Movie review: The Great Wall
We didn't plan to see The Great Wall. We actually intended to see Get Out, but owing to an unfortunate accident with a parallax time distortion unit and a group of Brazilian terrorists, we ended up in the theater a week early. The only movie that had not yet started playing was The Great Wall, starring a bunch of CG space aliens, Willem Dafoe as John Hurt doing an impression of Keanu Reeves, Matt Damon as Matt Damon, and Tian Jing as an archer-specialized player character from Skyrim.
Seriously, tell me this isn't glass armor from Skyrim.
So, with some trepidation, we ventured into the theater, expectations and parallax time distortion unit appropriately recalibrated.
The movie goes something like this:
MATT DAMON: The Chinese have the secret of black powder. We do not. Let us venture to China and steal black powder from the Chinese.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: Wait, what? If they have black powder and we don't, doesn't that mean they have better weapons than we do, thus making stealing from their military kind of a bad idea?
MATT DAMON: That's why we brought expendable extras with us. Plus, I have a magnet.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: Why do you have a magnet?
MATT DAMON: Because unlike you, I read the script.
EXPENDABLE EXTRAS: Hang on, back up a second. What was that part about expendable--
CG SPACE ALIENS come out of NOWHERE and kill the EXPENDABLE EXTRAS.
MATT DAMON: Matt Damon!
MATT DAMON and MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK kill a CG SPACE ALIEN and chop off its ARM
MATT DAMON: Let's take that arm with us.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: Wait, what? Why?
MATT DAMON: Because it's a CG space alien's arm, of course!
Arr! Spoilers be down below!
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: Hey Matt Damon, we're being chased by mounted nomadic warriors! We should run away!
They RUN AWAY and discover a GIANT WALL with a whole bunch of ANGRY CHINESE ARCHERS atop it
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: I think we should surrender.
MATT DAMON: I have a better idea. We should surrender.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: Ah. this is going to be one of those movies, isn't it?
MATT DAMON: Yes. Yes, it is.
They are taken before the HIGH COMMANDER and INTERROGATED. WILLEM DAFOE quietly LURKS in the BACKGROUND.
MATT DAMON: Look! We have a space alien arm!
HIGH COMMANDER: Your space alien arm impresses us, Matt Damon. I will put you in a prison cell.
RANDOM SOLDIER DUDE: I can't find the key to the cell.
HIGH COMMANDER'S UNDERLING: Put the prisoners on top of the wall instead, because that totally makes sense.
SPACE ALIENS attack the WALL. ARCHERS FROM SKYRIM jump off the WALL on BUNGEE CORDS to SHOOT and STAB the SPACE ALIENS because that makes TOTAL SENSE and it is TOTALLY how you defend a WALL from attackers who have NO PROJECTILE WEAPONS. WILLEM DAFOE quietly MUNCHES SCENERY in the BACKGROUND.
MATT DAMON: Space aliens are attacking the wall! Matt Damon's sidekick, grab a red cloak and go all bullfighter on them while I shoot them with trick shots using my bow!
LEGOLAS: Eh, I've seen better.
ALIEN QUEEN: Oh shit, there are white people up on top of the wall! Retreat! Retreat!
They have a VICTORY CELEBRATION. The CHINESE MILITARY taunts MATT DAMON for his BOW.
MATT DAMON: Watch as I do some complicated trick shots with my bow.
MATT DAMON does some COMPLICATED TRICK SHOTS with his BOW and manages not to PUT HIS EYE OUT or ANYTHING.
HIGH COMMANDER: Your complicated trick shot with a bow impresses us, Matt Damon.
LEGOLAS: Eh, I've seen better.
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Matt Damon, you should put on a bungee cord and jump off the wall.
MATT DAMON: Why?
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: To show that you trust us.
MATT DAMON: Well, first of all, I don't trust you. Second of all, this is the most inane strategy I've ever heard of for defending a fortification.
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: What's wrong with it?
MATT DAMON: ...
MATT DAMON: So you have a wall...
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Right.
MATT DAMON: And you have blades on the wall and trebuchet and archers and all kinds of stuff.
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Uh-huh.
