who sent the distress call? None of the humans seem to have sent it and maybe the screamers would have figured it out? Or did I just miss it in the long drawn out boring bits?
And am I the only one that thinks they could have found a better way to explain why the guy blew up his ship on reentry? Felt so dang forced on them trying to find a plausible explanation...
Havent you watched the 1995 Screamers? In the end of that movie is your explanation to your question ''why he blew his ship up''
And in the new movie they didnt know what really happened to him, it was said that earth mission controll didnt understand what he was talkin in the radio, before the explosion.
So they had no clue what happened on that planet or what type of robots were there. Or why he crashed his ship.
Did you actually watch the film? The first group were humans, and were foraging. When the one survivor reached the shelter he pressed the button which sent the emergency distress call.
And like the rest of the film, whose big fault was predictability, it was perfectly obvious that Hendrickson had had screamers on board, à la Alien, so he destroyed the ship to prevent them from getting to Earth.
At the end of Screamers, the main character was on the escape pod to earth but he still had the teddy bear from the little boy that was a screamer. They showed the knife come out of the teddy bear so I'm guessing he figured out the teddy bear was a screamer so he blew himself up to keep the screamers off of earth. If you saw the 1st you knew why. If you didn't then that can lead to feeling like you missed out. I guess they didn't want to outright saw what happened so you would go watch the original.
As for the distress call, I wished they showed what happened to that one guy that sent it. It felt like it was put in to get the story going and they just didn't feel like explaining what happened.
Also, at some point in 'the hunting' they mention that different screamer varieties were in fact fighting each other. The objective to kill all life could have inspired some screamers to be proactive and hatch a plan to bring more victims to them by using the distress call (an extension of on varieties' strategy to call for help to lure victims) or to initiate the master plan of destroying life at it's source - earth. We as the audience are not in the position to find out everything, lots of possible scenarios could fit.
We'll be landing under fire gentlemen. Men will die.
If you re-check the beginning, you'll see that it's the same loverboy screamer (Guy) who sent the original distress signal. Obviously, the screamers are looking for fresh blood, and logically a ticket to Earth.