PJ: so battle of the obnoxious story tropes: “the id as plush toy”
PJ: vs “introverted writer is brought to life when he falls in love with quirky hot chick”
PJ: which one do you hate more?
MATT: Well, the second one is more rampant.
BRAIN: that is called the Manic Pixie Dream Girl movie
PJ: I knew there was a better name… I just didn’t wanna look it up
BRAIN: GARDEN STATE
MATT: It had a good soundtrack, but it was a pretty bad movie.
BRAIN: The Shins? did they change your life?
PJ: reading the script for that might slow it down even further and actually stop time
PJ: … now that could be funny, a time travel movie where the time machine runs on boring scripts…
BRAIN: woah!
BRAIN: there’s something compelling about Garden State
BRAIN: I can’t remember anything that happens in it
BRAIN: like, what is the plot?
MATT: Dude is sad for no reason, and meets a girl who is wacky and spontaneous and helps him learn to live again?
MATT: Right?
PJ: I honestly don’t remember
BRAIN: what are they doing? where do they go, and why?
BRAIN: here’s the angle I’m coming from: suppose you wanted to write a MPDG script… how?
MATT: They went to … uhh, hm.
PJ: there’s something about them riding bikes around
MATT: I thought there was a boat.
BRAIN: there’s a bunch of wacky vignettes