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

ends with a decent car chase tho

"Three... two... one..."

thar he goes

"He might be okay."
[explodes]
"Well, no, probably not now."

fade to clock

what a day
this has been

huge bummer ending

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

I would probably enjoy Groundhog Daying more than Palm Springsing. Bigger potential cast, not out in the middle of Nowhere, California, lots more options. Lola Rennting, no way, not interested, way too limited.

And Happy Death Daying sucks, obviously, good movie, but you don't want a seemingly omniscient serial killer stalking you.

At least Roy Palmsprings only comes over some times, and you can seemingly avoid him pretty easily if you just either stay around the wedding guests or skip out on the wedding with enough distance.

A whole science-training montage and the conclusion she comes to is "gotta make it go boom."

great, fun movie, obviously

Oh, right, it's Groundhog Day.

And so is movie #49, except this time the loops go in reverse order, which was @thiskurt's idea.

Oh, right, Drive link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O9snbp1OmQcUBx0ddn0WGOKizqZcAJ6M/view?usp=sharing

In this one, he's a dick for the first few minutes, then becomes his essentially perfect self out of nowhere and slowly degrades back to a dick, only to reset at the end.

For the first 20 or so minutes this is just the "final loop only" cut, obviously.

you WILL believe a man can forget how to play piano

truly, what IS titicaca

have to admit, love this movie, it's getting kinda on my nerves now

i guess in this one the way out of the loop is to get hit on the head with a snow shovel

buhhh

@Alexis I just want to say that "this month I learned" both about the "we like to party" sampling thing from a TED talk and "Groundhog daying must be a thing too" from you. So feel free to declare that you've practically given a TED talk on this now. If I've pieced this together correctly anyways.

@trini I could absolutely give any of a dozen Groundhog Day or Groundhog Day-adjacent TED talks at a moment's notice.

@Alexis Always works.

@kurt That's the only real science.

@Alexis I can't be certain I'm not on the first run of a nearly 30 year long time loop.

@kurt If on your next 30-year loop you reach out to me on February 10th, 2021, at 16:30, and tell me I've only had one cup of coffee today, I'll totally believe you going forward.

@Alexis If I haven't changed enough to disrupt the coffee equilibrium in your life.

@Alexis a lake

@a_breakin_glass @Alexis alakea

@Alexis a bastardization of a native word

@Alexis
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/titicaca