Throughout the decades, films have given us many evil master plans by movie baddies out to achieve their nefarious goals via elaborate schemes. Some of them are brilliant but sometimes, we witness a scheme that makes absolutely no sense what-so-ever. For every ingenious plan, there’s a poorly thought-out dud of an idea that leaves you wondering if this guy is just begging to fail. Cinelinx looks at 5 movie villain schemes that were self-defeating.
Magneto Comes Up with a Plan That Will Cause the Very Thing He’s Trying To Prevent. In X-Men: Days Of Future Past, everyone’s favorite hirsute, cigar smoking mutant, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) does some Quantum Leaping back to the early 1970s, in order to stop Mystique from killing Bolivar Trask, thus inadvertently initiating the creation of the Sentinels, who will one day destroy civilization as we know it. Wolvie joins forces with young Charles Xavier...
Magneto Comes Up with a Plan That Will Cause the Very Thing He’s Trying To Prevent. In X-Men: Days Of Future Past, everyone’s favorite hirsute, cigar smoking mutant, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) does some Quantum Leaping back to the early 1970s, in order to stop Mystique from killing Bolivar Trask, thus inadvertently initiating the creation of the Sentinels, who will one day destroy civilization as we know it. Wolvie joins forces with young Charles Xavier...
- 9/28/2015
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
- Cinelinx
From The Twilight Zone to Penny Dreadful, Doctor Who and more, Den Of Geek’s writers revisit the TV episodes that truly terrify them…
It’s Halloween! Icicles are glistening from window sills. Chestnuts are roasting on open fires. North Pole elves are… hang on, no. None of that nice, fluffy stuff is happening. At Halloween, demonic creatures hunt for flesh, monsters creep out of their graves, and TV does its level best to freak us all the hell out.
In the spirit of all that, we asked our writers to select and share the TV episodes, horror or otherwise, that have made them whimper with fear. Here they all are, 31 of them, because, well, at Halloween, we like things to add up to 31.
Note that this isn’t a Top 10, or a Best Of, nor is it listed in order of scariness. It’s a collection of the particular...
It’s Halloween! Icicles are glistening from window sills. Chestnuts are roasting on open fires. North Pole elves are… hang on, no. None of that nice, fluffy stuff is happening. At Halloween, demonic creatures hunt for flesh, monsters creep out of their graves, and TV does its level best to freak us all the hell out.
In the spirit of all that, we asked our writers to select and share the TV episodes, horror or otherwise, that have made them whimper with fear. Here they all are, 31 of them, because, well, at Halloween, we like things to add up to 31.
Note that this isn’t a Top 10, or a Best Of, nor is it listed in order of scariness. It’s a collection of the particular...
- 10/30/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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