Movie Scene Game #3

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Airplane?

 

That's the one. And don't call me Shirley!

 

A corporate tycoon, upon seeing that his orbital weapons platform has been hijacked by an alien and is firing at his research lab, frets about going bankrupt then decides to sit back and enjoy the show - and asks his chauffeur/bodyguard to make him some popcorn.

 

The Fifth Element ?

 

heh, don't think i've seen this one.

 

No it isn't the Fifth Element.

@ Enagonios - Consider yourself lucky.

 

ah, it's one of those movies eh

 

I don't imagine that anyone else has seen this turkey yet so I guess another hint is in order.

The film was released Tuesday, direct to video, and undoubtedly was produced to cash in on the hype from another film about the same main character that is to be released in a couple weeks.

 

Something to do with UltraViolet?

 

No, nothing to do with UltraViolet.

 

Then perhaps Aeon Flux?

 

Ok - Superman? I don't know the exact name but I heard that a new superman TAS film was coming on DVD. Is it not good then?

Well, I might not be right but fits the hints...

Corporate Tycoon = Lex Luthor
Alien = Superman/Braniac
chauffeur/bodyguard = Mercy Graves

 

Yes, it is the new Superman animated film.

The alien in question was Braniac and not Superman himself although Superman was the intended target of the orbital weapon. Interestingly the orbital weapon was pivoting around 30 degrees to track and fire at Superman who was pretty much stationary at the Luthor Lab. I would expect that level of pivoting from an orbital ray weapon would result in the second shot hitting somewhere in Greenland rather than shifting a few meters away but quite frankly that is a minor sin compared to the film's horrible dialogue.

The film was made to look artistically similar to Superman TAS but it is not part of the same continuity and the characters are written (and in the case of Lex Luthor and Braniac voiced) very differently. Bruce Timm and most of his crew were not involved in the project and quite frankly it shows.

Here is a link to some sound clips from the film. They are almost all really, really bad but the last one was particularly painful. It was spoken by Lex Luthor to Superman. Oh, and the "I am so ... happy" one comes from the scene I was describing. The voice acting on that one is absolutely terrible.

Here are a couple reviews from the same site. I personally agree with Bird Boy's review but the other review is only slightly less hostile towards the film.

When the more favourable review states that the film was "a stain on Superman’s shorts as far as I’m concerned" you kind of get the picture of just how bad it is.

 

Gosh, Blackthorne TA is right - I should have been far more diligent in reviewing that scene.

So I checked it again last night and based upon the positioning of the satelitte relative to the Earth, my best estimate would be that the 30 degree swivel shot should have hit somewhere in Mexico. Amusingly enough the energy weapon swivels right back to its initial position after that shot so apparently Braniac decided to take a break from shooting at Superman and cause some random devestation south of the border.

Interestingly enough, based upon the pattern of fire on the ground scenes I was also able to deduce that the satelitte is apparently capable of moving at tremendous speed (possibly teleportation) and appears to be capable of time travel or some other means of being in two places at the same time. Not only do the beams shift from normally coming in straight vertically to all sort of different angles seemingly at random but it also managed at one point to have two energy beams coming in from two different directions at the same time. It is clearly established that there is only one prototype satelitte and given the angles the damn thing would have to be thousands of kilometers long to manage those two angles at the same time - if it actually had two different energy weapons despite the fact that it clearly appears to be only one.

 

No Clancy Brown either

Ok, new scene

A man is talking over his plans for the evening. By himself. In somebody else's bathroom.

 

Along Came Polly?

 

Nope.

Hint: his entertaining soliloquy includes references to morality, loyalty, self-preservation and err... maturbation.

 

Pulp Fiction?

 

Yeah, it's Pulp Fiction defo.