Julie, Cage reset to
coming-out-of-taser-coma because that's the last time he woke up/returned to consciousness before he got sprayed with Alpha blood. That's why he returned to waking up on the helicopter that morning after the Alpha died, presumably - in the new timeline, Operation Downfall or whatever doesn't happen, so he doesn't get tasered for desertion. Which kinda means that the timeline rewrote itself backwards.
I also felt like
Rita seemed to know Cage too well for only ever having known him for one day. But since she had also been zapped with the blue blood, maybe she retained some awareness of the resets?
It's a handwave, but it's all I've got.
That's all kinds of awesome, tommy.
Although my head kept going to a Better Off Ted place.
Ha ha ha ha oh my God now I need to watch it again with that in mind.
From a ways back
I still haven't watched Grand Budapest Hotel because someone...
That was the one moment that threw me out of the movie. Actually, not that moment, but several minutes later when the character
threw the dead body into a trash can in passing.
Don't tell me the character cares, and then have them act so cavalier. Don't include such a violent event, and then treat it like a joke. There's black humour, sure. "did you just throw my cat out the window?!", and then there's complete disrespect. And it doesn't forward the humour or plot or micro-characterization (unless I was to take the whiplash to be part of Goldblum's character, which I don't see).
Anyhoo, enjoyed Budapest Hotel, need to rewatch. There was a lot of sad that I wasn't expecting:
Agatha dying so soon, Gustave getting shot in defense of Zero, even though none of that was shown.
I'm about 15 minutes into How To Train Your Dragon, the original flavour and... why are these vikings all speaking with a Scottish accent? Are they actually in magical fairy Scotland? Wha?
Julie, thank you; that seals the deal. I will never watch that movie.
Vonnie, yes, I think it's supposed to be an island off the north coast of Scotland. Which is, well, historically accurate: the Vikings settled all over the north of Britain.
Yes, but the adults speak with Scottish accents and the youth are all American. Maybe the Vikings had just discovered North America and brought back the accent.
