcapacitor
11-09-2006, 05:53 PM
It's Exodus 8:2, which is the story about the 10 plagues. Exodus 8:2 is the plague of frogs. However, I do remember reading an interview in which PT Anderson stated that he never knew that Exodus 8:2 was the plague of the frogs but I don't believe that.
I think he said he had the idea for the raining frogs before finding out about Exodus 8:2, but after finding out about it added a bunch of references to it in the movie.
dannyt
11-09-2006, 07:14 PM
Magnolia follows a handful of character who have all experienced some sort of problem, devastation, trauma in their life (the cop is sorta the exception) and in trying to solve that issue-- they only end up making things worse. The song they all sing in the movie "Its not going to stop, so just give up" always ment, for me-- that in FIGHTING the problem they are just making it worse, they have to accept that it happened, accept that it DID HAPPEN, so they can move on. And life is pretty chaotic-- you never know what can happen next just like the awesome opening of Magnolia illustrates. So the frogs raining down on all of our characters. It is this crazy thing, this totally crazy thing they no one could ever expect, ya never know what happens next right, but it unites our characters and shows that WE ALL have to deal with these problems-- we can't control what is going to happen next, frogs can rain down from the sky, so don't fight your past (remember the line "and the good book says, you may be done with the past but the past ain't done with you") accept it and move on...
I know that wasn't totally clear but, you know how i roll...
dan
sandstone
11-09-2006, 10:11 PM
Magnolia follows a handful of character who have all experienced some sort of problem, devastation, trauma in their life (the cop is sorta the exception) and in trying to solve that issue-- they only end up making things worse. The song they all sing in the movie "Its not going to stop, so just give up" always ment, for me-- that in FIGHTING the problem they are just making it worse, they have to accept that it happened, accept that it DID HAPPEN, so they can move on. And life is pretty chaotic-- you never know what can happen next just like the awesome opening of Magnolia illustrates. So the frogs raining down on all of our characters. It is this crazy thing, this totally crazy thing they no one could ever expect, ya never know what happens next right, but it unites our characters and shows that WE ALL have to deal with these problems-- we can't control what is going to happen next, frogs can rain down from the sky, so don't fight your past (remember the line "and the good book says, you may be done with the past but the past ain't done with you") accept it and move on...
I know that wasn't totally clear but, you know how i roll...
dan
now Dan I'm going to make you blow your load right now, but I think Magnolia is one of the greatest movies ever made. it so awesome I even bought the soundtrack. A lot of people complain about the frogs at the end but to me. It shows it that shit happens. things unexpected are bound to happen and will happen, but don't change our destiny. If you think about it while the frozen falling from the sky. There were so much more important things happening to every single character, and even though they notice the frogs. It would had to been secondary on their minds. I think people are always looking for Hollywood endings in all the movies they watch lately and it's what people didnt understand about Donnie Darko, movies should make you think, and they should make you talk. and above all else, you should be sympathetic to the character, good or bad. What wasn't there were loathing about Tom Cruise's character yet in the end, we can sympathize with him. Do you remember something in your past, that was so dramatic. You literally sweat cold, and if you think about it. If something came up at the same moment, wouldnt it be to secondary to what just happened in your life
imagineer99
11-09-2006, 10:41 PM
I love Magnolia--one of the few 3 hour+ movies that feels far shorter than its runtime.
Just wanted to add that it is possible to rain frogs, although rare.
glenndanzig
11-10-2006, 03:25 PM
one of my old freinds obese retarded little brother looks just like the baby dinosaur.
no, really.
invaderzim
11-10-2006, 03:56 PM
one of my old freinds obese retarded little brother looks just like the baby dinosaur.
no, really.
and that was very disturbing. But expected from a handle glenndanzing. Mother, tell your children not to pick on retards.
glenndanzig
11-10-2006, 04:03 PM
i hate that retard.
he would always **** with my stuff and i would tell him not to, and he would keep doing it.
he was one of the those retards that was stupid enought to be retarded but smart enought he knew he could get away with stuff cause he was "retarded"
i hate that fat bastard.
stupid retard