Jamarcus should not have been an alien

I agree that there could have been other ways that the aliens weakness could be discovered. Kind of like in Mars Attacks! a rogue alien doesn't tell them that that old lady's music will make their heads explode. They find out by accident. Not only does Jamarcus reveal the weakness of the aliens, he also reveals to the watch squad the alien's plan to take over earth. Without that piece of information, the end of the movie couldn't happen. There are other ways this could have been discovered but it would have made the movie too long. I like the idea of Jamarcus not knowing how to disengage the device at the end of the movie. It actually explains why he is excited about the orb blowing things up. He is just a commoner. He's not a scientist. For example, I'm a commoner. I don't fire bazookas on a regular basis. Blowing some stuff up would be a crazy experience for me. For all we know, he could work some sort of alien hot dog stand which requires no intelligence or orb fire at all. He doesn't know everything like every other alien in every other alien movie. In the backyard maybe he's scared because he knows that alien and knows he's a jerk or maybe he doesn't know the alien and doesn't know how he will behave in front of humans. He could also be afraid of blowing his cover. At that point in the movie, motive for his character might be trying to make sure the watch squad isn't actually on to the aliens plan.

It would have been nice if you had a spoiler warning in your title :(

I think there were changes in the script made quite late. Whether Jamarcus should have been an alien or not. [spoilers] He was foreshadowed as an alien almost from the beginning, e.g.the only black person in the movie. Also Billy Crudup was set up to be an alien, partly by the bad makeup and then they switched it up and then they didn't go through with it.

First and foremost it makes no sense to have one alien turn on and kill his own entire race just because he didn't like a couple of them or because he liked or pitied Earthlings so much.

It still works to have Jamarcus be an alien. Near the end when he was marvelling at the transmitter he said he doeesn't have a clue about how it works, just like all human's dont know what makes an iphone tick. When they found the orb, it was likely that he had no idea what it was.

He would have posed for the pictures in order to fit in and not blow his cover.

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is Jamarcus a real name?

What was the point of his character (or any of the others) anyway? So he likes humans so he wants to help them (just because his life centres around having his balls (that belong to the skin of a dead guy he is wearing) sucked?). What a stupid movie. That bit of the plot wasn't even the worst.