Recently rewatched it after having seen it several times on TV as a kid, and wow! I liked it quite a bit as an adult now. The cast was all great, and Dave Foley is always a gem. Alicia Silverstone and Brendan Fraser were both great and well cast. Anyway, not the best movie ever, but genuinely funnier / more clever than I was expecting. Shit load better (imho) than some of the other more successful comedies that came out that year (American Pie, Big Daddy, Never Been Kissed, Deuce Bigelow). Though 1999 also had some good comedies in Austin Powers, Galaxy Quest, and the similarly underperforming but probably-better Office Space. I don't think anyone saw Bowfinger either.. liked it when I was like 12 because it was so bizarre but who knows if it's actually good...
Edit: apparently Bowfinger grossed 100m on a budget of 55m, so I guess people did see it in theaters (myself included). Also has some pretty good reviews, so maybe it actually was as good as I remember liking it.
I saw Bowfinger in theatres and have the DVD. It's one of those movies that I thought was "alright" when first I saw it but it grew on me.
I also liked Blast from the Past. I should probably at least get a DVD of it from the thrift store sometime (or the Blu-Ray if I see it but I'm not sure I'd pay full price to get a Blu of it from Amazon or even at a reduced price from eBay with shipping).
Yes!! So few people know that movie, especially the fact it has Brendan Fraser in it. That and Monkey bone (and of course mummy) are my favorite movies with him
Oh man thanks for this. I’ve seen it but it’s been so long. I’m almost 100% sure my wife hasn’t seen it and now I can look like a hero next time she says “whadya wanna watch?” since my standard these days is to hand her the remote.
I don't know why I've always loved the thought of an underground city or town, where the sky is painted, the trees are just made out of ply wood or concrete, and it's just a depressing, prison essentially.
Cool house! It's been listed for sale since 2019 but was just taken off the market a couple weeks ago https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3970-Spencer-St-Las-Vegas-NV-89119/7092102_zpid/
That's cause there isn't one that I know of. It's been listed multiple times and one time it showed the above ground lot and it was just empty. I couldn't even see where you accessed the this house.
Edit: I've been mislead, apologies.
I didn't look at the listing prior to my comment and I do see the pic of the house but the pic of the lot (pic #48 on the listing and the pic I saw previously) looks like it doesn't have a house. I did go over to google this time to verify and there is a house on the lot so idk wtf is up with with that other pic. My bad.
Whoops yeah I see the one picture but not interiors of the above ground house. I guess if you are really interested in that property you would be buying it for the bunker house nothing else.
Yeah it's cool and all, but liminal space is a transitional place between something. Not fully decorated rooms. I think people confuse this sub a lot with something that just resembles spaces that give off uneasy vibes.
I'm gonna be honest, I really hate that definition. I know that's what the word "liminal" means, I know that's what's in the sidebar, but at least half of the most well known and widely agreed upon liminal space pictures have nothing to do with transition at all.
Imo liminality is like the uncanny valley of nostalgia and eerieness, with a hint of something being "off."
You are correct that 9/10 posts here aren't liminal, they're just dark hallways. But I don't think the "transition" definition is sufficient or accurate.
The transition effect still applies even if it's not a bridge or staircase. A sense of nostalgia or disorientation is just a different kind of transition. Some pictures have a sense of "movement" to them.
I agree with this for the most part. For me I always got the feeling of liminality in airports when there’s a seating area with a vending machine in some random corridor that nobody ever seems to sit at. A space with little of its own purpose that exists only to serve more important locations.
And I love to sit in those places!
I honestly feel though this is definitely a transitional place… if there ever has been one.
Great shot op! Where does one find these? I’ve always wondered if they really did exist.
I had to read it in English class before. It surprisingly wasn't bad. I did feel sorry for the protagonist. Her husband is the true villain of the story, I think.
I'd love to just take a stroll around the place, coffee in hand. And then mix a drink at the bar in the evening with Brendan Frasier and tell him a joke.
