If shot guns kill this creatures
why don't they carry the one around all the time and have more than one?
shareWell they might now that they learnt in the last few scenes at the end of the movie that a certain type of feedback frequency noise from hearing aids cause the creatures distress which they didn't know before. As in they now know it interfered with the creatures internal biological frequencies freezing them in their tracks and opening their armour for a minute or so giving enough time to blast them to that open armour.
So a portable device could likely be made now that can be carried and played when they come across them, likely wouldn't even need a shotgun, a powerful hand gun would even do the trick once the armour is compromised. Basically it is not that the shotgun would work on it's own, only that compromising the armour and the creatures themselves with a frequency of sound they couldn't handle made the shotgun a viable way to kill them.
Though in reality, now they have that knowledge it would be easier to arm barns up across the country set noise to attract them in and then set off the feedback frequency noise and blast them all as they're trapped stunned for a minute or so ... be a rather short movie though.
Well, using a shot gun would have saved them about 500 days of terror and possibly saved a child.
shareIf they knew that certain type of feedback frequency noise the hearing aid made interfered with the creatures internal biological frequencies freezing them in their tracks and opening their armour, they probably would have used that and a shotgun in the first 499 or so days, but they didn't because they didn't know.
There are a ton of things wrong with this film, however a shotgun blast killing them at the end of the movie is not one of them as it happened because of something they didn't know worked on them until that latter point in the film.
Well, the creatures are organic, and no way the armor plating is impervious to everything. Maybe 12-gauge shot can't penetrate, but I bet depleted uranium armor piercing rounds (what A-10s shoot) can. They look air breathing, so they can also be poisoned. There are acid that will eat right through organic matter. Not as glaring as "Signs", where we find out the creatures can be killed by something that covers 70% of the planet, but movies like this requires a little suspension of disbelief, and given that, it was an enteraining moviie.
shareYeah that's true, however that the Armed Forces of the world couldn't destroy them was a bit out there for mine.
I had a lot of problems with the movie and most of it was because it centred around just the 3 in the family, so it was difficult not to put myself in their place. For instance besides they were able to make that dug out in the barn to keep the baby without making noise to attract the creatures, they also never tested it to see if it was soundproof before the baby was born. As I said there are many other things that worked me and because I put myself in their place I just couldn't suspend my disbelief.
In a way I enjoyed it though, it was to me like how you can enjoy D-Grade films like Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes or an old Australian 1984 film called Razorback and those types (especially in the 70's). I can also imagine like Elaine in Seinfeld mocking Meryl Streep for A Dingo Ate My Baby in A Cry in the Dark, parts of this film being mocked like that, so yeah there is entertainment value in it for me, not just what the makers wanted.