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All the bacteria wanted was... (Spoiler)

posted 11 years ago by excalibur1814
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...Water.

Did you notice that one of the early Zomb attackers stopped to drink the lovely water.

Ahh yeah.

[–] nunoanjos1 11 years ago

another english moron/wanker trying to defend this english complete garbage, cheap ripoff, boring uninteresting movie

[–] imatosser182 11 years ago

He was clearly being sarcastic you spastic *beep*

[–] BakedEel 11 years ago

I've encountered lots of amazingly stupid people on IMDB message boards, but man, the award has to go to you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HDvwUlBbro

[–] nashknight-1 11 years ago

The movie is bad, but he is right. Too bad they didn't make the water theme a bigger plot point.

[–] nbreyfogle-1 10 years ago

The OP is entirely correct. It was made very, very obvious in the film.... but apparently not obvious enough for the mindless haters on this board to grasp.

[–] keith123300-1 10 years ago

I take it you are not intelligent enough to realise that it's not an English film then?

The director is Irish, not English.

Besides, if you don't like it then fine, but no need to be insulting to an entire country - just makes you sound like an ignorant, horrible person, the likes of which the world would be a better place without.

I can only assume you are either yet another moronic teen who thinks he's tough posting idiotic things online; or you just really are ignorant enough to think entire countries can be generalised based on you not liking a particular film.

Hollywood these days make awful films because they don't have an imagination and won't be ballsy enough to deliver anything other than very typical, safe films that the common denominator public flock to see - but I'm not going to insult the USA based on my opinion of Hollywood.

Grow up, learn some respect - and if you can't then keep your foul comments to yourself (and learn about punctuation because you type like a child).

[–] misterkettle 11 years ago

Also, both the bald captain and the blonde British lady pointedly ask for water. They're the only ones the audience actively sees being overtaken by the bacteria.

They just be thirsty muthafyookas!

[–] darcmale 10 years ago

Reading through previous comments I feel that most people are missing the message of the movie.

- the bacteria sample was discovered under what was possibly once an ocean floor, a few billon years ago Mars had oceans like earth and a more substantial atmosphere.

- when Marco fell through the thin crust steam vapour was released and was escaping for hours. The captain even commented on this saying there must be a body of water/ice down there.

- we see Mars as the red planet, ie no more oceans life or water and very little atmosphere.

- the infected craved (due to the bacteria) water. This was seen when the infected drank water from the floor when the bottle smashed. Also the captain and the girl both expressed their thirst before succumbing to the infection.

- near the end of the movie Kim (infected) could be seen #drinking blood from a fresh corpse.

- the dessicated corpse of Marco seen by the landing zone suggests that the infected could not #consume enough water to keep the parasitic bacteria satisfied.

I would suggest that this bacteria had teraformed an earth like planet to the Mars planet we know by consuming all water and moisture from fauna and flora.
Therefore we were seeing what would happen to earth if the infection managed to be brought to our planet.
I liked the movie because it made me think about what stage of evolution could Mars have been at before the bacteria ended it all..

[–] markfilipak 10 years ago

I would suggest that this bacteria had teraformed an earth like planet to the Mars planet we know by consuming all water and moisture from fauna and flora.

An interesting idea, but there's 2 problems: 1, That idea is not in the film, and 2, A planet is a closed system, so the bacteria could not have consumed all the water so that the water disappeared. The most the bacteria could have done is to temporarily hold some water in their cells, and then excrete it back into the environment, just as you do a couple of times each day.
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[–] laplante-co-672-297856 10 years ago

A planet is a closed system, so the bacteria could not have consumed all the water so that the water disappeared...

Maybe, maybe not... You're basing your observation on terrestrial biology which wouldn't apply necessarily on Mars.

Perhaps their alien biology utilizes hydrolysis which converts the water to its constituent oxygen and hydrogen... which then bled from the planet due to the lower gravity. Or combined with other factors to reduce Mars to red dust...

I'm a physicist not a biologist so I could be completely off base.

And who's to say that the bacteria was native to Mars to start with? Perhaps it came from elsewhere.

1, That idea is not in the film...

Well, not explicitly, but I think the previous poster does an excellent job of extrapolating from things we see in the movie.

That said, I think it's the part where it turns people into rage zombies is the bigger danger to Earth...