Wow. So that was Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. It took a while to really pick up but once it did I was really hooked. I really like the implication at the end that the ultra dramatic ridiculous Bond film is pretty much Pee-Wee's filter on the whole wild ride. Also, I bet this movie is ridiculously awesome while stoned.
@Leucrotta It's genuinely a good movie, innit. You've seen the original HBO Pee Wee Herman show with the Groundlings, too, right?
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@zebratron2084 I've never actually seen the show but I know it had this huge fanbase.
I'm still figuring out what I thought about Big Adventure. It's like a kids' movie BY a 10 year old, rather than FOR 10 year olds - nothing really "adult" but none of the careful encouragement or whatever people put in childrens' films. And he reads as neurodiverse without it necessarily being played for laughs, Pee Wee as a character works that way whether it's funny or not.
Everything's CONSISTENTLY surreal to make the story work - real life doesn't work that way, but whatever universe Pee Wee's in, his infinite supply of money, ghost truckers, Ghidorah movies made on the WB lot, becoming the rodeo champion by accident etc are all about consistent. Lastly there really is something INCREDIBLY Angelino feeling about it, like Dr. Demento or the movie UHF, like part of the surreal is you live in this huge sprawling place with all sorts of people, so why WOULDN'T that include a person like Pee Wee with a house like that?
