August 3rd, 2007
I just watched the trailer and it looks like the thriller and horror genres continue their grasp on Hollywood. This movie boasts about 37 deaths in the trailer alone, but this horror film has a twist – it expects rip roaring laughter at the expense of some of humanity’s most ill-fated calamities, and for that I give it 4 thumbs up!
The principle of the film is clearly stated in the trailer: “Anyone who wins a Darwin Award is probably the stupidest person you’ll never meet.” That’s because by definition you can only win a Darwin Award if you’re dead. It continues “The idea being that these people are so moronic, they are actually improving the gene pool by removing themselves.”
The real question now becomes: what award do you give to the person with the craftiest suicide? Someone, so intelligent, that their concoction of death puts them down in history alongside Benjamin Franklin, Da Vinci, and myself?
The Darwin Awards trailer showcases a man who welded a jet engine to an old Chevy who was hurdled at 400 miles per hour into a hillside. However, it was not all in vain, as his true dream was to be on TV. While his 15 minutes of fame no doubt came on the evening news outlet during the “Wacky News at 9” segment, his ingenuity will no doubt be remembered.
The Darwin Awards Toast from DrunkU: Here’s to you guy-who-crashed-into-a-hillside! Where the hell did you get that jet engine anyway? Sheer genius.
