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** It stated in 3 that the shriekers where multiplying by eating coyotes, lizards and snakes. Additionally, it's ridiculous to think that they don't target native New World species just because they aren't focused on. Especially when it's established that pretty much all stages of the graboid life cycle will indiscriminately eat anything they can detect.
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** Most of the references to Graboids killing animals near Perfection involve cattle, sheep, horses or burros, none of which are native to the Americas either. Aside from one coyote that was cut off in mid-howl in the second film, I'm not sure if ''any'' New World wildlife was harmed by the species.
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* In the first film, when everybody gets on the roof, Melvin is on the roof of a goddamn side-storage hut (or whatever it is). The "building" probably doesn't even have a foundation to begin with, and is made of thin trapeze sheets of metal. Graboids perform just about a ten second attack on it (and pretty vicious one, as you can see they tear a few sheets apart) and then immediately leave Melvin be for the rest of the second act of the movie. Graboids will be shown next to try to tear down the store and Nancy's house. They successfully trip over Nestor's van. But what is going on with the miraculous shed that Melvin resides on? One may argue that they "might" have forgotten about the shed, BUT then I remembered Rhonda saying that the rocks are very good conductors of sounds and vibrations. Well, guess what is [[UpToEleven even better]] conductor? Yes, metals. Even if Melvin didn't do anything more than lie on the roof and breathe, it would still be enough for graboids to focus their mind on it. But he was actively shouting while on it, stomping, cheering, and whatnot.
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* In the first film, when everybody gets on the roof, Melvin is on the roof of a goddamn side-storage hut (or whatever it is). The "building" probably doesn't even have a foundation to begin with, and is made of thin trapeze sheets of metal. Graboids perform just about a ten second attack on it (and pretty vicious one, as you can see they tear a few sheets apart) and then immediately leave Melvin be for the rest of the second act of the movie. Graboids will be shown next to try to tear down the store and Nancy's house. They successfully trip over Nestor's van. But what is going on with the miraculous shed that Melvin resides on? One may argue that they "might" have forgotten about the shed, BUT then I remembered Rhonda saying that the rocks are very good conductors of sounds and vibrations. Well, guess what is [[UpToEleven even better]] better conductor? Yes, metals. Even if Melvin didn't do anything more than lie on the roof and breathe, it would still be enough for graboids to focus their mind on it. But he was actively shouting while on it, stomping, cheering, and whatnot.
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*** Emerging onto the surface to ''avoid another Graboid'' would be a pretty plausible reason for it to have surfaced, though. And so little is known about the creatures' behavior at that point, there's no way to definitively say that they ''don't'' fight one another on occasion.
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*** The Gummers' vehicle was disturbed and its alarm went off because the Graboid circling their place was shifting the gravel underneath it. There's an angled shot showing how the pavers and gravel were rising and falling with its passage. It wasn't doing anything different from what the other Graboids were doing, up to then: investigating the foundations of the buildings.
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** The characters don't catch on that the Graboids are actually moving towards the town until they start to compare notes and check maps ''at'' Walter's store. It's not until Val catches on that the creatures aren't just roaming at random around umpteen miles of desert and badlands that they realize threat is imminent.
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** Most probably, they went by what was known grabboid behavior. Grabboids are ambush predators that prefer to come up directly under their prey and wouldn't expose themselves by climbing on a rock. In fact, they found the grabboid in distress on the rock pretty damn unusual in the first place.
** There's also the fact their seiso-monitor didn't show any indication of any other Graboids in the area, which would've been beeping up a storm.
** There's also the fact their seiso-monitor didn't show any indication of any other Graboids in the area, which would've been beeping up a storm.
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** Most probably, they went by what was known grabboid graboid behavior. Grabboids Graboids are ambush predators that prefer to come up directly under their prey and wouldn't expose themselves by climbing on a rock. In fact, they found the grabboid graboid in distress on the rock pretty damn unusual in the first place.
** There's also the fact theirseiso-monitor seismo-monitor didn't show any indication of any other Graboids in the area, which would've been beeping up a storm.
