20 Movie Answers Given YEARS Later

Have you ever sat through a movie and whether having enjoyed it or not

found yourself unable to shake the feeling that there was something, well, missing

Have you ever then also thought about that question for years? If the answer to the above questions is a big ol' yes, then you are not alone, my friends

So with that said, I am Gareth, I'm Jules, this is WhatCouch.com, and here are movie answers given years later

Will Scrat ever eat the acorn? Ice Age. And the question is, is that will Scrat ever eat that damn acorn

Since the very first Ice Age film in 2002, we've observed this saber-toothed squirrel's single-minded pursuit of his precious acorn

which has resulted in the object of his obsession escaping his grasp again and again

But fans who've been watching Scrat with great interest over the last 20 years finally got their wish

though it was certainly in bittersweet fashion. With Ice Age creators Blue Sky Studios having been shut down by Disney

the studio's animators teamed up to give both Scrat and the series an affecting final farewell

Blue Sky recently released an unlisted video on YouTube simply called The End

which showed Scrat embracing his beloved acorn once more, looking around and waiting for chaos to ensue

and then gladly devouring the acorn when nothing stopped him. Scrat then seems to consider what emptiness his future might hold with the acorn finally consumed

before bouncing off the screen to seek adventure elsewhere. Considering that Scrat is effectively the franchise's mascot

and has proven to be consistently entertaining even as the Ice Age sequels became increasingly dire

it was unexpectedly affecting to see his quest finally fulfilled. What happened to the fish in the bags, Finding Nemo

One of the very best Pixar movies ever made is Finding Nemo

a story that made audiences care about just about every single character that splashed onto the screen

Aside from the obvious feelings towards Marlin, Dory and Nemo himself, viewers also connected with the fish the latter found while placed in a fish tank in Sydney

Not only did they help Nemo escape and get back to the ocean, they were finally able to break free of their tank themselves

You'll love to see it. Finding Nemo then ended with the seven fish bobbing about on the ocean

stuck in their plastic bags, unsure of what to do next. And no one knew the fate of Gil and Co. until it was revealed 13 years later

Finding Dory had a post-credit scene that amazingly showed these fish arriving at the Marine Life Institute in California

still concealed within their bags. Their outlook seemed bleak at the end of Finding Nemo

but fans were eventually rewarded with a hilarious and deeply unexpected answer at the very end of the sequel

What happens to Peter after Gwen's death? The Amazing Spider-Man 2 The Amazing Spider-Man franchise was widely expected to be a trilogy in the very least

but after the second film underwhelmed critically and commercially, Sony punt the brakes on a threequel

And so Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker was left in an unfortunate limbo of sorts

grieving his late girlfriend Gwen Stacy while heading back out into New York City to fight crime

Yet almost a decade removed from his last adventure, what would Peter be up to now

Well, in addition to an unfathomably popular fan service exercise, Spider-Man's No Way Home's multiverse mechanics allowed Marvel Studios

to finally give fans a semblance of closure on Garfield's part three

Rather than simply paper over Peter 3's grief and present him as his typically heroic, sarcastic Spider-Man

the film surprisingly lingers on the fact that he's failed to properly move on from Gwen's death

stewing in his misery in a way that impacts both his personal life and his heroism

Peter 3 is driven by anger and depression when we first see him again

though over the course of the film regains a sense of hope by helping the other Spider-Men resolve the multiverse anomaly

and catching a falling MJ as well, of course. While some fans are hoping for more MCU adventures

starring Peter 3, this is probably best thought of as a neat little epilogue which gave both fans

and Garfield himself closure on the character. Who was the Gimp? Pulp Fiction. As a writer

director, and an all-round storyteller, Quentin Tarantino is as meticulous as they come

There are tiny details hidden throughout his entire back catalogue, some so well hidden that they didn't even make it to the final cut

Each and every character is crafted with care and attention, even the ones that don't really seem that way to begin with

Take, for example, the Gimp in Pulp Fiction, the man dressed in a leather suit who is told by Maynard

to stop Bruce Willis' butt from escaping his captivity. Virtually no information was given about the character during the movie itself

but you just knew there had to be a backstory in there somewhere. This was something that Tarantino finally explored

during an interview with Empire in 2020, 26 years later. The Gimp was a hitchhiker that Maynard had picked up

seven years prior to the events of the movie, who he and his brother essentially trained to be the perfect victim-slash-henchman

