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Great film but a few questions... (spoilers)

posted 11 years ago by jamarmijo
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First off I thought this movie was completely scary. I couldn't eat fish nonetheless look at it without a twitch of fear for a few days after looking.
BUT, the only thing that just didn't make sense to me was at the beginning
During the crab eating contest when all the men started to vomit. I assume the crab was cooked properly and assuming the crab did contain the bugs the heat from it being cooked would kill it off.

I know this is a minor annoyance but getting infected from the water is completely different then eating a cooked piece of fish. That's why it is cooked. On top of that before fish can be sold it needs to go through inspections for things such as worms. and judging from the added video by the time most fish were caught the bugs were a good size to tell they were infected. So the only main way I see people getting infect was through the water. which I still imagine would take more then a day for these tings to go from Microscopic to the deadly size you see crawling under their skin.

On top of that why didn't they just nuke the town? Like yeah extreme chlorine will kill the bugs in the water, but what about the ones that left the bay and swam out deeper in the ocean. From the movie you can see the husband who wasn't even near the Maryland Shore caught it from his brief swim. what about the surround area. But more importantly. we can tell these things CAN live outside of water. So what about people who died in their home who were just completely infested? once they were done eating wouldn't they just leave the homes and try attacking dear or something?

Thank you

[–] leesa21855 11 years ago

i think we are to assume the crab eaters all ingested the larvae the day before...and magically all the isopods were maturing at the same point. maybe the crap was triggering the isopods to get aggressive idk. i do think its odd they all started freaking out at the same time.

One may tolerate a world full of demons for the sake of an angel

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[–] ComtessaLaRue 11 years ago

You realize the FDA inspects VERY little, and that the majority of that inspection is strictly visual to check if it's "obviously" rotting, right? In 2012, Businessweek reported that only 2.7% of all imported foods are inspected and that .01% of imported seafood is tested for chemical residue. Further, in 2008 the FDA only tested 34 shrimp samples, of which six were found to be positive for carcinogens. #themoreyouknow

[–] casak36 8 years ago

The USDA inspects but certainly not to the degree of cutting open each fish. It's typically visual.

[–] mel2000 9 years ago

I assume the crab was cooked properly and assuming the crab did contain the bugs the heat from it being cooked would kill it off.

Seafood often is not cooked as long as other meats.

Like yeah extreme chlorine will kill the bugs in the water, but what about the ones that left the bay and swam out deeper in the ocean.

The mutant species lived in the brackish waters of the bay and were created with the help of steroids in the runoff from the chicken farm. They might not have been able to survive in the ocean's higher salt content away from their steroid-laden environment.