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Why didn't they take a PLANE???


I mean, go to a goddamned airport and save yourself from going through the zone!!!

And if there weren't any available at that town, just take a bus 600 miles south, 10 hours during the night, wake up refreshed and grab a plane, surely for a fraction of the price that they ended up paying to that guy.

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I was thinking something like that too. I was thinking go to south America and catch a ship. And if daddy was so rich, there would have been a private plane down there to pick them up.

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I assume that the area between Mexico and the US is now restricted to only military planes.

BB ;-)

it's just in my opinion - imo -

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The could still travel down to South America and take a boat from there.

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They were not expecting any trouble. They took the train. It broke down, and they were strong minded to continue. Then it went wrong in the harbor and all other options were out.

It's really all right there in the plot and dialogues!

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There were no planes. They got off the train - there weren't even buses.
Watch more closely and assume less -you'll enjoy movies more.

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Watch what more closely? The only person they talked to about travel options was the guy who got $25,000 dollars out of the main characters. He already had $5000 from them. So what is he going to say now that he is trying to fleece them for another $20,000, "Oh, I'm not the only option, you can go south and fly out for $2,000." The movie did not show enough to enforce that this was their only option.

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course they did.

and why would there be planes in airspace filled with jets zipping by and blowing crap up all the time? and wouldn't an plane ticket probably cost more than a $5,000 ferry would? what pilot would even want to fly in that airspace?

Ferry or the land. those were the options after they got off the train.

deal with it.

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There is something called "the rest of the world". Is the whole of south America isolated?

Kjeks.

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Probably would cost more money to travel further south just to double back to go north, more than $5,000 I would assume, and as the movie stated, money was already an issue at $5,000. So many people wanted to go north, my guess is they're were probably more obstacles in their way we didn't see on screen.

They gave us everything we needed to move the story coherently. If you wanna nip pick, that's fine, but they made it clear that money was always an issue, and I refuse to believe a plane ticket north would cost more than a ferry.

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Her father was rich, he could have sent someone in a plane.. Instead he wants a photographer to guide his precious girl home. I find that a bit strange, he seemed worried.

On the other hand, they decided to take the more treacherous route AFTER they talked to dad..? I also got the impression that the danger from the zone was underrated - the wall was big and great, but the news talked about a "weak link" at points where people went trough the barrier..

Anyway, I've kinda lost interest in any possible logical discrepancies. The movie worked still..



Kjeks.

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did you ever think that maybe the photographer was the father's only option? which is why he spoke to his daughter and the photographer as if it would be the last time till she was in the US? and why he couldn't send any money?
the photographer was a lucky break as someone the father could control through his job, but his desperation may stem from the fact that it was his only option at the time.

the bigger question in my mind, i don't really remember if they answered it or not, was what she was doing down there in the first place?

all i'm saying is yes, if you the pull at the logic behind the easiest way they could've gotten home, the film topples like a house of cards and you don't have a story anymore. Just fly over, or around, all the trouble and conflict resolved...but then we wouldn't have a movie to deconstruct anymore. Kinda like if you just time travel all the hitmen in LOOPER in the middle of the ocean, you wouldn't have any conflict either. no film.

there is tons of underdevelopment with MONSTERS, but don't think there inability to take a plane isn't a hard one to forgive. the airspace is dangerous and they don't have a lot of money, and cause they are on the other side of the wall, they are on their own. simple ideas for an admittedly simplistic film.

one could argue the ineffectiveness of the giant Wall across the border was always supposed to be the case, remember they passed the giant wall to get to the tow that had been airstriked and there was a giant monster carcass on the other side of the wall? then they went further passed the wall's entrance to get to the gas station where more crap went down? the wall was supposed to be poorly designed to show the ineptitude and lack of control the humans had over this situation. The whole point was the zone was getting worse and expanding. the humans didn't know what they were doing, and that's part of the background of the story and furthers the theme of the audience distrusting the army (as we see from their callous actions towards the main characters at the beginning, we really couldn't trust them after all).

like i said, it's not great, it has problems. they certainly don't specify why planes can't be used, but that doesn't mean that the implication of it isn't that hard to find.

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They could have taken a plane and have it malfunction and crash. That would have worked.

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...Maybe they didn't have a TATOOO

(Zee PLAAANE! ZEE PLAAAANE!!!!)

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Agreed, it was very unrealistic. I totally believed everything about the alien life forming from a crashed NASA probe, but their choice of transport really ruined it for me.

Also, he never stopped taking pictures and yet I didn't see him charge his camera up once. Those SLRs can be pretty power-hungry so I can't believe it lasted the whole journey on one charge.

And finally, while we're on it, the phone and TV in the gas station. There was clearly nobody there to pay the bills, and you're telling me the utilities company wouldn't have cut them off! What a joke.

Give me Science-Fact any day of the week (apart from Sundays, that's when I'm talking to my invisible friend).

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Sorry, you want to watch him charge his camera? The film doesn't have to show everything that happens.

If you're this nitpicky that those little issues made you hate it, you must hate a lot of films. Was Citizen Kane terrible because no one was in the room to hear his dying word, even though that's the catalyst for the whole plot?

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I thought this was obvious...but I was criticizing the OP . I actually thought the film was very good and, being that the backdrop was one of science fiction, the director should be allowed the creative license to tell the story how he likes.

No, I don't want to watch a camera charge for two hours. Unless the only other option was to watch Pacific Rim again.

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I totally believed everything about the alien life forming from a crashed NASA probe, but their choice of transport really ruined it for me.


This was the key, and I completely missed it. Not sure how, but it went right over my head. My mistake and apologies.

And I appreciate the Pacific Rim jab. I also didn't care for that movie.

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No worries dude, easily done!

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It's like they wanted to show the plight illegal immigrants take to get to the U.S..

Also they do show on the way to the boat a downed helicopter, but still.

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But why no cell phones, internet or online bank transfers (like Paypal).
Why did he kept her tickets and even more so her passport?!

It was like the Nasa stuff came down in the 80s or 90s. No modern communication.
The woman treated like your were in the 50s or 60s at best.



@ Airspace and military. I'm sure in "reality" they would have establish some corridors - and may it for economical reasons only.
Cooperations and their unholy greed goes in Washignton always over the interests and needs of the people.

I mean: they have corridors over the Ukraine albeit you have terrorist there with Russian supplied air missels Systems who give a *beep* about international law.




And unlike Russian terrorists, these Aliens can't take down a plane from 10000 feet or so.

Ich bin kein ausgeklügelt Buch, ich bin ein Mensch mit seinem Widerspruch.
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Well, if I had to guess, I would say that taking a ship back would be just as hazardous. Hasn't anyone been paying attention to the ships that are now floating death traps with Ebola and all sorts of unknown diseases and captains that tip over boats? I would prefer to take my chances with the "monsters" or what the world governments consider different. I take it that the airlines are finally out of the running in modes of travel. That does not surprised me considering how much the airlines suck these days and are more like (excuse me if this sounds mean) "Buddy Holly" machines in that we are going backwards regarding service, I guess is it for the TSA agents and their "searches" which have proven to be useless.

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