In Which Movies Are Discussed

[serinde]

syringavulgaris: My spies have told me the SHOCKING TWIST!!~ of the new M. Night Shamalamadingdong. Would you care to partake?
elibalin: OWLBEARS!
syringavulgaris: Close:
Plants around the world RISE UP IN REBELLION and start producing magic pollen that makes people commit suicide.
elibalin: #3)!z
elibalin:that's                                                                                                              e.
syringavulgaris: Yes. Better the owlbears.
elibalin: STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUIPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID
elibalin:M NIGHT SHAMAMAMLAMAMLAMLAMALMAMALMALMAAAALMMAAMA WEARS THE STUPDI HAT
elibalin: That's pretty bad, even for him.
elibalin: And he couldn't even come up with a decent title.
elibalin: It's like he's actively trying to suck.
syringavulgaris: I thought we learned that with Mary Sue in the Water.

Comments

[arkham1010.livejournal.com]

please tell me you are joking.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I am not joking.

[scavgraphics.livejournal.com]

Dave calls it a "Gaia's Revenge" plot...which sounds less stupid than magic pollen.

[sweh.livejournal.com]

Revenge Of The Triffids.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Any Gaea's Revenge plot that doesn't involve a kaiju is pretty much doomed to epic fail. And even kaiju don't immunize you. This sort of crap was all the rage in anime SF in the late 90s and early 00s.

[erinfinnegan.livejournal.com]

At least in Dr. Who the killer plants are more intelligent.

That makes me really appreciate the twist in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within wherein the aliens were actually ghosts of a dead planet.

[must-sew-faster.livejournal.com]

I think he done used up all the good ideas on his first two movies...

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

OH GOD IT BURNS.

However. The idea that the horrible beast that people are hiding from in the trailer, with all the suspense-juicing slasher music and scene cuts and the whole nine yards, is just an oncoming wave of DEATH POLLEN, or so I assume — this, the past few days, I have some sympathy for.

Which is not to say that those assembled in the movie theatre to see Iron Man, upon being presented with said trailer, did not, at least some of us, as soon as we saw M. Night Shyalaman's name, crack up laughing. Because we did.