Comments on: Mutants (2009)

By: fish eye no miko

fish eye no miko — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:29:52 +0000

Iggy Pop’s Brother Steve Pop said: “Mutations are something you’re born with, not something you acquire.”

Yeah, I was watching this show on Animal Planet where they showed odd animal mutations (mostly animals with too many heads or legs) and they showed a dog with no back legs… because they’d been removed do to some problem the poor dog had had. Uh, that’s not a mutation, guys…

By: Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:51:34 +0000

I think it was that the sugar additive infected a viral agent, making a “mutated” virus which did all the damage.

Or maybe they really wanted to name the movie “Mutagenics.”

By: Iggy Pop's Brother Steve Pop

Iggy Pop's Brother Steve Pop — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:47:26 +0000

And, naturally, judging from the description, there are no mutants in the movie “Mutants.” Mutations are something you’re born with, not something you acquire.

By: fish eye no miko

fish eye no miko — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:17:27 +0000

I agree with Felicity about an evil sugar company (this is a movie after all), but I lose it with the whole, “more addictive than cocaine and caffeine combined” thing. Why does everything in movies have to be some ridiculous superlative? The monsters always have to be bigger (cuz, you know, a 50-foot snake just isn’t scary enough! It has to be 100 feet!), the drugs always have to be waaay more addictive, etc., etc. Bleh…

By: Felicity

Felicity — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:33:16 +0000

For the sake of a movie, I could believe that a sugar company invented a new kind of sugar that makes sweet food more addictive, and that their profit would come from consumers becoming addicted to foods that have that sugar, without knowing it was an addiction rather than just a food that tasted good, and without knowing that the sugar was the key ingredient. Only the company making the food containing the sugar would need to know that the sugar was the driving factor. The sugar company could open a doughnut store somewhere and give away samples on their first day, and within short order they’d have recovered their overhead.

I also love Michael Ironside (he’s my country’s Jack Nicholson!) and am glad he gets work even if it’s a movie I wouldn’t watch. It’s especially nice when he gets to be a good guy, like in /Neon City/.

By: David Lee Ingersoll

David Lee Ingersoll — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:10:24 +0000

Dear low budget film makers -

Please do not put “blow stuff up” into your script if you can’t actually afford to blow something up. Really. CGIing in an explosion is not “blowing stuff up”. The folks behind “Chill” did that and it only made the film that much worse.

Thank you.