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Man I love movies that make me think. Not a fan of this one, though. Here is how I interpreted it;

The aliens are the memories of the people around her, coming back to haunt her as she suppressed her guilt. She has been avoiding her own emotions so long that all of them "became aliens" to her.

She kills the first alien that she encounters the way she killed her best friend. I think the other aliens that came after the first kill represent the other poeple who found out what happened.

The second alien looks for her, and finds her hiding under a table, holding a photograph of her and her best friend. In the past, someone (possibly her mother) understood that something was wrong, and asked her what happened; to which she replied by running away crying. Maybe she even confessed, not sure. She didn't kill this alien - their relationship did not end; and in reality her mother never "abandoned" her till she died.

Then there comes a small alien, possibly representing her best friend's little bborther (that she danced with at the end), attacking her. This might mean that the truth was out in the families and she was getting some hate now. She kills this one - meaning she cut the cords with him, well we obviously see that in the first quarter.

Then there comes a giant alien, who controls a spaceship by making gestures; possibly the cop-dad. Or someone in control. She burns it in a car - cords cut.

The alien that came after that, was checking out her old room, looking like it was trying to understand her. I bet it was a lawyer or something, trying to "put words into her mouth", under the "lights of authority". It could be her own mother too though, not sure. Because only she was understanding towards her.

I believe they were trying to make her loog good in court, or under arrest. When she ripped the little alien creature out of her throat, it was the moment she said "these are all lies, I'm not innocent" or something. When the spaceship shone its light on the ground, they only saw the "new Brynn" inside the little creature; "the authority" only saw "the mellowed plea" and the fake profile of hers that her alien lawyer created. But then she goes on and "kills" this "false profile", choosing to be truthful and rejecting to "act like it's all okay, nothing happened", because doing so hurt her (like a knife to guts). The fake her actually represents the version of her that "looks" innocent, potentially acceptable and loveable by her town - which she would really like; so she puts her down gently, hugging her.

So she finally gets caught and lifted up by the spaceship (probably the police, court etc), but seeing that she was young and regretful, they "let her go". The twist is, she is actually going through a healing process of forgiving herself while all these alien invasion stuff happens, as all these "alien" memories come back to her.

And now it doesn't matter if the town likes her or not; in her head, she is dancing with the whole town (her little version, with Turkish carpets on the streets and all). Because she forgave herself, and now she can be happy, and not anxious all the time because of guilt.

So yeah, I think the whole movie is a metaphor for "accepting, forgiving and moving on" process; and it all happens in her head.

Yet another movie that relies on the stupidity of the characters.

The main girl has seen what these creatures were able to do in the first installment. All of the other three new characters also had encounters with them; so they must also know what they are up against...

But when they decide to go on a mission to kill the queen of these creatures, the only thing that they bring with them is their guns. And not even their brains.

Why the hell would you go inside a tunnel system, which you know is the home of a whole vampire clan, without bringing any UV lights along, while you know that that is their number one enemy...? Why? What did they think would happen? Did the characters really think that it would be fine to walk into the premises of hostile predators freely?

And the whole story is based on this stupidity, and we are suppoesd to buy it.

I aint't. Shut it down the as soon as vampires attacekd the fools. They deserve it.

I was a huge horror fan when I was a kid, still am, and 30 Days of Night was one of my favorites - but I watched it only once. And today, I've watched again it after 15 years. And I'm MAD :D

The atmosphere, the creatures, the set-up, actors - these are all fine. And I know there HAS to be cliche dialogues etc, fine.

But I can't take the sheer stupidity of these characters! First off; if the power station is the safest place, why the f did all the characters waste so much time, energy and resource running from place to place?! Why not go there at the very beginning instead of trying to hide in someone's attic?

Another problem; there are always people who want to be heroes. See a woman on the street? Save her. Yeah there are incredibly powerful creatures out there that can tear you to pieces, but c'mon... We're human. Your daddy's going on a walk? Yeah join him. A little girl's on the streets? Yeah run to her. That'll help you survive.

