3 things that bugged me... (Spoiler Alert)

I also realized the movie started day 89 when they lost the little boy, the fast forward to four hundred something, so that means the pregnancy wasn't before it all started. Which then makes me say maybe in this world, where every little mistake is costly, maybe you don't go on a training expedition near her due date? Few weeks early, few weeks late, it happens all the time, this was the month you stay close to your wife.

and once it happened what was the alternative? Trying to perform an abortion is kind of risky when you don't know what you are doing.

They lost a child. Sometimes when a couple loses a child, they feel a need to have another one.

The more I think about it, the demise of the first boy doesn't make much sense. They trusted him to run around a super market, they trusted him to go "fetch your mother." Which means they've been used to living like this, and the boy has been educated, he knows not to make a sound. He's smart! Then when he had the spaceship in his hands, all of a sudden, you hear this tense music, and the father had to slowly remove the spaceship and remove the batteries as if dismantling a bomb. Why all of a sudden did the boy turn dumb? LOL! And again, they walk ahead of the boy, and the "all of a sudden" dumb boy grabs the batteries and the rest is history.

Tense movie, I enjoyed it. But a lot of the methods to create the tension were contrived.

What about the corn in the silo? Would that be worse than quicksand and one could drown in it? It could be if the silo was open, but I'm not sure how it became open.

I wasn't sure how the creature got into the sound proof room. Wouldn't it have to move the mattress? As it was walking down the stairs, wouldn't it have stepped on the nail?

While the movie had tension and a good story, the stupid things mentioned made me give it a 7. I'll give it higher if there is an explanation.

Exactly. I thought as much but it was effective little piece.

I'm sorry, but if I was with John Krasinski id be getting knocked up left and right!

I actually saw the getting pregnant as part of them trying to live a normal life or trying to live positively as if this situation would be over soon. There were several other scenes that illustrate this like the boy being basically homeschooled and learning things like mathematics. It seemed very much like they were trying to be as "normal" and hopeful as possible.

I'm probably wrong here, but I got the feeling they were a religious family (mormon or something, obviously farmers so maybe the bible belt) so maybe that's why they didn't use protection or try to abort. Remember they prayed at the dinner table.

I missed that... I did not see the mother warning or gesturing to the kids about the nail. Maybe it was very subtle.

In relation to point 2... Survival of the species dude... That's what humans have done for centuries after disasters, wars and plagues in order to get to our generation...

#2 ... Well maybe the husband thought that opening up the condom package would be too noisy??

(just kidding)..

1) As for the pregnancy.. well, i was an EMT, and delivered a few kids.. It's not a quiet procedure at all - especially if you don't have full staff, and a surgery room. The noise of a child emerging from the uterus is quite loud.. A "slippery" noise of a human fetus separating from another human being. I don't know if the director knew this or not. He did have a child with Blunt, so i'm sure he must have dismissed this very critical detail.

2) If he was NOT in the operating room. Maybe he should have done his research.. There's plenty on YouTube..

3) I've been in the medical field for a long time. From EMT to higher levels. There was never a time, in my experience, let alone other physicians, where a woman didn't cry out in pain, or to grunt to push the kid out. Even if a woman has never been pregnant - they can tell you a least a bit what it's like when they have their monthly (cramps). And it's not something you can just "bear in silence" - if they don't have something to alleviate the pain..

4) She had great expressions? But even her moving around in the bathtub would have alerted the alien. Hell, if a walking raccoon on soft ground can get snatched.. then i'm sure a woman writhing around in a bathtub, can definitely get it's attention.

The beginning of the movie - i thought that was strange as hell, if the audience already knew the premise of the content, and the director has this kid zipping around the store, climbing up on shelves, and tipping stuff off accidentally. Well.. it's obvious he's trolling the suspense crap..

Also, when the deaf daughter, leaped down on her knees to catch the item, he tipped off the shelf? Sorry, she's no "banta" weight. Which means, if she pulled a "Gene Kelly" - dropped and slid on her knees to catch whatever he tipped over - that would have been the end of the movie right there..

2. Reasonable to get preggorz but the fact that he took her out with the kid when she could go into labor at ANY GIVEN TIME just shows what a horrible husband, dad, parent he is.