That’s 34 years’ worth of days!

  • @NJSpradlin
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    4219 hours ago

    Where’s your supporting source?

      • @NJSpradlin
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        -4319 hours ago

        I’m sorry, repeating the title of the movie already listed in the TIL doesn’t reach the standard of proof required to convince anyone that it was exactly XYZ number of lived days. Unless your source specifically (external to the movie) states that the movie states that it was XYZ number of days, you aren’t helping.

        • @NounsAndWords
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          8919 hours ago

          I apologize. I did not realize the seriousness of the situation. I will refrain from any further light-hearted jokes.

          • r00ty
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            1112 hours ago

            Would have been funnier if you just replied “Groundhog Day (1993)” again.

          • @NJSpradlin
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            -6419 hours ago

            I now see that you may have been trying to be funny, an “/s” may help us better to recognize your jokes in the future. Thank you for your contribution.

      • @[email protected]
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        18 hours ago

        Memorizing every little detail of everyone’s lives and actions that day always seemed incredible to me. I assumed he lived that day hundreds of thousands of times. Meaning centuries spent repeating the same day.

        At least that’s what I imagine it would take, for me to try countless methods of suicide.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        1118 hours ago

        Okay, that makes it more understandable that he tried to kill himself, and then mastered the piano and several other things.

        • @[email protected]
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          716 hours ago

          I think most people who watched the movie a time or two (or twenty) already knew it was many years that had gone by. What time frame were you imagining? Like 6 months or something?

          • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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            516 hours ago

            I couldn’t really say, but certainly not 1-4 decades. I guess I thought it was a year or two.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 hours ago

              I think if you would re-watch it now, you’d think to yourself “yeah, thinking it was only a year or two was just silly”

              • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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                11 hour ago

                You’re not tricking me into watching that movie for a 47th time! To be fair to me, it was always on broadcast TV when I saw it, so I’d just come in wherever it was in the runtime.

      • @NJSpradlin
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        Thank you. It reminds me of All You Need Is Kill, or the Edge of Tomorrow. In these kinds of movies they absolutely gloss over the massive amounts of time between the first repetition and the one that breaks the loop. Because, 90% of that is nothing, while %10 is incremental growth toward the break. Everyone’s played a game like a ‘souls like’, chess even, or a card game, and it takes hundreds of repetitions* to get slightly better. All I Need Is Kill does a good job of painting that picture, and The Edge of Tomorrow does a somewhat decent job of portraying that for cinema (they really should have kept the number count on his hand to subtly and fully express the time frame here). Honestly, for the movie, Groundhogs Day, we probably only see about 15-30 reps. But, the viewer can imagine significantly more. Same with something like the Apple+ show Black Matter, at the end of the season we’re led to believe what we saw as a dozen or so universes is now thousands, and it makes sense after the curtain is lifted.