And why the hell do the vampires scream?! Why?! There is no, and I repeat NO predator animal in the nature that screams while haunting. Why do we people always make everything scream to make it look "scary"?! On the contrary, the predator needs to be silent.

You've got 3 days left, you could just sit on your *ss and wait it out - bu NoOoOoOoOo. Let's go find out what that light is. And while we're out there at eye-sight, the rest of the group can just take off without informing us, while they can freaking see us from the window. The sheer stupidity. Everyone just has a mind of their own and they like it.

And the very vampire who tore like half of the town apart decides to just slap the main character when he has the chance to kill him too... Why?!

And the main girl... God... You got the command from the "walkie-talkie" to get the hell out of there. But NO. Sit there with a kid and watch the man who just sacrificed himself for you lock horns (well claws and teeth in this case) with a bunch of vampires. WHY. JUST FREAKING LEAVE.

In the past, I didn't even notice annoying details like that. But now I just can't ignore them. Wish I didn't watch it again. Still a solid film, though.

I haven't read any comics, watched or listened to anything related to swamp thing before. Now I am on the third episode of this right now, and I have no clue what the hell is going on.

Okay... On the first episode, we see people getting killed or sick because of some vines that grow in the swamp. I mean, those things a re so brutal that they grow inside of the victim and then sprout out of their body from all around, quite disturbingly. We also kind of learn that the swamp "prodces" these vines becuase of a chemical that's been dumped in it. But when Alec jumps into the swamp, the same vines turn him into a powerful creature... Why? Is it because he was dying? No answer.

On the second episode, we see that there is something else in the swamp that is made to be like the antagonist of the "swamp thing", which lives on the bodies of dead people that it enters via a ton of bugs. But we also see that this "bug-dead-man" is not strong enough to battle the "swamp thing" anyways. The swamp creature just gives the command, and the bugs "release" the dead body they were animating... Still, what does all these have to do with the chemicals that's been being dumped into the swamp? No answer. And the wife of the mayor of the town, I guess, continuously sees her long-dead daughter's ghost with bugs and stuff. What does a ghost have to do with over-intelligent vines that started to grow inside a swamp because of some chemicals? By the way, the "swamp thing" gets jelous of the main girl when she dances with a dude... You have spent only 1 freaking day together, you didn't share anything, why bitter? What was all the drama about?!

But on the third episode, all of this goes away and we are introduced to another ancient virus that started to spred from a body, which has been dead for quite a while, through scratches (the skins of this town's folk is as delicate as snowflakes, i tell you). It makes people hallucinate and kill themsleves, etc. What does this have to do with anything?! What is the relation between the chemicals, ghosts, bugs and this old virus that makes people commit suicide? And if this was an "old virus", what does it have to do with the recent chemicals?

I just can't. There seems to be no connection between what are supposed to be "stroylines" AT ALL.

Many questions.

1. Why did the Duke of Saint Carta want to call upon the forces of hell? What was his benefit? Or was he just a lunatic Satan worshipper, and that's what lunatic Satan worshippers do?

2. How could man-made bombs (which have no spiritual, holy or unholy aspects as they are basically pressed explosives) cause the portal (which took the man who built it write and read books for years, sacrifice people, and do a ritual to open it, while it also took nuns to use actual blood of Jesus to close it) to break, from where the evil started to "leak"?

3. If sister Jessica and sister Victoria wanted to put an end to the evil spirit that is Valak, why did they bring the key that opens the wall-cabinet in which Jesus' blood is hidden, instead of bringing the blood itself? What did they think the key would be useful for? Did they think they would be just fine entering the premises of Valak who killed ALL of the other nuns?