When asked about what happened to the character after Butch ultimately escaped the director confirmed that in his mind he hung himself Surely one of the bleakest characters Tarantino has ever written then Lovely Why does Emmett carry a bag full of eggs Twilight So back in 2020 some 12 years after the

release of the original Twilight, a clip from the movie went viral on TikTok when one user pointed

out that the vampire Emmett could be seen carrying a Ziploc bag of hard-boiled eggs around the

cafeteria because, what reasons? Well, the actor Kellen Lutz clearly got a kick out of the mystery

and summarily refused to elaborate more. So it fell to Twilight director Catherine Hardwick to

finally spill the beans and she did so in a frankly hilarious interview with Insider. She

revealed that Lutz was simply carrying the eggs around on set and she decided to incorporate them

into the scene. I saw Kellen carrying a bag of like one dozen hard-boiled eggs and I'm like

what the hell is going on? You're not going to eat like a dozen eggs, are you? I've never seen

anybody carry around a Ziploc bag of one dozen eggs and going to eat them all day long. I was

just laughing so hard. I'm like, okay, you have to eat those eggs. You have to carry that in that

scene because it was just so outrageous. So that was it really, just a super quirky detail that the

real actor was doing. Hardwick then added that Kellan was likely carrying around the eggs to

supplement his protein intake given the intense regime that he was on to play the hunky vampire

Even so, what a wild ride. What was the Star Child about? 2001 A Space Odyssey

Never one to adhere to or conform to the rules of filmmaking, an attitude that has allowed him to produce some of the most influential movies of an entire generation

Stanley Kubrick's finest and strangest hour may have come with 2001 A Space Odyssey

As far as not following the norms goes, the 1968 picture was way ahead of its time in a number of different aspects, including that ending

After investigating a mysterious monolith that was orbiting Jupiter, Doctor David Bowman was sucked into a vortex of some kind, and almost reborn as a fetus floating in space

Absolutely no explanation or context was given. While Kubrick had previously gone on record as not wanting to confirm exactly what the final scenes meant

footage of an interview for an ultimately unproduced documentary that was discovered in 2020 shows the director doing exactly that

An actual real explanation as to what happened at the end of 2001 A Space Odyssey

When Bowman is pulled into the vortex, the idea was that he had been abducted by god-like creatures without form for study

They put him in a room that didn't follow the rules of time, and so when he flies through his lifetime seeing himself as an old man

this is really happening to him while outside the natural laws of the universe

Finally, upon the completion of their studies, the gods saw him reborn as a Superman of sorts and sent him back to Earth

Though Kubrick stopped short of explaining what happened when he returned home, This definitely gives more context than ever to one of the most ambiguous movie endings of all time

So cheers, Stan! Where did Luke Skywalker's severed hand go? The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back ends with Luke Skywalker having his hand cut off by Darth Vader

losing not only his hand, but his precious lightsaber in the process. For 35 years, the whereabouts of Luke's saber was unknown

though that mystery was cleared up in The Force Awakens when it was found to be in the custody of Maz Kanata

But if Luke's lightsaber was recovered, his hand must have been there too, right

So what the hell happened to it? Well, that hasn't ever been answered in the movies

but the recent Star Wars Darth Vader comic book finally revealed the truth in its 11th issue

which was released last April some 41 years after Luke's hand was chopped off and dropped

through Cloud City Sky to parts unknown. The issue, set shortly after Empire, features a scene where Darth Vader visits Palpatine

and as he walks through Palpatine's lab that we saw in The Rise of Skywalker, he chances upon a severed hand floating in what's presumably a bacta tank

While this hand could theoretically belong to anyone, this just feels too pointed a reference to be anything but Luke's

The wider implications of this are admittedly mind-boggling, with many fans speculating that Luke's DNA could have been used to create Snoke of all people

but that's a whole other kettle of fish. How was alien technology affected by human technology, Independence Day

Ever since Independence Day released back in 1996, there has been one huge question mark hanging over a certain scene in particular

Some call it a plot hole, while others call it bad writing. But what everyone can seemingly agree on is that it didn't quite make sense

The film is about an alien invasion that ultimately Jeff Goldblum's David Levinson is able to thwart from his computer

He essentially beamed a virus up to the aliens that stopped them in their tracks

The question that plagued audiences for years, though, was how exactly was that possible