MATT DAMON: So you just stand up on the wall and shoot the space aliens. And drop things on them. Like rocks. Or hell, I don't know, like bombs, since you have explosives and stuff.
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: But they climb the wall!
MATT DAMON: So build an overhang at the top! With doors in the floor that you can shoot and drop bombs through and stuff!
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: ...
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Nope, not getting it.
MATT DAMON: You guys suck at walls. The whole point of a fortification is to deny your opponents access to a piece of land without needing to engage them in hand to hand combat. When you really think about it...
The dialog WEDGES
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: This dialog sucks. I'm outta here.
WILLEM DAFOE: You came here to steal black powder?
MATT DAMON: Yes, we did.
WILLEM DAFOE: I, too, came here to steal black powder. I have devised a cunning plan. I have hidden supplies and weapons all along the road and I have made preparations to steal the black powder from the armory. When the space aliens attack, we can be on our way.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: If you've done all this preparation, why didn't you steal the black powder and run away like, ten years ago?
WILLEM DAFOE: Because I've been waiting for Matt Damon.
MATT DAMON: Ah, right, of course.
HIGH COMMANDER: You have a magnet. That is how you killed the space alien at the beginning of this movie.
MATT DAMON: How do you know?
HIGH COMMANDER: The legends speak of a time when the Emperor was cruel and wicked, so the space aliens came to punish him. Now, every sixty years, the space aliens come out of hiding in the mountains and roam the earth for food.
MATT DAMON: Wait, what? A large number of organized, highly aggressive, large predators only come out once every sixty years? How does that ecosystem make any sense at all?
HIGH COMMANDER: It worked for Pitch Black, didn't it?
VIN DIESEL: Hey, leave me out of this. My movie rocked.
A SPACE ALIEN starts rampaging on the WALL in the middle of the NIGHT
HIGH COMMANDER: Quickly! We must kill the space alien!
A SECOND SPACE ALIEN comes up BEHIND THEM and ATTACKS
HIGH COMMANDER: Clever girl.
The HIGH COMMANDER DIES
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Now I am in charge!
MATT DAMON: Great. We should capture a space alien.
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Did you not just hear me? I said I am in charge!
MATT DAMON: Yeah, yeah, whatever. Okay, so what we'll do is we'll make some alien tranquilizer--
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: I am in charge. Also, how on earth would we know anything about alien physiology or biochemistry? What makes you think a tranquilizer--
MATT DAMON: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then we'll put the alien tranquilizer on harpoons, see. And we stab the harpoons into the aliens and use the magnet to keep them from fighting back! And then we put them in a cage!
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: We have never before thought of using harpoons, capturing aliens, or using magnets. Fortunately, we happen to have a whole bunch of harpoons and alien tranquilizer just lying around, even though this idea is completely new to us and we've never even considered it before. And look, there's an alien-sized cage just lying here! Also, even though we learned that magnets incapacitate aliens hundreds of years ago, we have never considered using magnets in any of our fortifications or defenses because of reasons. It's a good thing you came by to save us, Matt Damon! Also, I'm being so sincere right now. No, really, I am. Sarcasm is not known to my people.
A FOG rolls in. The aliens ATTACK. MATT DAMON jumps off the WALL on a BUNGEE CORD to fight tranquilized aliens HAND TO HAND instead of just waiting for the TRANQUILIZER to work
MATT DAMON: I have captured a space alien!
The PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM opens a DOOR in the bottom of the WALL and they come out and get the CAPTURED SPACE ALIEN
MATT DAMON: Wait, what? You have a door at the bottom of the wall? Then how come I jumped off the top of the wall on a bungee cord like a dumbass?
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: You didn't ask. I do not think you came here to save us. I think you came hear to steal our black powder.
MATT DAMON: ...
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: I can't tell who's worse, us or the space aliens. At least you don't see them screwing each other for a percentage of the profit.
RIPLEY: That's my line.
BURKE: Go for the black powder! Do it! Do it!
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: The next time the aliens come, you and I and Willem Dafoe should steal the black powder and run away.
MATT DAMON: That's a terrible idea.
BURKE: No, that's an awesome idea!
