Star Trek TOS- The pop culture image of Captain Kirk is something like the obvious satire character on Futurama Zapp Branagan.
The actual Kirk as depicted on the show is nothing like that at all, the recent Trek movie reboots even went to the pains of having Kirk in movie have a reason to be more like the popular image of Kirk.
Inception-
The word dream, or dream within a dream is never used in the movie(I think :p). The tech is explained as a virtual reality machine developed by the military, and the only reason they use those sedatives is so they can achieve the crazy time dilation we see(like experiencing a lifetime in a few hours). It is a movie about VR, more like they are plugged into a mini matrix then a dream.
And Star Wars - what a rip-off. All of the fighting involved humans and aliens and robots. The stars were apparently neutral in these wars and were barely even mentioned.
It has been a while since I’ve seen it but yes dreams are mentioned, but no one in the movie is dreaming in any conventional sense. Even the basement full of “opium addicts” where the dialogue explicitly says their dream has become their reality, it is more like their self programmed holodeck fantasies.
Anyway in my OP I forgot to mention I’ve seen criticism of the film that actual dreams are not like the ones depicted on screen, which is off the mark since the movie is about a VR machine not normal dreams.
There is probably something in the VAST extended universe about a sentient star, or you could watch Andromeda if stars getting involved in galactic politics is your thing
The Inception soundtrack was made without having seen the film. Track #9 is “Dream Within A Dream”. How did Hans get that idea if it’s about virtual realities?
Incorrect. “The Monster” refers to Victor Frankenstein as “Father” throughout the book, which would make him a Frankenstein as well.
My own contribution…
Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Halloween are remembered for their non-stop gore, but both are actually pretty bloodless and much more moody than horrific.
I think Jaws fits the bill. The actual film is 90% sometimes smart, sometimes funny, always well written and acted interaction among a set of human characters. 9% is tension and fear about sharks, but no gore (nor actual sharks). Only 1% is gory shark stuff.
I’d guess that the public perception of the film (and book its based on) about reverses these proportions.
The Great Gatsby and Saturday Night Fever - both are caustic commentaries on the cultural niches they portray - the social scene at Gatsby’s party is as silly as the disco scenes in SNF - and yet both were glamorized and held up as cool places to be.
The book is even worse! A good portion of the book involves Mrs. Brody’s affair with Hooper and there’s a lengthy discussion about how Mrs. Brody really wants to be raped by a black guy with a giant cock. Most of the rest of the book covers the economic effects the beach closure has on the town.
In a surprisingly large number of parodies/ripoffs of Star Wars, the Fortress of Evil™ is destroyed by the good guys sneaking in and pushing the big red Self Destruct button. Which was not the case for either Death Star.
Well, dreams, they feel real while we’re in them, right? It’s only when we wake up that we realize how things are actually strange. Let me ask you a question: you, you never really remember the beginning of a dream do you? You always wind up right in the middle of what’s going on.
“I guess, yeah.”
So how did we end up here?
“Well we just came from the a…”
Think about it Ariadne, how did you get here? Where are you right now?
“We’re dreaming?”
You’re actually in the middle of the workshop right now, sleeping. This is your first lesson in shared dreaming. Stay calm.
