Watch Out, Filmmakers! The End of the World is Scary!

Hey, have you ever thought why movies commit mayhem Planet Earth so often? Lisa Kennedy of The Denver Post did, and not only could she not understand why, but she concluded that doing so was very unethical because it's scary. If you can't help but relish or understand the War Against the Machines, she begs you to at least think of the children: "Even films pitched to the kids aren't safe. A lavish exploit sequence in the enjoyable 3-D spectacle Monsters vs. Aliens gleefully wrecks the Golden Gate Bridge. As precious as it is next to critics, the opening scenes in WALL-E of an uninhabitable metropolis suggest filmmakers don't think hard enough near the impact visions of apocalyptic or post-cataclysmic landscapes might have on developing imaginations. Too often, they're feeding the pleasures of their own inner kid or teen."You know, holler me rash but I think Andrew Stanton in actuality really thought near that opening sequence. I swear next to he may have had a specific meaning in mind, something along the lines of "if you keep throwing away stuff, you'll eventually run out of room." I even think he handled it relatively gently next to introducing a dancing robot. No? He was all near flaunting his CGI skills? My education ESN 'educationally subnormal'. Sorry kids, here's a new toy to numb your emotional trauma. Throw it away when you're bored. No, trash doesn't pile up -- it turns into rainbows!I'll freely grant that disaster movies can make annihilation pretty insipid, but complaining that Watchmen or WALL-E is irresponsible for showing devastation not only misses the point, but suggests someone is determined to live in a fluffy deception where landfills don't even exist (let singular fill up!) and weapons shower us with lollipops instead of radiation poisoning. Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Newsstand, Fan RantContinue reading Watch Out, Filmmakers! The End of the World is Scary!