All these time travel circularity brain-teasers reminds me of Oedipus, what with the hero receiving a horrible prophecy, then taking action to avoid the prophecy which instead brings it about. So if he hadn't received the prophecy it wouldn't have come about.
To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It's a ritual sacrifice, with pie.
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tommyrot - Jul 13, 2004 6:00:37 am PDT #311 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2004 6:01:11 am PDT #312 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
it was just like that Simpsons episode where Homer keeps going back in time and inadvertently altering the future by stepping on flowers and lizards and such, but, y'know, in all seriousness
Wrong butterfly!
I read the spoilers for it, and ... maybe if it was someone other than Ashton. Real actors might have made the difference.
UTTAD - Jul 13, 2004 6:03:26 am PDT #313 of 10001
Strawberry disappointment.
I'm thinking of a film from maybe the late 80's with a battleship and time travel. Philadelphia Experiment maybe?
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2004 6:05:32 am PDT #314 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm thinking of a film from maybe the late 80's with a battleship and time travel. Philadelphia Experiment maybe?
Yeah. (But it was a cruiser.)
Also, The Final Countdown in which a modern US Navy aircraft carrier gets sent to Hawaii on Dec 6, 1941. But I didn't see that one.
Jessica - Jul 13, 2004 6:05:46 am PDT #315 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Ah, point. And granted, T3 had a pretty ballsy ending, but it wasn't as great.
T3 was a terrible movie, but I did like how it dealt with the timeline. And I didn't hate Claire Danes, which was a first.
Steph L. - Jul 13, 2004 6:06:52 am PDT #316 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Also, The Final Countdown
Anyone else just get earwormed with Triumph?
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2004 6:07:53 am PDT #317 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Anyone else just get earwormed with Triumph?
Me. But I did it to myself.
Kate P. - Jul 13, 2004 6:08:36 am PDT #318 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
12 Monkeys is a great movie, which marked the beginning of my brief fascination with Bruce Willis. Madeleine Stowe is also kickass.
JZ - Jul 13, 2004 6:10:48 am PDT #319 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Best playing-with-time-if-not-exactly-time-travel-as-such movie ever?
Groundhog Day. No question.
beekaytee - Jul 13, 2004 6:11:38 am PDT #320 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Madeline Stowe is also kickass in Closetland and Blink. Liked her in Mohicans a LOT, but that may have been due to the Daniel-glow. Can't think of anything else I've liked her in.