![]() ![]() For all its grade school-level production flourishes, cardboard performances, narrative lapses, and continuity errors (Wood quite literally gives new meaning to the phrase “day for night”), Plan 9 stands as a testament to sincerity run amok, and as a passionate display of artistic limitations, it’s as glorious as it is flabbergasting. In this case, however, talent didn’t necessarily precipitate industriousness, just as quality didn’t precipitate the film’s lasting appeal. Even in the strictest sense of the term, Wood was an auteur, writing, producing, and directing his own original works in the face of even his own blatant lack of talent. It wouldn’t have “worked” and certainly wouldn’t have endured if Wood hadn’t believed that this was some sort of monument to high art, and it’s this earnestness which has turned Plan 9 into one of the quintessential American cult films.īut do we love it because of its grand ineptitude or because it speaks, at some level, to our ingrained sense of entertainment? There are any number of films to equal it in flagrant incompetence alone, but Plan 9, despite its (sometimes literal) flimsiness, retains its off-center artistry through Wood’s uncommon devotion to his material. It not only embraced all the questionable tropes that we consistently forgive with regard to genre consideration nowadays, but made an unintentional mockery of every last one of them. It’s become nothing less than a rite of passage for anyone even remotely interested in science fiction, horror, or B-movie lore. Wood Jr.’s Plan 9 from Outer Space is something of a sacred text. Of course, not everything is worthy of such consideration, and if anything our contemporary landscape has produced more objectively irredeemable garbage than any in history, but eventually anyone with even a modicum of stock in pop culture is forced into at least recognizing the unconsciously amateurish work that laid the groundwork for our current state of acceptance. At what point, then, did we collectively admit that shitty things and, by extension, shitty people doing shitty things to one another in front of camera, could be something of an art form unto itself? Without a durational degree of separation we’re left to gravitate toward what intrinsically appeals to us, I suppose, but at some point in the last decade it’s become ever more rare to find the high- and low-brow arts relegated to their own corners of the critical conversation it’s just as common to see the latest Sacha Baron Cohen character battle it out with the newest Lars von Trier antihero for top-10-list real estate. We’ve experienced the Screams and the Grindhouses, the Joaquin Phoenix meta-meltdowns, and the Banksy art-circuit brainwashings-not to mention the entirety of the reality-television industry. If you disagree with me feel free to comment as I know a number of things I said are controversial and creates a discussion.In the post-irony era, the term “guilty pleasure” has become one of the most loaded phrases in our everyday entertainment vernacular. And second they can have such a huge growth debuff after resurrection that you would be better off spawning and growing a new dino. Have a large cooldown to resurrect a dino it can be a 2 or 3 days but it just needs to make a opening for small players to grow. Now for resurrection they can do two of these things. Also maybe make trope better at baby snatching so it still has a niche. Also instead of making wing beat deal injury damage it can deal something similar to a stun. This will discourage players from persistance hunting dinos. First of all they can make trope more fragile to wing tear. I think that there is a easy way to fix both problems. ![]() This feature makes death meaningless and now big dinos are gonna stay big forever. But now that does not matter because of resurrection. A group of tropes at most should be able to kill a full grown meg. ![]() Also they are so easy to grow and the only thing that will kill you is another trope or pt. A group of them can take down rexes and acros and I believe tropes are partly too blame for herbs growing too big. I believe a lot of people agree with me on this. ![]()
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