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Darko
Dec 23, 2004

Wandle Cax posted:

One of the reasons this film is so good is the way it efficiently establishes its rules and doesn't over explain what's happening. So of course it will attract the dumbest of nitpicks that are missing the point entirely. How these people are able to enjoy any film is beyond me

The characters in this movie *are* incredibly dumb, and there are a lot of logic holes, but this isn't the type of movie you approach from that aspect going in. If you do, you'll just end up questioning things too much and not enjoy it.

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Darko
Dec 23, 2004

Raccooon posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO_SH-RTvvo

just put these up everywhere and problem solved

Moving them will make a lot of noise. I'm assuming they can rip through tanks and construction equipment?

Darko
Dec 23, 2004

Also, bunkers and concrete muffles a ton of sound. Core of military and thinktanks would be ome of the last targets, unless thats where the meteor strikes were aimed.

Didn't matter to the movie, but that's the fun stuff to think about after the fact.

Darko
Dec 23, 2004

LividLiquid posted:

I'm really not surprised that a movie whose premise was secondary to an extended exploration of parenthood devolved into a tactical realism argument.

Themes aside, the actual things happening in the movie stressed tactical realism as the movie was also all about tactics on its surface, so it should be no surprise when people question them.

Darko
Dec 23, 2004

LividLiquid posted:

In terms of how to stay alive? Absolutely. But the film gave zero fucks about telling us what was going on out in the rest of the world. We're localized to one rural location.

It's entirely possible the entire rest of the world already figured out the frequency necessary to make the monsters vulnerable and has largely gotten rid of them and we're just seeing the last remnants way out in the sticks, and there's no television, electricity, or radio infrastructure to get the message out to everybody everywhere.

But, ultimately, this doesn't matter in the slightest because the movie isn't about a large swarm of aliens wrecking civilization. It's about one family in one location. This isn't "turn off your brain" filmmaking. It's "stop inventing a whole different movie and critiquing that" filmmaking.

Ugh, way too late to this but when the issue is incremental survival, the brain of the average viewer goes to tactics. The Thing is the best balance of that because the viewer doesn't know wtf to do in that situation. 70s Body Snatchers as well. Its a weird balance to keep.

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