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The final scene - Anyone else expect.....
They cast a British comedian
Nice movie
Woke dragon
All the grossed out violence and nudity
Spider-Man: Across the Di-Verse
Aliens: "We don't understand the concept of lying and therefore you can't be trusted"
Would the First Order have tolerated homosexuality?
What could go wrong?
How does the finger clicking to make people disappear work exactly?
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It's terrible. I think someone decided they were going to make a horror comedy one day, with the idea that there would be a twist that <spoiler>the good guys would turn out to be killers</spoiler>, saw Midsommar, and then kind of put the 2 together without much thought for anything else. Then let a school kid write a lot of the dialogue.
Absolutely sucked and like you say, does not reward as either a comedy or a horror. The basis for the comedy was pretty much characters using colourful language, like the kids and the elderly lady F'ing and blinding. That was it as far as the source of comedy, as if we're supposed to find it hilarious each time they say bad words. It's like it was written by a young immature teenager. I could have come up with something funnier.
The only positive you can say about it is that it's quite short so you don't have to endure the misery too long.
Oh I know cars and people have been picked up by lesser tornadoes and that there can be strange behaviour among them. I remember myself hearing about how a house was hit by a tornado and I think the kitchen area was damaged, yet there was a box of eggs on the kitchen table that were left completely untouched, not even cracked.
I still think the way it's portrayed in this is unrealistic. I mean the two of those characters are crouched almost right next to the truck which is seemingly lifted hundreds of feet in the air and dumped 50 or so yards from its position. Not just the truck either but the tractor or whatever else that heavy vehicle/object was. That to me suggests it must be pretty strong yet is leaving these much smaller and lighter humans completely untouched and unhurt. It just isn't believable to me. You yourself are asking how Jo and her mother weren't sucked up, I don't see why this occasion is any different.
<blockquote>The last thing that doesn't make sense is, that storm cellar was very shallow, and that tornado was almost on top of them when it sucked Jo's dad away. Why is it that she and her mom didn't get sucked away too? (And no, I'm not buying the whale mom jokes. Even fat people can get sucked up by a twister).</blockquote>
Well there are lots of inconsistencies throughout the movie like this regarding people not being sucked up. Just watching this film again, the first tornado they chase lifts very high into the air a truck and a tractor, which suggests it must be like a high end F4 at least, yet Paxman and Hunt are literally sheltering under a wooden bridge just a few feet away from where the truck is sucked up. It's simply ludicrous that they wouldn't be blown away too but they come out completely unscathed as soon as the tornado dies.
You hit on the 2 things I thought about most while watching this movie.
The aliens make a racket themselves when they're following the choppers around, how do they not get distracted by their own sounds?
Yep, I kept on thinking that you'd probably get out of most problems if you just had a pocketful of stones/projectiles, especially in a city environment where literally throwing anywhere metres around you would create a loud enough noise.
Unfortunately the more I see these movies the more I realise they keep throwing up flaws and ways for these aliens to be tricked.
I feel like the only way the invasion with this species might work is if there is some other intellectually superior alien species that are weaponising this intellectually inferior alien species that can't see, and using them to rid the human population on planet Earth, or at least experimenting with both species to see what happens, in the same way a person might orchestrate a fight between 2 animals to see who wins.
I assume it must be. It's already available on Prime to watch and surely if it were a success it'd be in the cinemas longer? I see on IMDB (though I'm unsure of how up to date it is) that it's barely made back half of its budget.
Seemed like the mother and the prince were ticking their own boxes in this film. There was the ghost of a black girl in the cave, Millie is white, the next girl lined up to be sacrificed was Asian. I'm pretty sure they would have found a trans female further down the line to marry the prince.
I saw it when I was about 9 years old with family. We were hoping to see Gremlins 2 originally but it was booked up or something. I remember liking it and being entertained by the different characters and their surreal, cartoonish faces. At that age I guess you're pretty easily pleased anyway. Wasn't as great when I saw it again much older under a more critical eye but didn't dislike it either. Probably due a rewatch as it still has that nostalgic value attached.
Or Titanic 2 as another example. Again it just sounds silly because you know it shouldn't have a sequel and you shouldn't be confirming it by saying it out loud.
Forget saying it, 300 would have just looked stupid with a 2 after it, since the title is a number already. A subtitle at least makes the sequel seem like, while a continuation, something a bit different from the original.
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