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* In the first film, when everybody gets on the roof, Melvin is on the roof of a goddamn side-storage hut (or whatever it is). The "building" probably doesn't even have a foundation to begin with, and is made of thin trapeze sheets of metal. Graboids perform just about a ten second attack on it (and pretty vicious one, as you can see they tear a few sheets apart) and then immediately leave Melvin be for the rest of the second act of the movie. Graboids will be shown next to try to tear down the store and Nancy's house. They successfully trip over Nestor's van. But what is going on with the miraculous shed that Melvin resides on? One may argument that they "might" have forgotten about the shed, BUT then I remembered Rhonda saying that the rocks are very good conductors of sounds and vibrations. Well, guess what is [[UpToEleven even better]] conductor? Yes, metals. Even if Melvin didn't do anything more than lie on the roof and breathe, it would still be enough for graboids to focus their mind on it. But he was actively shouting while on it, stomping, cheering, and whatnot.
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* In the first film, when everybody gets on the roof, Melvin is on the roof of a goddamn side-storage hut (or whatever it is). The "building" probably doesn't even have a foundation to begin with, and is made of thin trapeze sheets of metal. Graboids perform just about a ten second attack on it (and pretty vicious one, as you can see they tear a few sheets apart) and then immediately leave Melvin be for the rest of the second act of the movie. Graboids will be shown next to try to tear down the store and Nancy's house. They successfully trip over Nestor's van. But what is going on with the miraculous shed that Melvin resides on? One may argument argue that they "might" have forgotten about the shed, BUT then I remembered Rhonda saying that the rocks are very good conductors of sounds and vibrations. Well, guess what is [[UpToEleven even better]] conductor? Yes, metals. Even if Melvin didn't do anything more than lie on the roof and breathe, it would still be enough for graboids to focus their mind on it. But he was actively shouting while on it, stomping, cheering, and whatnot.
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* How is it possible for there to even be a Mindy rescue scene from pogo-stick? Why weren't everyone to the last citizen of Perfection gathered to Chang's market at once? Val, Earl and Rhonda have ALL the info on graboids, yet behave like it's no big deal when they return to the town. A deleted scene even shows their arrival and they just say something like "Yeah, let's go at Walter shop, but whatever...". They know how dangerous graboids are at this point, they know they're bigger than just the snake tongues, they know graboids are heading towards Perfection, and they know they hunt by sensing vibrations. Then we have a scene where the people ''start'' loking for Mindy. And she is f-cking POGO-STICKING around the place! Emitting more vibrations than anyone else walking or standing. Even if there weren't giant worms, the people were at least suspecting murdering snakes! And Nancy STILL let Mindy play outside, let alone in the open ON a pogo stick WITH headphones on. There's some IdiotBall from everybody in the first town attack. Let alone that Mindy was pogoing all the time. She should have disappeared in the fashion of Pipit, the dog from Jaws. Nobody was overseeing her and she attracted predators. But I guess [[EvenEvilHasStandards graboids]] [[WouldntHurtAChild are choosing their prey]], judging by the previous headscratcher.
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* How is it possible for there to even be a Mindy rescue scene from pogo-stick? Why weren't everyone to the last citizen of Perfection gathered to Chang's market at once? Val, Earl and Rhonda have ALL the info on graboids, yet behave like it's no big deal when they return to the town. A deleted scene even shows their arrival and they just say something like "Yeah, let's go at Walter shop, but whatever...". They know how dangerous graboids are at this point, they know they're bigger than just the snake tongues, they know graboids are heading towards Perfection, and they know they hunt by sensing vibrations. Then we have a scene where the people ''start'' loking looking for Mindy. And at this time she is f-cking POGO-STICKING around the place! Emitting more vibrations than anyone else walking or standing. Even if there weren't hadn't been giant worms, the people were at least suspecting murdering snakes! And Nancy STILL let Mindy play outside, let alone in the open ON a pogo stick WITH headphones on. There's some IdiotBall from everybody in the first town attack. Let alone that Mindy was pogoing all the time. She should have disappeared in the fashion of Pipit, the dog from Jaws. Nobody was overseeing her and she attracted predators. But I guess [[EvenEvilHasStandards graboids]] [[WouldntHurtAChild are choosing their prey]], judging by the previous headscratcher.
