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Things I don't understand.

posted 8 years ago by hansel714
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1. Why are there no guns in the house? Sure he used to be a reverend but he's now a farmer and there may be wild animals. A gun is essential to protect his young children.

2. Aliens can create technology for interstellar space travel across light years, but they can't break a door open?

3. Why didn't Mel Gibson report the alien in Rey's pantry to the authorities so that the authorities could experiment on it? And the alien wouldn't be back for revenge.

4. Who let the alien out of the pantry, since aliens cannot open doors?

5. Speaking of revenge, is the alien stupid? The alien troops left, and it decided not to leave with the troops to seek revenge for its 2 fingers, knowing that it will die eventually? Its life VS revenge, it's pretty obvious an intelligent being would choose to live.

6. The coal grate is blocked with dog food. The aliens, which are super strong, can't push it aside?

7. As the boy was having an asthmatic attack, the girl said, "I saw this in my dream." WOW, that must be the most irritating sentence in the history of film. It made me want to slap the girl. Is the director trying to put people off childbirth?

This is a ridiculous film, not to mention that there is no chemistry between the actors at all. I read a comment saying it should be compulsory for film students. Are you *beep* me? Poor acting, lousy script, bad directing, mawkish.

[–] Annkat (373) 3 months ago

1) I think they were thinking since he was a Minister, he wouldn't own guns and he had two dogs. But Farmers...they all own guns.

2) They aren't Aliens. They are Demons. They can only enter if invited in some way. They could enter the house because Hess lost faith in God.

3) Everything was starting to fall apart. Who could he tell?

4) It was a Demon. It could have left any number of ways. It was stuck in the pantry because the owner locked it in and took its right away to be in that house.

5) No aliens in this film.

6) They were protected by God. Beau was praying and it held them back.

7) Earlier in the film they mentioned that Beau had visions of the future and that she is compared to an Angel. So her mentioning that she saw her brother being attacked and sick was not a surprise.

I never liked the film until recently. Once I let go of the Alien story and saw these things as Demons, it made more sense.