Feb 212015
The nominees for 2014, Most Ridiculous Time Filler are:
- Godzilla – The human soldier does…things
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – No, really, another orc getting stabbed
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Every other frame
- Interstellar – Earth
- Noah – Let’s kill the grandchildren
- Transformers: Age of Extinction – Every scene with Mark Wahlberg
And the winner is:
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Noah – Let’s kill the grandchildren
Sure, others wasted more time (Looking at you The Hobbit) but none stood out so as an obvious insertion just to make the film longer. Why did Noah want to kill his grandchildren? Because otherwise, the film was much shorter. That’s it, and that’s why it won.