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Plot hole galore

posted 5 months ago by leader (1962)
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The movie suffered from some logical inconsistencies and the alien movie trope that militaries have to be absolutely incompetent.

They clearly were able to operate aircraft and drones and understood they are attracted to noise. Yet they didn't corall the monsters to isolate them (also, in the previous movies a year on, militaries didn't realize to use sound weapons... on creatures deadly focused on sound).

It's also weird how the creatures don't attack the noise they make themselves. They clearly communicate with each other, but what about when they knock something over with their body.

As much as I enjoy the films, I've also thought the monsters should have just been magic. It's too hard for me to justify their existence due to how they break physics.

I fully believe a modern military could absolutely take down the monsters from a quiet place. Even with the initial chaos slowing them down. A modern navy would fortify a few islands and then slowly work on defeating the creatures with all their weapons.

Hell, they could have aircraft blasting music to draw creatures away if it came to it and bomb areas.

But none of that happens.

[–] Rorikon (17872) 5 months ago

Agreed on point one. They could've corralled them into a dam or something to drown all of them since they hate water and can't survive under it. They also have nukes that can be used on the aliens or to create huge tidal waves onto a city.

Second point is that the creatures are blind and hunt via sound and echolocation. They can filter out certain irrelevant frequencies and sorta see like Daredevil via echolocation frequencies. Consider the fact that your nose is always in your field of vision, but unless you are focusing on seeing it, your brain filters it out.

[–] dragondrool (1) 5 months ago

I believe that they did attempt to corral the monsters. They blew up all of the bridges leading into and out of Manhattan Island. They just had no problem with sacrificing all of the people on the island in the process.

[–] Breeze (134) 5 months ago

Good points. This movie series requires you to turn off your brain and accept an INCREDIBLE level of incompetence in the world's various leadership/military complexes. Flatly, the sequence of events would simply Not Happen. For all the reasons you list, plus some others. . .

Ah well. There has yet to be a really accurate depiction of an apocalyptic event/response scenario in a major film/TV series. This movie is not as utterly absurd as (for instance) The Walking Dead, but hopefully someday we'll get a world-building effort that actually makes sense. Fingers crossed. . .

[–] leader (1962) 5 months ago

I want an installment of this franchise where humanity fights back and kills these aliens for good. Now that would be good tv.

[–] SlackerInc (1101) 5 months ago

Almost all zombie fiction features incredibly incompetent militaries as well. Something I liked about WWZ.

[–] JustinUK (49) 5 months ago

I think this film shows the military coping too well. In the first two movies it looks like the world has been overcome. Few humans left, no aircraft in the skies. And yet here we have a military coping and understanding the enemy. I can’t imagine how it went from this to Armageddon.

[–] acelesson (791) 5 months ago

I figured they would nuke the major metro areas like every other one of these types of movies do. I was happy they avoided that trope