The Sci-Fi Movie Plotinator

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By Linda | May 9, 2008

Mad Libs meets the Sci Fi Movie Channel.

As I first mentioned in my post titled Sci-Fi Movie Survival Tips, My 10-year-old Science Junkie and I are huge science fiction movie fans. We love to make a game of figuring out which characters will die first and which will survive until the end. The Sci Fi Channel movies are so formulaic that I thought that they could perhaps save some money by firing their entire writing staff and using my patented Sci-Fi movie Plotinator instead.

To write your own science fiction movie plot just pick one item from each of the pick lists below and discover your inner science fiction movie writer.

Our story begins as

A Big Oil Company
A Big Pharmaceutical Company
A Multinational Corporation
The U.S. Defense Department
An Eccentric and Egotistical Billionaire

In order to

Increase profits
Avoid environmental regulations
Get an edge on the competition and/or enemy
Cover up previous bad acts
Take over the world
For no discernible reason at all

Takes it upon themselves to

Manipulate the natural structure (genetic or otherwise) of
Irradiate
Pour newly discovered untested chemicals on/in
Hook up to a super computer
Expose to a substance found on a meteor fragment

A spider (or any insect of your choosing)
An unsuspecting mentally challenged human subject
A carnivorous plant
A storm system
a preexisting geological condition (ie a fissure opened up by an earthquake)

Causing the above to

Grow to incredible size
Become extremely aggressive
Tear a whole in the time/space continuum
Become self-aware
Develop a taste for human flesh

Mayhem ensues culminating in a scene in which our monster/disaster destroys one of the following locations/landmarks in a spectacular fashion.

New York - The Statue of Liberty
St. Louis - The Arch
San Francisco - The Golden Gate Bridge
Chicago - The Sears Tower
Seattle - The Space Needle

All seems lost until one or two of the following:

The Police Chief’s spunky daughter
The young environmentalist
The gutsy single Mom who is also a scientist
The handsome drifter
The teen-aged nerd with a super-sized IQ

Comes up with a risky but brilliant plan that uses any combination of the following

Explosives (nukes are best)
Electricity
Huge quantities of water
A really positive attitude
Fire extinguishers
Amplified sound waves

Resulting in the vanquishment of the monster/disaster, but not before

The evil CEO
The evil General
The evil Billionaire
Any henchmen of the above 3
Countless innocent civilians
Anyone who was against or refused to help with the above risky but brilliant plan
Crewman #7 (See Sci-Fi Movie Survival Tips)

Gets