4. If the aim of Valak is to possess soemone as a vessel and "deceive and corrupt" people, why did it kill the first nun it met, sister Jessica, instead of possessing her? Or did it possess her? I don't think it did as it went after sister Irene and marked her... Also, Valak had MANY opportunities throughout the whole movie to possess someone and use them as a vessel; but it decided to scare them with jazz music, broken arms, hanging images of sister Victoria, appearing in the mirror, posing as the abbess of the church, posing as Daniel to lick father Burke's face, making hands appear out of the walls, burying father Burke alive just to poke his face and then let him go... All instead of just attacking them. It is said repetitively the whole movie that Valak is very powerful; so why didn't it just kill them, or attack them, or possess them, or whatever? Did it need its victims to lose their strength and faith in order to claim them? Then how could it attack sister Jessica, who seemed pretty confident and sure of what she wanted to do, in the first place?

5. Why some of the ghost nuns didn't want the ghost of sister Oana to tell sister Irene the truth about the church and Valak? Didn't some of them sacrifice their lives to stop Valak? And if they didn't trust (or whatever) sister Irene, why did they form a circle around her and prayed with her? What changed their minds?

6. The ghost of sister Oana tells sister Irene that sister Victoria caused the portal to hell to open again when she killed herself (as it's the ultimate sin); but wasn't Valak already back, and hadn't it even killed sister Jessica (who actually opened the door after saying "We have no other choice.") before sister Victoria killed herself? And wasn't that exactly why sister Victoria killed herself? Or did the ghost of sister Oana not know the truth?

7. How did sister Irene know it was father Burke who rang the bell from his coffin, when all she could hear was the bell? Why did the evil spirit try to confuse sister Irene by ringing all the bells instead of just attacking her to stop her from digging father Burke out of the grave? Why was the spirit able only to play with father Burke's face and scare him, but not just kill him while Irene was digging? Was she not "powerful" enough yet? Well she was powerful enough to lure and put a grown man in a grave..?

8. After just being buried into a grave and coming to the conclusion that there was a "very powerful evil spirit" in the church, why did father Burke still need to talk to the nuns? Wasn't what just happened already enough proof to, say, perform an exorcism, or whatever fathers do?

9. If the evil spirits that Valak masquerades as (or "controls", or "puppets") can be beheaded with an axe or shot with a rifle as Frenchie demonstrates, why did the nuns, father Burke and sister Irene bother with prayers in Latin, holy water and stuff? Btw, the "comedic relief" moments of Frenchie and the small dialogues this caused ruined the whole atmosphere of the movie.

10. How did Frenchie get to the delivery room? Why didn't Valak stop him? Was it because it was busy "scaring" father Burke?

11. Why did Valak give the trio enough time to even perform a ritual for sister Irene to take her vows? What did it wait for?

12. Why was the trio able to go through "the door" like it's nothing, after the movie showed several times how anyone that even got near it got killed by Valak itself?

13. Why did the trio think it was okay to separate in the premises of Valak after each one of them was attacked when they were alone even when they were away from there?

14. As it's shown in the final scene how powerful Valak is even without possessing anyone, why did it need a vessel? Why did it waste so much time? Why didn't it just possess sister Irene after killing the other two if it's a "spirit" that's powerful enough to blow a grown man across the hall with just her breath, and attack three people at once without a vessel?

15. Why does Valak need to be so extra and emerge from the water like that? Why doesn't it attack sister Irene right away? Does it feed on fear like Pennywise? And why did it have to first choke and then drown sister Irene when it can do everything it had done throughout the movie?

Apart from all of these nonsense; the aesthetic, the Valak, the visuals, most shots, and some elements of the story were great. I miss the times when horror movies had masterful stories with villains who had actual motives. Now it's all about the "scary cool visuals" and "shock value". Nun is just another movie for people who are in for the jump-scares and thrilling, vague entertainment - not for horror fans who crave a subtle story that slowly and cleverly carves what it wants to say out of the viewer's mind and subconscious.

