u/Big_Help_9860

I remember this was pretty common back in the day. I'm sure I haven't do so since i was a teen in the 70's. But yeah, we'd grab an old plastic bucket and soak our feet on occasion.

The movie has interesting ideas, but is ultimately absurd and unbelievable and pretty meh. I and my girlfriend at the time saw it when it came out. Back then I loved it a lot, she didn't much.

I hadn't watched the film in decades and kind of forgot about it. But it was always in the back of my mind all these years. I watched again it again last week and remembered it being a much better film that it actually is.

I was expecting a more grounded movie for some reason. But grounded is not an accurate description of the movie. In one part of the film the protaginst- William Hurt giving a typical solemn William Hurt performance- regresses to some sort of early Cro-Magnon ape-man and escapes into a conveniently placed zoo facility. He eats a sheep then returns to his normal human self. No questions asked.

Yet that is the more saner part of the movie. The rest of the movie is psyche-babble at it's worse. I'm shocked that the screenplay was written by Paddy Chayefsky, adopting from his own novel. The ending is some kind of laughable 2001: A Space Odyssey stargate sequence with a "love conquers all" resolution that has to be seen to believed.

My girlfriend was right about this movie all those years ago.

To get your free consumer guide.

I flew from Norfolk to NYC for $25 bucks for a weekend in the big apple. You had to walk on the tarmac for the flight and it felt very much like a bus service, or maybe train service, to the point of actually paying for the flight on the plane itself.

There were other "low cost" airlines that came and went and now Spirit Airlines joins that great eternal runway in the sky. Seems like these cheap no-frills, nickel and dime ya, airlines are profitable until an economic crises comes along.