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The days have lost all meaning I keep missing Musical Monday because Monday doesn't mean anything to me anymore. What is time?

For this and the other ideas, it's best if you think about this whole movie as being a story told by an eight year-old. "And then Valerian gets these googles that let him see the market. And he has to put his hand in the box so he can move around in it. And his gun is in the box so he can use it in the market, too. After walking around a bit he finds the fat alien trading for the creature who can poop out hundreds of marbles that are actually these energy batteries if he eats just one, and the alien guy uses this gun on the traders and it splits in two so it could blast both of them but Valerian is behind him but invisible because of the box tech thing ...." So basically it's a Reverse-Princess-Bride scenario, and what's really missing is cutting to the bedroom where the boy is telling his grandfather what's happening.

I think there's a line in there that establishes that the people encased in the goo are just knocked out, since they go back and free the rest of them some time later. Valerian's combination-breathing-apparatus-and-minature-spider-robot-deployment-device certainly does suggest that these would otherwise be extremely cruel weapons, rather than a form of non-lethal crowd-control more in keeping with the Müleans' ultra-pacific vibe, but that speaks to the bigger problem Cameron H. is talking about. All of the technology is wonderfully imaginative and specific, but that specificity doesn't actually add up to a coherent idea. The biggest offender there was Big Market, which the gang alluded to. Everything being a hidden dimension is an extremely fun, interesting premise, and it's enhanced by the hand-held portal device — until all the rules immediately go out the window in terms of who can see and interact with what. There were a couple of instances where those wacky set-ups did pay off to me. The ridiculous and more-than-a-little-racist? big-butt-alien fashion-show being revealed to be an elaborate serving dish for Laureline's brains, complete with human-head-sized skull cracker was great. But the best was John-Goodman-the-Hutt's double-barrel pistol that is articulated so it can simultaneously point at two people who are sitting very close together. EDIT: I see Cam Bert is way ahead of me on this one.

Speaking of technology that was invented for a very specific purpose that couldn't have been know, what about John Goodman's gun that splits apart? Perfect if you have two people that are sitting the exact space apart that your gun opens up to. If someone were to move a chair or just lean to the side the whole gun is rendered useless. Also, how often are exactly two people coming in? Does he find it's normally just solo individuals or groups of two? What if three people came in? Does he have a special three way gun? Like you said all the tech in this movie is very specifically designed for these specific purposes that nobody would have seen coming.

Are you a duck? Have you been yelled at by a pantsless man? Call 1-800 QUACK-COMPO now!

I don't know a ton about the Cowsills to tell you. The Partridge Family is inspired by/based on them if you're familiar with them except the Cowsills felt tamer than that. They looked very clean cut. They wore matching suits well after that stopped being normal for bands. They were big in the late sixties and their hair would have been acceptable in pre-Beatle era music. I don't know if they were religious, but church groupy doesn't feel far off. Just covering the song had to be ironic to the audience.

Having just watched this and knowing nothing about The Cowsills it seems very... church groupy. Like a bunch of uncool people trying to make fun of or re-appropriate something that is cool at the moment. This also reminds me of Tesla's cover of another hippie anthem of Signs. A former glam rock band doing hippie songs just seems odd.

I have a big question about the inter-dimension market. So I get that the whole market exists on in another dimension or plane or whatever. In order to see it and interact with it you have to have the googles and gloves and that. Fair enough. This all makes sense. So the market is actually over top this giant stretch of sand that is one big flat plain with a fence and guard towers. I'm with all of this. Not a problem. However, the market also has multiple levels. It's not just a flat surface, it has levels and layers. How does that work? As the customers are perusing the market looking for some knickknacks to take home they are physically walking around in on the flat desert. If they want to go down an alley in the market they just walk down it because there is nothing in their way in the desert. What if they want to go up and down the floors? How does that work? There are no pits or stairs or holes in the desert. Just flat nothingness. Does it turn into a mime act? When Valerian falls through all the floors he only does that because he's on a manhole which takes him into the sewers of the desert planet. In the market world he's crashing through floors. Then he's swinging on ropes and climbing his way out. Yet we see none of this on the desert planet. What's going on? Is he just flying around the desert sewers? Magically the sewer system matches their stairways and elevators. It just makes no sense.

Add to this the main song which I believe goes "Give me a head with hair, hair, long glorious hair, shoulder length or longer" and we're on the same page. In fact this one may out hippie Jesus Christ Superstar.

Okay, so, I had a movie all lined up that I've been meaning to pick for a really long time; however, it's not streaming anywhere, and given current affairs, I didn't want to put too many people out of pocket to rent something that may or not be good. So I narrowed it down to two other choices, and I'm picking the one that (I think) might generate the most discussion (either in a good or bad way). The good news is, this is also a pick I've had in my back pocket for as long as we've been doing this. In fact, it was almost my second ever pick after Hairspray. I didn't choose it because I didn't want it to seem like I had a theme (although, my third pick would have definitely been Head had I gone with this second. ) I have no idea what it's about, but it's on Amazon Video.

I'm jumping the gun a little but Cameron asked me to create the thread. So, here with something I am sure we will all despise and detest, is Cameron H.!

Eye of the Tiger, Knees of the Rhino, Endangered Stew is delicious.

If you can’t stand the pants, get out of Pantstown.

I think it’s called a shampoo backwash unit. I didn’t know either. Here’s a link to one being sold. https://www.agssalonequipment.com/odessa-shampoo-wash-unit.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwvtX0BRAFEiwAGWJyZAaCzhoKH4jfsIRvjnrWF1RBViyKOkK4EU32MZK905C7BZ3BrKwsyhoCh9YQAvD_BwE

I can not translate this because I have no idea how to say the one thing in English. I guess barber chair but that's not right. In a salon, is there a special term for the chair/sink combo?

What I found crazy was the Batman '66 levels of specificity in some of the gadgets that are employed during the course of the movie. Like, I get always being prepared, but at times, the movie takes it to almost ludicrous levels. Val and Lor appear to have access to technology that is able to somehow detect and counteract technologies more advanced than their own while also being able to easily identify aberrant alien metaphysics. For instance, I get how having a computer being able to recount your dreams might be useful (in a New Age-y bullshit kind of way), but how exactly would the computer be able to tell him that dream was externally imposed upon him if the entire concept of soul grafting onto husky-voiced Bang Boyz is a completely foreign concept? I mean, computers can be pretty impressive, but that still can't do anything we don't program them to do. How would they even begin to program for an eventuality, that for them, is, at best, hypothetical? Likewise, Val uses his spider re-breather device to protect himself from the Mul's jizz guns, but afterward, they make it clear that they've never encountered weapons like their bukake blasters before. So, if this is a totally unknown weapon, why would he even have something like that? I mean, I get the time you want a mouth activated spider slicer isn't the time you need a mouth activated spider slicer, but still, I can't help feeling like the R&D teams of the future are putting the cart before the horse a bit.

When I hear Treat Williams and Beverly D'Angelo the first thing I think of is Manchester, England.

That's about all I know. There's a song that I assume is called "Manchester England"

That means I can pick this for my next one. Oh, wait, it's not a musical. I still like it.

I know that it was controversial for having naked actors on stage, and that “The Age of Aquarius” is in it. Other than that, I have no clue.

My knowledge of this is almost entirely based on that episode of Head Of The Class where they performed this musical.

Well if this IMDB description doesn't clarify it I don't know what will.

Sorry! I will do the one meant to do next time!

We're all in agreement that there was a Jessica Rabbit space-prostitute in this film, right?