Why are people mad about the liquor bottle blowing up the space ship?
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connormd-94455 — 9 years ago(May 09, 2016 01:28 PM)
It's also an alien movie so there's no point in getting your panties in a wad over something so little and stupid it's a movie Jesus why can't anyone let anything go everyone always has to nitpick every little stupid detail to no end whenever they're movies not real life not meant to be taken seriously
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tanoshiri — 9 years ago(May 17, 2016 12:56 AM)
This is an incorrect point of view because it's easy to suspend your disbelief over something you have no knowledge, i.e. aliens, where as even an idiot who hasn't completed high school chemistry should know that bottle would not blow up.
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perniciouspen@hotmail.com — 9 years ago(January 16, 2017 06:48 AM)
fair dos..when I saw her make a Molotov cocktail' out of a bottle of whisky and then saw the resulting explosion (so completely excessive and over the top for what it was)my first reaction was 'bloody strong whisky!!! WAS THAT WHISKY OR AVIATION FUEL?"
It certainly shouldn't have exploded so largely and with such ferocity if is was a bottle of whisky -
Smokey_T — 9 years ago(December 22, 2016 01:05 AM)
Yeah, after something pretending to be intelligent, tense, and 'psychological', to go full blown Nightmare on Elm St at the end and have her beat the big alien ship with a dumb ass device like that, she might as well have woken up and whoa! Surprise it was all a dream!
That's how frkn amateur hour making a bottle of whisky blow up an alien spaceship was.
The last 10 minutes is just QUICK LET'S MAKE THIS PART OF THE CLOVERFIELD FRANCHISE.
Lazy, dumb, and very disappointing. -
perniciouspen@hotmail.com — 9 years ago(January 16, 2017 06:52 AM)
It's not 'nit-picking' when it's something that makes you think straight away "That would never work like that!!" It's poor script writing. A whisky bottle with a fuse in it would never ever explode with such violent ferocity that it can bring down a space ship
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mrchanmanx — 9 years ago(May 09, 2016 01:42 PM)
Molotov cocktails do explode, they did massive damage to tanks in ww2 and beyond.
The explosion was not caused by the bottle, but rather by the substance inside the spaceship that exploded once coming into contact with the heat/fire that the molotov had.
This scene was explained multiple times I am still amazed that people dont understand it. -
CardinalsBaseball — 9 years ago(May 09, 2016 02:04 PM)
Molotov cocktails do explode, they did massive damage to tanks in ww2 and beyond.
The explosion was not caused by the bottle, but rather by the substance inside the spaceship that exploded once coming into contact with the heat/fire that the molotov had.
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perniciouspen@hotmail.com — 9 years ago(January 16, 2017 06:58 AM)
But Molotov cocktails in WWII were made with gasolinenot malt whisky. It simply is not THAT flammable. If you fill a bottle with whisky, add a lit fuse and throw it..the resulting 'fire' would be a very low flame..reminiscent of the sort of flame you get on a Christmas pudding when it's doused in brandy. Yes it burns but not to the violent degree shown in the film. I think it's poor scripting to suggest that the inside of the space ship/creature just happens to be highly volatile and a half arsed 'explosion' from a whisky Molotov ids enough to bring it down.
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weezeh-og — 9 years ago(May 09, 2016 02:33 PM)
Are you retarded? That "spaceship" was an Alien, and that hole was the aliens beep mouth!!!! Its like if someone were to throw a molotov the size of a childs tooth in to Shaquille O'Neal mouth and from that he'd explode LOL, it made no sense at all. Also, Molotovs dont explode, idiot.
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mrchanmanx — 9 years ago(May 09, 2016 03:14 PM)
Molotovs do explode on impact the explosion is in a form of a heat-wave.
The alien spacecraft had a weakness where if you are able to penetrate its underbelly with a small explosive or a molotov as in this case it would cause catastrophic damage.
All modern technology has a so-called "soft spot" the underbelly of the beast as the metaphor goes.
If you cant understand how that scene played out then you are the idiot, millions of people rated this movie as a "must see" and it made millions in the box office to prove it was an astounding success. -
artyom570568 — 9 years ago(May 24, 2016 11:55 PM)
If you cant understand how that scene played out then you are the idiot, millions of people rated this movie as a "must see" and it made millions in the box office to prove it was an astounding success.
Millions of people also though the latest Transformers was a "must see" film; even paid hundreds of millions to see it.
Just tells you what percentage and type of populus you belong to
Others may like what you hate - deal with it. -
MassHypnosis — 9 years ago(May 09, 2016 03:22 PM)
Maybe the reason of this explosion was the green smoke that burn the animals and the skin of the woman. I agree it was stupid but it's a sci-fi movie and they already saw you that this creature can spray a toxic gas, maybe they thought this was enough for the audience to understand that this creature/spaceship was flammable.
"Be who you are and say what you feel, those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" -
sc_taylor — 9 years ago(May 13, 2016 03:24 PM)
But Molotov cocktails are filled with gasoline or some other fuel. Not whisky! (whisky is mostly water, and water isn't really all that flammable
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You can read about them here (rather than basing all your knowledge on what you've seen in movies!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_cocktail
If you had bothered to read my post you would have seen that I said "booze" (which was what she was using) would not explode. It would barely even catch fire unless heated.
Anyway, FWIW I thought the movie was great. I was merely responding to the OP who was asking what was wrong with that particular scene. In my opinion it was just about the only dumb thing about an otherwise excellent movie.
My God, it's full of stars!