What happened to the SWAT team?
Three armed troopers boarded the ship in Chicago and never re-appeared. Unless I dozed off (highly likely) there was no explanation.
"Make me a baby!
Make me a star!
Leave my coffin slightly ajar!"
- Lesley Gore
Just now getting around to watching this on the DVR. From what I could see, they never actually went on board the ship. It looks like they were standing right outside the hull when that energy field spiked and it disintegrated them like it did the guy at the airfield and the people standing at the base of the building in Chicago.
shareSee to me that was very confusing. I thought all those you mentioned got zapped into the ship like the country bumpkin deputy did. I kept waiting for them to reappear but then slowly started to think maybe they did get disintigrated. That was very poorly conveyed.
shareThat's what I thought was the movie's weakness: nonsensical things just happened with no explanation. For example, the young sheriff kid touched the ship and it transported him inside but anyone else touching it just plain disappeared forever or got disintegrated or who knows what.
Also in the original, the experimental equipment aboard the Eldridge was still powered on and thus the reason the experiment was going haywire. In the remake, they never explained if the Eldridge was still powering the experiment, they just said that if the navy dude got back on the ship then it would return to it's own time and the world would not be destroyed, implying that everything was going wrong simply because Bill the navy guy left the ship. Or something.
It's just sad that the writers and director started with such a highly entertaining movie, and rather than build on what made it so good in the first place, they created a giant turd of a film that made no sense and was filled with douchey characters that I wanted to punch in the face.
Just my two cents ;)