RE: "Seriously brain, what the hell?" A Thread For Weird Dreams and Nightmares
12-22-2015, 06:21 AM
So the other day I had a dream that my family got a box set of all the Toy Story movies...from Toy Story 1 all the way to Toy Story...4? Even in the dream the fact that there was a fourth one seemed kinda weird or whatever. I even remember the cover-art for it, it had all the usual characters in various poses, as well as a transformers toy and some lego people.
Anyway, we put the disc in, got to the DVD menu, and selected "play." The movie started off with the opening notes to "you've got a friend in me", but then as soon as the song got halfway through the first word of the vocal part, it just jumped back to the disc menu again. This happened every time we tried to play the movie, which was pretty disappointing. We assumed the disc was damaged or scratched, and kinda gave up trying to play it.
But then I noticed something strange about the box that the disc cases came in - the bottom flap of the box was weirdly thicker and more rigid than the other flaps. *Somehow* from there I discovered that ripping the bottom flap of the box apart revealed a 5th disc that was literally embedded in the freaking cardboard?? It was a white dvd with plain arial-font text on it that simply said "Toy Story 5"
So uh, of course we tried playing THAT disc too. Unlike the Toy Story 4 disc it didn't have a dvd menu or anything, it just started playing immediately after being put in the dvd player. It started off thick in the middle of some action scene where all the toys were running frantically through a factory; dashing across conveyor belts, climbing spinning gears, leaping from machine to machine, etc. There was no sound effects or dialogue, just some dramatic orchestral music droning on in the background.
The really weird part of all this is that Woody was not with the other toys. Instead, the movie kept cutting between these action scenes with the toys in the factory, and shots of Woody in some sort of control room, laughing maniacally while pulling a bunch of levers, and pushing various buttons like HE was the one operating the factory equipment and was attacking his friends? (When did Woody become the bad guy, lol? Maybe if the 4th movie had worked properly this would have made more sense? :B)
Anyway the last thing I remember before I woke up was that poor Ham was a little too late dodging a big crusher thing that came down, and he got smashed into a million pieces while pennies and nickels flew everywhere. Poor guy. :Y
Anyway, we put the disc in, got to the DVD menu, and selected "play." The movie started off with the opening notes to "you've got a friend in me", but then as soon as the song got halfway through the first word of the vocal part, it just jumped back to the disc menu again. This happened every time we tried to play the movie, which was pretty disappointing. We assumed the disc was damaged or scratched, and kinda gave up trying to play it.
But then I noticed something strange about the box that the disc cases came in - the bottom flap of the box was weirdly thicker and more rigid than the other flaps. *Somehow* from there I discovered that ripping the bottom flap of the box apart revealed a 5th disc that was literally embedded in the freaking cardboard?? It was a white dvd with plain arial-font text on it that simply said "Toy Story 5"
So uh, of course we tried playing THAT disc too. Unlike the Toy Story 4 disc it didn't have a dvd menu or anything, it just started playing immediately after being put in the dvd player. It started off thick in the middle of some action scene where all the toys were running frantically through a factory; dashing across conveyor belts, climbing spinning gears, leaping from machine to machine, etc. There was no sound effects or dialogue, just some dramatic orchestral music droning on in the background.
The really weird part of all this is that Woody was not with the other toys. Instead, the movie kept cutting between these action scenes with the toys in the factory, and shots of Woody in some sort of control room, laughing maniacally while pulling a bunch of levers, and pushing various buttons like HE was the one operating the factory equipment and was attacking his friends? (When did Woody become the bad guy, lol? Maybe if the 4th movie had worked properly this would have made more sense? :B)
Anyway the last thing I remember before I woke up was that poor Ham was a little too late dodging a big crusher thing that came down, and he got smashed into a million pieces while pennies and nickels flew everywhere. Poor guy. :Y