How could a computer virus from the technology in our world possibly outmatch or even corrupt

that of the invading aliens? The answer came from a Reddit AMA session with the movie's writer and

producer Dean Devlin back in 2014 Levington discovered that the aliens were using binary code something that could easily be reverse by changing the ones to zeros and the zeros to ones With alien invasions it too easy to assume that the extraterrestrials have

a much more sophisticated technology system than the people of Earth, but in this case it was a

simple binary code, exactly the same as is understood here. What colour is Drax, Guardians

of the Galaxy? Now this might sound ridiculous and self-evident, but seriously, ever since the

release of the original Guardians of the Galaxy back in 2014, fans have wondered what Drax the

Destroyer's skin colour actually is. Some think that he's green as in the comics, others grey

some blue, and there's never really been an actual legit consensus on the fact. That is

until James Gunn himself chimed in. Last year, a despairing fan tweeted at Gunn that he and his

girlfriend were locked in an unending dispute about Drax's skin colour, to which Gunn mercifully

offered the final word, saying, he is grey, but like most grey things, he can take on a blue or green tint under some lights

but he's definitely grey. Gunn elaborated that he decided against giving Drax comic accurate

green skin because Gamora was already green, and green makeup is also the hardest to make

resemble real skin. So there it is, though Drax has basically looked like five different colours

amidst the MCU's various elaborate lighting setups, his skin is absolutely, positively grey

How could Han Solo make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, Star Wars Episode 4, A New Hope

A big part of Han Solo's appeal as a character was the mystery that surrounded him

His background was never truly explored, and he was like this enigma

a rogue element that helped the Rebel Alliance and grew into one of the galaxy's biggest heroes

Solo, a Star Wars story, did rob some of this intrigue from him

in particular with the mind-numbing explanation of where he got his surname, But there was at least one thing the movie managed to do right

After years of pondering one line of dialogue from episode 4, the question of doing the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs was finally answered

As part of boasting to Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi about how great the Millennium Falcon was

he proudly claimed that the ship made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs

However, with a parsec being a unit of measurement rather than a unit of time

A huge question mark hung over this conversation for almost 40 years

When escaping the mines of Kessel after triggering a whole uprising, a young Solo had to navigate the famous route that was full of obstacles and people trying to kill him

And the boast actually comes from the fact that, thanks to some genius piloting and shortcuts

he was able to escape Kessel in the most direct route possible, whereas most others would have had to travel much further around to avoid everything safely

Impressive stuff. Who won the third fight between Rocky and Apollo? Rocky III

So way back in 1982, Rocky III ended with Rocky and Apollo Creed having a third and final match

to settle things once and for all, though the movie ingeniously ends as the fight begins without

revealing the outcome. So, who ended up winning? Well, the answer was finally revealed an entire

33 years later in Creed when Apollo's son Adonis asked Rocky about the mythical fight

and Rocky reveals that Apollo was indeed the victor. Now we have to consider the possibility that Rocky was simply showing a little humility and telling Adonis an orphan for God's sake what he probably needed to hear at that point

But from everything the movie tells us, Apollo was far and away the better boxer of the two, with Rocky only barely prevailing in Rocky 2

So it's incredibly easy to take what Rocky tells Adonis as truthful

What happened to the embryos, Jurassic Park? Long before Lewis Dodgson tried to take over the world with his genetically enhanced locus in Jurassic World Dominion

The character set in motion the entire series of events of Jurassic Park way back in 1993

Thanks to his attempts at industrial espionage, multiple people were killed and John Hammond's dream of a dinosaur theme park was put on ice for a few decades

Dodgson paid Dennis Nedry to procure him embryos of 15 species from the island

He gave him a fake shaving foam can to transport them back, but they never actually left the island

When Nedry was attacked by the Dilophosaurus, the embryos fell out of his pocket and were never spoken of in the films again

Taking into account just how valuable these were, and how much money Dodgson was willing to pay for them

was another effort made to recoup them and bring them to the mainland? In 2022, Louis Dodgson stepped foot on Isla Nubar for the first time in Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous

and in a wildly unlikely moment actually put his foot on the exact place where the can fell

What are the chances, eh? It had laid there unmoved for 29 years

until he picked it up and put it in his backpack as something of a memento. How nice

