Was the military always intending to kill everyone in that room? They sure had no problem shooting innocent people after the one guy caused a ruckus. It could have been easily avoided by taking the guy causing the problems outside to deal with him.
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I had the same question. If there had not been any type of disturbance, what would they eventually have done with all those adults.
shareIn the book there was no altercation, they took them in there to kill them.
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I was confused with that scene as well. I watched this on a plane and was slightly distracted. I was curious how Cassie saw all the civilians dead, the army walk out relatively unscathed (a few casualties), and not think the Army was bad. And then wants to go save Ben but doesn't seem to think at first that anything would happen.
Over maybe I missed something?
It could have been one of those agents that started the mess on purpose so that they would just kill them all. There was "others" who were part of the army who were killed. The whole alien thing just didn't make much sense honestly.
THERES NO ROOM IN MY CIRCUS TENT FOR YOU !!!!
Yes. The young girl explains later the steps take by the aliens to annihilate the planet. Another thread discusses the mirror of what the US Army did to the American Indian tribes, and the same rules applied there as to how they are explained in the film. Destroy the weak. Mitigate the strong, and then reprogram the young.
shareJust the typical anti military BS outta H-Wood. Peter Gibbons, your Band of Brothers self is ashamed.
shareLooks like you don't know anything about history if you think that soldiers wouldn't gladly do exactly what they did in that scene.
shareLooks like you don't know anything about the military if you think they would. Just another *beep* talking out their ass about *beep* they no nothing about.
shareyou missed the whole American History thing then. Big talk, no brains.
shareAmerican history?!?!
Please stop this stupid politically correct trend of blaming the bad whites (!?!?!) vs the poor natives. EVERYONE did exactly the same thing: Hutu vs tutsi, chinese vs ALL minorities, Japs in China, Mongols, Romans vs celts, Turks vs armenians, and of course so called natives vs natives.
Looks like you don't know anything about the military if you think they would.
When has the US military ever mass executed the general population? Please inform us dumb ass. This wasn't the SS hit squad of the Nazi regime. Stop defending this poor excuse of a movie. Are you one of those old creepy losers that is fascinated with young adult movies? Make sure to keep kids away from you.
State champ in martial arts. Trained with firearms. Don't be a keyboard warrior.
Umm, your country was founded upon genocides? Starting from your beloved Christopher Columbus raping and murdering. To the ARMY and others carrying out massacres of the First Nations/Native Americans. Type in Massacres of Native Americans into Wikipedia you have 51 right there. The kids were taken from their families and thrown in residential schools. Or they were killed by disease. I have read pre-European contact that historians estimate there were 100 million indigenous people on the Americas... and after they took over, I've heard like 6-8 million. There is no high horse to be on, sorry.
shareUmm, your country was founded upon genocides? Starting from your beloved Christopher Columbus raping and murdering. To the ARMY and others carrying out massacres of the First Nations/Native Americans. Type in Massacres of Native Americans into Wikipedia you have 51 right there. The kids were taken from their families and thrown in residential schools. Or they were killed by disease. I have read pre-European contact that historians estimate there were 100 million indigenous people on the Americas... and after they took over, I've heard like 6-8 million. There is no high horse to be on, sorry.
If you want something more resent: My Lai massacre.
shareThey weren't "the real military." They were aliens who of course planned on killing the adults and every other human. Weird how people missed something so extremely obvious that was laid out at the end.
shareI think yes, just not in the way it happened. I imagine they would have had each person walk one at a time to a tent, a "testing center", where they would be quietly killed and the bodies disposed of. Or they would go from the testing center to a bus, but they don't tell you if the bus you're on is for the ones who passed or the ones who failed. During transport they would be killed.
I wanted to shout at her at some points to PICK UP THINGS! Sure, she picked up the weapon from the dead soldier, but she didn't check him to get extra clips or go back after calming down to get any extra supplies left at the camp.
Also, I was annoyed at how no matter how many days she had spent walking, her hair was always clean and her face scrubbed. I'm sure he wouldn't have minded if she jumped in the lake after him to get some of the odor out of her clothes. Oh, well. Maybe in the sequel (if it gets made).
Did you watch the film?
MASSIVE SPOILER UNDER THE BELOW, not seen the film? DO NOT READ
The army were the bad guys, so yes, they intended to kill everyone