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[jamman1]

[Spoilers] Military Oddities

[lazarusHART]

I agree man. I thought about that when I saw the movie.

[resistwemust]

I looked to me that there was no one around. Like it might of been just for the military. Considering how big the city is it looked damn desolate. Poeple were either dead, running away, were already evacuated, or sitting curled up in a ball shitting their pants. I didnt see any other civilian get on those choppers.

[jdev]

I think that the last concern of the Military is to confiscate a camera from a civilian. He has no reason to. Hud never said that he had shots of the monster on there nor shots of the little monsters either. I don't think the triage area they had setup was a top-secret or even somewhat secret installation, therefore no real reason to confiscate the camera.

As far as the helicopters go, one could presume that the lines died down by 6am seeing as how they stated the last helicopter would take off at 6am. I would make the assumption that they were running from that location all night, or even maybe they had to move locations due to the monsters presence, and nobody knew they were there at the time.

Who knows.

[Tsakara]

well for the evacuation, most of the island had already been evacuated when they found the hospital, they had sent the civies out over the various bridges early on the movie, the gang just decided not to go and stayed behind.

as for Huds camera, I can't think of a reason why, the whole blurred soldiers face was nothing, it just looked like it, in the movie it was clear.
besides they have their hands full as it is, I doubt they'd really care all that much.

the choppers were more for the military troops that were still there and couldn't make it out another way, so it makes sense their weren't too many.

[jamman1]

[jamman1]

[lazarusHART]

[jamman1]

[lazarusHART]

Now that jamman1 brought up inconsistencies, I thought of one.


The hazmat people that took Marlena, they may have taken her because they thought the effects of the bite were contagious. If so, when they saw Rob, Lily & Hud with her, why didn't they take them too as a precaution, just in case.

[Rudyred]

[Zaggs]

The first part is they really didn't care. Why would they? The Colonel in charge is trying to give order and get people who should be leaving to go and probably doesnt have time for an interview (he wouldn't know if they were press). But being that this is not a top secret operation why take the camera?

As for the choppers? Maybe most had already made it out of the city. Maybe that wasn't the only evac point. Its not like all the army's forces are right there. Just a couple tanks/artillery, jeeps and the hospital. Seems just like an outpost, one of several maybe they set up (not alot of civilians tyhere either). Keep in mind the character in charge there is listed only as a lieutenant colonel. Going by wikipedia it means at best he is in charge of 1000 troops (but maybe less) which isn't a whole lot relatively speaking (a division runs about 10,500 troops and usually has a general in charge which is 2 steps away from the Lt Col). Maybe 1000 troops is all they could get going in such a short amount of time, though most likely the lack of people had to do with the budget of the movie. its also possible they knew not everyone was going to get out and it was more important to kill the creature there before it got away.

[jamman1]

[d0nu7]

I think they didn't because they didn't seem bitten, and I think they take them into that area to prevent blood from splattering everywhere more than anything.

[m_talon]