Well, here's a strange dream I had a while ago. I had checked out a movie from the library to watch with
@Little Bro and I don't really remember the circumstances that made me choose this movie (if that was even mentioned in the dream), but for some reason, I was really feeling obligated to like it. But all signs pointed to this thing being one of those super cheap, low-budget B-movies for kids, and we didn't even have to get very far into the movie for this to be confirmed.
The animation quality of this show was really primitive, about like 90s-era CGI. Weirder yet, it turned out not all of the movie even was animated. There were these random live-action segments in there. It was more like we were watching a collection of different skits/segments than an actual coherent movie, because it just jumped from one thing to the next with no rhyme or reason.
The movie started off with this cartoony bit about an explorer encountering a native tribe in the jungle. Straight off the bat, he developed a crush on the natives' princess (typical B-movie). The guy started trying to befriend the tribe so he could win the princess over. However, the reason he'd originally come to the jungle was to exploit the tribe's resources, so he had to keep that a secret from them, but then he started feeling guilty about that. All this was portrayed in a very shallow way, especially since the explorer used a really annoying combination of "nerdy loser" stereotypes (pathetic, whiny, skinny) with no redeeming qualities that make me like his character. I wasn't feeling impressed with this movie.
That's when the show made its first bizarre jump to what seemed to be a totally different segment, before the whole jungle plot was even resolved. Now we were watching some live-action scene with two humanoid robots. Weirder yet, the robots looked like they came straight out of a cheesy classic TV show, wearing tacky metallic suits and silver face paint. They also had eyes that had been colored bright red with special effects, resulting in a creepy vibe that I thought must've been way worse than the filmmakers had actually intended. I remember that they were villains plotting something, but I don't remember what their plan was or if it even had anything to do with the earlier stuff in the movie.
The movie played out with several more strange bait-and-switches like that, leaving me and my brother with barely a clue as to what we were even watching. Our mom kept coming into the room to ask, "How is it?" and we just told her it was "okay" because it was so utterly weird we didn't even know what to think.
Then the dream skipped forward to about a week later, when the movie was almost due back at the library. Since we still didn't know what we thought about the movie, plus I was still feeling obligated to like it for some mysterious reason, guess what my brother and I did then? That's right...we started watching this wacko movie a SECOND time.
Yeah, I don't know what to make from any of that, either.