726. Escape from the Multicurse: Time Bandits
Added 2024-05-24 13:00:18 +0000 UTC
Our three co-hosts are stuck in the multiverse and need to get back to their home universe. Clearly, the only way to do that is to explore our cultural obsession with multiverses, alternate timelines and parallel worlds, and tie it all into a conversation about post-modern art, pop culture, and the lessons these stories teach us. Also, each episode, one of them is an asshole who will probably sabotage the whole thing.
This week we discuss 1981’s Time Bandits.
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Comments
Alternatively, can I pitch a Candide sequel? Candide travels the increasingly shitty multiverse? Working titles include "Buckaroo Candide Across the 8th Dimension" and "Candide 2: Hypercube"
Clare Ireland
2024-06-04 12:43:50 +0000 UTCBear with me, but "there's gotta be a multiverse film that's all flaws all the way down" reminds me of Candide, which was written by Voltaire to explicitly point out that God cannot be both infinitely good and infinitely powerful. And because Candide is a satire of the "best of all possible worlds," argument, I'd argue it's a commentary on multiveral theory... making it a multiverse story. Which is all to say: Forest Gump is a multiverse movie.
Clare Ireland
2024-06-04 12:40:50 +0000 UTCIf you guys ever decide to wrap up this series, you should plan out the bits for 2-3 episodes so that by the last episode, all 3 characters have been replaced by multiverse assholes.
JT Moen
2024-05-29 16:50:27 +0000 UTCToday I learned that even though Gilliam was born in America, he still has a British accent lol
Ryan (Kanserus Bone Saw) Bowdish
2024-05-24 22:30:18 +0000 UTCIf I remember correctly, in Sliders there was a specific time frame u had to wait for before u can open the portal. But u could do it at any location.
D
2024-05-24 19:19:28 +0000 UTCI thought before Mike fleshed out the time cursed Adam bit that the movie itself was going to be the asshole. This is such a fun pod.
drunkencoyote
2024-05-24 19:10:27 +0000 UTC"Not vaping, this is different!". ROTFL
A Blodgett
2024-05-24 16:53:49 +0000 UTC
