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What a waste spoilers

posted 10 years ago by tobridges
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The first half was semi-interesting setup. Then, the entire second half of the movie was him demanding she tell him what's going on, and her refusing and freaking out like a terrified toddler.

The plot was weak and illogical. So the aliens impregnate them, leave them just long enough that everyone figures out what they are, then comes back for them? If they wanted to transform human women into their own species for companionship, why not just kidnap them and be done with it?

And the husband...could he have been any more ineffectual? I kept waiting for him to toss her over his shoulder, carry her ass out to the car, and take her into town to see a doctor whether she wanted to or not. But no, he just wallowed in his own angst and uselessness until it was too late.

I was glad to be rid of both of them.

Oh, and probing alien lights, really? They can travel halfway across the universe and completely transform biological specimens, but they still need a giant flashlight to find their way around? That's one alien-movie trope that should have been retired a long time ago.

[–] megacopter 10 years ago

Well said buddy

[–] benman46 10 years ago

Imdb message boards seem to be getting worse. I don't know why I bother.

[–] tobridges 10 years ago

Based on the above comment and your posting history, I'd say you bother because you enjoy making pretentious, bitchy and/or passive-aggressive comments.

[–] Arien_78 10 years ago

Haha! That was great.

[–] benman46 10 years ago

Somebody else who doesn't know what pretentious means, a much overused word. You looked at my posting history, how sweet, yet at the same time how sad. If you had bothered to read it properly you would know what you said is nonsense. Still this is a message board, why am i surprised.

[–] fatpie42 10 years ago

Why doesn't Jeff Goldblum instantly become a giant fly in Cronenberg's "The Fly"?

It's because in that version of "The Fly", the change isn't instantaneous. It's a long process of his body transforming from human to fly.

It's the same thing here. The woman is slowly losing her self to the aliens.

What role the husband plays in the takeover seems to be up to interpretation, but I think the woman is entirely mistaken in thinking the aliens pose a danger to her husband. I think that paranoia is a method the alien parasites use to prevent their host from revealing their presence.

The husband is worried that he's being unsupportive of a woman he loves and that he's unfairly judging her. When he decides he just needs to get out of there, it is only then that he realises she has hidden the keys. It's her love for him that makes her frightened that doing or saying the wrong thing might put him in danger from the aliens and it's his love for her that prevents him from leaving without her. Their love dooms them both.

"Honeymoon" feels a bit like a reversal of Joe Dante's Masters of Horror episode "The Screwfly Solution".

You're right about the alien lights, but it's a long standing trope now and "Honeymoon" is hardly an egregious culprit. It's worth noting that the film barely even mentions aliens, so lights at the window are a way to signal this outlandish explanation to the audience without the characters explicitly talking about it.