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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2381115" data-attributes="member: 22622">Popcorn movies have traditionally been pg movies or below.  We're talking about the typical summer you don't need to think movie.  It makes perfect sense.  There was a good national story about how this summer has more pg-13 movies than any previous summer.  In some ways it was the media trying to put out more intelligent movies that people would come out and see (to rebound from their slump).   A pg movie is marketed and written for the whole family.  A pg-13 movie is directed and geared for audiences over 13, an older audience whom can understand more sophisticated plots.  I just don't think that cops should lie to citizens.  And lying to them does not keep the peace.  An ordinary beat cop doesn't know what's under streets.  So he is going to lie to the people for no reason that benefits them.  That was so laughable.   It was clearly Speilberg's way of telling the audience (it is something unnatural. )  All of the people hovering over this spot, he didn't do a good job of clearing the area.  If Spielberg wanted the character to be "another human reacting" he wouldnt have had the cop there.  He clearly made a mistake and wanted this cop to be "the authority figure" and thus the authority on what is and what isn't under the street.  Again, this comes from rushing through filming and production of this movie.  Even I, a novice writer, would have known the scene would have worked better if someone , a city worker, something said that statement,.  It would have added credibility.  As far as the car, earlier someone printed the distance between the two places.  Now, this is me suspending my belief that the mechanic did not remove the fuel from the car (as many mechanics do when they work on cars).  The thing is that it doesnt explain how they drove such a long distance (and we know it was long because of the passage of time -night time when they arrived) without refueling atleast one time.   Pumping gas is not an important thing.  But going to a gas station that has/ or hasn't been effected is an important scene, Speilberg just didn't want to deal with.  If its in the zone, how do they react to his car working, if it isn't in the zone does he stop and get snacks, warn them.  The next scene proves he did not stop at a gas station.  Everyone was hungry and they had no food.  Surely if you're hungry and you stop at a gas station you buy snacks.  Everytime I come back to this thread, I'm imagining the scene from Land of the Dead where the fireworks are being shot into the air and all the zombies stop and stare.  Such a reflection of humanity.  We're so facinated by the pretty pods and light shows, we incline to not see the men on motorcycles with guns.  I'm just not one of those watchers who says screw the story look at the pretty effects.</blockquote>

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