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If we're living in a sci-fi movie, who is the director and how does it end? (Original Post) milestogo May 2020 OP
Ed Wood lame54 May 2020 #1
Yep Kingofalldems May 2020 #27
Joss Whedon Lucinda May 2020 #2
It has to be Ed Wood. fleur-de-lisa May 2020 #3
LOL Lucinda May 2020 #5
Spielberg TlalocW May 2020 #4
But, there is always a happy ending... Champion Jack May 2020 #8
Michael Bay OnlinePoker May 2020 #6
I'm beginning to worry that the screenplay is written by Mike 03 May 2020 #7
Please let it not be Aronofsky or Von Trier - we'll be bored and depressed C_U_L8R May 2020 #9
But... But... Mike 03 May 2020 #17
I know I know... it feels like we're in all of them C_U_L8R May 2020 #18
... Mike 03 May 2020 #22
Mark Burnett - And Before It Ends..... global1 May 2020 #10
Mother Nature is just getting warmed up. roamer65 May 2020 #11
That's a good one. Mike 03 May 2020 #13
Bingo. roamer65 May 2020 #19
The Towering Inferno is one my favorite movies! LeftInTX May 2020 #32
I liked Earthquake. roamer65 May 2020 #33
OJ Simpson was in that movie. milestogo May 2020 #37
Wasn't everyone in Towering Inferno? LeftInTX May 2020 #38
Stephen King In_The_Wind May 2020 #12
He wrote the screenplay liberaltrucker May 2020 #25
Indeed In_The_Wind May 2020 #26
All I know is I hope its not m night shyamalan Amishman May 2020 #14
Lars Von Trier, probably. Mike 03 May 2020 #15
I am the director and I won't spoil the ending but will say the twist will be alien breeding hybrids Baclava May 2020 #16
Just no anal probes, please. roamer65 May 2020 #20
There will be full frontal nudity, like any good 'R' horror movie should have Baclava May 2020 #23
Hitchcock, of course...with all of us hanging onto George Washington's nose... First Speaker May 2020 #21
We could be hanging on to the Statue of Liberty by our fingernails. milestogo May 2020 #28
Jim Jones and everybody destroys themselves in the end. shockey80 May 2020 #24
I wish Russ Meyers would show up and take over. Midnight Writer May 2020 #29
Terry Gilliam. You can take your pick from "Twelve Monkeys" muriel_volestrangler May 2020 #30
George Romero maveric May 2020 #31
Tom Six LeftInTX May 2020 #34
George Romero. Buckeye_Democrat May 2020 #35
Stanley Kubrick Trailrider1951 May 2020 #36
This is true. milestogo May 2020 #41
David Cronenberg PlanetBev May 2020 #39
Taika Waititi Initech May 2020 #40

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)
2. Joss Whedon
Tue May 5, 2020, 11:38 AM
May 2020

Victory, with some wry humor, after a serious battles that tests our heroes.
There will be some casualties on our side.

fleur-de-lisa

(14,624 posts)
3. It has to be Ed Wood.
Tue May 5, 2020, 11:38 AM
May 2020

He was known for sexploitation, "campy aesthetics, technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, ill-fitting stock footage, eccentric casts, idiosyncratic stories, and non sequitur dialogue."

TlalocW

(15,381 posts)
4. Spielberg
Tue May 5, 2020, 11:39 AM
May 2020

In between looking to things far off in the distance and having daddy issues, there are a lot of bright lights.

TlalocW

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
7. I'm beginning to worry that the screenplay is written by
Tue May 5, 2020, 11:41 AM
May 2020

Cormac McCarthy and that it ends like Blood Meridian, with an epilogue of somebody far in the future wandering through the dust of a lost civilization wondering what the hell happened here.

C_U_L8R

(45,002 posts)
9. Please let it not be Aronofsky or Von Trier - we'll be bored and depressed
Tue May 5, 2020, 11:43 AM
May 2020

Let's keep things weird with Tim Burton or David Lynch.
And the Preening Orange Bloviator would fit right in with either style.

Ends with a splat.

global1

(25,246 posts)
10. Mark Burnett - And Before It Ends.....
Tue May 5, 2020, 11:50 AM
May 2020

first we'll have a season of 'Celebrity Pandemic' hosted by Arnold Schwarenegger.

It will be panned by the critics and Trump because cases and deaths will be down considerably and finally the news channels will be covering other news besides virus tallies.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
13. That's a good one.
Tue May 5, 2020, 11:54 AM
May 2020

And the good thing about an Irwin Allen movie is that some characters survive. And there's always a hit song somewhere in there sung by Maureen McGovern.

 

Baclava

(12,047 posts)
16. I am the director and I won't spoil the ending but will say the twist will be alien breeding hybrids
Tue May 5, 2020, 11:58 AM
May 2020

experiments MAY be involved

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
21. Hitchcock, of course...with all of us hanging onto George Washington's nose...
Tue May 5, 2020, 12:33 PM
May 2020

...and Trump carving his face into the mountain. He'll wave at us, and say--"well, if you can hang on, you're My Kind Of People. If not"...and he'll shrug...and then the movie will end, with a--ahem--chiffhanger...

muriel_volestrangler

(101,314 posts)
30. Terry Gilliam. You can take your pick from "Twelve Monkeys"
Tue May 5, 2020, 05:24 PM
May 2020

in which a virus wipes out most of humanity, or "Brazil", in which an authoritarian government persuades the masses to keep consuming in the midst of government incompetence and bomb attacks. Plus they torture and drive the hero mad at the end.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
35. George Romero.
Tue May 5, 2020, 06:14 PM
May 2020

With masses of Trump cultists wanting to eat asses like Alex Jones, and cops shooting black guys who peek out their windows.

Trailrider1951

(3,414 posts)
36. Stanley Kubrick
Tue May 5, 2020, 07:26 PM
May 2020

The story is always what you don't expect, and turns a naked eye to the depths to which Human madness can go....it always makes you think, and the ending is always strange and eerie.

PlanetBev

(4,104 posts)
39. David Cronenberg
Wed May 6, 2020, 12:44 AM
May 2020

It ends with giant talking cockroaches becoming the master race, with Donald Trump as their delivery boy.

Initech

(100,069 posts)
40. Taika Waititi
Wed May 6, 2020, 12:48 AM
May 2020

And it ends pretty similar to how Thor: Ragnarok ended. In that it wasn't about stopping Ragnarok - the destruction of Asguard, it was about causing it. And Trump is quite literally the Grandmaster character, except lacking Jeff Goldblum's charm.

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