What exactly was the second scenario? It appeared to be some form of volcanic eruption, yet how did this then become a global extinction event? Chain reaction? With what?
Did I miss something (my mind did start to wander around the 40min mark).
...and don't point your fooking tentacles at me!
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well, that's where the film goes completely wrong. the teacher talks the whole time and dictates what happens. if they thought it through then he woul get interrupted every 5 minutes, because students would not agree with his version of outcome of particular situations and then we would see different takes on different decisions and then go on further with the one that they all could agree on, which of course would make the whole rest of the script impossible to go through, but it would make for a much better movie. there would not be time for 3 senseless scenarios. it would be one real life classroom part and one single hypothetical apocalyptic scenario, which would give a real writer the chance to make the first and the second scenario interesting, especially when it comes to the dynamic of the characters.
furthermore, if you play this through in a realistic scenario as opposed to what the films reality represents, all those flaws that have been brought up by different posters, would be points that would be part of the discussion while playing out this scenario.
one example. emagine we are in that room. the teacher tells us, that we fire at the glassdoor of the bunker, but it is not destructable. there are 18 other people in the room. c'mon, at least one would not let that one go through.
the portrayal of the scenario is way to detailed to let this one slide through as a hypothetical experiement. even then, if everything was possible, the dude that gets shot could just respond "yeah, you fired the bullet, but catched it with my teeth". either you base the whole scenario in hypothetical reality or completely in fantasy world. either way the supposed "logic" of the film fails miserably.
as many people already wrote, the basic idea for the film was fantastic, but what they made out of it was abysmal.
"laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone." - Dae-su Oh
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A big enough volcanic event can become an extinction event, I mean look at one of the last super erruptions and what is assumed/studied from it, Toba. Occurred 69 thousandish years ago, 15cm of volanic ash is found throughout the region, ice cores on the other side of the planet highlight the global temperature was abnormally cold following the event, genetics suggest there was a genetic bottleneck around that time in multiple species, etc. Earth hasn't had a super eruption in a very long time.
shareThe second event had very little to do with volcanoes, I mean did you miss all the atomic bombs going off? All of the thee extinction level events featured extinction trough atomic bombs.
shareI agree though that it started with what looked like a volvanic event, and was impressed the film was being diverse. Then the repetative atomic explosions caught me off guard...
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