I was shocked until I realised (upon rewatching) that Cosmic Owl's saying "blew it, blew it, blew it" in the first dream, and not "fluid, fluid, fluid." That brings it back to line-toeing.

"You're one answer away from destroying their whole defence."

On the upside, when movies are shot digitally, edited digitally and distributed digitally, we can all stop worrying about the respective qualities of DVD and BD transfers. Running to dvdbeaver every time I want to buy a movie can be tiresome, to say nothing of then hunting down the transfer I like most from…

A Fistful of Paintballs was an homage to the westerns of Sergio Leone, and made a number of quite specific references which, evidently, you'll have missed. I guess this underscores your point, although I will still take a very specific film/novel parody over a broad-brush "genre parody" any day. If you had seen any of…