History Recap / FilmRerollTheSearchers

* AnachronismStew: Scott Aiello’s review — supposedly written in UsefulNotes/TheNineties for a recently released (fictional) movie — describes Creator/MichellePieffer as an up-and-coming actress. In RealLife, she had already been a star for over a decade by that point.

--->"Weekend at Bernie’s, the latest [[ArcWords offering]] from talented but often frustrating director Paulo Quiros. A madcap, avant garde spectacle, and at times a mortifying and confusing examination of what it is to alive in 1989. It is many things, but I can not tell you if it is — [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall in the strictest sense of the word]] — a movie. Based on the semi-autobiographical mea culpa We Thought We Were Gods: The Real Story of Hampton Island by Richard Parker, Weekend at Bernie’s takes a surprisingly bold and often offensive approach to the infamous events on Hampton Isle which left two dead and several injured. While previous attempts to dramatise the events of July 3rd, 1989 — including of course Music/DavidByrne’s solo concept album The Mask of the Duck — while those took a more dark thriller tack, this so-called “comedy” leans into the absurdity of these real-life events. At its best, the film delivers on its grim promise of black comedy, reveling in the pathetic absurdity of central players Richard Parker and Larry Wilson. This movie so disturbed me that it made me question the entire career that I had chosen as a movie critic, as well as my marriage, and the fact that I was born with eyes and ears.

--->"Weekend at Bernie’s, the latest [[ArcWords offering]] from talented but often frustrating director Paulo Quiros. A madcap, avant garde spectacle, and at times a mortifying and confusing examination of what it is to alive in 1989. It is many things, but I can not tell you if it is — [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall in the strictest sense of the word]] — a movie. Based on the semi-autobiographical mea culpa We Thought We Were Gods: The Real Story of Hampton Island by Richard Parker, Weekend at Bernie’s takes a surprisingly bold and often offensive approach to the infamous events on Hampton Isle which left two dead and several injured. While previous attempts to dramatise the events of July 3rd, 1989 — including of course Music/DavidByrne’s solo concept album The Mask of the Duck — while those took a more dark thriller tack, this so-called “comedy” leans into the absurdity of these real-life events.

--->"Weekend at Bernie’s, the latest [[ArcWords offering]] from talented but often frustrating director Paulo Quiros. A madcap, avant garde spectacle, and at times a mortifying and confusing examination of what it is to alive in 1989. It is many things, but I can not tell you if it is — [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall in the strictest sense of the word]] — a movie.

each with these important features.\\

we travel up, as down we drain.\\

we swim the water while you scrub.\\

to solve this riddle [[BreakingTheFourthWall Tim just scrawled.]]

* UnknownCharacter: Pitr Strait’s offering is a guessing game, in which the other players have to figure out the identities of fictional characters based on the given stats from Pitr’s custom character sheets. [[note]] The characters in question are Neo, Hermione Granger, Film/SpeedRacer, Cassandra Wong and Film/TheBraveLittleToaster.[[/note]]

* UnknownCharacter: Pitr Strait’s offering is a guessing game, in which the other players have to figure out the identities of fictional characters based on the given stats from Pitr’s custom character sheets.

** Joz Vammer and Tim Nolan’s are both [[Recap/FilmRerollJaws Jaws]], purely because of the aforementioned coroner scene.

** Andy Hoover’s is [[Recap/FilmRerollPokemonTheFirstMovie Pokémon: The First Movie]]

** [[Recap/FilmRerollAladdin Aladdin worrying that Jafar is trying to hit on him, only for the vizier to actually fall in love with the street rat.]]

** [[Recap/FilmRerollAladdin Aladdin worrying that Jafar is trying to hit on him, only for the vizier to actually fall in love with the street rat.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Possibly the biggest BizarroEpisode in the history of the show, given its highly unusual format. It stands out even more coming right after [[Recap/FilmRerollMemento Memento]], which was both a SoloCharacterRun (albeit with a RevolvingDoorCasting) and by far the longest Film Reroll campaign ever.

* ClipShow: The highlight sequences are essentially this, with the Rerollers commenting on their previous work in the style of an audio-only ReactionVideo.