My theory: St happens. Even (especially) weird st.
Please do not cast an SNL alum in the lead role.
Actually, there is a bathroom on the right
But don’t they always? I would almost rather they didn’t attempt it and just leave the book alone.
That’s the problem. The clock radio is a time looping device. Every time Phil wakes up he turns off the radio alarm. This activates the device which causes Phil to relive the previous 24 hours. If he would just let the local morning zoo team get on with their schtick, he’d break out of the cycle.
Why are we quoting CCR? They aren’t even in the movie soundtrack.
Nice. I wouldn’t have gotten this if I hadn’t watched the relevant movie just last weekend.
But he only slept with her in the sense of “we fell asleep in the same bed, fully clothed”, not sexually. Is being asleep in the same room with Andie MacDowell that bad? :eek:
The actor who played Ned the insurance salesman, Stephen Tobolowsky, does one of my favorite podcasts. He devoted an entire episode to the making of this moving and what decisions were made over the course of filming that affected the final product. If you like the movie it’s well worth the hour of your time to listen to it.
And that is what broke the time loop! All he needed to do was go without sex for one 24 hour period. All this garbage about selflessly living a “perfect day” is just a bunch of BS. The only thing the “the perfect day” did was keep him occupied so he didn’t have time to even rub one out and it also had the effect of making him so tired that he fell asleep despite being next to a willing Andie MacDowell. You see, had he been cable of exercising a modicum of self control, he could have broken the loop on the first day. <end crackpot theory>
Stephen also notes in this podcast (it’s called “The Classic”) that, because the weather was ever-changing when it was being filmed, individual scenes were shot multiple times. This was so that when the final cut was being made, the weather in all the chosen cuts would match. So in addition to all the multiple times each scene appears in the final cut of the movie, there are about four cuts standing in line behind it where the weather is sunny, snowing, or overcast!
That or a trickster/Loki/Gabriel.
My theory… a coronal mass ejection storm passes through 14 different Stargates simultaneously, activating an alien device originally built to circumvent the destruction of an ancient alien race. The device never worked properly, but instead sends everyone on the various connected 14 worlds into a repeating time loop.
That’s got to be some kind of record!
Link, please?
“Nancy. She works in the dress shop and makes chipmunk noises when she gets excited.”
The Tobolowsky Files. The Classic
Here’s a really, really good episode, too: A Good Day at Auschwitz
You mean, you’re asking if it’s that bad to have to put up with her whiny voice and smug smirks for a full day and night and not even get some?
My mind would recoil in horror from that, too.
Many thanks! I’ll check it out.
I think Phil got hit in the head by a ladder or something either right before or right after he made that phone call (“I’m a celebrity in an emergency!”) and that got him stuck.
How that explains everybody in town knowing him, at the end, I will never know. I mean sure, he figured out how to help everybody out, but still from their perspective it was always just one day. It was established that he could talk to someone one day and learn the secrets of their heart, only to have them forget entirely so he could use those secrets against them the next day. So how come at the end they all knew him?
And also…well, never mind, it was only a movie.
It had been a very good day. He had, from the perspective of the townsfolk, met and made a difference in the lives of very many people. Only he, and we or course, know that it was through much repetition that he was able to get it right that one time.
In other words, they’d met him earlier in the day, and he’s made a hell of an impression.
Remember he looked at his watch and had to run catch the kid falling out of the tree? By the end he’d scheduled himself so that he could help lots of people, all day long.