The Judas breed was a cross of termite and mantid DNA, right? And it operated by secreting a toxic enzyme, right? So WHY do they miraculously evolve into these killer mimics? Did I miss that in the movie, or did they just ignore this critical detail?
I also think using the autistic boy was pretty weak. Rainman was good and in Cube it was purposeful, here it's just cliched.
She DOES explain why they evolve into mimic killers. She says the reason they evolve so rapidly is because she dramatically increased their metabolism which in turn dramatically increased their evolutonary scale. Adn she said some bugs while evolve to mimic their predators or prey, thus since they evolved so rapidly, they evolved to mimic based on their prey. HUMANS! *gasp*
And yea, the kid was lame, but I still love the movie.
that explains HOW they evolved but it doesn't explain WHY they turn into such huge versions of themselves and decide to kill humans.
also, if they are so advanced, why can't they see very well, or remember more than like a second - for example, they are attacking the train carriage where all the humans are, then the humans smear bug secretion on the windows and cracks and they stop attacking..
ok so the bugs are attacking, then they stop.. so to them it must have been like 'yay lets kill all the humans in this hear train carriage.. oh wait, the humans have now turned into insects! they certainly smell like them at least.. let's just leave them alone' .. hmm.
also when the guy with glasses is in the little passage way he's crawled down, and a bug comes to him and looks him up and down then moves on.. yeah can't he see it's not some insect but infact the very thing they are supposed to be so adept at mimicing?
as for how good they are at mimicing (you'd think they'd be great at it, seeing as it gives the movie it's title..) i really don't think they'd be that hard to spot.. i mean they might look like a human in silhoutte.. but thats about where the similiarity ends.
ahh well.
"also, if they are so advanced, why can't they see very well, or remember more than like a second - for example, they are attacking the train carriage where all the humans are, then the humans smear bug secretion on the windows and cracks and they stop attacking..
ok so the bugs are attacking, then they stop.. so to them it must have been like 'yay lets kill all the humans in this hear train carriage.. oh wait, the humans have now turned into insects! they certainly smell like them at least.. let's just leave them alone' .. hmm."
Well that how insects 'think'. While the bugs have got bigger, they still just think as bugs. The insects in mimic are social insects, like termites and ants. Most termites can't see anything and most ants are harldy able to see. One of the reasons is that sight simply isn't that important. What's by far most important is smell, social insects communicate through complex chemical messages they produced and are smelled by others. It's not like the insect think: 'hey they were humans but now they turned into humans!' Its more like this: every single smell causes a respons in the insects brain, as if they don't even think about it, it just causes responses. They don't have complex thoughts, its more like a simple computer. So first they smell something that isn't an insect, they attack it, then they smell it's one of them, and the respons is to leave it alone. They don't think 'transformation' because they could never form such complex thoughts, they could never think the concept 'transformation'.
Its funny to see how certain species co-evolved with ants and are able to 'break the smell-code'. There are certain small spiders that are able to mimic the smell of certain ants. When they see ants carrying eggs, they walk up to it and they start pull the eggs out of the jaws of the ants. The respons of the ant is to not let go and to, initially, try to stop the spider. But eventually the smell of the spider lets the ant think its not a predator, but just another ant of its own colony. So when the spider, which is stronger than the ant, wins and pulls the eggs away from the ant, the ant 'thinks': 'everything's okay, he's part of my group' and forgets about it and the spider has a nice dinner.
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About the autistic boy, I thought it was pretty clever. I'm not sure but I think they implied that, since he was pretty good with making clicking sounds with his spoons, he was able to 'mimic' the Judas breed's clicking language, which perhaps is the reason why he was in their nest but was still alive, like how the others were able to mimic the Judas breed with the bug's odor, the boy could recreate their sounds.
Pretty good movie in my opinion, way better than 90% of all creature features.