If you save one life...it better be the backstory kid

joeranger

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So I watched San Andreas. I knew exactly what kind of movie it was so I actually enjoyed it. I fast forwarded through all the bs backstory stuff and just watched San Fran and LA trying to "come together";)
So why all the bs backstory? Because when millions of people are dying we can celebrate the rescue of the cute kid we saw in the painfully sappy backstory. The latest Jurrassic Park was like that too; 10 minutes of "Oh, no, mom and dad are getting divorced, sorry kids, hope you don't get eaten by dinosaurs"

I think the only time this worked was in Star Trek. Yes, destroy the whole city or planet whatever, just get Khan's blood so we can save Kirk.
With San Andreas, I didn't need some back story to feel a connection to the Rock's daughter.

Google Alexandra Daddario when you can look at NSFW images. Wow. Don't post here!!!

Anyway, what other movies have a fake happy ending? Yeah, we saved one person...millions died...
 
I was introduced to Alexandra Daddario through True Detective and my goodness she is a goddess! I later saw one of the Percy Jackson movies (bleh) and it was weird to see her earlier role in a "kids' movie". Lol!
 
Because the moving going public want to see boobs, explosions, and kids being saved and nothing bad happening. Movies have become so watered down anymore that they have just 2 generic formulas.
 
If you look at the JP movies, all 4 of them have kids with parents that are divorced or getting divorced.
Don't know why they think that has to be in all 4 films. :thumbsdown
 
I rented San Andreas and fast forwarded through all the "backstory" parts. I too thought it wasn't needed. And you know that when it's all over, Mom and Dad will reconcile because of what they did together to save their daughter, Hottie Lookatme, or their smart but quiet and reserved son, Reed Allotabooks.
 
division 6 said:
If you look at the JP movies, all 4 of them have kids with parents that are divorced or getting divorced.
Don't know why they think that has to be in all 4 films. :thumbsdown
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I don't remember Lex and Tim's parents having any sort of marital trouble. They were there because Grandpa invited them.



As for the idea of "save the one" vs "save the world," Fate/stay night (visual novel, not any of the anime adaptations) has some interesting takes on that. In the VN, there are 3 story routes. Fate has 1 ending, Unlimited Blade Works has 2 endings, and Heaven's Feel has 2 endings. The main character of all 3, Shirou, runs on a "must help everyone" ideal, desiring to be a "Hero of Justice." In Fate, it's your standard "this is what I have to do to save the world." In UBW, you start getting into the problems with this ideal [see spoiler #1], and in HF, it just about gets completely thrown out the window [see spoiler #2].

In UBW, you learn Archer's true identity: He's Shirou's future. To gain the power to be able to save people, he became a Counter Guardian for the Earth. So the Earth sent him wherever he had to go, becoming incredibly jaded at everything that he saw and was forced to do, realizing that there was no way for Shirou's ideal to happen. That's why he sought to kill Shirou, to erase his own existence, since he'd fallen so far from his idea.

In HF, the Heroine of the arc, Sakura, is also the villain. She's believed by Rin and others to be beyond help. So Shirou has to choose between the woman he's fallen in love with, or the world, because he can't save both. The endings depend on what he decides, with the True Ending being the closest he can get to both.
 
Was there ever any movie where the kids saved themselves instead of relying on adults to save them? Seriously, the only time I can recall such a movie, it was The Goonies, and that was from the 1980s. But I don't recall much recent films with that.


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CB2001 said:
Was there ever any movie where the kids saved themselves instead of relying on adults to save them? Seriously, the only time I can recall such a movie, it was The Goonies, and that was from the 1980s. But I don't recall much recent films with that.
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There's actually a trope for that.


division 6 said:
It's actually mentioned in the movie that the parents are going through a divorce.
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Huh, I didn't ever notice it. It's apparently in the book, too.
 
The "save the kid" is also overused to create peril and tension. Because it is so overused, we all know the kid will be saved.

I love the Pirates/Caribbean series but it started to get too Disney slapstick. So what do they do to restart the series? Hang a kid in the opening of 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh3lv3ANlCA

Dang. Really sets the tone of the movie. Nobody is safe.
 
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