Is Randy Quaid going insane?

Replying to my own question above:

Apparently they don’t have kids together: he has a 35 year old daughter and she has young adult kids from a previous marriage. I’m glad there aren’t kids involved.

There are two possible scenarios, and they are not mutually exclusive:

  1. His bad decisions have been accelerated by his wife’s influence
  2. He has a beef with Rupert Murdoch, and all reports of his insane antics ultimately come from Rupert Murdoch’s news organizations.

He makes a big deal about how he–via the film Independence Day–made Rupert Murdoch untold millions of dollars. I watched the film once and don’t really remember him being in it. The Taliban-like beard doesn’t help his credibility, but I can think of several crazier people in Hollywood who are still working.

He played the crazy cropduster with the kids who is capable of flying an F-16? with no training and rams the zapper just as it was about to zap, giving his miserable life for the cause. (cue weeping)

That character always bothered me … wouldn’t you think they would not do the whole eye roll groan thing when he announces he was abducted by aliens as the aliens are coming in to hit the base? I think it is a gone conclusion that aliens exist, so he was actually probably abducted by aliens … at least I would grant him the benefit of the doubt at that point in time [as I was running into the underground facility at Area 51 to get away from that huge alien ship that was part of the fleet that just destroyed most of the major cities in the world.]:smack:

Randy Quaid is so batshit crazy that for him the phrase “going insane” would mean actually becoming less of a nutjob than he is now.

Catherine probably used the microwave one time too many.

I’m invoking Moff’s Law.

Humanity couldn’t survive in any recognizable fashion after losing the entire global economy in a matter of days. Granted, the aliens didn’t hit every city, but they destroyed enough. Also, and I really should have thought of this before reading it on IMDB, but there’s no reason to shoot (relatively small) air-to-air missiles at the alien ships. They were big enough to hit with tons of unguided bombs, not to mention volleys of cruise missiles from submarines and any surviving surface ships.

Now that I think about it, what’s so “popcorn movie” fun about that much suffering? Even Godzilla and company confined their devastation to one city, usually.

Anyway, I’m surprised that Randy Quaid and his wife have been left to get crazier and crazier for all these years.