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cunning plans

I Love It When A Plan Totally Doesn't Come Together

It happens to the best dashing science fiction hero: You come up with a preternaturally clever plan to stop the bad guys, involving a totally cunning bit of MacGyvering or hustle... and it totally fails. Your super-gadget blows up. Or your allies flake. The bad guys turn out not to be total idiots. Or all the random variables you totally had a handle on turn out different. It's what you do after your cunning plan fails that separates the good guys from the great guys. Here are our favorite failed plans. More »

6:23 PM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
24,442 views, 57 comments

Latest by Byronotron: Senator Kreenak: "It's a FAAAAKE!" more »

found footage

Strip Mining Shatters the Moon

If only the rest of 2002's The Time Machine had been like this sequence, it would have been one of the greatest science fiction movies ever. A future attempt to colonize and mine the moon instead leads to the near-total destruction of all life on Earth, as the broken moon rains chunks of rock onto Earth. Supposedly this scene would have been much longer and more intense, but director Simon Wells (H.G.'s great grandson) feared invoking comparisons to 9/11. It leads to one of the most interesting plot twists ever. More »

3:00 PM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By charliejane
5,253 views, 29 comments

Latest by n/a: Ah, yes, The Time Machine - starring Guy Pearce's razor sharp cheekbones. Seriously, was he the only one not allowed to eat during the entire shoot? more »