What was up with all the coast guards? Scooby-Doo 2002's James Gunn-Pen Scooby-Doo movie may not be as urgently plotted as most

and by that I mean all of the movies on this list, but that doesn't mean that fans haven't been agonizing for years

to learn what was up with those damn coast guards. During the movie, Mary Jane calls Spooky Island's coast guard

to report the ancient demons running riot only for the guard who answers the phone to hang up and start laughing maniacally about the whole situation Were they just some asshole guards who didn take their job seriously Were they paid off to ignore the situation Or was there something more nefarious

at play? Well, the scene's nebulous truth was finally revealed in an interview with the film's

editor, who said that the two coastguards were indeed possessed by the demons as many fans had

suspected, hence their bizarre reaction to the mayhem unfolding on Spooky Island

How do the three seashells work, Demolition Man? Some unanswered questions can plague audiences for years

because they have left a huge gap in the story or in logic, or because depending on the answer

the film can be looked at from very different perspectives. Other times, the answers to these questions

will have just about no impact on anything related to the narrative, but are just as sought after

There can be details that go completely unexplained, and sometimes it feels as though there simply can't be an answer

that makes any kind of sense. Take for example the three seashells in Demolition Man

Does it affect the story that it's never explained how these have replaced toilet paper in the year 2032

Not in the slightest. Have audiences been dying for an answer since it released in 1993 though

Absolutely. This was ultimately given by Sylvester Stallone himself in 2006, who explained the new system in the same way it was explained to him by the movie's writer

It is grim, but two of the shells are used like chopsticks to gently pull

while the third is then used to scrape what's left. Maybe some questions are better left than answered, eh

Who was Falcon talking to? Ant-Man So Falcon, played by Anthony Mackie, makes a brief cameo appearance in Ant-Man

briefly battling Scott Lang when the pint-sized hero tries to break into the Avengers HQ

During the scene we can hear Falcon talking to an inaudible voice through his radio

telling somebody on the other end, it's really important to me that Cap never finds out about this

Given that we never hear that person on the other end, fans have spent years after the film's 2015 release speculating on who it might be

Now, while Falcon could have conceivably been talking to any random employee of the facility or perhaps a non-superhero like Maria Hill

Ant-Man director Peyton Reed finally put fans out of their misery in 2020

by revealing that Falcon was speaking to none other than Black Widow

When a fan asked Reed about this moment on Twitter, he snappily replied, Great question, he's talking to Natasha

The lesson here is that sometimes a burning years-old movie question can be categorically answered by just firing a quick tweet at the director

How did John McClane know Hans Gruber was a bad guy? Die Hard

As far as action movie heroes go, there aren't many better than Bruce Willis' John McClane

He was brave, he never gave up, he saved the lives of scores of people

and based on one scene from Die Hard, you'd be forgiven for thinking he was psychic. After terrorizing Hans Gruber's group of terrorists from above

McClane actually came face to face with Alan Rickman's character. Though since they had never seen each other

paired with Gruber's convincing American accent and cover story as Bill Clay

the cop from New York had no reason to suspect who he really was. When John gave Bill a gun, the German identified himself

as he tried to shoot the thorn in his side. However, it turns out that John knew exactly who Hans was

and had given him an empty gun. But how did he know? There was no real indication given as to what exactly alerted McClain

to the fact that he was being deceived. The answer wasn't given until almost 30 years later

when screenwriter Stephen E. D'Souza confirmed in an interview that a key scene that would have explained everything was left on the cutting room floor

Basically, as John killed more and more of Gruber's men, he noticed that they all wore identical watches

When he saw that same watch on Han's wrist, he knew that he was a terrorist

though the context of this was lost in the movie's final cut. Does the truce last

The Matrix Revolutions Now the third Matrix film ended on a rather weird cliffhanger ending which really asked more questions than it answered

Beyond Neo's ambiguous fate, a truce is forged between Zion and the machines after Neo agrees to destroy Agent Smith

Yet the film makes it explicitly clear that this is a deeply uneasy truce

and so the original trilogy wraps up on a not entirely hopeful note

whereby war between the humans and the machines could soon enough kick off again following Smith's demise

But the question is, did it? Well, it took a damn 18 years, but we finally got our answer in The Matrix Resurrections

When Neo visits Niobe in the new human underground city, she reveals that the truce did in fact last for many years

and that the architect kept his promises to let anyone who wished to be unplugged from The Matrix do so

The problem, however, is that when enough people became unplugged, The Matrix began to suffer power outages

which ironically caused the machines to start turning on one another and eventually break out into civil war

Further unexpectedly, the situation somewhat eased relations between humans and the machines

as some machines decided to switch sides and join humanity, with bugs revealing that the Sentinels preferred to be called Synthiants

So while there's certainly continuing machine conflict in Resurrections, Neo's trip to the machine city in Revolutions had a major irreversible effect on how the machines viewed humankind