First of all, what a film. Absolutely loved it up until the "twist" ending. The buildup was brilliant! My girlfriend who
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jtonks — 9 years ago(July 08, 2016 04:52 AM)
In regard to your comment about the grenade into the spaceship at the last moment. This originally comes from John Christophers book, The White Mountains in which the Earth has been subjugated by aliens whos machines are tripods much like that from HG Wells original War of the Worlds. During a battle with a tripod near the end of the book, the hero, Will, and his companions, try to bring down a tripod by throwing hand grenades at the legs, which is unsuccessful. Will is then subsequently grabbed by the tripods tentacles and is lifted towards an open hatch in the bottom of the tripod hemisphere. Realising he still has a grenade in his hand with the pin pulled, he throws it into the open hatch before it swallows him, where it explodes, and the tentacle releases its grip and he falls back down to the ground.
Anyone who has read The White Mountains will realise the writers of the 2005 Spielberg version of War of the Worlds borrowed this idea, and yes I did think of it again when Michelle threw the Molotov cocktail into the creatures mouth, although you dont have to be Mythbusters or a physics/chemistry major to realise a Molotov made of one bottle of potable spirits would not have the concussive power to produce such a resulting explosion. There was also a childrens TV series based on The White Mountains simply called, The Tripods. Here again, Spielberg stole the trumpeting sound that they used for the tripods ululation, (which HG Wells described as sounding like Ullah!
To answer other critics of the closing scene, it does seem ridiculous that they couldnt kill one human female with 1. A biomechanical dog creature, 2. A lot of poison gas (which seems to benignly dissipate rather quickly for something meant to be a chemical weapon/WMD which took out large populations) and 3. A large biomechanical spacecraft which for some reason decides to eat an entire car as well to get the occupant.
The latter can only be explained in that these are not the same aliens from Cloverfield 2007, but from the Blondie rap-song Rapture
Go out to the parking lot
And you get in your car and you drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and lands on the ground
And out comes a man from Mars
And you try to run but he's got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you're in the man from Mars
You go out at night, eatin' cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercury's and Subaru's
And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars
Logical.
As much as the ending was quite unbelievable with many plot holes, like Signs, I thought it was really creepy. When Michelle spots the alien craft for the first time flying over the fields at sunset, I thought was the creepiest scene of the whole film. -
Clem_DeFontane — 9 years ago(July 31, 2016 11:59 AM)
The movie would have been great if she had been killed outside at the end. Then, the message could have been "antagonizing people creates antagonists."
As it stands, it's just new survivor girl realizes it's better to run toward problems than away from them.
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lisavonbitten — 9 years ago(June 24, 2016 05:37 PM)
Ur2026, yup. That's what I thought he was hinting at too. Perhaps if the human were a "faster stronger Male" then it would be believeable to him and he wouldn't nitpick the f'n movie so much?
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Lupin-III — 9 years ago(June 21, 2016 12:07 AM)
The ending is terrible because that was Jar Jar Abrams' contribution to the film after he appropriated this unrelated indie film for the purpose of turning it into a Cloverfield movie.
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CalibMcBolts — 9 years ago(June 25, 2016 07:46 AM)
I completely agree, the buildup and everything is phenomenal, i loved this film up untill the final 15 minutes or so.
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lEvilDeadl — 9 years ago(June 26, 2016 08:32 AM)
you're right, it was a great movie but uh.what twist? This is a sequel to Cloverfield, a movie about an Alien invasion. How was the ending a twist? I'm guessing you watched this sequel without watching the first movie?
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ksauve2 — 9 years ago(June 27, 2016 09:04 PM)
OP did not get the ending that she 'runs away' when things get tough. So her heading towards the danger was her character arc. Also, yes aliens, it's a sequel the Cloverfield and in any case it's much better than another zombie virus movie.
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judsonkr — 9 years ago(July 03, 2016 01:15 PM)
You are not even remotely as smart as you think you are.
First, "twist" ending? Seriously? If you did not know from early on that it was aliens then you are not very perceptive.
Second, Route A & Route B a choice between nothing and something? You were not listening. Route A was a survivor camp north of Baton Rouge. Route B was Houston where people needed help. This was directly related to her story about failing to help the abused girl in the grocery store. That was the choice.
Route A, help yourself. Route B, help others.
Route A, the easy path. Route B, the difficult path.
I find it amusing when people, like you, come on here to post complaints that illustrate just how incapable they are of following a story and blaming the inability to understand on the people who created the story.
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gogofiascoboy — 9 years ago(July 04, 2016 07:05 PM)
I agree there were too many plot conveniences during the ending, but the "Route A or Route B" ending isn't quite what you've stated. She had a choice to RUN or Not to RUN. Route A meant getting to Safety, where the Aliens had already been taken care of; Route B was a call for help for anyone with medical or combat experience to help them stave off remaining threats there. Given her personal narrative of wanting to help, but always choosing to RUN, this was her chance Not to Run, when it matters most. So you've completely missed the fact that she DIDN'T take the easy way out!