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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 291914" data-attributes="member: 63">Okay, I screamed like a little girl when that hand reached out of the grate.  My girlfriend just cursed, but I shrieked.  When they get out of the cellar, and go up into the living room, and you hear the cheers on the TV, and then Mel Gibson turns off the TV and wheels it into the living room, I knew something was about to happen.  I was expecting it to be one of those downer endings . . . he unplugs it, wheels it in, and then plugs it back in to hear the screams as the aliens return with reinforcements, having figured out that the humans are too great a threat, or something.Instead, you see . . . it.  I read a few reviews of the movie, where the reviewers said they didn't know why the main characters didn't panic and run.  But I know.  When I saw that thing in the reflection, I was too terrified.  I almost couldn't move, and my whole body was tensed in nervousness.  Everyone waits, trying to decide what to do, until the main character recalls his wife's last words.And then, his brother grabs the bat.  Ah, that was the most gratifying fight scene I have ever witnessed.  For the whole frikkin' movie, I've been scared white as a sheet, and then at the end, I get to watch mankind beat the crap out of that alien.  Whoowee!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Okay, so aside from it being a deeply pleasing beatdown, and a great culmination of all the tension throughout the movie (quite possibly the scariest movie I've ever seen), the ending was just a great fit to the rest of the movie.  It wasn't so much of a twist ending; it was more like, "Oh my God, it all makes sense. . . .  And we got you now, bitch!"Y'know I can barely recall the end of the movie, after the kid revives from the shot.  I know Graham Hess heads out in his pastor robes, but I can't recall if there was anything else.  Also, someone above mentioned Mel Gibson seeing something outside his window (just before boarding up his room), but they didn't actually show what was out there, did they?  I don't recall.The movie was somewhat personal for me; I mean, I suppose everyone has a crisis of faith at some point, and I'm just thankful that mine only required a girlfriend for me to figure out my faith, rather than an alien invasion.</blockquote>

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