Spiders (2000)
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(Foreign Titles)
Nomination Year: 2007
SYNOPSIS: A radiation experiment on the Space Shuttle goes awry and the mutated spider
spawn break free and attack the crew during re-entry. The shuttle crashes
in the California desert, and recovery efforts are observed by a trio of
college-age newspaper reporters who work for a Weekly World News style
tabloid. They see a creepy CIA guy kill one of the astronauts that the
military recovery crew were supposed to be rescuing, and Our Heroes decide to
follow them into the depths of Area 51. A fairly standard monster movie
ensues with webby things in the dark killing off people one by one as Our
Heroes try to escape. Two of them manage to get free and return to their
paper with a story that no one will believe.
And then, 9/10ths of the way through things, it seems like they found a huge stack of money. Every time a ($) appears in the next paragraph, the movie budget doubles.
At their newspaper office, the creepy CIA type that they'd met earlier and that we'd all assumed had died has tracked them down. He doesn't want the giant spider story to get out, so he's killed their editor. He is just about to kill them when the spider egg that was planted in him (back when we thought he was killed) hatches into an incredibly well-animated CGI spider of doom ($). The spider quickly grows to a size that allows it to throw cars around ($) and inflict massive damage on buildings ($). The heroes find Dead CIA Guy's helicopter ($), and the sight of the giant spider helps them convince the pilot that something has gone horribly wrong. They arm themselves with the military hardware from the 'copter, and chase the spider into a cordoned-off area of downtown LA ($), where they manage to blow it up with a rocket launcher.
Woah!
Fortunately, a lot of the early stuff is incredibly cheesy. Big puppets, lame FX, and a hysterical moment when a radar operator mis-identifies Canada as Italy.
And then, 9/10ths of the way through things, it seems like they found a huge stack of money. Every time a ($) appears in the next paragraph, the movie budget doubles.
At their newspaper office, the creepy CIA type that they'd met earlier and that we'd all assumed had died has tracked them down. He doesn't want the giant spider story to get out, so he's killed their editor. He is just about to kill them when the spider egg that was planted in him (back when we thought he was killed) hatches into an incredibly well-animated CGI spider of doom ($). The spider quickly grows to a size that allows it to throw cars around ($) and inflict massive damage on buildings ($). The heroes find Dead CIA Guy's helicopter ($), and the sight of the giant spider helps them convince the pilot that something has gone horribly wrong. They arm themselves with the military hardware from the 'copter, and chase the spider into a cordoned-off area of downtown LA ($), where they manage to blow it up with a rocket launcher.
Woah!
Fortunately, a lot of the early stuff is incredibly cheesy. Big puppets, lame FX, and a hysterical moment when a radar operator mis-identifies Canada as Italy.
Matt Quirk
Acting Appropriately Stupid
Gary Jones
Lana Parilla
Mark Phelan
