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Everyone here needs to watch Palm Springs.
I enjoyed it
Like happened to a friend of ours. The flight, not the groundhog day.
She went on a trip with members of the council, and someone had been sitting on the invitation long enough before booking the flight until all sensible time slots were gone. So the flight was scheduled at 4am, so they had to be at the airport before 3am, which means leaving at 1:30am latest. Then they would have to wait a few hours for a connection, and another 1-2 hours of driving to get to their destination.
Yes and no. If you're aware of it you just miss your flight. Buuut, what would very much suck is being mid flight with at least 12 hours left to destination, and no in flight Wi-Fi to boot. Just you, the same in flight movies, and your fellow passengers for years of repeat flight experience.
What would you even do? Learn every line from every movie in every language? Get to know everyone on the flight intimately?
This is more or less the plot to Palm Springs. Dude gets stuck in a time loop the day of his cheating girlfriend's friend's wedding that he doesn't wanna be at, full of people he doesn't know, in the middle of the desert. It's implied that he was stuck in there for hundreds of years because he knows every intimate detail about everyone in town pretty much.
The only logical answer is…
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Learn how to skydive.
How do you do that when your loop is being on the plane already?
Trial and error
I mean, suicide was quite prominent in Groundhog Day, so...
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Oh, that's a nightmare! In the movie, there were so many things he could learn and do because he was in a town.
With my luck I'd get one where I wake up with massive diarrhea and vomiting, and have to spend the day by the toilet.
Oh God, imagine having air sickness. Your first goal would be to learn to control it somehow. This is like a horror film, lol
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Why do you need to bother with making the flight?
Maybe making the flight on time without being fined is what it takes to break the spell? The loop start when you wake up, then you need to make it 1 hour before and you only have 2 hours before the flight, commute take 45min, and you have 15min to prepare, every loop.
The thing is, you'd still get woken up early by your alarm and be tired for your every day.
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But that's the beauty of being caught in a timeloop. Use that time to work on you.
Palm Springs nailed it.
Watching it now. I'd learned of it from a YouTube series analyzing similar movies called Goodnight Rita.
Great movie, and it has Genesis' "The Brazilian" on its soundtrack, which I never thought I'd see.
There is a Swedish movie called Naked, which is about a guy who gets Groundhog Day'd in the following way: He wakes up naked in an elevator in an apartment building, he is hungover because it was his bachelor party the night before where he was black out drunk, and his friends left him here in the elevator. As a bonus they shoved a condom up his behind. He has a few hours before his wedding.
It had an american remake, I didn't know it was originally a swedish movie : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_(2017_film)
But if it's like Let The Right One In and the Millenium trilogy, the swedish version must be better, I've got to watch it
And to anyone thinking it's european smug /anti-americanism, no I actually enjoyed some american remakes like True Lies, but the swedish Millenium trilogy with Noomi Rapace is great, just as the original Let Me In / Let The Right One In
Right! I have seen the american version too. Neither is a particular good movie. And you should not approach the Swedish film with high hopes of finding something brilliant. You should expect it to be very crass, and see it if you just want to find out what weird shit Swedes create when no one is looking.
I loved Dead Snow (which is norvegian, not swedish) so yeah I kinda like weird shit / crass movies
Ah, but that one is good though :-)
While on the topic... Iron Sky is a Finnish film but in the english language. Quite good. The same creators did Star Wreck: in the pirkinning, a parody movie, this one in Finnish. Too long ago since I saw it to remember if it was funny, mostly odd I think... But they might be something for you then.
true lies is a remake? holy shit
Yep, from La Totale, a french spy comedy film
But it's quite different cause the original isn't action-packed
The main actor also starred in Le Diner De Cons, which was remade in the US as Dinner For Schmucks, but I prefer the french one
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You have the max time to do stuff though. Much better than waking up at noon.
Some of the comments are describing scenarios where every day is pretty much the exact same, with a tiny little bit of choice in how to create variation, and you're in physical discomfort and pain. That's just real life for some chronically ill/disabled people.
The day before a colonoscopy.
I can't imagine a worse hell than a lifetime of bowel prep.
Wouldn't you just, like not do it each day, then?
Worse hell would be the day after you got severe burns, or something like that.
You will encounter every day people asking you, why you are not on the plane.
Oh no
The colonoscopy on a plane?
As Samuel L Jackson once said;
"I have had it with these motherfucking colonoscopies, on this motherfucking plane. ".
Verbatim, Of course
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The worst day would be when suffering from a terrible hangover.
I fear as the number n of the repeated day approaches infinity, any day would be horrible to have to relive again. And again. And again.
So now I'm thinking about someone who gets Groundhogged on 9-11. After the third day or so, you'd have to believe that this is only happening so you can stop 9-11. But, this guy gets up at 6:30 and has less than two hours until the planes start to hit, and may not even live near NYC. Do you think he'd give up on that or go insane trying?
This reminded me of Rome Sweet Rome, which I guess we'll never get.
I'd watch it.
Even just what's in the movie seems torturous. It's implied that he experiences the day thousands of times. Seems like that would drive a person insane.
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The day you give birth, the day you piss out bladder stones, the day your salmonella infection kicks in, the day your aneurysm pops, the day you get executed. Just a glimpse into my dark and twisted mind.
I don't know, if it's a short 1 or 2 hour flight and you spend the rest of the day visiting a new city/place and partying without worrying about a hangover...
Oh god, I'm at the airport right now. Don't let it be me.
You can only escape the loop by intentionally missing your flight
That would happen on Loop 4 or 5
Or 2.
I assumed it would take you a few loops to figure out what was going on, but 2 is also very possible.
This is how the main character in Die. Respawn. Repeat. starts every time loop.
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