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Melvin the annoying brat?


Who exactly was he and why was he there in a town of 14 people, he was a teenager that didn't have any family with him?(well none that i could see he had)

Just seemed strange that this mouthy little shit was in this town and i think he should of been eaten by the Graboids.

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I always liked the fact that the annoying kid and the survivalist nutcase and hippie flake woman and various other twerps weren't eaten by the graboids. In letting some annoying people become allies or friends or just survive, this movie broke a lot of monster movie traditions, and I liked that!

I mean, how many million films have you seen where nobody survives at the end but the attractive protagonist and an attractive person of the opposite sex? That's kind of how I expected this film to go, but it got a bit more original instead. Instead of having the monster pick everyone off one by one and deliver satisfying and entertaining deaths, we saw the townspeople pulling together and surviving in a group, and protecting the kids who were annoying as fuck, but still innocent.

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I agree to a certain extent films when nobody survives but this wasn't one of those films, im not saying everyone should of died just would of been nice to of had him being eaten towards the end as for the last part of movie no one else died and out of all the others his would of been the better pill to swallow.

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I suppose budget kept the people seen small. The kid did live in that house they was pumping sewage from before the hose broke.

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Yes i did wonder that when he was at that house but strange was never even a mention of his family from him or anyone else when they was escaping from the town.

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Did you mean to write "should have been eaten"?

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That's exactly what i meant to write!

What's funny is that i re-read that line over and over and it didn't really make much sense but went blank on what to put but luckily it made some sense to you as you got the gist of it thx!

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A deleted scene mentioned that his parents were drug addicts who were constantly in Reno gambling, and that Melvin was often left back in town by himself.

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That sounds about right thanks! They was most likely doing hard drugs throughout the pregnancy also that's why he was like that.

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