Dont understand why you wouldn't have traps around the house. You could easily make deadfalls and put radios or whatever else at the bottom to lure these monsters to the traps. There were only 3 confirmed in the area. Why not go on the offensive?
shareThey didn't know how to kill them. [Spoiler]They ended up needing that ear peice signal to have them drop their defenses...[/spoiler]
shareAnd yet, by the end of the film, we discover that to kill them, you only need to shoot them in the face.
And yet, the whole humanity was massacred before discovering that fact - fascinating.
They seemed to only be vulnerable to headshots when their face armour is open and their innards are exposed...
But if you need this level of detail and explanations then horror movies probably aren't for you...
However, they knew they were sensitive to sound. Yet the engineer dad didn't experiment with that. [spoiler]And as it seems, even a dog whistle would have worked just great for self defence.[/spoiler]
shareI think there was something specific about the frequency of the feedback from the daughter's hearing aid that affected the monsters (in that sense, more than just using a "dog whistle" or any high-pitched sound against them).
And as for knowing about the aliens having super-hearing, I took it that that discovery wasn't made until civilization had almost collapsed because the last newspaper headline we saw revealed it but it could have been too late at that point to help most of humanity.
Still very doubtful that a newspaper company incl. people that ship/deliver them survived longer than the military doing experiments on how to destroy those things.
shareThe predicament is mostly speculation because there's information we weren't given, such as exactly how many meteorites with these things fell to earth, how quickly they reproduce, etc.
share3 in the area with a ? mark on white board.
shareThose things were insanely fast, powerful enough to rip through structures, and fully armored. Trapping one of those monsters(especially without having a clue of how to kill it) would be foolhardy!
shareYet not powerful enough to rip open the truck's rooftop JUST MINUTES AFTER they ripped open a silo. Either that or the alien was kind enough to let the dad say his goodbyes and tell emo girl that he loved her in a corny and dramatical way.
shareOnly 3 confirmed.
[spoiler]Dozens were swarming the house in the last scene.[/spoiler]
There wasn't dozens in the last scene. We saw 2 scurrying across the field on one monitor and then another monitor showed 2 more, although it's likely that those were the same 2 we saw initially and they were just caught by the other monitor as they moved towards the house.
shareSetting traps would have been a good idea as a defense to give them time if a noise brought them to the house. It's weird they didn't do something like that; however it's possible that making those traps would have been too noisy to make it feasible to use traps as an offensive strategy since they didn't know how to kill them even if trapped.
The only trap you'd need would be an abandoned house, some dynamite, a remote detonator, and an alarm clock.
Place the dynamite in the basement (packing some paint cans full of nails around it, just for good measure), along with the alarm clock set to go off in 10 minutes, and then hide a few hundred yards from the house. When the alarm clock goes off, wait for the creatures to arrive and go into the house.
Boom (goes the dynamite).
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Yeah that sounds great if dynamite and nails would be sufficient to penetrate their armor.
There's just not enough info to say it's faulty logic. Obviously the lack of info is purposeful. It helps keep costs contained and saves the people making the movie the time and headaches of coming up with a more detailed world.
Yeah that sounds great if dynamite and nails would be sufficient to penetrate their armor
Why? They're aliens. We're not told what their armor is made of, or even if those were the only type of alien creature.
If you're accepting that aliens land on the planet it's not a huge leap to accept that their armor could be virtually indestructible. Again they're fricking aliens from space that landed on earth via meteors iirc. Even that would suggest that their armor would be incredibly durable considering the speed and heat generated when entering earth atmosphere.
And yet, they can be killed by a single shotgun blast. The movie clearly showed they opened their armor quite frequently. So all you need is a video feed, letting you know when their armor is open, so you know when to detonate the dynamite.
Considering the plight of the survivors, it's insane to think they wouldn't try something like this. Even if it didn't work, it would make the creatures more tentative about entering houses.
I think it's insane that you're spending this much time debating plot points of a movie you didn't like.
I think it's insane that you think because I'm debating a plot point, I didn't like the movie.
Your posts are asinine.
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I thought it was clear the monster at the end was only vulnerable because it opened its face armor, which it only did because of the hearing aid feedback. If it had its shell closed, the pellets would have bounced off its face and left it without a scratch.
shareThe armor was being opened before the feedback too, it seem to use it to increase hearing.
shareWe dont know if they are aliens, but they are clearly rather weak, as we can see from their inability to fight a ford truck. They also seems to be pretty dumb and easy to distract, something the characters did not use enough of at all.
Its absolutely an issue to accept the armor is indestructible, since we are shown it can be destroyed. And even if it was, containment would be easy since they seem to have poor strenght and can be easily lured into traps.
Punji stick pit trap? Get them to fall 6-8 feet onto sharp sticks? Bonus points if you can use sharpened metal stakes, perhaps with fishhook type barbs that keep the stakes embedded?
Maybe have the pit filled with something flammable and toss in a lit torch or Molotov cocktail? Bonus points for some explosive or homemade thermite or napalm?
Do we have any electricity? Livestock electric fences can be run off a car battery, so an electrical fence might be useful for maintaining a safe zone of some decent size. If you could get clever somehow and multiply the power delivered it might be fatal.
What about heavy dropped objects like a log or something?
I think there’s a lot of ways to combined trapping and some kind of damage.
These aliens survived the destruction of their homeworld, drifted through interstellar space for who knows how long (probably in a hibernation state), then went through an atmospheric entry and impact - the movie's creator said their armor is harder than diamond and they're nearly indestructible until they expose themselves. We saw how their claws sliced through a thick steel door like it was cardboard. Hard to see what kind of homemade trap would be able to hold one. And with the temperature extremes we know they can survive, flaming liquids wouldn't do much more than piss them off.
The effect they have on electrical equipment, causing slight power fluctuations, means they've probably got significant currents flowing somewhere inside them (i.e. it's an induction effect). High voltage electricity might hurt them, or it might do nothing. Strong magnetic fields might be effective. Or also do nothing.
Obviously the sonic weapon is the way to go. You use high frequency shriekers to make them uncover their vulnerable insides, a reflexive response to the pain, then put a bullet in their heads.
Id like to point out given how much power they had - electricity seems to be a nonissue. Since a generator would be loud i assume they are a progressive farmer family with solar panels or something. To be honest solar panels is one of the best inventions as far as post-apocalypse survival goes. Decades of easy to maintain power generation. At small loads you could make do. Certainly in an emergency situation.
shareBatteries are the weak point for solar, your batteries will likely go bad before your solar panels do. You're then limited to power consumption in the daytime.
shareWhile true, we know that this type of batteries can last for at least 10 years as we got them working like that. Its a reasonable timeframe to give them time to find a way to combat the monsters and adjust thier life to lower power consumption.
shareI guess this discussion attracted an unique group of audience. Normal people would just ask "No tanks? No special forces?" instead.
shareGiven how the creature was incapable of defeating even a ford truck, even a light armored vehicle would be able to easily steamroll them.
shareRight, a light armored vehicle with a sound frequency devices would be better. Assuming that genious scientists in the military would figure that out in no time.
shareBecause plot demands stupid characters, otherwise it would not be an intereting movie. Unfortunatelly this movie had characters be TOO stupid.
sharei agree that the writers think we (the audience) are idiots for just swallowing a shaky premise.
of course any normal family would at least try a trap or two instead of making babies.
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Not really. Although most of the audience in this thread, including OP, do seem to be idiots because they missed out on key plot points on how the monsters worked.
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