I thought the snowman sequence was brilliant. And the second time I went to see it in theaters there was a couple sitting behind me who were howling during the whole thing. The lady half of the couple lost it even harder at the asthma inhaler bit.
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I thought the snowman sequence was brilliant. And the second time I went to see it in theaters there was a couple sitting behind me who were howling during the whole thing. The lady half of the couple lost it even harder at the asthma inhaler bit.
The threesome part was good, but when it turned dark it was like WTF?
The problem I have with it is that there's absolutely no context for why it happens. It's just so random and feels out of place. It just reminded me of Jack Frost, a Micheal Keaton movie. In that movie, a kid's father dies and is reincarnated as a snowman the kid builds. So, if that's supposed to be a nod to that movie, that's a movie from 1998. But I doubt that's it, but it just made me go, "what??" It may just be a case that I don't get the reference.
I think it's a bit of a (perhaps relatively recent) trope that characters will have fantasy sequences that start out fairly dreamlike and then go off the rails at some point. It's almost certainly a reaction to the more tropey dream sequences in fiction in general. TVTropes probably even has a name for it.
Why was there an underwater saloon in Top Secret!? Why did the jet plane sound like a prop plane in Airplane? Because it's funny. I found the snowman funny, so it worked for me.
I must of missed something about the snowman scene. Was that supposed to be a fantasy? Maybe I looked down or away at that moment, but all of a sudden we had Killer snowmans and I was wondering what was happening.
I don't know, which is why it had me so confused.
Well, fair enough. I guess I found it more distracting than funny to the point that it kind of took me out of it. That was the only joke that did that though.
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