Stories Should Make Sense

What's the use of writing a story that doesn't make sense? It is a wonder to me that often, Hollywood will make movies that make no sense. From the trailers, I thought Cloud Atlas would make sense. But after seeing it, I was disappointed. Spoiler Alert. It turned out that moguls in the big oil companies wanted to cause a mega disaster that would kill huge amounts of people. What it did was destroy the earth, and throughout the movie, it just didn't make sense. Talk about inhumanity. The story was full of inhumane practices and over the top cruelty. And eventually the earth became  uninhabitable. And to me, none of it made any sense. What I thought was going to be at least an interesting movie with an intriguing concept turned out to be a movie that just plain sucked, and ultimately Cloud Atlas makes my list of all time worst movies ever. That's how bad it was.

World War Z, on the other hand, was exciting and full of action. But I forgot to say one more thing that was a problem for me in yesterday's post about World War Z. They never explained just what caused the zombie problem to begin with. It was just all of a sudden, there were zombies running around. And not your typical zombies that walk around like, well, zombies. No. These zombie were of the variety that could run at full speed like Olympic sprinters. There have been other zombie movies like that, too, and I've always disagreed with that. Zombies, being reanimated dead bodies, should not be Olympic sprinters. And in WWZ, they seemed to be super strong, too. Again, I disagree with that. It's like having vampires that, instead of sunlight being fatal to them, they sparkle. It is changing a fundamental feature of what a creature is supposed to be like. Vampires should not be able to withstand daylight, and  zombies are not athletically gifted.

A good analogy would be making a superman movie where superman is unaffected by green Kryptonite. At least they haven't done that yet.