[b]Shadow in the Cloud.[/b] This is up there. I just remembered another I’ll put after. (Had to use wiki to remember some specific details. Been half a decade.) [spoiler]Sets up to be a mysterious WWII era movie that takes place in a bomber. Starts off with a little slideshow about the superstition of gremlins causing trouble in the air. Now to a crew and their bomber about to take off. A female RAF Officer comes in last minute with orders to transport her to wherever they happen to be going (I think another airfield or US I dunno) and she has a mysterious suitcase with her. OoOoo. Along the way, the lady sees something on the underside of the plane (she’s in the ball turret) but like, who’s gonna believe her. So it’s starting to look like a horror film or something. The crew encounters a Japanese Zero in the clouds (appear and disappear) and the lady gets trapped in the turret and attacked by a gremlin. Like the Zero, it also dips and the crew are able to contact a radio operator -blam!- the Lady is not who she says she is! Before they can do anything, she shoots the Zero out of the sky, and now they’re okay with her. Also she’s American not British. She keeps the suitcase secret though but at this point Im suspecting it may have something to do with the Gremlin. Possibly a baby Gremlin or something yada yada. Eventually the Gremlin’s hijinx and the crew not believing it exists (aside from two of them who have seen it) cause the majority of the crew to blame her for things going wrong. Why? Cause they’re all written like jerks except one guy who is just timid. So they forcibly open the suitcase and… ITS A BABY- oh it’s a human baby… in a suitcase… So turns out she’s a nobody married to an abusive husband and she had an affair (and child) with one of the crew of this bomber. Guess who, yes, the only nice guy onboard. He didn’t know though. So she’s currently running from her husband who wants her dead, maybe. Great. And as we reach the third act, three Zeros attack the bomber and the Gremlin steals the baby. The Gremlin leaves the baby (in satchel) hanging on the bomber wing, so the lady monkey bars across it, ignoring all wind pressure, gets the bad, and bars back in time to pilot the burning bomber to a safe landing. (The pilot was knocked out or something.) meanwhile, everyone except the father and the pilot are either shot by Zeros or that one guy who’s thrown out by the Gremlin. Lady kills the Gremlin when they land. Movie ends with lady (and baby), father, and pilot looking at the burning plane…. Disappointed doesn’t even cover what I felt, I had expectations and they were dashed i think twice. That was betrayal and a waste of time and a potentially interesting premise that then became an average and pointless action thriller with a baby stuck on there. They don’t explain the gremlin, and for some reason this lady can work a turret, land a plane, and monkey bars the wingspan of a in-flight bomber twice, but has to run from her husband? Also didn’t really care about the characters except I guess the pilot cause he didn’t really do anything but fly the plane.[/spoiler] —- [b]Rebel Moon[/b] (part 1 only, cause I never finished or continued it) This is the actual one that replaced [b]SitC[/b] on my list a few years later (and I forgot about cause it was just bad). [spoiler]Started off alright, sniffing dirt was odd but sure I get it (looking again, the actress does not have the arms of a believable ex soldier or farmer..). The village though, it got really weird with smex stuff but whatever, Viking themed I guess. Automatic doors I spotted which was funny. Neat touch. As a dabbler in GamesWorkshop related things, something about it felt very Warhammer-y. Maybe the smoothened Imperial ships, a dead space king, the Commissar uniform though maybe a stretch, [i]”Belisarius”[/i], …Mechanicus Militarum, Warp travel through questionable looking … rift… Plus other franchise things like lightsabers and the Destiny [i][b]Fallen Walker[/b][/i]. And Warfarme’s Mag in promo material. Forgivable really, creativity can be difficult for aspiring directors. But [i]holy sh**[/i] the slow mo is ridiculous. You could choreograph him the perfect fight scene and he could ruin it by making every miss take 4 seconds and every impact 10 seconds just so you don’t miss it. 20 minutes (or was it 10) in and it introduces two allies I know nothing about or care about and they have to find this guy to save their planet but they need a team cause guy is hidden and evil people are trying to kill him and maybe them. Meanwhile main character is a secret high rankingwarorphansoldierdeserter but the personality isn’t there for me. I think the guy was just Saw Guerra from Star Wars… Then straight to the next area where we introduce a character who is stuck there but luckily enough, if you do this seemingly impossible task, new character gets to go with you. And so they ripped off the Griffin taming scene from Prisoner of Azkaban. Not even with another animal, it’s still a Griffin. At this point it’s gonna be a Seven Samurai/round up a team of ragtags kinda plot and dropped it there cause the next area (a forge world) wasn’t very interesting looking and if all that was already half the movie, then the rest is going to be pretty rushed. So yeah. That was spicy scifi slop (obviously PG-13 trying to be R), and extra slow cause Snyder’s the name and wasted/padded out runtime’s the game. And I’m not going to check out the even longer director’s cut, the premise of the film was already boring as is.[/spoiler]