Hello everyone, I'm Little Z.
Today we come to briefly talk about this new doomsday survival movie "Love and Monsters" released on October 16, Douban score 7.2 points, in the monster film is a good rating (Godzilla is only 7.1 points), this film has a lot of unique monsters, but the body is still a road movie, interested may wish to find resources.
Let's talk about the background of the film, an asteroid is about to hit the earth, countries have launched rockets that blew up the asteroid, the asteroid was blown up, but the compounds in the rocket were scattered in all corners of the earth, mutating all the cold-blooded animals in the world into huge and man-eating monsters, killing 95% of the world's people in one year (depending, this makes me think of the human form of Shaoqian), and the survivors can only hide in the underground shelter and shiver.
How, is the setting of this movie wonderful? When I saw the introduction at the beginning, I couldn't wait to see the scalp-tingling monsters in the film, such as swarms of giant ants, cockroaches larger than tanks, knife-and-gun tianniu, etc., but... None of this happened.
Giant cockroaches are only mentioned in the stick figure at the beginning, saying that these cockroaches are bigger than tanks and difficult to destroy
At the beginning of the film, a giant ant invades the underground shelter where the male protagonist is staying through a pipe, eats one survivor and is killed by other survivors, although I wonder if it is not a swarm of ants, but the mutant monster exists only to lead to the plot - the male protagonist is worried about the safety of his little girlfriend and plans to leave for his girlfriend's base 85 miles away to meet her.
It is introduced in the movie about this ant, which can tear steel after mutation
In the giant ant war, the shortcomings of the male protagonist are also reflected in his own self-deprecation, and he will freeze immediately once he is frightened, which is not a good thing for single survival.
In this way, the male protagonist left the warm and safe underground shelter and began to move towards his girlfriend's beach shelter 85 miles away. The black brother gave him a simple map, but the male protagonist survived underground for seven years, and he had long become a road fool, and he had no choice but to choose a direction at random and start the end-of-day travel of this film.
The first battle after the male protagonist came out, is a mutant giant frog hiding in a small pond in the courtyard, the plot here is actually very strange, once you are frightened, you will freeze and stop, why don't you stop this time, the frog can't see the still creatures?
However, because of this giant frog, the male protagonist also met a companion who accompanied him throughout his journey: a small black dog with human nature.
Comparing the male protagonist with the puppy is really a battle scumbag...
The puppy bit the tongue of the giant frog, and after the giant frog retracted its tongue, it hid in an abandoned bus with the male owner, and it had to be said that the dog was really humane, and would open and close the door.
Compared with the male protagonist, the puppy is more like a protagonist
The male owner rested in the abandoned bus for a night, but also got to know each other with the puppy, the puppy was called boy, and its previous owner left only a red dress and disappeared, and the boy kept the dress carefully. The next day, when the male protagonist planned to continue to move forward, it took the initiative to grab the dress and followed the male protagonist.
In this way, the apocalyptic journey of one man and one dog officially began, and I have to say that the scenes and various details of this film are really good, you can hear the roar of various monsters on the side of the road, see their tentacles, but you can't find the body.
This shot is a bit like I Am Legendary and a bit like Fallout 4
The second battle of the male protagonist is that he accidentally fell into the sandworm nest while traveling with boy.
The walls of the sandworm nest are all holes, and countless sandworms are spying on the male protagonist in the dark, fortunately, they met a passing uncle Yongdu and Xiao Loli who combined to save the male protagonist.
The male protagonist told Uncle Yongdu about his own things, and the uncle's first reaction was, did you leave the shelter because you stole food? (This is a small foreshadowing)
The male protagonist saw the combat strength of these two people MAX, naturally wanted to hold the thigh, under his request, the uncle agreed to let him follow before parting ways.
Uncle they are going to the snowy mountains in the north, because cold-blooded animals are more afraid of cold than thermostatic animals
With these two experienced survival guides, the male protagonist gradually grew up under their guidance, gradually growing from a clueless logistician to a survival experienced monster hunter.
In terms of teaching, the first is that Lori teaches the male protagonist how to use a homemade crossbow to shoot the target, Lori's father is the best sniper in another survivor base, and the uncle's son and Xiao Lori's father are both killed in an operation, which also causes the uncle and the little Lori to be able to rely on each other.
The uncle gave the male protagonist the most critical survival skills.
First: reconnaissance intelligence
Second: Eat and sleep at the same time
Third: Don't take shortcuts
The rest is not shown in the movie, but they are some life-saving tips, such as practicing bows and arrows every day, ensuring that your clothes are dry, and you can't eat things in the wild, but some plants can be used to detoxify snake venom or slugs.
Before the separation, the uncle also told the male protagonist a message, before he fell into the sand wormhole is basically a worker worm, the real terrible thing is the worm queen, no matter when to avoid her as much as possible.
In the end, the male protagonist and uncle Lori parted ways at the crossroads, and then he ushered in the first battle after learning so much knowledge, fighting the mutant centipede in the abandoned amusement park.
However, even if the uncle and Little Lori taught more, after all, it was only on paper and there was no actual battle, and the male protagonist was directly hit by the centipede tail and flew to the ground, but the centipede seemed to have little interest in the male protagonist, but surrounded the big yellow duck in the amusement park and wanted to eat the boy of the male protagonist hiding under the big yellow duck.
The male protagonist who was knocked to the ground on the side remembered the despair of watching his parents being trampled by the monster before, and suddenly his heart was burning with anger, and he had the courage to stand up with a bow, but he did not expect that the mutant centipede that looked huge and terrible in front of him was actually just a flower shelf, and was directly killed by the male protagonist's two arrows.
