There are two in particular that come to mind when I see this question. I don’t know if I would necessarily classify these as
fantastic movies, but I did enjoy them up until the plot twist.
The first would be Signs. It was creepy and suspenseful. I
was super sad that the dogs died. I mean, did it really add anything to have
the dogs die? Did it add anything for the dogs to be in the movie, besides them
barking at things outside which a motion detector alarm or light could have
done? That’s a whole other tangent. The thing that got me was the stupid water
glasses. Why would these aliens invade our planet, which is mostly made up of
water, if they were like deadly allergic to water? Are you telling me these
things invaded all around the same time and it didn’t happen to be raining
anywhere? Anywhere at all? Not even Seattle or London?
Are islands safe? Would they even go to Hawaii when it is so
close to the beach? Is it only fresh water that is an issue or is it all water?
Is the tap water really that dangerous? Is it her spit that makes the water
dangerous?
And what a perfect scenario that we get a dad who never does
dishes, lets his daughter take one sip from a glass and then leaves it somewhere,
and just buys more glasses when they end up with thirty different used glasses
all around the house. There were dozens of glasses everywhere. Who even owns
that many glasses? How long have they been accumulating? Why didn’t he ever do
the dishes when basically every flat service in the house was covered in dirty
water glasses? Why didn’t he just start getting paper/disposable cups knowing
that she did this?
It would have made more sense if she had gone to the fair
and played the goldfish game and just had like dozens of fishbowls everywhere
than him just letting all those water glasses accumulate. Or even Diet Cokes.
Cans of Diet coke that she only took one sip off, because then it is still
messy but it isn’t literally like he has to go out and keep buying water glasses
instead of just washing them. And then it could even be explained as the
chemicals in the Coke being what is harmful, not just water. Which would make
the aliens coming to a planet of water seem less ridiculous.
Why was there even an alien in the house? For creatures that
seemed to figure out space travel, it seems pretty stupid for them to come to a
planet with so much water and to just be hanging out in a house filled with
water. You didn’t even really need the dad to attack the alien, all you needed
was an earthquake to cause all the glasses to fall on him or a rain shower
outside and that would have done the trick.
Why was there only one alien in and around the house when he
came upstairs? Did he just get left behind? Were they trying to be sneaky and
he was there to trick them that it was okay to come up? If the aliens did land
on Earth, decide there was too much water, and plan to leave then why were they
there so long? If it was a mission of exploration, why send so many ships at
the same time rather than one or two at a time to investigate?
I mean, the ending scene seemed so forced and so drawn out
that it just gave me time to go back and question everything that I had let
slide for the sake of suspense. I would have rather it have a non-ending with
it just going to a black screen as they sleep in the basement or, if a happy
ending was required, them hearing noises/gun shots/etc. from upstairs and then
they hear people shooting and it ends with like some sort of military rescue as
they get rushed out of the house. Really there are so many things that would
have been better than the plot convenience that took place.
The second movie is It. The original It. I remember watching
it when I was like 12-13 and being terrified. When he came out of the book,
that was so creepy. As was the general clown thing. But then when he took form
and he was just a big spider. That was so much less terrifying I actually
started laughing. For the entire movie it was this interdimensional killer clown
thing that primarily targeted kids and that could get into anywhere from
anywhere. I mean, sure you can lock your doors and windows but he might just pull
a scene from The Ring and step out of your TV. No one was safe anywhere.
And then…big, fake looking spider thing that they kill with
sticks. There are scarier things living in Australia than what this thing
became. Fluffy from Harry Potter looked like more of a threat that it did. As
did the scorpion from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. And for a movie that had such
terrifyingly drawn out scenes of horror, the “beat it with sticks” scene was
relatively short. It was kind of underwhelming really.
I haven’t read the book, but from what I have read online
about it, I believe what the plot was that he was demon that could cross into
different dimensions and when he was in our dimension that was his physical
form, but his physical form changes in different dimensions. Or something like
that. But he seemed to be pretty adept at killing without turning into big bug
and if becoming big bug makes him more killable, it seems like a stupid move.
Though, to be fair, I think the main reason why this plot
twist was such a flop for me was because of the special effects (or rather the
lack of them). It looked like a cheap Halloween decoration and as they “fought”
it, it didn’t really move at all. I mean, it really looked like a prop and it
broke the immersion.
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