"The Day of the Triffids" is one of the most classically-awful sci-fi movies ever. It's based on two premises, the first that watching a meteor shower can blind you and the second being Venus Flytraps could grow to the size of a house, start moving and eating people.
We're really not sure what message to derive from these premises. Is it telling me not to watch meteors and don't feed the flytrap. We really don't know what it says so the movie wins the next award:
Best Daft Message in a Sci-Fi Movie (two of them)
It's also a winner for Most Hopelessly Mis-matched Soundtrack in a Sci-Fi Movie. The giant orchestral production behind people looking at plants may well be the best movie score of all-time. It's not often that music is funny but this is a big win on that.
For the trifecta, there's Best WTF Religious Moment in a Sci-Fi Movie. The movie runs its course and there isn't even a faint mention or hint of any religious theme. There may not have been so much as a picture of a church in the background. In the last scene, it cuts to the survivors who now know they will make it and they walk up the steps together to a church. In the background the narrator says, "And now we have one more reason to give thanks."
Um, ok.
Thanks.
We're really not sure what message to derive from these premises. Is it telling me not to watch meteors and don't feed the flytrap. We really don't know what it says so the movie wins the next award:
Best Daft Message in a Sci-Fi Movie (two of them)
It's also a winner for Most Hopelessly Mis-matched Soundtrack in a Sci-Fi Movie. The giant orchestral production behind people looking at plants may well be the best movie score of all-time. It's not often that music is funny but this is a big win on that.
For the trifecta, there's Best WTF Religious Moment in a Sci-Fi Movie. The movie runs its course and there isn't even a faint mention or hint of any religious theme. There may not have been so much as a picture of a church in the background. In the last scene, it cuts to the survivors who now know they will make it and they walk up the steps together to a church. In the background the narrator says, "And now we have one more reason to give thanks."
Um, ok.
Thanks.
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