Stupidist plot to any film, ever

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War of the Worlds? (The new one, with the scientology loon)

A bunch of "super intelligent", technologically advanced aliens come to earth and decide that, instead of just using the planet, they'll plant loads of machines underneath some cities which don't exist yet, wait until humans exist, and then come back on a mission to destroy all humans, so they can use the planet for themselves (erm...), all the while failing to realise that they're allergic to being on the earth.

That's like me deciding I want some peanuts, then going to the shop and instead of buying a packet, hiding it on another shelf, then coming back when it's months out of date and taking it, and then I can't eat them anyway because it turns out I'm a jellyfish.
 
How would a jellyfish walk into a shop?
 
noodlehair said:
War of the Worlds? (The new one, with the scientology loon)

A bunch of "super intelligent", technologically advanced aliens come to earth and decide that, instead of just using the planet, they'll plant loads of machines underneath some cities which don't exist yet, wait until humans exist, and then come back on a mission to destroy all humans, so they can use the planet for themselves (erm...), all the while failing to realise that they're allergic to being on the earth.

That's like me deciding I want some peanuts, then going to the shop and instead of buying a packet, hiding it on another shelf, then coming back when it's months out of date and taking it, and then I can't eat them anyway because it turns out I'm a jellyfish.
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it's based on the H.G.Wells book The War of the Worlds (1898)
 
In the book though, once they fancy invading the Martians fire cylinders down onto the Earth, which contain the Fighting Machines. They don't feck around storing them underground.

Baffling why they didn't just do that in the film?
 
I saw a war film some time ago.. Think Samuel L. (or was it Travolta? or both?) had a part, it was alright crap until the end where the plot twisted about 6-7 times. That plot had nothing but the twist, that was frightfully bad, plotholed and stupid.

That was some crap plot.
 
The Happening - The Trees are killing us for a day and then they stop. feck off, feck off.
 
You're missing the really annoying thing about the film which is that Tom Cuntruise is in every fecking scene.
 
"Picnic at Hanging Rock" a group of schoolgirls go to a picnic at the Hanging Rock -a mountain in australia or around that country-.

Three of them disappear -this happens during the first five minutes of the movie- so the search starts and goes through all the flick

when the movie ends they havent found the girls, no one knows what happened to them
 
"The Winter Guest" when the movie starts, a mother asks her daughter "are you going to live to australia", the daughter looks at her mother for about two hours -in the middle you might see the ocean in winter-, five seconds before the movie ends the daugther says "i don't know yet"

zrrrrrrrronk
 
marcosdeto said:
"The Winter Guest" when the movie starts, a mother asks her daughter "are you going to live to australia", the daughter looks at her mother for about two hours -in the middle you might see the ocean in winter-, five seconds before the movie ends the daugther says "i don't know yet"

zrrrrrrrronk
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:lol::lol:
 
noodlehair said:
War of the Worlds? (The new one, with the scientology loon)

A bunch of "super intelligent", technologically advanced aliens come to earth and decide that, instead of just using the planet, they'll plant loads of machines underneath some cities which don't exist yet, wait until humans exist, and then come back on a mission to destroy all humans, so they can use the planet for themselves (erm...), all the while failing to realise that they're allergic to being on the earth.

That's like me deciding I want some peanuts, then going to the shop and instead of buying a packet, hiding it on another shelf, then coming back when it's months out of date and taking it, and then I can't eat them anyway because it turns out I'm a jellyfish.
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The stupidest part of that film is when his son tries to run towards the battlefield between the aliens and humans, and Tom Cruise won't let him but eventually does, only to see the entire area destroyed almost immediately.
At the end of the film, his son shows up, having inexplicably survived being in the middle of a nuclear explosion.
 
marcosdeto said:
it's based on the H.G.Wells book The War of the Worlds (1898)
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Apart from the special effects, the 1950s film (starring Gene Barry) is far superior.

I haven't read the book but the story in the Barry film is far more believable and overall a better film.
 
mexos said:
I saw a war film some time ago.. Think Samuel L. (or was it Travolta? or both?) had a part, it was alright crap until the end where the plot twisted about 6-7 times. That plot had nothing but the twist, that was frightfully bad, plotholed and stupid.

That was some crap plot.
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I think it's called "Basic". Was on the television a couple of days ago. Didn't like it either.
 
i think it was called Teeth? about a woman with very unusually situated teeth.
 
The remake of the Wicker Man springs to mind. Nicholas Cage will do anything. Saying that, the film had some unintentionally hilarious bits!


"NOT THE BEES!"
 
noodlehair said:
That's like me deciding I want some peanuts, then going to the shop and instead of buying a packet, hiding it on another shelf, then coming back when it's months out of date and taking it, and then I can't eat them anyway because it turns out I'm a jellyfish.
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thats deep man ...

some films with stupid plots are actually great films!
 
FlawlessThaw said:
The Happening - The Trees are killing us for a day and then day stop. feck off, feck off.
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Plus the horrible acting combined with the horrible ending...the death scenes (lady in park stabbing herself, walking off the building, lawnmower) were interesting, but the rest of the movie, as in 99% of it, was just terrible
 
I heart huckabees

Still dont know what its about, even though I checked it out with a bird at the pictures.
 
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