MATT DAMON: I am the hero of this movie. Stealing and running away isn't very heroic.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: You're a loser snowflake cuck.
The SOLDIERS find a TUNNEL that has been dug through the WALL
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: The space aliens have dug a tunnel through the wall! Now they will destroy the world, just like the creatures in Pitch Black, which was a much better movie!
MATT DAMON: You guys really don't understand static defenses, do you?
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: Willem Dafoe and I have blown the door off the armory and stolen the black powder. Come with us!
MATT DAMON: No.
WILLEM DAFOE: Wait, what? Why?
MATT DAMON: Because unlike you, I have read the script.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: You're a loser snowflake cuck. I am going to write SUCH an angry tweet about you.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK knocks out MATT DAMON and writes SUCH AN ANGRY TWEET. WILLEM DAFOE and MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK ride off with the BLACK POWDER
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Matt Damon, your friends have stolen the black powder and run away.I will put you in a cell, since we have finally found the key. Also, we will now get onto hot air balloons which have failed all of our tests and fly to the capital, where we have shipped the captured space alien in a cage. Let us be off.
They get into HOT AIR BALLOONS that have FAILED ALL THE TESTS. The NON-PLAYER CHARACTERS all PLUMMET TO THEIR HORRIBLE DEATHS. The BALLOONS bearing MAJOR CHARACTERS all WORK JUST FINE.
WILLEM DAFOE: Go walk up that hill and see where we are. I promise not to steal your horse and all your supplies and ride off into the desert, leaving you stranded.
MATT DMON'S SIDEKICK: Okay.
WILLEM DAFOE steals the HORSE and ALL THE SUPPLIES and rides off into the DESERT, leaving MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK STRANDED
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: You promised!
WILLEM DAFOE: Ha! I had my fingers crossed!
WILLEM DAFOE is captured by RAIDERS and tied up next to the BONFIRE. The RAIDERS start PLAYING with the BLACK POWDER next to the BONFIRE
WILLEM DAFOE: Oh sh--
WILLEM DAFOE, the RAIDERS, and EVERYONE WITHIN A MILE are blown SKY-HIGH by the BLACK POWDER
MATT DAMON: I will get on a balloon and ride it to the capital city and kill the queen space alien.
CHINESE NERD: Aren't you afraid the balloon will blow up and send you plummeting to your gruesome death?
MATT DAMON: I am not a non-player character.
CHINESE NERD: I'm riding with you.
They FLY to the CAPITAL CITY. The SPACE ALIENS are RAMPAGING
CHINESE NERD: We can cover the captured space alien with bombs and let it go! When it goes to the queen it will blow her up!
MATT DAMON: See, that's what I'm talking about. This is why nerds rule the world.
They cover the CAPTURED SPACE ALIEN with BOMBS and let it GO. It heads straight to the QUEEN
CHINESE NERD: Okay, now shoot it with a flaming arrow to set off the bombs!
MATT DAMON: ...
MATT DAMON: What the...
MATT DAMON: Are you fucking serious?
MATT DAMON: You couldn't have put a timer on them?
CHINESE NERD: Do what where?
MATT DAMON: A timer! Like a slow-burning charge...
CHINESE NERD: ...
MATT DAMON: ...a glass envelope with a starter charge in it that ignites when the queen bites down, a chemical delay fuse...
CHINESE NERD: ...
MATT DAMON: Anything? Anything?
CHINESE NERD: Nope, not getting it.
MATT DAMON SIGHS
MATT DAMON: Okay, I will go up this tower and make a daring trick arrow shot that will save the world.
MATT DAMON makes a DARING TRICK ARROW SHOT that MISSES. The world is not SAVED
LEGOLAS: Loser!
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Okay, I will go up this tower and make a daring trick arrow shot that will save the world.
The PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM makes a DARING TRICK ARROW SHOT that BLOWS UP THE QUEEN. The world is SAVED
LEGOLAS: Eh, I've seen better.
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Matt Damon, we have captured your sidekick wandering alone in the desert without a horse or supplies. You can take him with you or you can take black powder with you. Your choice.