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* How is it possible for there to even be a Mindy rescue scene from pogo-stick? Why weren't everyone to the last citizen of Perfection gathered to Chang's market at once? Val, Earl and Rhonda have ALL the info on graboids, yet behave like it's no big deal when they return to the town. A deleted scene even shows their arrival and they just say something like "Yeah, let's go at Walter shop, but whatever...". They know how dangerous graboids are at this point, they know they're bigger than just the snake tongues, they know graboids are heading towards Perfection, and they know they hunt by sensing vibrations. Then we have a scene where the people ''start'' loking for Mindy. And she is f-cking POGO-STICKING around the place! Emitting more vibrations than anyone else walking or standing. Even if there weren't giant worms, the people were at least suspecting murdering snakes! And Nancy STILL let Mindy play outside, let alone in the open ON a pogo stick WITH headphones on. There's some IdiotBall from everybody in the first town attack. Let alone that Mindy was pogoing all the time. She should have disappeared in the fashion of Pipit, the dog from Jaws. Nobody was overseeing her and she attracted predators. But I guess [[EvenEvilHasStandards graboids]] [[WouldntHurtAChild are choosing their prey]], judging by the previous headscratcher.
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* How is it possible for there to even be a Mindy rescue scene from pogo-stick? Why weren't everyone to the last citizen of Perfection gathered to Chang's market at once? Val, Earl and Rhonda have ALL the info on graboids, yet behave like it's no big deal when they return to the town. A deleted scene even shows their arrival and they just say something like "Yeah, let's go at Walter shop, but whatever...". They know how dangerous graboids are at this point, they know they're bigger than just the snake tongues, they know graboids are heading towards Perfection, and they know they hunt by sensing vibrations. Then we have a scene where the people ''start'' loking for Mindy. And she is f-cking POGO-STICKING around the place! Emitting more vibrations than anyone else walking or standing. Even if there weren't giant worms, the people were at least suspecting murdering snakes! And Nancy STILL let Mindy play outside, let alone in the open ON a pogo stick WITH headphones on. There's some IdiotBall from everybody in the first town attack. Let alone that Mindy was pogoing all the time. She should have disappeared in the fashion of Pipit, the dog from Jaws. Nobody was overseeing her and she attracted predators. But I guess [[EvenEvilHasStandards graboids]] [[WouldntHurtAChild are choosing their prey]], judging by the previous headscratcher.headscratcher.
* Other than making the scene intense, why would Burt ask Heather what rifle should they bring along? Couldn't they just toss EVERYTHING they have on the roof on the trailer? Just by arguing what to toss to others, they are wasting precious time. Had they started throwing everything, they might decide later what gun to use and what not. It's not that the trailer cares if it carries a few more guns. A simple scenario of "catch" and "got it" could be more fruitful. The more firepower, the better chance at graboids, as Burt and Heather have got to know by their own experience. Even if they don't get the chance to use all the guns, it's better to have more, than none.
* Other than making the scene intense, why would Burt ask Heather what rifle should they bring along? Couldn't they just toss EVERYTHING they have on the roof on the trailer? Just by arguing what to toss to others, they are wasting precious time. Had they started throwing everything, they might decide later what gun to use and what not. It's not that the trailer cares if it carries a few more guns. A simple scenario of "catch" and "got it" could be more fruitful. The more firepower, the better chance at graboids, as Burt and Heather have got to know by their own experience. Even if they don't get the chance to use all the guns, it's better to have more, than none.
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** In addition to the question, but about inverted situation. Burt's jeep is certainly NOT making any sound before graboid attacks it. Sure the alarm went off, but that was after graboid started drowning it. Why did the graboid target the car unless the graboids are more intelligent than they're letting people know? But that goes in contrast to the original question. Melvin should have logically been between the victims in the movie. Graboids did not benefit in any way leaving him alone.
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** In addition to the question, but about inverted situation. Burt's jeep is certainly NOT making any sound before graboid attacks it. Sure the alarm went off, but that was after graboid started drowning it. Why did the graboid target the car unless the graboids are more intelligent than they're letting people know? But that goes in contrast to the original question. Melvin should have logically been between the victims in the movie. Graboids did not benefit in any way leaving him alone.alone.