This centipede is really strong in the middle of the outside...
In the next day, the male protagonist met an intelligent robot with less than an hour of electricity left, he accompanied the intelligent robot to complete the last journey of his life, and also watched the beautiful jellyfish rain together, this section I think is the most beautiful scene in this film, jellyfish are scattered in the air like fireflies, and the beauty is suffocating.
The next day, after burying the robot that ran out of batteries, the male protagonist also encountered his second battle, the terrible insect queen in the mouth of the uncle.
Fortunately, the insect queen's eyesight is very poor, can only rely on the mutated tentacles and their own exposed fins on the ground to feel the prey, originally escaped this wave of male protagonists but found that the boy's former owner's red dress fell into the water, boy did not go far after the insect, rushed over to try to grab back the dress, but directly alarmed the queen of the insect. At the moment of crisis, the male protagonist thought of the uncle giving him a grenade, and threw the grenade into the mouth of the insect queen in the instant that the insect queen drilled out, directly blowing up the terrible insect queen to pieces.
To be honest, the male protagonist's aura is seriously a bit excessive
After the insect queen was blown up, the male protagonist was shocked into the pool by the aftermath of the explosion, and he found that there were mutant slugs everywhere on his body, he spent half a day to remove these things, but the body had been injected with paralyzing venom by the slugs, fortunately, the uncle had taught him where the detoxification herb was before, after eating the detoxification herb, he was not far from the base where the female protagonist was located, and he saw his girlfriend before he was unconscious.
Waking up in his girlfriend's shelter, he found that the shelter was full of elderly people who needed to be taken care of, and because he and his girlfriend had not seen each other for seven years, the girlfriend had already transferred to the relationship, which made him feel lost. At this time, a yacht captain appeared, claiming to be able to take them out of here, and the girlfriend unabashedly showed her admiration for the captain, making the already devastated male protagonist feel that he had lost everything in an instant.
When the battered male protagonist was bored at night and looked at the map, he found that the best thing for him was the people in the previous base, and he regretted that he had left them because of blind love.
It was here that an old man in the shelter sent a plate of fruit to the male owner according to the meaning of the cruise ship captain, the male owner was just about to eat, suddenly found that this fruit had been marked as dangerous food by himself, feeling that the captain had bad intentions, he hurriedly wanted to tell his girlfriend, but was knocked unconscious by the captain's hand.
When he wakes up, he finds himself tied up with everyone in the shelter, and the captain reveals his true colors—he is not a kind captain who is passing by, but a thief who makes a living by plundering the survivor base—and the existence that all survivors hate the most.
He chained a mutant crab of about ten tons, tortured it with an electric current, coerced the crab to help them pull the cruise ship, and whenever he had plundered a base, he would feed everyone in the base to the crabs and continue looking for the next target.
In the end, the boss war began, the male protagonist is no longer the fledgling rookie, he and this big crab fight back and forth, knowing that he has been deceived by the heroine also took up arms, disturbing the attention of the trio of thieves. In the end, after she hit the cannon in the hands of the female villain, she threw the cannon barrel to the male protagonist in the hope that the male protagonist would kill the crab.
However, the male protagonist suddenly thought that the uncle had taught him that not all mutated monsters in this world were hostile, and he had seen no hostile spirit stone snails during his journey with the uncle, not only did not attack them but also inadvertently helped them disturb the trackers.
What's more, killing this crab now still can't stop those thieves from escaping, and he also sees a little helplessness and fear in the crab's eyes.
At this moment, the male protagonist saw the chain that bound the crab, he hesitated slightly, or used the shell to break the crab's shackles, the free crab released the male protagonist, rushed to the yacht impatiently, swallowed the villain trio into the belly, and then quietly left.
After this battle, the male protagonist still left the female protagonist and returned to his previous base, he taught the base people to come out of the underground, passed on his experience and gains in this journey to them, and called on all the people hiding in the house to come out, always hiding is not the solution, to face these monsters, distinguish which enemies are, in order to survive better.
And the pair of uncles who taught the male protagonist experience, Xiao Lolita, settled down on the snowy mountain, and the film ended here.
To be honest, the highlight of this film is this worldview, in today's common apocalyptic worldview of natural disasters, zombies, and radiation, this film uses the gimmick of cold-blooded animal mutation to lead to a wonderful wasteland world. The disadvantages are also obvious, the protagonist's aura of the male protagonist is too heavy, but it seems that the other monsters in this film are a bit like the scum of the war, and the monsters with strong combat power mentioned at the beginning basically do not appear.
If nothing else, even if there is a large swarm of insects in the film, but most of the time in this film, I can only see the male protagonist running away in the roar of the monster, but he can't see the monster at all, which once made me think that it was the reason for insufficient funding...
However, as a monster film that tends to a light-hearted and humorous style, this film is still worth watching. There are small humor in many places in the film, such as the beginning when the male protagonist planned to leave the base when the base personnel wanted to leave him, and after half a day of lip but did not know what the meaning of the male protagonist stayed was, similar to this cold humor, there are many places in the whole film, and there is a happy atmosphere everywhere.
Although the humor is a bit cold, the atmosphere is still enough
Of course, the main mutant boss special effects in this film are still leveraged, which can be assured, although it is not as good as the top monster films such as "Godzilla" and "King Kong", but this film is still worth watching in general, if you are interested, you may wish to find resources ~