MATT DAMON: I choose Matt Damon's Sidekick.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: It's like I don't even know you any more!
PADME: That's my line! It's pretty awful, though. You can have it if you want.
PADME dies of CONSUMPTION
The movie ENDS
Seriously, tell me this isn't glass armor from Skyrim.
So, with some trepidation, we ventured into the theater, expectations and parallax time distortion unit appropriately recalibrated.
The movie goes something like this:
MATT DAMON: The Chinese have the secret of black powder. We do not. Let us venture to China and steal black powder from the Chinese.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: Wait, what? If they have black powder and we don't, doesn't that mean they have better weapons than we do, thus making stealing from their military kind of a bad idea?
MATT DAMON: That's why we brought expendable extras with us. Plus, I have a magnet.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: Why do you have a magnet?
MATT DAMON: Because unlike you, I read the script.
EXPENDABLE EXTRAS: Hang on, back up a second. What was that part about expendable--
CG SPACE ALIENS come out of NOWHERE and kill the EXPENDABLE EXTRAS.
MATT DAMON: Matt Damon!
MATT DAMON and MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK kill a CG SPACE ALIEN and chop off its ARM
MATT DAMON: Let's take that arm with us.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: Wait, what? Why?
MATT DAMON: Because it's a CG space alien's arm, of course!
Arr! Spoilers be down below!
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: Hey Matt Damon, we're being chased by mounted nomadic warriors! We should run away!
They RUN AWAY and discover a GIANT WALL with a whole bunch of ANGRY CHINESE ARCHERS atop it
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: I think we should surrender.
MATT DAMON: I have a better idea. We should surrender.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: Ah. this is going to be one of those movies, isn't it?
MATT DAMON: Yes. Yes, it is.
They are taken before the HIGH COMMANDER and INTERROGATED. WILLEM DAFOE quietly LURKS in the BACKGROUND.
MATT DAMON: Look! We have a space alien arm!
HIGH COMMANDER: Your space alien arm impresses us, Matt Damon. I will put you in a prison cell.
RANDOM SOLDIER DUDE: I can't find the key to the cell.
HIGH COMMANDER'S UNDERLING: Put the prisoners on top of the wall instead, because that totally makes sense.
SPACE ALIENS attack the WALL. ARCHERS FROM SKYRIM jump off the WALL on BUNGEE CORDS to SHOOT and STAB the SPACE ALIENS because that makes TOTAL SENSE and it is TOTALLY how you defend a WALL from attackers who have NO PROJECTILE WEAPONS. WILLEM DAFOE quietly MUNCHES SCENERY in the BACKGROUND.
MATT DAMON: Space aliens are attacking the wall! Matt Damon's sidekick, grab a red cloak and go all bullfighter on them while I shoot them with trick shots using my bow!
LEGOLAS: Eh, I've seen better.
ALIEN QUEEN: Oh shit, there are white people up on top of the wall! Retreat! Retreat!
They have a VICTORY CELEBRATION. The CHINESE MILITARY taunts MATT DAMON for his BOW.
MATT DAMON: Watch as I do some complicated trick shots with my bow.
MATT DAMON does some COMPLICATED TRICK SHOTS with his BOW and manages not to PUT HIS EYE OUT or ANYTHING.
HIGH COMMANDER: Your complicated trick shot with a bow impresses us, Matt Damon.
LEGOLAS: Eh, I've seen better.
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Matt Damon, you should put on a bungee cord and jump off the wall.
MATT DAMON: Why?
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: To show that you trust us.
MATT DAMON: Well, first of all, I don't trust you. Second of all, this is the most inane strategy I've ever heard of for defending a fortification.
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: What's wrong with it?
MATT DAMON: ...
MATT DAMON: So you have a wall...
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Right.
MATT DAMON: And you have blades on the wall and trebuchet and archers and all kinds of stuff.
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Uh-huh.
MATT DAMON: So you just stand up on the wall and shoot the space aliens. And drop things on them. Like rocks. Or hell, I don't know, like bombs, since you have explosives and stuff.
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: But they climb the wall!
MATT DAMON: So build an overhang at the top! With doors in the floor that you can shoot and drop bombs through and stuff!
