Dazharion3d ago

Austin Powers in 2026

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/65700918

Show threadsp3ctr4l2d ago

Austin Powers vs The Naughty Nonces.

… just do it, parody Eyes Wide Shut, as a slapstick spy-comedy.

That’d be pretty bold, and also more or less the exact zeitgeist of the current moment.

Austin’s on his way to infilrate ‘The Party’, gets stuck behind some idiot ass hole broccoli hair MAGAs on the sidewalk, has a ‘comedy of errors’ fight with them, where neither of them can understand what the others are saying, Austin is trying to comply with what he thinks their requests are, accidentally environmentally defeating them.

Seth Greene is replaced by Tom Green, for no apparent, nor explained reason.

… He’s at the party too.

He’s trying to find Mini-Me, whose been gone for a while now… he dropped the criminal mastermind shit entirely, basically became Old Man Nightwing, less comic book superhero, more … the ‘protagonist’ from No Country For Old Men.

They have a whole "You’re gonna blow my cover! “No! You’re gonna blow my cover!” exchange, at the party, which is abruptly halted by a spoon against a glass revealing that the main course of the night is being served.

… Its Mini-Me.

The Party goers are all cannibals, and laughing about it.

… etc. You get the idea.

Show threadTheOneAndOnly2d ago
I think you have a gift, my friend…
Show threadsp3ctr4l

There is a part of me, a part of my brain or my thought patterns, that just got too fucking stoned once, and it never reverted, never fully went back to sober.

… That’s my attempt at explaining… whatever it is I wrote up there, lol.

Mar 21 at 2:18pmWeb
Show threadTheOneAndOnly2d ago
There are a lot of well documented cases of very successful creative types who fit that bill. That it came from your head, presumably, without a lot of effort is the point worth paying attention to. 😉
Show threadsp3ctr4l2d ago

Shame that most of the time when I speak my mind, people hate it.

Part of how I can ‘do’ that is that I tend to be pretty accurate at cutting to the functional core of what makes some concept tick, and well, a lot of people have really thin skin and big egos, and don’t appreciate being told, in considerable detail, the various ways in which they are full of shit, sre hypocrites.

… So thats other the other side of the double edge sword, you could say.

Spontaneous idea generation?

Meet ‘no filter’.

Show threadTheOneAndOnly1d ago

I am lucky, I guess, in that I have had a core group of very close friends for almost all of my several decades on this planet. With them…I sugar coat nothing. I pull no punches. To do so would run counter to both who I am, and who they expect me to be. Further…I expect no less from them.

Anyone outside of my circle needs some time to get it… Or they don’t get inside.

My point being, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that behavior as long as it’s genuine, comes from a place of love, and isn’t just, “Look how edgy I can be”-type bullshit.

Show threadsp3ctr4l1d ago

I had a core group once.

They’re the ones that convinced me to get too stoned that one time, and then other times.

It broke my filter.

They did not like unfiltered me.

Fuck me, I guess, oh well.

At least I’m genuienly very very ok with being mostly a loner/introvert, that was always true about me.

But yeah, its not… trying to be lol xd random edgy annoying.

Its more like just not being able to not see things that most people don’t, or, in some level of their subconcious, are aware of, but are very insecure about.

Show threadTheOneAndOnly1h ago
Yeah, I get that. Learning people have blind spots they don’t like being called on, regardless of whether they’re aware of them, was a hard lesson for me. My instinct is to “help”. Most folk know their own brand of bullshit, though, and just want someone to say, “Man…that sucks!”, and move on. I have a hard time with that, still.