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Uhh, one little problem...

posted 11 years ago by sonofagun
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When the professor's daughter first sees the spaceship, she walks right up to it. Next the professor and the hero does the same. Nobody seems afraid to approach the ship UNTIL Enid is kidnapped; then the hero doesn't think to go to the ship to rescue her - just leaves her there, instead diddling around looking for help - some hero!

Oh and another - the hero is told (at 9:30) he has until 11 to try his rescue attempt before military action is taken against the ship, so what does he do? He wastes time sitting around to write up his newspaper story! Duh!

Well, it is just a movie but these do strike me as being shall we say, slightly illogical?

[–] sonofagun 11 years ago

Oh, another - when Enid was kidnapped why didn't the hero just go out to the ship with a gun and shoot "the man"? Instead he left her out there for hours(?) - geez, anything could have happened to her!

[–] Jakealope 11 years ago

Or in the awesome rescue scene, why didn't the hero pull the gun the cop gave him and blast the alien? He could have emptied it all into him from behind

What are they doing? Why do they come here?
Some kind of instinct, memory, what they used to do.

[–] highwaystar50 10 years ago

First off, the ship moved - no one knew where it went until search parties were formed to look for the missing villagers. Second, no one knew the power of the weaponry that the visitor had - besides the mind control. There was the possibility that anyone approaching the craft could become enslaved like the villagers were that were already captured. Thirdly, I expect that the hero had his plan already while he was finishing off his report. He knew, from his experience with the professor, that people under the spell of "the man" could still be directed by anyone giving a command. He had to finish his report in case he didn't make it out alive. That's the way I saw it at any rate.
KS