Do not get me wrong, i did not think it was a great movie or anything, but so far the points brought up as negatives did not bother me so much. I mean it of course has plot holes, but it IS meant to be pretty mindless entertainment (i guess, no idea what the makers had in mind). As such it served it's role i think.
As to your points, let me try to answer some:
1. Why wasn't there early cases of the parasite? You would think that people swimming and drinking the water there would be some early cases.
I think there were early cases, but they were dismissed by everybody as freak accidents. Nobody thought to look for parasites.
2. What was the point of the news reports of all the dead fish and birds. It would have been better if they used it as a closing as a current event as opposed to something that happened before the outbreak. You would think water and the parasite would have been discovered.
That ties into 1. maybe. Could also be a very ham fisted comment on how we treat our environment and how animals dying off are early warning signs that something it wrong.
3. How can the government possibly cover up a whole town being killed off? Why would it matter to even cover it up? You would think they would want to warn people and create precautions.
Yeah, that IS one plot hole. Nobody had enough pull to cover it up, or even want to. Biggest dude was the mayor/chicken farmer, and he died anyway.
4. So your telling me that two teenagers disappear and they find a camera of them getting attacked and there was no investigation? Not to mention the attack occurred way before the outbreak and if there were that many of the critters to make it like Piranha then more people would have died a lot sooner. This is also after the oceanographers. The bay would have been closed off.
Well, the movie wants us to believe this is part of the cover up.
5. The silly reporter girl washed her face and had blood drip on her and she didn't get it? That was kind of dumb.
Parasite infection is not 100%. Maybe her immune system was able to deal with the few that got in? Or just dumb luck. Not a problem in my eyes. Maybe water was from a clean source, and the blood did not have any larvae in it (not every single blood cell can have them, that would be overkill). Or the blood did not get into her system and the larvae died... I mean this really did not bother me.
6. How did the doctor not see the parasite early when he was amputating. Were there no x-rays taken of people? it would have been clear they were infested early on. Plus, some people had it visibly crawling under their skin.
Agreed, but that is just typical movie dumbness for sake of plot. The doctor WAS calling the CDC, but by then it was too late.
7. The dentist and his wife get off a boat. No cell reception and the see a dead body along with a vacant tourist town on the fourth of July so they walk into town? I would think to get back on the boat and head up to the next town and get help.
Agreed again, but stupid people do stupid things. A staple of horror movies (but it still annoys me, since that is lazy writing).
8. The CDC wouldn't be doing a teleconference. They would head in with their doctors. CDC doesn't twiddle their thumbs and look for answers on Google.
Again agreed, but maybe in the movie universe that was not actually the CDC but a cover up operation already going?
9. The town got a pay off to stay silent but the reporter didn't? Who the hell got $ because everyone seemed pretty dead to me. I didn't see any survivors running around except the dentist wife and the reporter. It was also funny because the Mayor didn't get the parasite or at least not yet. he died in a car crash. He drank a nice big glass of water at the festival. The sheriff didn't have it either.
That was just the movie makers covering up a plot hole with a lesser plot hole. Adress what happens to everybody we did NOT see get killed. Also, as above i assume that number of ingested parasites plays a role. Or maybe not all water came from the same source.
10. The CDC tells you to get out while your not infected and the doctor stays anyway. I think a smart doctor would take the advice of the CDC when they say "I am surprised you don't have it yet. You and staff should leave." You haven't saved a patient yet and you know they are right but you stay anyway Plus, everyone outside of the hospital had the parasite crawling out of them. Yet the people in the hospital just died with out no visible parasitic crustaceans.
Well, doctors (and most medical personal) are sworn to the Hippocratic oath, which means you have to help, no matter what, if you can. The doc stayed maybe because he already was infected and knew as much. There were no nurses or other docs when he made the final transmission. As to the deaths of the others, i do not know...
Please keep in mind, i am not defending this movie in any way, i just have fun closing plot holes in my mind with somewhat reasonable explanations. I know they are far fetched and not spelled out, but that is enough for me. Things that annoy me about movies are just bad plots, bad acting, bad storytelling. I can forgive plot holes, as long as they make in-universe sense. And as you can see, sometimes it can be fun to close these holes with in-universe explanations as well :)
I did not think this was lower than a 4 (of 10), but not better than a 5. Okay time waster, but could have been better and will be forgotten in a few weeks. (Unless i again will have such a great time discussing it here :)
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