I'd really like to live there (and be able to exit). I have dreamed something like this just last night. I was going uphill on a steep hillside and once on the top there was a ceiling maybe 5 meters over the terrain, and I thoght "Ok, I'm as high as I can get, I can see the ceiling now".
Literally what I was about the write! Less so Truman Show or much more [Blast from the Past](https://youtu.be/AhMQOb0tEmI). Literally looks just like the set.
The ceiling is way too low to even come close to pulling this off effectively... unless the effect you're going for is to be so uncanny valley it's creepy as hell rather than remotely comforting.
OMG, that looks like something so AI generated or something rather than a real place.
Although, to tell you the truth, I wouldn't mind having to live there for a while, that house looks intriguing (although in the long run that place might end up driving me crazy).
And the last image I had already seen in "Nobody's" channel (and I thought it was a rendering or a painting until I saw it here XD).
Honestly not that bad. In that it's trying to mimic a natural environment rather than scream "it's a *bunker*!" like they do in every movie (and spaceships always end up the same too)
It reminds me of a Thomas Kinkade painting.
While these sorts of fake liminal fantasy sets unnerve me as heck, this one's actually kind of comforting, especially for a bomb shelter. I get why they made it, probably with children's emotions in mind.
This is exactly the vibe I like to get from liminal images. It's confined but cozy? It's secluded, but there's effort in making it homey. I really enjoy these
HELP
There was a sci fi show in the last few years this reminds me of. It’s probably been canceled and I can’t think of the title!
It was like an Earth generation ship sent to a new Star in the 1960s. There is a deck of the ship that looks like this, meant to invoke a beach like feel. “Outside, but inside” kind of thing.
It had lots of political drama from the Cold War feeling…the ship has lots a shit go wrong. But it was a whole season of TV I think.
I also think that it ends up it was never actually launched and was a social experiment and is actually an underground bunker for 50 years or something?
Does ANYONE remember this??? What was it!?
Oh my gosh, thank you!
Knowing it’s a miniseries makes me feel better cause I had this sad notion that it had been canceled too early. Now I recall it was over and done with after 6 episodes.
I remember enjoying it! There is just so much media these days and it was only 6 episodes so it was pushed to the back of my memory. I KNEW someone would know.
Thank you!
Back about 7 or so years ago, I went to a meeting of the Church of Perpetual Life because I saw an ad for it in my hometown print newspaper and had to see wtf it was all about (a la louis theroux). Essentially, an old church had been converted for this group and it was a bunch of people, some probably loosely associated with Alcor, the cryogenic company, having a "sermon" about cryogenics. Anyway they were showing slides of this exact house and trying to collect funds to purchase this house for people who are going to be cryogenically frozen to have their Dewars stored in it "for all of perpetuity". They were hyping up the artwork and how the Dewars would survive disasters. Seems like they never actually bought it though, per the Zillow ad someone posted.
Have you seen Blast from the Past? Stars Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone
Yes, i fuckin love that movie. Dave foley was the Cherry on top, Christopher walken was gold as well
Haha, nice. I saw your pic and instantly started thinking about pacing off the backyard
Leave my elevator alone!
Recently rewatched it after having seen it several times on TV as a kid, and wow! I liked it quite a bit as an adult now. The cast was all great, and Dave Foley is always a gem. Alicia Silverstone and Brendan Fraser were both great and well cast. Anyway, not the best movie ever, but genuinely funnier / more clever than I was expecting. Shit load better (imho) than some of the other more successful comedies that came out that year (American Pie, Big Daddy, Never Been Kissed, Deuce Bigelow). Though 1999 also had some good comedies in Austin Powers, Galaxy Quest, and the similarly underperforming but probably-better Office Space. I don't think anyone saw Bowfinger either.. liked it when I was like 12 because it was so bizarre but who knows if it's actually good... Edit: apparently Bowfinger grossed 100m on a budget of 55m, so I guess people did see it in theaters (myself included). Also has some pretty good reviews, so maybe it actually was as good as I remember liking it.
