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Hot Tub Time Machine
2010 · Film · 101 min
Directed by Steve Pink
Science FictionComedyAdventure
Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal, Nick is a henpecked husband, and Jacob does nothing but play video games in his basement. But they get a chance to brighten their future by changing their past after a night of heavy drinking in a ski-resort hot tub results in their waking up in 1986.
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> What does the article purport them to be? Right at the top I see:
It seems to imply a concerted effort to mention the title of the movie in the script in a meta, fourth wall breaking sort of way.
In some cases that's obviously true - Hot Tub Time Machine, Suicide Squad from their examples - but other times an untitled script just needs a title and it's plucked from the script.
I think there's a distinction there, because the latter is less of an Easter Egg sort of thing and more "ok now we need a title."
Take my vote for Timecrimes.
Another little movie that I liked very much is "Frequently Asked Question About Time Travels", and the two "Hot Tub Time Machine". OK, the second was really weak, but the leads are hilariously funny...
Last one, I promise, "Time Lapse".
Yeah "Hot Tub Time Machine" is super bizarre. There were a couple black people in it, I guess? I think it shows the poster's bias more than anything. "It was a trivial movie with stupid humor -- therefore, black culture"
And viewing "African immigrants" as representative of all Africans? More than a little selection bias there. Far fewer Africans immigrate to the US than would like to.
Also, there are far more complicated and varied relationships between native Africans and Americans with African ancestry.
Hitting that QBasic button was like Hot Tub Time Machine... and just as bad as the movie.