The Walking Dead: The remnants of humanity try to survive a zombie apocalypse as they pick their way through ruined cites and clogged highways. Twilight, The Hunger Games, The Host, and many more: The female protagonist is involved in a lukewarm love triangle, as she has to choose between two hunky but bland male love interests. The Host: Same thing - squirmy aliens take over human bodies and drive them around.Ģ012, The Day After Tomorrow, San Andreas: Huge natural disasters destroy the world's most famous landmarks Invasion Of The Body Snatchers: Alien pods invade from outer space and replace humans with exact duplicates. The twist is that the kids think they're participating in a simulation, when they're actually killing the aliens for real. Independence Day: Alien ships appear and hover over major cities before wiping them out.Įnder's Game: The military trains kids as soldiers to battle an alien horde. The War Of The Worlds: Alien invaders arrive and being systematically eradicating humanity. Let's run down its various inspirations (potential spoilers ahead): It's like the author was ticking off scenarios from a checklist of other movies. Let's play Spot The Influences! As I said earlier, this is one of the more derivative films I've seen in many a day.I'll leave it to the reader to decide if those cities could really be overrun by waves a hundred feet tall.
London is around fifty miles from the sea, and Bangkok about twenty. Tsunamis can generally travel about ten miles inland (depending on the size of the wave and local topography). Conflict! How can we fight The Others if we're fighting ourselves? A tough, no-nonsense Goth girl called Ringer (Jesus, this nicknames) shows up, determined to overthrow Zombie and become squad leader herself. Meanwhile Ben, er, I mean Zombie, Sam and the other children are being trained to be soldiers. He agrees to help Cassie get to the base to find Ben. He finds her and protects her from an Other who's patrolling the woods for humans. She sneaks out that night and runs into the woods, blundering into one of Evan's traps.
She wants to leave and find Sam, but Evan says it's too dangerous. Her savior is Evan Walker, a twenty five year old "teen" who's also surviving on his own.
She wakes up inside a house, her leg expertly bandaged. He hesitates a few seconds, then presses the button.Ĭassie is foraging along a highway when she's shot in the leg by a sniper. She hands him a remote, telling him to press it and kill The Other. She gives him a special viewer which allows him to see an x-ray image of the parasite inside the boy's skull. She shows him a boy who's been taken over by an Other. Reznik injects Ben, now nicknamed "Zombie" with a tracker in the back of his neck. Sam is there, along with Ben, Cassie's crush. The kids are bused to Camp Haven, a military training facility.
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