the groundhog day project

Right away, in Slacker , the theme and structure is laid out by none other than director Linklater himself, talking to a taxi driver. Alternate realities, each choice you make fracturing reality so that every direction exists. This movie is about to drift off on tangents from each scene-- (I wrote in this blog before--I don't remember when but I think it was fairly recently--about having a story idea that follows one character for a while then switches to another, then later to another, then another and another, etcetera. For the record, I have never seen Slacker until tonight. But, Slacker seems to be doing just that sort of thing.) --with no overarching plot to tie them together, just a lot of fringe-of-society type characters going about their business. (I imagine you could operate a story like this on different levels of reality as well, like Mr. Show with Bob and David used to link its sketches or how Cloud Atlas ties its stories together. One character watches a TV sh...

Day 52 - if you only had one day to live --that's an entry I've brought up several times since I wrote it. It's the one with the jelly beans. It's definitive proof I write stuff as cheesy as some of the stuff in The Fault in Our Stars --which I saw recently. Edge of Tomorrow --or Groundhog Day with guns--the other movie I saw recently, has no real sentiment to it except for one scene... SPOILERS. Tom Cruise's Cage and Emily Blunt's Rita sit in a barn well past the frontlines. We (and she) think(s) this is the first time they have made it this far. But, Cage finds some coffee and knows that Rita takes it with three sugars. She (and we) figure(s) out he has already gone through this scene. He's stalling their getting into the helicopter they have just found because he knows that every time they have tried to take the helicopter Rita ends up dead. He doesn't want to see her die again. On the next resumption, he goes to meet Rita (for the first time), but...

Tomorrow may be more complicated. I imagine a rundown of Tom Cruise’s character in Edge of Tomorrow as Christ-Figure per the Kozlovic Scale . And, I might post a clip from that movie (or from The Daily Show ). Edge of Tomorrow is like Groundhog Day if the reporter were shoved into the frontlines of a war with aliens instead of a lame local holiday ceremony. And, Phil has to die every day for the time loop to reset. It’s main female— (And, almost only... there is at least two other women with speaking roles, but none of them interact, so Edge of Tomorrow does not pass the Bechdel Test anymore than Groundhog Day does.) —is even named Rita. Edge of Tomorrow is not the only movie I saw today. I also went with my daughter to see The Fault in Our Stars . So, today’s entry will actually be a bit of a mixed review of both of these movies in terms of how they relate to me and to Groundhog Day . For example, Edge of Tomorrow shares a lot structurally with Groundhog Day , except ...