the ending (i dont get it)

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The ending was a bit of a let down to be honest, I thought the film was pretty enjoyable all through out and it did keep me on the edge a bit but I think they wanted the "shock" moment like "OMG I can't believe they just did that!" Before the soldiers all came in, I thought it was going to be a Brazil like ending where they were being experimented on but hypnotized.

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Death is the standard breach for a complex prize.

1. Ironside was wrong, he was just a "conspiracy nut" as indicated by the routine cleanup at the end of the movie.

2. Maybe?

3. It was said by the other woman abductee that some were released.

4. The storm that they experienced directly after finding the UFO. The UFO could have been downed by the storm and crashed outside of the storm, with the storm eventually catching up a few hours later.

5. Yeah the sheriffs story arc was a bit unnecessary, I guess it was to make a connection between missing persons (irl) and alien abductions.

Try not to over think it, it's just a movie.

1. Ironside was most likely right, as indicated by the cleanup of the teens so that they wouldn't tell the outside world of these aliens. Why they were experimenting on the alien afterwards though is one of the many inconsistencies this stupid film has. I can only guess it's because they were one of killed aliens (not sure which one) and as the government always had an agreement with them (stated by Ironside), they never really had the opportunity to dissect a dead one before.

2. Could be a nod but I highly doubt that he was a younger version of the X-Files guy (they looked the same age!)

3. Again, another unexplained, random, inconsistent thing (e.g. why was the other guy being butt-probed why she/Kyle wasn't?) - my guess is the aliens took pity on them or something because of their love.

4. Wasn't there a storm that night when they were in the cabin (granted, we only saw the rain and lightning after the crash)? And yes, the government bods meant that crash in the beginning. How a simple storm caused it to crash I don't know, maybe it was hit by lightning?

5. The sheriff story was totally stupid and a waste a time, like you said. Pointless with no resolution, kinda like with what the aliens were doing to the animals. It's like the writers just gave up at the end. That anal probe scene was clearly for comedy value, so they probably realised that the film wasn't turning out as well as they hoped and decided to change it to a parody.

Acting, directing, score, storyline - all abysmal.

1. Not sure if they were experimenting or trying to save it because of the agreement.

2. He's named in the credits as the 'Man in Black' and yes I think it's probably a nod to the X-Files.

3. This is open to personal interpretation. Two possibilities: 1. The aliens are fully aware that they won't escape death anyway, perhaps they have a sick sense of humour. 2. Saying that, if they'd walked in the other direction maybe they would have kept clear of danger, in which case it's fair to say the aliens gave them a chance because they were in love. Judging how the grey men treat humans and animals though I think former rather than latter.

4. You mean 'saucers' as in flying saucer? For one thing, I imagine humans haven't got a blinkey blimey clue about alien technology. More likely that a fault within the craft itself caused the crash. Can't remember the storm being any worse than rain, which yes you are right should not affect a spacecraft, but either way what is significant is what happened after the crash occurred, not why it occurred.

5. Yeah complete waste of time, although I think the hybrid woman April encounters at the end could be his wife. If it's not then the production team wasted a good opportunity to close that subplot up. GB was excellent in this, I really wanted to see him get up in the spaceship and kick some alien butt.

It's too cerebral! We're trying to make a movie here, not a film!

You have all got this wrong, Please allow me to eleborate.

1. Michael Ironsides character grows and smokes Pot so therefor anything is possible and can and will happen. Examples of this would be lawn mowers with AI or Unicorns with Boobs. They were not experimenting on the grey it was about to have a massage and looking forward to the happy ending.

2. That was without doubt the cigarete smoking man, I know this because he told me so. This was also confirmed in a cut scene that had Mulder, Scully , E.T & Mr T. Unfortunatly these scenes didn't make the final release.

3. It wasn't that they were set free exactly. In a game of rock , paper scissors they lost best of three and were dropped back on earth to score a bag of weed and family size bag of reeses pieces. ET got the muchies.

4. That wasn't a storm that crashed the UFO the designated pilot was holiding out got high crashed and blamed the storm.

5. The Sheriff wan't the Sheriff....

1. Yes, Michael Ironside is right and there is a cover up as we see at the end of the film. In the x-files there are several factions and althought they are allies they dont trust the aliens. So they probably are also experimenting on the aliens to know more.

2. An obvious nod to the X-files. This movie was like an episode from the X-files without Mulder and Scully. You can imagine them arriving later to the place and trying to discover what happened.

3.I think they saw something different in them as she made them turn back and later rescued her boyfriend. I think they were running another experiment with humans. Lets call it " can humans overcome obstacles thanks to love? " After the experiment was done they released them... the same way we gave a cheese reward to a good lab rat.

4.That s only a supposition from the goverment agent. Accidents happens even to aliens. They are more technological advanced but their machines also require mantenaince and can suffer from malfuntions in bad weather. For example we are almost "alien" advanced to a man from the stone age but still there are plane crashes.

5.It felt a bit rused but I think his history was there to explain why the aliens where doing this. I mean , through him we see that is something thats has been happening from a long time, not only to animals but also to humans. Thats the reason they introduce the kidnapping of his wife ten years ago.

1. Not necessarily but that's possible... I interpreted the ending as following; throughout the movie you think that the aliens are all bastards abducting humans but then they show a couple aliens that aren't all bastards that decided to let the love couple go back to earth where they ironically encountered human bastards instead that did the same kind of experiments that the aliens did on humans and even went so far to kill the human couple so that the truth wouldn't be revealed.

So I guess if this movie want to say something it would be that there are scum aliens and there are not so scum aliens just as there are scum humans and not so scum humans and that love conquers all... Except for scum humans

2. The IMDB trivia page says that, I think that they planned on getting the real actor from the X FILES to do that role but they couldn't for some reason so they had a lookalike instead

3. Adding on to the answer of question 1, basically I think that they saw that these humans truly loved eachother and maybe because they managed to escape they decided to reward that behaviour... And possibly those aliens were a little extra nice

4. I don't recall that in the movie so I can't help you there but weather conditions on earth are unique so why wouldn't a spaceship created on a planet experience difficulties with said weather?

5. Yeah I don't like how they just killed him off or how the aliens just out of the blue managed to mindcontrol him into doing that, maybe they just wanted a "oh sh!t I can't believe they just killed that guy-moment" to show that anything can happen, just a case of bad scriptwriting




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