In short; entertaining to watch with nice little plot twsits in the first half. But be warned; don't get too attached 'cause the connecters become the plot's worst enemies, and you'll feel betrayed even before the climax, like I did. But if you are a real horror fan, or what you want is not your intelligence to be insulted but to get solid satisfaction, SKIP.

In the beginning, we see a bald woman, and assume she has cancer or something, and her son further explains that it has to do with her blood and that they're on their way to her American doctor for treatment. Then we see a couple of tough-looking guys making eyes at each other, having us think there's gonna be some banging either with guns or.. you know. Anyway, it turns out these guys are terrorists - which actually made me want to turn it off as I've already seen Hostage Flight and Air Force One. But then the twist comes; the sick woman is a vampire! Yeah, sounds cheasy, but the way the story tossed the terrorists and the vampire against each other both with action and drama was quite well-made. I expected Hostage Flight, but I got REC instead, minus the shaky camera! Aaaannd the good part ends here. Thanks.

Now the "mistakes" begin as early as the first scene: no plane ever just "stops" like that. But whatever, not a big sin. My first main problem was with the kid who failed show emotions like fear, pain, or dread until his "mama" pushed him away, even though he was a very prominent character. I'm sure they could've found a better kid actor. But the face he made during rejection was great. Then another character that annoyed me even further comes along; the most obnoxious-for-no-apparent-reason "psycho" terrorist guy. It's so freaking obvious that he was written that way just to justify the moment when he draws the mama vamp's blood into a syringe to later inject himself with it: according to the writer, we're supposed to say "Ooh because, you know, he's crazy like that, he's a psycho... Of course he'll inject himself with vampire blood." Come the f OOOOOOOON. NOBODY will include such an erratic imbecile in their group. Anyway... Even though injured passengers begging vampires to bite them so they don't die is such a REACH on societal criticism, it's not as unforgivable as vamp mama and her son chilling next to a door that just exploded and caused a freaking vacuum of the air pressure in the plane. WHAT. You just sent a grown-ass vampire through that hole! But mama vamp and the kid are immune to physics, I guess?..

And the moment I just bit my fist: the plane lands when the sun is still up, communication with the cockpit is available, the situation is (mis)understood; but the sergeant decides to wait till sunset to make a move on the guy who he thinks is a Muslim terrorist, and to send his men into the plane. WHY?!?!?! What have they done all that time, asked each other about their hobbies and stuff??? No. He was made to wait just so the vampires could come out of the plane and attack... etc. Degrading. Childish. Insulting. Stupid. And then the film proceeds to commit one authenticity crime after another using the kid: First, even though the kid is given a dose of tranquillizer, he wakes up in the middle of his transport from the airport to a hospital, and needs another shot again. But somehow he manages to take the needle out of the hand of a grown-ass paramedic and STABS HIM WITH IT, sending him to a sound sleep. And that's nothing, compared to the fact that the kid JUMPS OUT OF THE BACK DOORS OF THE AMBULANCE, ON HIS FEET, without a scratch, let alone breaking his legs... WHAT. The real monster here is the kid, I'll tell ya. And then he runs so fast that TWO SOLDIERS cannot catch up with him and give up... Yeah let's duck up logic for an average, predictable ending, shall we?

By the way; the soldiers rear-handcuff the Muslim guy they think is the terrorist, BUT, the guy lacks a hand... THEY HANDCUFFED A GUY WITH ONE HAND BEHIND HIS BACK. THEY CUFFED A HAND THAT DID NOT EXIST. But the minute the plane explodes, without getting a release command from the sergeant yet, the soldiers let the Muslim guy go, walking behind him. Does the explosion change the fact (they think) that guy they just handcuffed is the one who caused it?! Only when he starts crying over the kid does the sergeant gives the command. My eyes are sweaty from too many face-palms.

It's such a pity because the twist, the vampire transformation, the tension and thrill of some certain scenes, the drama between the son and the mom... there were quite good moments. A movie to just watch, and not question or believe its premise.