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: ...
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Nope, not getting it.
MATT DAMON: You guys suck at walls. The whole point of a fortification is to deny your opponents access to a piece of land without needing to engage them in hand to hand combat. When you really think about it...
The dialog WEDGES
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: This dialog sucks. I'm outta here.
WILLEM DAFOE: You came here to steal black powder?
MATT DAMON: Yes, we did.
WILLEM DAFOE: I, too, came here to steal black powder. I have devised a cunning plan. I have hidden supplies and weapons all along the road and I have made preparations to steal the black powder from the armory. When the space aliens attack, we can be on our way.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: If you've done all this preparation, why didn't you steal the black powder and run away like, ten years ago?
WILLEM DAFOE: Because I've been waiting for Matt Damon.
MATT DAMON: Ah, right, of course.
HIGH COMMANDER: You have a magnet. That is how you killed the space alien at the beginning of this movie.
MATT DAMON: How do you know?
HIGH COMMANDER: The legends speak of a time when the Emperor was cruel and wicked, so the space aliens came to punish him. Now, every sixty years, the space aliens come out of hiding in the mountains and roam the earth for food.
MATT DAMON: Wait, what? A large number of organized, highly aggressive, large predators only come out once every sixty years? How does that ecosystem make any sense at all?
HIGH COMMANDER: It worked for Pitch Black, didn't it?
VIN DIESEL: Hey, leave me out of this. My movie rocked.
A SPACE ALIEN starts rampaging on the WALL in the middle of the NIGHT
HIGH COMMANDER: Quickly! We must kill the space alien!
A SECOND SPACE ALIEN comes up BEHIND THEM and ATTACKS
HIGH COMMANDER: Clever girl.
The HIGH COMMANDER DIES
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Now I am in charge!
MATT DAMON: Great. We should capture a space alien.
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Did you not just hear me? I said I am in charge!
MATT DAMON: Yeah, yeah, whatever. Okay, so what we'll do is we'll make some alien tranquilizer--
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: I am in charge. Also, how on earth would we know anything about alien physiology or biochemistry? What makes you think a tranquilizer--
MATT DAMON: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then we'll put the alien tranquilizer on harpoons, see. And we stab the harpoons into the aliens and use the magnet to keep them from fighting back! And then we put them in a cage!
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: We have never before thought of using harpoons, capturing aliens, or using magnets. Fortunately, we happen to have a whole bunch of harpoons and alien tranquilizer just lying around, even though this idea is completely new to us and we've never even considered it before. And look, there's an alien-sized cage just lying here! Also, even though we learned that magnets incapacitate aliens hundreds of years ago, we have never considered using magnets in any of our fortifications or defenses because of reasons. It's a good thing you came by to save us, Matt Damon! Also, I'm being so sincere right now. No, really, I am. Sarcasm is not known to my people.
A FOG rolls in. The aliens ATTACK. MATT DAMON jumps off the WALL on a BUNGEE CORD to fight tranquilized aliens HAND TO HAND instead of just waiting for the TRANQUILIZER to work
MATT DAMON: I have captured a space alien!
The PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM opens a DOOR in the bottom of the WALL and they come out and get the CAPTURED SPACE ALIEN
MATT DAMON: Wait, what? You have a door at the bottom of the wall? Then how come I jumped off the top of the wall on a bungee cord like a dumbass?
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: You didn't ask. I do not think you came here to save us. I think you came hear to steal our black powder.
MATT DAMON: ...
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: I can't tell who's worse, us or the space aliens. At least you don't see them screwing each other for a percentage of the profit.
RIPLEY: That's my line.
BURKE: Go for the black powder! Do it! Do it!
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: The next time the aliens come, you and I and Willem Dafoe should steal the black powder and run away.
MATT DAMON: That's a terrible idea.
BURKE: No, that's an awesome idea!
MATT DAMON: I am the hero of this movie. Stealing and running away isn't very heroic.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: You're a loser snowflake cuck.
The SOLDIERS find a TUNNEL that has been dug through the WALL
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: The space aliens have dug a tunnel through the wall! Now they will destroy the world, just like the creatures in Pitch Black, which was a much better movie!
