In response to the silly OP:
1. It's actually steel...not lead. And, yes...partial exposure equals a slow death.
2. Well, since she didn't ride through the entire city of LA (which is enormous), we don't know that. Besides, most people were gathered in the city or the suburbs to watch the comet. Makes perfect sense. You don't see many cars on the road on Christmas morning or during the fireworks on July 4th.
3. Who says DMK went undetected? For all we know, there was another group somewhere in the think tank discussing his whereabouts; they were, after all, still gathering intel on survivors. Also, the scientists are slowly losing their minds. And maybe DMK didn't put himself out there immediately. Maybe one of these or all of these...or something else entirely. The possibilities are endless...don't be so nearsighted.
4. No, it isn't. It's an allergic reaction. And teen girls drink lots of diet soda.
5. The think tankers had guns...who says the adults went down voluntarily? We don't have that information. Moreover, when disaster strikes, people tend to trust those in authority. People seek an immediate return to normalcy, and will justify any scientific explanation if there's a promise to make them healthy and restore the world they're used to. How can you not know this? What other alternative would one have? (Also, maybe the adults are challenged and/or exceptionally trusting...out of say 200 survivors or so, you don't think at least a few are going to follow the authority figures with the guns and then do exactly as they say?)
6. It's because there's a total lack of population that there would plenty to eat. Grocery stores and super markets would have more than enough canned goods, silly. Besides, eating was not an immediate concern once their dire situation was discovered. Sam had no trouble getting cereal in her home--why should she? And Regina ate popcorn and other theater snacks almost as soon as she woke up...why wouldn't there be food in the theater or any of the surrounding homes?
7. Maybe the boy was scratching like an animal, or perhaps operating on memory or instinct when he knocked.
8. Again, they didn't show the entire city (or every nook and cranny) during the rainstorm, so we don't know. Besides, it could've rained long and hard, so maybe most of the dust was washed away. But I think they showed only the group's immediate surroundings. Plus, it's a metaphor for a new beginning. A cleansing.
9. I wouldn't say they were smarter; just luckier. Did you miss the part about the scientists making the mistake of leaving the air ducts open and ventilation system running? It goes back to that irony about "out of all the great minds, great intellects of the world, who should survive?" One would like to think the bravest, strongest, and smartest would trump all others, but that's not necessarily the case. It's not hard to believe that a think tank filled with these intellectual giants would make the mistake of overlooking what they would probably perceive as a minor detail under most circumstances, and that thought process simply carried over when actual critical thinking was needed. They are giants, after all. Have you ever read Gulliver's Travels? If not, skip to the part where he visits the giants, who are so obsessed with their work they fail to notice many other things happening around them.
I usually don't mind when I see these silly "things I've learned" threads, but the OP is just reaching. I could point out nonsensical aspects of this movie, but none of the OP's ...ahem...observations belong in such a category. Epic failure.
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