I've said on here before I'd love to be able to write a script for pretty woman 2 but that they've left it too late really. Because I'd have done it as a role reversal, vivienne taking Edward to her home town to meet her mother (played by grace zabriskie who was the mum in officer & gentleman or else Shirley MacLaine) the mum being acerbic and suspicious initially as are viviennes's friends including a guy who's held a torch for her but Edward wins them over - because what's often forgotten is he's rich now - but he came from poor! These ARE his people and he would hold his own - end with the wedding
Dirty dancing I think they'd have set up a dance school with the cheque her dad DIDN'T give to Robbie in the end. Johnny focuses on dance but the school is in a rough-Ish neighbourhood and baby who's a qualified social worker helps the disadvantaged kids find routes out of their poverty via not just dance but education and self confidence.
Top gun 2 is being made now and bloody Jennifer connolly who I can't stand is the love interest! Presumably kelly mcgillis no longer considered attractive enough. I kinda hope Maverick is a widow rather than a fickle piece of shit though.
Re sliding doors - I hope that the physicists are right and somewhere my first baby that I miscarried is alive and happy, they'd be almost 30 now.
There'd need to be a 3rd parallel universe though where my first mc happened and my 2nd didn't because if the first hadn't happened my ex wouldn't have looked twice at me, indeed I probably wouldn't have been out clubbing that night as I'd have been home with my then toddler and probably their father too. (We split before I knew I was pregnant, I mc before I got up the guts to tell him. And after it just felt "wrong" somehow. We got back in touch many years later just as friends and I told him then. He sympathised and said if I hadn't mc and had told him he'd have been there for baby & I - we'd split due to circumstances/distance rather than problems in the relationship)
I had another sliding doors situation around my wedding and that guy too. Given how the marriage turned out can't help but wonder...
Anyway, back to the thread...
Back to the future - doc we need the time machine! Indefinitely! We can sort out all the way back to Thatcherism never mind brexit!
I watched a film years ago, can't remember the name but basically the premise was "if you could kill hitler/Stalin/hoh chi Minh etc as children - knowing what you do about what they'd go on to do - would you?" And they put it into practise with dinner guests? Bugging me now if anyone can help. Last supper? Yep
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheLasttSupper(19955film)
The perpetually changing nature of an ongoing series of sliding doors moments is a bit the opposite to Groundhog Day...
... except it's not. Because bill Murrays character HAS to change small incidents to eventually get the "right" result