It would be customary to say "where do I begin" and that would normally be hyperbolic. In this case, I'm not sure it is. Rather than try I'll just point the following out: Even creature feature movies make sense within themselves. In _Mega Piranha_, for example, the fish had to grow big and numerous for their to be enough monsters and the movie explained how that happened. Of course it was ridiculous, that's part of the point of the genre, but once it laid down the framework expectations were set and met.
_Mothman_ will have nothing to do with that and is so internally inconsistent that I would not be surprised if four wholly distinct production studios worked on the film without any communication among them at all.
The easiest and briefest example I have is this: Our heroes are battling Mothman in an abandoned factory when one of them is carried off by the monster. The other two heroes, with heavy heart and regret, flee for their lives.
Later, the character who'd been carried off jumps out from behind a tree (not kidding) none the worse for wear. The explanation for this astounding turn of events is contained in this exchange of dialog which I quote verbatim:
"Casey! We thought you were dead!" "Yeah, so did I. I was hoping you guys would be here." "If we knew you were alive we'd never would have left you." "Oh, no worries, man. I thought I was a goner too."
That's it. The movie is *full* of things like that. Rambling explanations that make no sense, go nowhere, and are wrong even within the movie itself. A wise old man tells them how to destroy the monster via a ritual that uses unique components that he had, in an earlier and unrelated scene, gone into detail explaining how such a thing couldn't exist—and the ritual fails even after being performed and having magical effect. So, *something* happened but there's no explanation of what or why or how it failed or what happened. When our heroes confront him about the ritual's failure, his reaction is to literally shrug.
I was warned. The first 10 or 15 minutes of the film has a premise that is utterly ludicrous from any theoretical angle.
Let me emphasize that point. In a creature feature film, a genre that has piranha grow big enough to *eat submarines* and giant sharks jump out of the water to *eat jumbo jets and bridges* and still manages to be entertaining in its own way, in that genre this film becomes unbelievable in the FIRST 10 MINUTES.
Worst film in the genre? Absolutely yes. A terrible failure.
_Mothman_ will have nothing to do with that and is so internally inconsistent that I would not be surprised if four wholly distinct production studios worked on the film without any communication among them at all.
The easiest and briefest example I have is this: Our heroes are battling Mothman in an abandoned factory when one of them is carried off by the monster. The other two heroes, with heavy heart and regret, flee for their lives.
Later, the character who'd been carried off jumps out from behind a tree (not kidding) none the worse for wear. The explanation for this astounding turn of events is contained in this exchange of dialog which I quote verbatim:
"Casey! We thought you were dead!" "Yeah, so did I. I was hoping you guys would be here." "If we knew you were alive we'd never would have left you." "Oh, no worries, man. I thought I was a goner too."
That's it. The movie is *full* of things like that. Rambling explanations that make no sense, go nowhere, and are wrong even within the movie itself. A wise old man tells them how to destroy the monster via a ritual that uses unique components that he had, in an earlier and unrelated scene, gone into detail explaining how such a thing couldn't exist—and the ritual fails even after being performed and having magical effect. So, *something* happened but there's no explanation of what or why or how it failed or what happened. When our heroes confront him about the ritual's failure, his reaction is to literally shrug.
I was warned. The first 10 or 15 minutes of the film has a premise that is utterly ludicrous from any theoretical angle.
Let me emphasize that point. In a creature feature film, a genre that has piranha grow big enough to *eat submarines* and giant sharks jump out of the water to *eat jumbo jets and bridges* and still manages to be entertaining in its own way, in that genre this film becomes unbelievable in the FIRST 10 MINUTES.
Worst film in the genre? Absolutely yes. A terrible failure.