(A movie review of The Ruins)
Clearly these vacationers could've used a little more time in Sunday school. I'd imagine even celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins would loft a prayer to the heavens if he was suddenly confronted by aggressive, carnivorous plants. This crew? Not a peep.
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"Clearly these vacationers could've used a little more time in Sunday school. I'd imagine even celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins would loft a prayer to the heavens if he was suddenly confronted by aggressive, carnivorous plants. This crew? Not a peep."
It's usually a bad idea to have your characters do things that could alienate your audience. Authors in general and Hollywoood in particular are well aware of this even if you're not.
For instance, if the characters suddenly fell to their knees and started imploring the heavens to save their sorry asses I'd lose all interest in the movie. Actually, I'd begin cheering loudly whenever the creature killed one of them off. They'd deserve it for doing something so utterly pointless in such a crisis.
Can't vouch for 'carnivorous', but I have seen RD dealing with highly aggressive humans with the intelligence of plants (if that), and he didn't lose his cool. Ted Haggard, anyone?
EDIT: Just thought - Haggard did 'like his meat'...
I am offended that the vacationers weren't in awe of the majesty of aggressive, carnivorous plants, and did not bow down and worship them for the superior, otherworldly beings that they must surely be! Then they could start a church to their dark leafy overlords, and be periodically and gleefully consumed in order to best serve their masters. They could call their new religion "Christianity," entirely for the lulz. Of course, I think you would take a different outlook on that movie. Count your blessings.
"The existence of people who believe differently than I do is incredible to me!"
This is why these loons even take issue with characters not being Christian in worlds where Christianity does not exist.
You're right. The minute those carnivorous plants appeared, the whole cast should have knelt down, faced Mecca, and pleaded with Allah to deliver them from that horrible situation.
That reminds me of the whole "One man goes fishing by praying to God. Another man places nets".
OH NOES, flesh eating plants, quick let's pray.
*gulp*
Shit, that didn't work, flamethrower would've been better.
Paul Asay would stand there and whine to his invisible friend instead of running away. He would then be eaten, thereby improving the gene pool.
Meanwhile the atheist evolutionists, believing the carnivous plant is related to other plants they are familiar with, would deduce they are susceptible to roundup. Squirt squirt bye bye nasty plant.
Fiction = not real.
Get a life.
Well wouldn't that of been a short movie. Fundies run into carnivorous plants, fundies pray, fundies get eaten.
I'm not paying $15 for a 20 minute movie.
Don't you just love how fundies complain that fictional characters are never Christian enough, especially in a movie that has nothing to do with religion with characters who have no obviously professed religion because it doesn't matter because Jesus Christ there's a fucking carnivorous plant eating us inside out.
You'd think that some of these people would be begging Odin to step in and help.
You'd think that these people would be asking Zeus to chuck a few lightning bolts at these plants.
You'd think these folks would be beseeching Zoroaster for...
etc, etc...
One of my all-time fave movie moments is in the George Pal version of 'War of the Worlds' when the local minister tries to communicate with the Martians and walks forward, praying, and promptly gets disintegrated.
A Christian is walking through the woods when he encounters a bear. He drops to his knees and cries out, "God, please make this bear a Christian, so that it won't harm me!"
most rational people think about survival, namely a good means of ensuring it, when confronted with...err...carnivorous plants. I know it sounds odd, but to people who don't believe in magical sky pixies it never seems pertinent to plea to them.
::facepalm::
No, most people would reach for industrial-strength defoliant, or Napalm -- whichever's handy.
@ Old Viking -- I think you mean aggressive, carnivorous *vegetables*?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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