Thank you-- I’ve got a bad sinus infection.
I gotta say to 12 year old me and my friends, when MTV played the Fish Heads video that was a “Call EVERYONE into the living room NOW!” moment.
No, it was her uncle.
Shortly after the 1987 movie Siesta came out on video, my sister had rented it. We had a family dinner the next day, and she still had the video, so she wanted to watch it with us. She was so disappointed that about ten minutes in, I said “she’s dead.” Actually, I liked it. Atmospheric with Ellen Barkin and Gabriel Byrne.
Oh, and I grew up with Dr. Demento on KMET (A little bit of heaven…). I’m glad I had it as part of my formative experience. A little bad taste never hurt anyone, and people with only good taste can be boring pedants.
Yes. I forgot!
More creepy, because of the his implied incestual thoughts . eww
Yeah, played, appropriately, by Keir Dullea.
His guest star role on L&O had the same ickiness!
I presumed joke, too. It’s not even a good example, seeing as most of the enemies show up in later games that are not dreams.
It would be like getting mad that Super Mario Bros 3 is a play.
Wait. What? It is? How the hell did I never realize that? I’ve beaten that a gazillion times. I guess that explains the stage curtains in the beginning and end. I’ve just never drawn the connection.
I mean, it’s somewhat debatable, but it’s not just the curtains. It’s also how you seem to have things nailed onto the sky, and can even go back behind the curtain in a couple places. And Miyamoto did confirm it back in 2015 (which I didn’t know).
I think there are plenty of films that have pulled off the “the character was dead / dreaming / in a sim / a ghost / a clone / imaginary / otherwise had what they know as ‘reality’ upended” twist. Plenty that didn’t. But the narrative needs to have support it. And it needs to be more support than “this stunt was ridiculous so they probably died and everything after that point is imaginary.”
I mean you could claim that for the Fast & Furious films. Dominic Toretto smashed his head when he crashed at the end of the first film. The rest of the series are increasingly ludicrous (and Ludacris) coma dreams of Dom and his friends pulling off international heists and spy capers.
You think the Martian’s “Vanilla Sky-ed” Tom?
I think Jacob’s Ladder is fairly clever, and moving at the end with his kid.