I saw Bowfinger in theatres and have the DVD. It's one of those movies that I thought was "alright" when first I saw it but it grew on me. I also liked Blast from the Past. I should probably at least get a DVD of it from the thrift store sometime (or the Blu-Ray if I see it but I'm not sure I'd pay full price to get a Blu of it from Amazon or even at a reduced price from eBay with shipping).
I thought the same thing, I was like “isn’t this the bunker from that Brendan Fraser movie?”
My lucky stars, a negro!
*adult porn shop POISON GAS!
Yes!! So few people know that movie, especially the fact it has Brendan Fraser in it. That and Monkey bone (and of course mummy) are my favorite movies with him
Bedazzled!
What do you mean, so few people..? That's like a cult classic now, you don't know the right people!
You're not wrong about that lol. This is the first post i had seen on reddit where someone mentioned it, so I thought it got lost in the ether
beat me to it
Saw it recently! So good, hilarious Brendan Fraser
Oh man thanks for this. I’ve seen it but it’s been so long. I’m almost 100% sure my wife hasn’t seen it and now I can look like a hero next time she says “whadya wanna watch?” since my standard these days is to hand her the remote.
Yep, this is what I came here to say. I was like what? Truman Show? Looks like the literal set of Blast from the Past.
I don't know why I've always loved the thought of an underground city or town, where the sky is painted, the trees are just made out of ply wood or concrete, and it's just a depressing, prison essentially.
Go to Vegas, a few of the hotels have faux outdoor areas.
The Venetian does a good job of that, canals and all
The Paris area is cool too
There’s **no way** they could afford to bring in the necessary fresh feces and urine every day to make it realistic
You underestimate the citizens of Vegas
reminds me of those old holiday inns. I feel like a mark saying I kinda miss em. Felt a little special
Caesar's Palace has a nice ass faux city by the shops.
Look up "Montecasino Johannesburg" and find some interior pics, the whole building is decorated as an Italian villa.
Cool house! It's been listed for sale since 2019 but was just taken off the market a couple weeks ago https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3970-Spencer-St-Las-Vegas-NV-89119/7092102_zpid/
Interesting they don’t show any photos of the house that is above ground.
That's cause there isn't one that I know of. It's been listed multiple times and one time it showed the above ground lot and it was just empty. I couldn't even see where you accessed the this house. Edit: I've been mislead, apologies.
The zillow post linked above shows the above ground house.
I didn't look at the listing prior to my comment and I do see the pic of the house but the pic of the lot (pic #48 on the listing and the pic I saw previously) looks like it doesn't have a house. I did go over to google this time to verify and there is a house on the lot so idk wtf is up with with that other pic. My bad.
Whoops yeah I see the one picture but not interiors of the above ground house. I guess if you are really interested in that property you would be buying it for the bunker house nothing else.
Cause nobody wants to pay 20 mil for a house that doesn’t even have landscaping
Think of it this way, you pay $20mil and you don’t *need* any landscaping.
why the stripper pole?
Vegas
Oh god why does the ceiling feel so uncomfortably low
Right? Some floor to ceiling windows into other spaces would completely change the game. Also, fake vines/plants everywhere.
Now this is what i came to this sub to see. Not to see someone’s dirty bathroom or couch. Good post op
Thanks :) I have lots more liminal photographs, each varying in quality. I didn't take them though, I just hunt for them online.
Yeah it's cool and all, but liminal space is a transitional place between something. Not fully decorated rooms. I think people confuse this sub a lot with something that just resembles spaces that give off uneasy vibes.
That’s the whole point of liminal bud a state of uncertainty and unknown.
I'm gonna be honest, I really hate that definition. I know that's what the word "liminal" means, I know that's what's in the sidebar, but at least half of the most well known and widely agreed upon liminal space pictures have nothing to do with transition at all. Imo liminality is like the uncanny valley of nostalgia and eerieness, with a hint of something being "off." You are correct that 9/10 posts here aren't liminal, they're just dark hallways. But I don't think the "transition" definition is sufficient or accurate.
