(That link is gonna disappear in a couple days, but if you're reading this from the future, I'll happily reupload it if I still have it.)

Turns out a third act does come completely out of nowhere if you cut the second act.

Groundhog Day, a movie in which Bill Murray really hates going to a town where he has an absolutely lovely day.

I have another really dumb one tomorrow.

Oh, right, it's Groundhog Day.

And so is movie #44, though this time it's an experimental German thriller, because I'm watching 1998's "Lola rennt," commonly known in English as "Run Lola Run."

I guess in English you gotta run twice for it to count.

is this guy called Manni because he lost the money

I dunno where the fuck I'd get *converts* sixty grand, either, I think that'd be 20 minutes of me coming to terms with my boyfriend's impending death by mobster

RIP Lola RIP

i feel like if you're gonna reset time about it you could at least figure out not to go to your dad's office

oh she does remember how to use the gun from the first loop

"Get out of the way, girl, do you want to get killed?"

hahaha

eyyy right through the glass, you love to see it

RIP Manni RIP

"You've come at last, dear."

weird

well that was great

#45, 2019's "Captain Marvel."

I keep going "I don't think I've seen this one since it came out" but 2019 isn't that long ago.

still think it's silly how long this sticks to calling her "Vers."

give Carol a sister, it's time for the MCU to do the multi-Vers

"You do know why they call it a cockpit, don't you?"

it's all a bit on the nose, but I absolutely get why this is the movie you make in 2017/18/19

the holo of Jude Law coming out of Carol's hand doesn't show up on the holo of Carol on Jude Law's dashboard

Fury and Coulson :)

I don't think I'd noticed before but I think there's a Kevin Smith lookalike among the extras on the train carriage Stan Lee is reading the Mallrats script on

"Hold on, you look like somebody's disaffected niece."

you know what, the SHIELD hat does totally help

"It's just a scratch."

I said about the live-action "Mulan" and "Jungle Book" that they felt like they had more in common, in terms of goals, with theme park rides than with movies -- like the goal was to deliver a Cinematic Event, that drives you from spectacle to spectacle in a little cart, more so than to tell a story, almost -- and that's what I was thinking about during the back hour of this, watching it this time.

Obviously that's in no small part what an MCU movie is, but I genuinely dunno why this one, this time, why I didn't think of the "Jungle Book" Rollercoaster Theorem while rewatching "Spider-Man: Homecoming" or "Avengers: Infinity War". Hm.

Still fun, tho. Cute cat.

Oh, right, it's Groundhog Day.

And so is movie #46, except this time Phil is playing with permadeath turned on.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DAByf0o4SPJSANwbCXvZ1lveXD7dfieo/view?usp=sharing

"People like blood sausage, too! People are morons!"

i mean to each their own but i can't say i disagree about the blood sausage

The movie playing at the movie theatre, presumably the same one he later says he's seen over a hundred times, is "Heidi II", which doesn't exist. A family classic!

"Now don't you tell me you don't remember me--"

how could i forget

I thought the musical's addition of a dead wife for Ned worked, but in the film Tobolowsky definitely doesn't play it like that at all. Just a man who loves his job.

"It's groundhog time."

stop
it's groundhog time

it's ALWAYS groundhog time

until he dies at the end

"What blizzard, it's a couple of flakes!"

fucking snowflakes, etcetera

"Well, what if there is no tomorrow! There wasn't one today!" he says, as the clock beside him reads 4:04

tomorrow not found

"We could do... whatever we want."

Incorrect conclusion here, in the Permadeath Cut.

"We make choices, and we live with them!"

or--

"Ned?!"

that's still a terrific punch

we know he's lying to Nancy because we see him ask her for the information he needs, but it's the exact same interaction as with Ned, who he's copying -- but does Phil /have/ a sister called Mary Pat?

truly, what /is/ the Rhône

boy this is about to really sell itself as an absolutely miserable ending

#47, YouTuber/Uber driver/serial murderer horror movie "Spree," because apparently I'll watch any old shite.

I feel like an Uber knockoff probably should know better than to call its app "Spree"

oh these victims are all gonna be complete assholes, huh

woofffff

Steve Strangerthings is fun in this but cripes

also the, like, things this thinks it has to say about social media are less a Take and more a pretty shallow description

commits to the bit, it never cheats the found footage split screen thing, nails the various apps, but like I said, kinda shallow, and every character is just "douche," "shitty dad," if they even get that much

Oh, right, it's Groundhog Day.

And so is movie #48, except this time it's a different side of the US, a different time of year, a wedding instead of a holiday, and came out in 2020, in that I'm watching "Palm Springs."

I would absolutely notice if somebody in my vicinity was in a time loop.

I said several Groundhog Days ago that I would not joke about being in a time loop, I also would for sure believe you -- or at least go along with it -- if you told me /you/ were in a time loop, and if you think you might be in a time loop, please feel free to ask me something in one loop you'd have no way of knowing to tell me as proof in the next.

yes i would say i am extremely open to being dragged into a time loop situation