either spontaneous human combustion or a pocket nuclear bomb

[extemporanea]

Gah. Actual sleep patterns appear to be a luxury in which I am not permitted to indulge. Monday night's drunken movie-watching1 had its inevitable effect, viz. waking up abruptly at about 2.30am when I actually sobered up, and being unable to recapture sleep beyond a fretful doze, punctuated by affection assaults from the hobbit and concomitant cat

Comments

[strawberryfrog]

Pick two films containing RDJ. Find a common theme.

[extemporanea]

RDJ.

[egadfly]

Ha! You're insisting on RDJ on principle, aren't you? If you just wanted to see RDJ you'd have taken strawberryfrog's pragmatic suggestion. Busted ;-)

[extemporanea]

That's a fascinating case of dual-level reading, actually: I thought Frog was pointing out, slightly snidely, that RDJ's movies are all over the place and don't offer any reasonably coherent theme, which is actually a fair comment. I also think it's a fair comment to insist that RDJ is himself a theme, even if it's a "chameleon actors" theme.

Fair cop, though, I was also definitely pushing the RDJ thing on general principles, because it's amusing my tiny, stress-addled brain to make a completely nonsensical issue of it.

[egadfly]

Dual-level reading: twice the fun!

[strawberryfrog]

I thought Frog was pointing out, slightly snidely, that RDJ's movies are all over the place and don't offer any reasonably coherent theme

Well no. Given any two movies, it's quite likely that you can find some feature that they have in common. Movies have lots of details, just find a detail present in both. For bonus, it will probably end up frivolous.

For instance Tropic Thunder and A Scanner Darkly, to pick two that I know anything about much at random, both have a common theme of meta-stories, realities nested in other realities.

[extemporanea]

You did read the bit about the themes being preferably frivolous, didn't you?