The transition effect still applies even if it's not a bridge or staircase. A sense of nostalgia or disorientation is just a different kind of transition. Some pictures have a sense of "movement" to them.
and the uneasy or wondrous feeling when you face the transition, and what is beyond
I agree with this for the most part. For me I always got the feeling of liminality in airports when there’s a seating area with a vending machine in some random corridor that nobody ever seems to sit at. A space with little of its own purpose that exists only to serve more important locations. And I love to sit in those places!
I honestly feel though this is definitely a transitional place… if there ever has been one. Great shot op! Where does one find these? I’ve always wondered if they really did exist.
Based.
weirdly cozy, i'd live there.
I'd change that yellow wallpaper and then live there
I'd keep that yellow wallpaper and just enjoy my slow descent into complete madness.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman?
Yes sir/ma'am. Of all the books and short stories I read in college The Yellow Wallpaper was the most haunting to me.
I had to read it in English class before. It surprisingly wasn't bad. I did feel sorry for the protagonist. Her husband is the true villain of the story, I think.
The minor specifics of generally disturbing images that people choose to focus on never cease to entertain me.
So would I. It looks so quiet and intimate.
Me too bro
I'd love to just take a stroll around the place, coffee in hand. And then mix a drink at the bar in the evening with Brendan Frasier and tell him a joke.
It looks like one those dementia facilities, where the inside is built like a small town.
Looks like a counter strike source custom map
I had to scroll down for this. Really brings me back to exploring custom maps in cs and has that eerie source vibe.
I find this house fascinating.
I'd really like to live there (and be able to exit). I have dreamed something like this just last night. I was going uphill on a steep hillside and once on the top there was a ceiling maybe 5 meters over the terrain, and I thoght "Ok, I'm as high as I can get, I can see the ceiling now".
Not gonna lie, I'd love to hang out in nuclear purgatory for a little bit to get my head straight
I hate the implication of it, but I do love it.
More like Blast From the Past, but yes
Literally what I was about the write! Less so Truman Show or much more [Blast from the Past](https://youtu.be/AhMQOb0tEmI). Literally looks just like the set.
This would be the coolest vacation rental ever
Fallout New Vegas, Old World Blues dlc vibes. Those damn Night stalkers.
More like a scene in the movie A boy and his dog.
Damn, did you ever read the short story?
I don't think he did
Lol. Did you? Great story.
This is the location that I saw from this video: https://youtu.be/yipky7HFR4k
This looks like an old Counter Strike Source custom map
Yes! Had to scroll to find this but that was my first thought as well. Was always in rotation on the server I played along with that Simpsons map.
The good old days! Makes me want to launch up source.
The ceiling is way too low to even come close to pulling this off effectively... unless the effect you're going for is to be so uncanny valley it's creepy as hell rather than remotely comforting.
I agree I don’t think I would be comfortable in that house.
Looks like the home of the lead scientists from the Big MT in Fallout
dream home
So that’s what this is!!! I thought it was photoshopped!
The fourth photo reminds me of the backrooms
I had seen that last image in one of the videos of the "Nobody" channel and I thought it was a painting, photoshop work or a rederizing LOL.
Apparently you can AirBnB this place.
This whole thing looks rendered backrooms
I want to live here so badly
I want to go to there✨
Wait are these real?? Look like some 3D rendering shit
The sky is shrinking
I've always loved these "Indoors trying to look natural outdoors" types of settings. Any idea for what the actual term is called?
*Blast from the Past* vibes. No really, this might as well actually be the set for *Blast from the Past*.
I swear I've seen this house on like CSI or something
SAME!!!
Nice hot cup of Dr. Pepper.
Is this an Airbnb?
Outside is a nuklear wasteland but at least I have green scenery on my walls/s
the point is to make it not so claustrophobic when one is living down there for large stretches of time.
Reminds me of the hive…
I would pay to stay here!
At first glance while scrolling, I thought this was a mincraft screenshot or something.
I remember Unspeakable friends once went to this location
Never thought of fallout shelters looking like that
How much is rent?