MATT DAMON: You guys really don't understand static defenses, do you?
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: Willem Dafoe and I have blown the door off the armory and stolen the black powder. Come with us!
MATT DAMON: No.
WILLEM DAFOE: Wait, what? Why?
MATT DAMON: Because unlike you, I have read the script.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: You're a loser snowflake cuck. I am going to write SUCH an angry tweet about you.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK knocks out MATT DAMON and writes SUCH AN ANGRY TWEET. WILLEM DAFOE and MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK ride off with the BLACK POWDER
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Matt Damon, your friends have stolen the black powder and run away.I will put you in a cell, since we have finally found the key. Also, we will now get onto hot air balloons which have failed all of our tests and fly to the capital, where we have shipped the captured space alien in a cage. Let us be off.
They get into HOT AIR BALLOONS that have FAILED ALL THE TESTS. The NON-PLAYER CHARACTERS all PLUMMET TO THEIR HORRIBLE DEATHS. The BALLOONS bearing MAJOR CHARACTERS all WORK JUST FINE.
WILLEM DAFOE: Go walk up that hill and see where we are. I promise not to steal your horse and all your supplies and ride off into the desert, leaving you stranded.
MATT DMON'S SIDEKICK: Okay.
WILLEM DAFOE steals the HORSE and ALL THE SUPPLIES and rides off into the DESERT, leaving MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK STRANDED
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: You promised!
WILLEM DAFOE: Ha! I had my fingers crossed!
WILLEM DAFOE is captured by RAIDERS and tied up next to the BONFIRE. The RAIDERS start PLAYING with the BLACK POWDER next to the BONFIRE
WILLEM DAFOE: Oh sh--
WILLEM DAFOE, the RAIDERS, and EVERYONE WITHIN A MILE are blown SKY-HIGH by the BLACK POWDER
MATT DAMON: I will get on a balloon and ride it to the capital city and kill the queen space alien.
CHINESE NERD: Aren't you afraid the balloon will blow up and send you plummeting to your gruesome death?
MATT DAMON: I am not a non-player character.
CHINESE NERD: I'm riding with you.
They FLY to the CAPITAL CITY. The SPACE ALIENS are RAMPAGING
CHINESE NERD: We can cover the captured space alien with bombs and let it go! When it goes to the queen it will blow her up!
MATT DAMON: See, that's what I'm talking about. This is why nerds rule the world.
They cover the CAPTURED SPACE ALIEN with BOMBS and let it GO. It heads straight to the QUEEN
CHINESE NERD: Okay, now shoot it with a flaming arrow to set off the bombs!
MATT DAMON: ...
MATT DAMON: What the...
MATT DAMON: Are you fucking serious?
MATT DAMON: You couldn't have put a timer on them?
CHINESE NERD: Do what where?
MATT DAMON: A timer! Like a slow-burning charge...
CHINESE NERD: ...
MATT DAMON: ...a glass envelope with a starter charge in it that ignites when the queen bites down, a chemical delay fuse...
CHINESE NERD: ...
MATT DAMON: Anything? Anything?
CHINESE NERD: Nope, not getting it.
MATT DAMON SIGHS
MATT DAMON: Okay, I will go up this tower and make a daring trick arrow shot that will save the world.
MATT DAMON makes a DARING TRICK ARROW SHOT that MISSES. The world is not SAVED
LEGOLAS: Loser!
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Okay, I will go up this tower and make a daring trick arrow shot that will save the world.
The PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM makes a DARING TRICK ARROW SHOT that BLOWS UP THE QUEEN. The world is SAVED
LEGOLAS: Eh, I've seen better.
PLAYER CHARACTER FROM SKYRIM: Matt Damon, we have captured your sidekick wandering alone in the desert without a horse or supplies. You can take him with you or you can take black powder with you. Your choice.
MATT DAMON: I choose Matt Damon's Sidekick.
MATT DAMON'S SIDEKICK: It's like I don't even know you any more!
PADME: That's my line! It's pretty awful, though. You can have it if you want.
PADME dies of CONSUMPTION
The movie ENDS