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.
Genesis’ “The Brazilian”
I thought that was retired for TV after they used it for that really great Magnum PI episode. No really, it was great.
Why do you need to bother with making the flight?
Maybe OP meant that you fell asleep at the airport and wake up in a panic to an overly loud intercom announcement.
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.
Because it’s the only way to break the cycle
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?
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…
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.
You have the max time to do stuff though. Much better than waking up at noon.
and you can go back to sleep if you want
yeah but i fall back to sleep immediately and now im a loop were i reset before fully waking up.
That’s not how it works though
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.
Could you imagine reliving your day of birth?
Every day sliding out of your mother’s vagina and every night climbing back up there like a lubed up slide.
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.
Oh, I have a few days that would never get old.
never
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
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
The worst day would be when suffering from a terrible hangover.
wait! Groundhog day meets Home Alone.
Getting Kevin on the plane is a misstep because we need him to chase off the robbers and the old man.
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.
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…
Nah, you just spend the day doing other stuff instead.
No because if the rules apply you always wake up too early, having not slept enough and if you try to take an afternoon nap then you just wake up the next day, you are now stuck forever underslept, groggy, which is totally not my normal everyday anyways
I think you can nap. As evidence I present the scene where Rita and Larry go to the morgue to identify Phil’s body. This suggests that the time loop continues the day beyond Phil-specific events (like death, and naps)
Yeah but I don’t think it’s like, you’re stuck in spectator mode until midnight (or 6am).
I’d imagine from his perspective, he died and immediately woke up the next day.
But I don’t think it’s sleep that’s the trigger…I think it’s set on time. He should be fine to take a nap. Unless the plane crashes while he naps and the only way to break the loop is for him to save the plane.
We only need sleep because our bodies build up a bunch of stuff over the course of the day, and the brain/body needs downtime to deal with it, asking with time to do repairs and maintenance. If you restart the day, all that also gets reset.
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.
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
What is a verbatim colonoscopy?!
