• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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      12 days ago

      Now that you mention it, this movie is on my “alternative timelines” list, because I swear when I originally saw it it was Selsun Blue, not Head & Shoulders.

      I’ve had others agree with me; it’s The Berenstein Bears all over again.

      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        12 days ago

        No I remember what it was. Head & Shoulders is a better known dandruff shampoo name, but generally uses zinc pyrithione. They used selenium (sulfide?) in the movie and generally H&S doesn’t use that as an active ingredient, but Selsun Blue does.

        I know this because I used to have dandruff. Then there’s the third option active ingredient, salicylic acid, which Denorex was good for.

        Each active ingredient targets different causes for dandruff. If you have dandruff, you should figure out what your cause is, because it’s possible you’re mistreating your scalp.

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        12 days ago

        Might be one of those localisation things to replace it with a product known better to the local community?

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      13 days ago

      back when Arrival came out - my wife kept referencing Evolution as if suggesting the characters a way to deal with hostile aliens. would’ve made a better movie if they did it.

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          12 days ago

          No. Furthest from it. But my impression of this movie is forever shaded by my wife referencing the shampoo weapon from Evolution and it is a funny thing to think about. Remember Sunshine? The bomb the sun movie that goes fuck it and morphs into a space slasher - it would’ve been this kind of tonal shift out of nowhere.

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    13 days ago

    “Don’t let them take my leg.”

    “Is there anything you can do? He thinks he’s an athlete.”

    “Well we cou-… oh, it looks like it’s headed toward the penis.”

    “TAKE IT!!! TAKE THE LEG!!!”

    lmao so funny

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        12 days ago

        Dude! Ivan Reitman directed both Ghostbusters AND Evolution. And lots of people think of it as a cousin to Ghostbusters. Not sure if you knew that and were making reference to that but if not now you know.

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          12 days ago

          of course i knew about that. And it would’ve been fun to have a crossover between ghosts and aliens… oh wait… final fantasy did that…

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      13 days ago

      dunno. it was fairly common in the early internet around that the Transmetropolitan was starting. It would’ve been fun to mid 2000s Transmet adaptation startting Duchovny wearing a skull cap.

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      12 days ago

      and it was so gloriously stupid it worked. something movies just need to get fucking stupid.