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A movie set in a dystopic future* where a brilliant but insane
surgeon,
Victor "Fools ! I'll crush you all ! " Frankenstein, horrified by having to
deal in his hospital's emergency room with the consequences of a
disastrous conflagration in which many firefighters are severely and
tragically
injured or killed , decides to help spare the lives of future
emergency service workers by creating replacement firemen from
the
usable body parts of corpses.
Although initially highly successful, resulting in public acclaim for
the
good Doctor and numerous humanitarian awards, it inevitably All
Goes
Horribly Wrong when, due to a simple error in the "accelerated
learning" used to condition the reanimated bodies for their work, the
whole lot of them (except the very first one, one if the heroes of the
movie, who dies in a tragic, noble and self sacrificing way right at the
end, like the Terminator in Terminator II) become obsessed with
burning down bookshops
and libraries.
In a classic slash-and-spatter action hero finale, involving lots of
fire,
explosions, crashing vehicles, collapsing buildings etc. the
"Frankenfiremen"
are destroyed in some suitably spectacular and appropriately ironic
way, like them being crushed flat by having shipping containers full
of
Kindles dropped on them from a great height.
* Actually, is there any other sort ?
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Pretty sure you arrived at this idea by throwing two
darts at a list of movies. |
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// I need to eat more brains to get the total recall. // |
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// I'm guessing ... a 16 year old single malt. // |
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<pushes bottle behind cushions on sofa, tries to look nonchalant> |
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<pulls out bottle, fills glass, corks bottle & returns it to sofa> |
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<surreptitiously sips from glass while maintaining nonchalant air> |
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The movie you're thinking of was Backdraft. |
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No, definitely 'Backdraft', with a wonderful cameo performance by
Donald Sutherland, and
a great "father figure" role for de Niro. |
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<no IMDB involved, honestly .... oooh, flames ... > |
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Have you another glass? I could wash one, if need be... |
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<extricates bottle, fills glass, slides across table to [norm]> |
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<recorks bottle, ruefully notes small amount remaining, hides behind
cushions in case [MB] appears> |
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It was the bottle we hid; hiding behind cushions is no good, only the
sofa offers an effective defence .... |
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That is tasty...I'm going to have to start a batch of wash for the still. Now that football season has started and I've an excuse to watch the stream for several hours, I may as well be running the stove. |
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451 distractions aside, it is a challenge to think of a spin on the "reanimate dead bodies" scifi that has not been done. hmm... |
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