January 17th 2025
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well now i want to go with lost highway tonight, so i can join in on the discussion with a fresh re-watch.
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Bob Uecker and David Lynch die on the same day. You guys all go around having David Lynch marathons while I listen to Bob Uecker MLB broadcasts on the radio.Reign in Blood wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 7:01 pmI said the same thing when I found out I was older than Jason. His love of old shit pre-dates dirt. I was like I'll be god damned.
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Re: January 17th 2025
I was considering slipping in Major League this weekendJason wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:16 pmBob Uecker and David Lynch die on the same day. You guys all go around having David Lynch marathons while I listen to Bob Uecker MLB broadcasts on the radio.Reign in Blood wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 7:01 pmI said the same thing when I found out I was older than Jason. His love of old shit pre-dates dirt. I was like I'll be god damned.
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still spoilers. don't read!Tiggnutz wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 7:22 pm LOST HIGHWAY SPOILER stop reading if you haven't seen it.
So Bill did kill his wife and to deal with it he created Balthazar Getty in his mind. He is locked up on death row in reality and in the last scene he gets electrocuted in the chair. He wants to be the Balthazar character in his imagination but he really is the Robert Blake guy. Thoughts
i think it's something else. the police mention finding getty's character's fingerprints. and mention bill pullmn's character by name in the same scene, in a scene where neither bill pullman or balthazar getty is present. i don't know what it is for sure, but doesn't feel like it's just a way to cope with his guilt to me. unless you take the whole movie to be him "remembering things the way he wants to, and not necessarily the way they actually happen". but then the murder may not have even happened by that logic. who was showing him the tapes in the first place? i really like it, but i don't really get it at the same time.
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they do associate blake and arquette together early on in the movie. so maybe you're onto something.
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Oh I just meant she’s fine as hell in this movie. I have like 10 minutes left
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well. that's something too. and agreed.Headhunter wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:07 pmOh I just meant she’s fine as hell in this movie. I have like 10 minutes left
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Head with the gen z terminology confusing us all. I'm like three generations away
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I think this is all right. I also think that almost nothing that happens in this movie actually occurs outside of the murder and his time in prison, everything is just “the way he wants to remember things” with Robert Blake showing up to represent his conscience and the videotapes are these inescapable reminders of what he did. And then the second half is his weird fantasy of being Balthazar.Tiggnutz wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 7:22 pm LOST HIGHWAY SPOILER stop reading if you haven't seen it.
So Bill did kill his wife and to deal with it he created Balthazar Getty in his mind. He is locked up on death row in reality and in the last scene he gets electrocuted in the chair. He wants to be the Balthazar character in his imagination but he really is the Robert Blake guy. Thoughts
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if you take the "nothing in the film actually happened" thing, you can draw that line anywhere you want to, arbitrarily.Headhunter wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:25 pmI think this is all right. I also think that almost nothing that happens in this movie actually occurs outside of the murder and his time in prison, everything is just “the way he wants to remember things” with Robert Blake showing up to represent his conscience and the videotapes are these inescapable reminders of what he did. And then the second half is his weird fantasy of being Balthazar.Tiggnutz wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 7:22 pm LOST HIGHWAY SPOILER stop reading if you haven't seen it.
So Bill did kill his wife and to deal with it he created Balthazar Getty in his mind. He is locked up on death row in reality and in the last scene he gets electrocuted in the chair. He wants to be the Balthazar character in his imagination but he really is the Robert Blake guy. Thoughts
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Okay well I am open to hearing your theories. I thought “I like to remember things my own way, not necessarily the way they happened” was pretty informative.zombie wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:44 pmif you take the "nothing in the film actually happened" thing, you can draw that line anywhere you want to, arbitrarily.Headhunter wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:25 pmI think this is all right. I also think that almost nothing that happens in this movie actually occurs outside of the murder and his time in prison, everything is just “the way he wants to remember things” with Robert Blake showing up to represent his conscience and the videotapes are these inescapable reminders of what he did. And then the second half is his weird fantasy of being Balthazar.Tiggnutz wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 7:22 pm LOST HIGHWAY SPOILER stop reading if you haven't seen it.
So Bill did kill his wife and to deal with it he created Balthazar Getty in his mind. He is locked up on death row in reality and in the last scene he gets electrocuted in the chair. He wants to be the Balthazar character in his imagination but he really is the Robert Blake guy. Thoughts
Not removing until John Elway is fired.