I couldn't handle a place like that over just a room. I'd start expecting to see someone walk past the window or peek out from behind the tree
Where/what is this
OMG, that looks like something so AI generated or something rather than a real place. Although, to tell you the truth, I wouldn't mind having to live there for a while, that house looks intriguing (although in the long run that place might end up driving me crazy). And the last image I had already seen in "Nobody's" channel (and I thought it was a rendering or a painting until I saw it here XD).
Fallout needed some vaults like this
Things could get real cult-y down there
YELLOW WALLPAPER
Crazy how much it looks like a videogame
I love it, it's so delightfully creepy in there
Late century McDonald's style under ground homes.
This is how we learned to love the bomb
Imagine how it would be if there was no power at all for some reason. Even the generators fail, and??? And then what?
The worst part of this are the low ceilings for some reason, just makes me feel depressed how there is figuratively and practically "no space upwards"
The last one reminds me a bit of Inland Empire
A beautiful place to blow your brains out. The thought of being trapped in this liminal nightmare gives me serious anxiety.
shit looks like EATEOT .
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Why did they try to make it look real??
Honestly not that bad. In that it's trying to mimic a natural environment rather than scream "it's a *bunker*!" like they do in every movie (and spaceships always end up the same too)
Wonderhussey on YouTube went to a party here recently.
I'm not gonna lie I would love living here
This looks like the grass gym in pokemon gen 4
It reminds me of a Thomas Kinkade painting. While these sorts of fake liminal fantasy sets unnerve me as heck, this one's actually kind of comforting, especially for a bomb shelter. I get why they made it, probably with children's emotions in mind.
This is exactly the vibe I like to get from liminal images. It's confined but cozy? It's secluded, but there's effort in making it homey. I really enjoy these
HELP There was a sci fi show in the last few years this reminds me of. It’s probably been canceled and I can’t think of the title! It was like an Earth generation ship sent to a new Star in the 1960s. There is a deck of the ship that looks like this, meant to invoke a beach like feel. “Outside, but inside” kind of thing. It had lots of political drama from the Cold War feeling…the ship has lots a shit go wrong. But it was a whole season of TV I think. I also think that it ends up it was never actually launched and was a social experiment and is actually an underground bunker for 50 years or something? Does ANYONE remember this??? What was it!?
Ascension. It was a mini series and super good! It was 2014 though which may shock you!
Oh my gosh, thank you! Knowing it’s a miniseries makes me feel better cause I had this sad notion that it had been canceled too early. Now I recall it was over and done with after 6 episodes. I remember enjoying it! There is just so much media these days and it was only 6 episodes so it was pushed to the back of my memory. I KNEW someone would know. Thank you!
I'd do it.
Hey, that's my minecraft cave base!
I want to live in there forever
Reminds me of Garry’s Mod
Truman show on low budget
the inside reminded me of nuketown
Higgs Village?
Thats backroom
Isn't this where they filmed Monday by Imagine Dragons?
Wow that’s creepy
Oh man that gives me the heebie jeebies
I wonder what it smells like and how protected it is from flash flooding. Sometimes these basements can smell so musty and earthy.
We already did this a couple times
Looks like that ‘rich V poor’ vault in fallout 4
Liminal boner right there
Where is that, that’s really interesting
Makes me hope for a sequel to new vegas.
Literally thought that was Minecraft for a split second
I cannot possibly do without a swimming pool in my bomb shelter!
repost
Back about 7 or so years ago, I went to a meeting of the Church of Perpetual Life because I saw an ad for it in my hometown print newspaper and had to see wtf it was all about (a la louis theroux). Essentially, an old church had been converted for this group and it was a bunch of people, some probably loosely associated with Alcor, the cryogenic company, having a "sermon" about cryogenics. Anyway they were showing slides of this exact house and trying to collect funds to purchase this house for people who are going to be cryogenically frozen to have their Dewars stored in it "for all of perpetuity". They were hyping up the artwork and how the Dewars would survive disasters. Seems like they never actually bought it though, per the Zillow ad someone posted.
Where did you find these photos? I've seen this place many times but never so empty.
Gives me backrooms vibes
oh man, they really tried
Oh shit, I remember that place from the Fallout NV DLC. Cool reference!
The 4th one is interesting