Brilliant!! It was a thinking person’s movie, which is rare. The character’s knowledge of anthropology was excellent, usually movie makers ignore details assuming the audience are idiots. Only two errors from prehistory… A Cro-magnon is just a homo sapien, but one who migrated North into ice age Europe first (40K years ago), which doesn’t fit the character being 14K years ago. Also, being the first to settle the North the cro-mag developed slightly larger brains and facial features (like Neanderthals had), likely from higher meat consumption. But the character didn’t have cro-magnon facial features. Also “modern humans are taller” was wrong, people from the upper Paleolithic were taller. Humans shrank around 10K years ago, and only returned to close to Paleolithic levels recently. I notice details. 
Did you guys check out Battlestar Galatica (tv series)? The first 2.5 seasons were superb.
I kinda assumed that before the Earth died you would be on a spaceship going to some new world to live on till that one died.
If it worked in the same way as Groundhog Day or Tom Cruises new movie, i’d totally be down. Constantly improving myself until I become ruler of the universe. I’d kill any that try to replicate my pill. Would be interesting out-living your off-spring though, at least, no need for succession and inheritance planning.
So you’d have to work forever then, that would suck big time!
You would probably get rich enough after a few lifetimes lol
Damn, I missed the sweet spot.
Not really. Just look at the Cullen clan. They own their own private island, and apparently are worth over $10b. They just keep up the illusion of being human.
The real downside to not aging - you’ll have to move every few years, otherwise people will start to notice that you don’t get older. Just look at poor Edward. Had to change schools every couple of years. And never got to graduate high school. What’s it like to be 110 years old and have to pretend to be a teenager?
And why do I feel a lot gayer all of a sudden?
The original screenplay called for Bill Murray to relive the same day for over 10,000 years. It was actually extremely dark and full of some pretty disturbing stuff. How long would you hold out from doing some bad stuff (like Indian-male style bad stuff) if you realized you lived the same day over and over again with no consequences?
Interesting aside: Bill Murray wanted to keep the script as it was intended but Harold Ramis wanted to make a much funnier, lighter film. Harold, obviously, got his way but it cause a falling out between the two of them that was only just being repaired with Ramis died a few months back. Total bummer.
^Didn’t know that. Interesting.
I also always wondered how many days he repeated. He learned to be a fabulous pianist and learned everybody’s name and history, so I knew it had to be a while.
You need to read the Silmarillion. In the Tolkien-verse, elves still can’t die, even if their flesh is destroyed. Should they “die” either from war or grief (pretty much the only two ways their bodies die), their spirit goes to the Halls of Mandos where they hang out until they feel they’re ready to take up a physical form again. Once they decide to take a bodily form again, nearly all of them hang out in the West, Valinor. One huge exception is Glorfindel. He was a badass elf and one of the first to ever kill a balrog, but his body died in the fight as well. After some time with Mandos, he took shape again and came back to Middle Earth to help duing the War of the Ring; specifically when the Nazgul are chasing Frodo into Rivendell across the water. It was Glorfindel, not Steven Tyler’s daughter, who confronted them on the fords of the river.
And, there’s today’s nerd-out. I’m going to go put on my robe and wizard hat.
Only person I knew before STL who actually read the Silmarillion was this awesome fifty year programmer who killed us all in fantasy football at my last job.
Yeah…after struggling through LotR, I won’t be reading the Silmarillion. Even my sister, who’s one of the most avid fiction readers I’ve ever met, said that it was a tough read. And she’s the only person (other than StL) that I’ve ever met who’s read it.
STL is the man. The shout out to Glorfindel was clutch.
Silmarillion is a tough read but if you get through it, LOTR is that much better. As expected, it is a bit rough around the edges seeing as it was published posthumously.
I can’t even make it through the Wikipedia article…
It’s worth the effort.
May be a tougher read but the stories of the Sil > story of LoTR
Another useful movie to watch before agreeing to live forever is “Death Becomes Her”. Not a good movie mind you, but useful.
Without question. And besides, it’s fun to know things about the characters in LotR that others don’t. Like the fact the Galadriel is ~30,000 years old and counted second only to Feanor among the mightiest Elves of all time (although, now that I think about it, that factoid might have been in Morgoth’s Ring, not the Sil. Talk about a hard book to read…).
Or Fingolfin’s duel with Morgoth…Turin and all that wincest going on there. Yep, great stuff.
And, for those saying it’s a hard read, just skip the Ainulindale (the first part of the Sil). After that it’s really just a bunch of short stories about kickass heros and villians.