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Good movie with a ludicrous ending...(spoilers)

posted 12 years ago by maskirovka77
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I thought this was a pretty engaging flick right up to the very ending where they had the "evil government" or "evil corporation" or combination thereof step up and be responsible for what happened to the town.

And the idea that the evil government/corporation would be willing and able to spray a town with cyanide and murder 900 people is so crazy that it's right up there with people who think "9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB!!!"

I can only think that this movie was made during a time when the country still was recovering from Vietnam and Watergate and people believed the government/corporations were capable of anything.

A lot better ending would have perhaps shown them just not knowing what had happened in the town but having a few ideas.

Also, the movie never made it clear whether Tilly's character succumbed to the toxin (evidenced by her running down the guy who had just killed her boyfriend) or not.

[–] dullboy66 12 years ago

Tilly's character had stated early in the film that she "never drinks that stuff" when her father poured her a glass of milk at supper. I gathered that she killed the guy with her truck because she just saw him shoot her boyfriend and this showed that passionate, impulsive actions were possible even without a toxin. She had just lost the last person that meant anything to her, she was in a town where reason and consequence were non-existent, and she didn't even believe escape was possible. I'm wondering if that last shot of her walking away in the sunset wasn't a scene tacked on at the suggestion of the producers to leave with some bit of hope before running the credits. Seems to me like her intention was to kill herself along with the government man during the car crash.

[–] milkhole213 11 years ago

Not ludicrous at all. Just a couple of examples pasted from wikipedia:

In 1955, the CIA conducted a biological warfare experiment where they released whooping cough bacteria from boats outside of Tampa Bay, Florida, causing a whooping cough epidemic in the city, and killing at least 12 people.

In 1956 and 1957, several U.S. Army biological warfare experiments were conducted on the cities of Savannah, Georgia and Avon Park, Florida. In the experiments, Army bio-warfare researchers released millions of infected mosquitoes on the two towns, in order to see if the insects could potentially spread yellow fever and dengue fever. Hundreds of residents contracted a wide array of illnesses, including fevers, respiratory problems, stillbirths, encephalitis, and typhoid. Army researchers pretended to be public health workers, so that they could photograph and perform medical tests on the victims. Several people died as a result of the experiments.

[–] winshark 10 years ago

Is there a scene in this movie where a person is found dead in a store and a character says the person looks like they swallowed a soccer ball. I saw a movie when I was little, but I only vaguely recall a few things from it. I remember it involved some kind of cover-up in a town. Could this be the movie?

[–] Roger_Stoles 9 years ago

Sounds like Alien Predators, aka Mutant 2

[–] Cavitation 10 years ago

The government is good. The government is our friend.

"Baba Booey! Baba Booey!"

[–] Dan_Garten 8 years ago

Oh.