20 Most WTF Movie Moments Of 2018
1. The Random Child Clone Subplot - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Though the fifth Jurassic Park movie was a disappointing mess for the most part, it occasionally diverged into straight-up braindead territory, no more blatantly than when a human cloning subplot was introduced.
It's hinted at early on that the movie's token child character, Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon), might be a clone of Benjamin Lockwood's (James Cromwell) dead daughter. Despite the obviously revelatory implications this would mean for the series, the movie quickly forgets about it for a good while, until the villainous Eli Mills (Rafe Spall) confirms the truth later on.
This leads to the head-smackingly awful decision to have Maisie press the Big Red Button at the film's climax, setting the dinosaurs free into the world because they're "like her."
As amusing as the prospect is of a trashy Jurassic World 3 where the dinos rampage across suburban America, the movie frames Maisie's choice as noble when it's really anything but. She condemned potentially thousands of people to death because she felt a sense of kinship with...some genetically modified creatures which shouldn't exist.
The lack of thought put into Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly's screenplay is just baffling. That something this inane and patronising made it into a movie that went on to gross over $1.3 billion is...something else.
Which movie moments left your jaw on the floor this past year? Shout them out in the comments!