Comments on: Top Ten Miraculous Fictional Head Injuries

By: Ambelina

Ambelina — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:39:06 +0000

Is this about serious head injuries or just when people bump their heads? Because if it is non seriuos injuries, the scene in Stir of Echoes where Kevin Bacon’s wife goes into the basement to check if the water heater is lit then gets up and bangs her head on…something above her, that really got me i felt it.

By: Ingrid

Ingrid — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:55:05 +0000

Very entertaining!!

By: fenzel

fenzel — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:06:37 +0000

@Lanthanide

Not _To Wong Fu: Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar_?

It’s so weird that that kind of movie also has a movie pair – like you’ve got Armageddon and Deep Impact, Volcano and Dante’s Peak, Valkyrie and Defiance, and a whole bunch of action stars in drag.

@Amy

I frickin’ love Gamabunta. All fictional characters should get to drink sake with the giant toad boss of the Yakuza.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:26:09 +0000

It wasn’t Naruto that caused Gaara’s ego death and subsequent alliance with the light side of the force…it was that toad Gamabunta. I think he secretes a hallucinogenic substance from his glands. Gaara embraced his shadow side (Shukaku) and went on to become the Hero. Yep. That’s what happened. Or should have anyway. Most people I know who have experienced head trauma end up worse for the wear. But the toad juice on the other hand…

By: Lanthanide

Lanthanide — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:48:15 +0000

I remember Guy Pearce from The Adventures of Prascilla! Queen of the Desert.

By: fenzel

fenzel — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:46:00 +0000

If I wake up being a woman, do I have to like _Moulin Rouge_?

Because that would be a dealbreaker.

By: Gab

Gab — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:54:43 +0000

Oh snap.

I just remembered _50 First Dates_. Similar memory loss to _Memento_. Imagine being a woman and waking up with no idea why you’re clearly multiple months pregnant…

By: fenzel

fenzel — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:56:17 +0000

Yeah, Leonard talks about this discrepancy at some point in _Memento_ – about if his condition is what he tends to think it is, he shouldn’t be able to remember the actual accident, and how therefore it might not be brain damage – he might just have psychological blocks. A software rather than a hardware problem, as it were.

If that’s true, it potentially changes a lot of the moral implications of what Leonard has done over the course of the movie. But it’s left a bit open-ended.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:13:26 +0000

The most miraculous thing about Leonard’s injury in Memento is that he is able to remember that he has amnesia. How is it that his head injury stops him from forming new memories, but the doctors were able to inform him of his condition? I haven’t been able to watch the movie since I noticed that inconsistency.
I think that there’s actually a chapter in the Sacks book that deals with anterograde amnesia. The man with the affliction, when confronted with his reality, becomes horrified for ten or fifteen minutes, then slips back into the time ten or fifteen years in the past just before he developed the brain damage. Great read, btw.

By: fenzel

fenzel — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:36:47 +0000

How could I?

http://www.tv.com/star-trek-the-next-generation/tin-man/episode/19054/summary.html