Ok, there are multiple... not time lines, but... dimensions going on at the same time. It seemed to me... like Reggie's soul was wavering... who knows how many dimensions there could have been and how many times these characters have died a terrible thousand deaths, but we're relegated to about... 3 maybe 4 different dimensions Reggie seems be floating through. I just noticed Mike shows up at the nursing home dresses in different clothes. Which means even in the nursing home dimension... there are more than one! Because the one where Mike looks like a professor (brown jacket)... his brother may be dead. The one with Mike in the other clothing, his brother did not die in 1979! I think that's the rub. It explains the car, who's alive, who's not. And the way one scene played out, made me think the nursing home staff really were working with the Tall Man... and was NOT in Reggie's head. It's all up to speculation... and while many seem disappointed in the movie, I really enjoyed it. I'd like to watch it again and get a better grip on the overall feeling of the movie, which is different than most of the other Philms.
I'm sorry, I thought Reggie's line about the horse was hilarious! ...and very 'Reggie'. The LOOK of Reggie seems also key, because as we're treated to the various dimensions... but time as well, just as the Tall Man loosely explained when Reggie came upon him. And there was one point when Reggie pulled another "Worf in a constant state of quantum flux" and Reggie is in the 'apocalypse present' and looks down at his ice cream outfit and sort of flairs the black jacket in near complete confusion. That has to be one of my favorite scenes considering that outfit should be 20 something plus years old and thread bare!
The whole deal with Chunk groping Rocky seemed VERY Phantasm III... bringing that silliness back into the mix at the very end.
Still wish they'd continue to mix it up... and really have LeGross come in as a Mike from another dimension take over for the Tall Man, and have both Mike's fight each other attacking each other with silver spheres. Until Mike is able to control the largest sphere in the sky and aim it into a silver gate destroying.... something integral to the plot of destroying all the duplicate of 'LeGross' Mikes... just an idea. Seems like NO ONE is privy to replacing Angus with ANYONE.... (sigh). But imagine using footage from II showing the Tall Man capturing LeGross Mike... and that it backfired on him in that alternate dimension. Still think we need an ending, and V could easily bridge the gap to the real end, but oh well. Just an idea.
3rd generation American from a long line of Gottscheers... it was Drandul, dude!
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