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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hijinks" data-source="post: 2418222" data-attributes="member: 31094">I thought the bodies floating down the river was pretty horrifying.  I don't particularly like gorefest horror films, and I especially don't like gorefest sci-fi films.  I don't need to see entrails and brains to know people died horribly.   Hmm.  I thought the force of being rayed on the nearby beach was blowing the clothes into the sky, to rain down a short distance away.  Could be from a plane though, that would have explained to me why I didn't see any bodies in the earlier plane crash debris and I would never have thought about it again.   I doubt they needed billions of people.  They took what they needed for food, and vaporized the rest.  Also, killing millions instantly is a darn good way of waging warfare - scare the poop out of your enemy and he'll show less resistance. I gave it a 7.  I was very scared during the ferry scene, although I'm terrified of boats so that was part of it.  I agree that the basement scene is a little long, but I thought the blindfold + lullaby song while the dad killed Tim Robbins was emotionally effective.  I was unhappy that the jerk teenaged son survived, although when the mom hugged the little girl and didn't ask about the boy, I knew he was alive, and was disappointed.  I loved the scary foghorn sound - wow that was loud, but again effective. The thing that bothered me the most was the people standing around wondering what was rising out of the ground.  Like they'd never seen a sci-fi film or something.  I would have been halfway to Poughkeepsie by the time the asphalt stopped cracking.  Then after people started getting vaporized, they would still run away half-heartedly, darting glances over their shoulders as they loped away.  'Scuse me, but I'm not looking back, I'm tucking my chin to my chest and running like hell.  That was a little over-the-top dramatic for my tastes. I do agree about the mob mentality - the mob scenes were frightening because I know that's how people would act if this were to really happen.  Dumb, scared sheep, following the herd.</blockquote>

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