* How is it possible for there to even be a Mindy rescue scene from pogo-stick? Why weren't everyone to the last citizen of Perfection gathered to Chang's market at once? Val, Earl and Rhonda have ALL the info on graboids, yet behave like it's no big deal when they return to the town. A deleted scene even shows their arrival and they just say something like "Yeah, let's go at Walter shop, but whatever...". They know how dangerous graboids are at this point, they know they're bigger than just the snake tongues, they know graboids are heading towards Perfection, and they know they hunt by sensing vibrations. Then we have a scene where the people ''start'' loking for Mindy. And she is f-cking POGO-STICKING around the place! Emitting more vibrations than anyone else walking or standing. Even if there weren't giant worms, the people were at least suspecting murdering snakes! And Nancy STILL let Mindy play outside, let alone in the open ON a pogo stick WITH headphones on. There's some IdiotBall from everybody in the first town attack. Let alone that Mindy was pogoing all the time. She should have disappeared in the fashion of Pipit, the dog from Jaws. Nobody was overseeing her and she attracted predators. But I guess [[EvenEvilHasStandards graboids]] [[WouldntHurtAChild are choosing their prey]], judging by the previous headscratcher.
* How is it possible for there to even be a Mindy rescue scene from pogo-stick? Why weren't everyone to the last citizen of Perfection gathered to Chang's market at once? Val, Earl and Rhonda have ALL the info on graboids, yet behave like it's no big deal when they return to the town. A deleted scene even shows their arrival and they just say something like "Yeah, let's go at Walter shop, but whatever...". They know how dangerous graboids are at this point, they know they're bigger than just the snake tongues, they know graboids are heading towards Perfection, and they know they hunt by sensing vibrations. Then we have a scene where the people ''start'' loking for Mindy. And she is f-cking POGO-STICKING around the place! Emitting more vibrations than anyone else walking or standing. Even if there weren't giant worms, the people were at least suspecting murdering snakes! And Nancy STILL let Mindy play outside, let alone in the open ON a pogo stick WITH headphones on. There's some IdiotBall from everybody in the first town attack. Let alone that Mindy was pogoing all the time. She should have disappeared in the fashion of Pipit, the dog from Jaws. Nobody was overseeing her and she attracted predators. But I guess [[EvenEvilHasStandards graboids]] [[WouldntHurtAChild are choosing their prey]], judging by the previous headscratcher.
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* In the first film, when everybody gets on the roof, Melvin is on the roof of a goddamn side-storage hut (or whatever it is). The "building" probably doesn't even have a foundation to begin with, and is made of thin trapeze sheets of metal. Graboids perform just about a ten second attack on it (and pretty vicious one, as you can see they tear a few sheets apart) and then immediately leave Melvin be for the rest of the second act of the movie. Graboids will be shown next to try to tear down the store and Nancy's house. They successfully trip over Nestor's van. But what is going on with the miraculous shed that Melvin resides on? One may argument that they "might" have forgotten about the shed, BUT then I remembered Rhonda saying that the rocks are very good conductors of sounds and vibrations. Well, guess what is [[UpToEleven even better]] conductor? Yes, metals. Even if Melvin didn't do anything more than lie on the roof and breathe, it would still be enough for graboids to focus their mind on it. But he was actively shouting while on it, stomping, cheering, and whatnot.
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* In the first film, when everybody gets on the roof, Melvin is on the roof of a goddamn side-storage hut (or whatever it is). The "building" probably doesn't even have a foundation to begin with, and is made of thin trapeze sheets of metal. Graboids perform just about a ten second attack on it (and pretty vicious one, as you can see they tear a few sheets apart) and then immediately leave Melvin be for the rest of the second act of the movie. Graboids will be shown next to try to tear down the store and Nancy's house. They successfully trip over Nestor's van. But what is going on with the miraculous shed that Melvin resides on? One may argument that they "might" have forgotten about the shed, BUT then I remembered Rhonda saying that the rocks are very good conductors of sounds and vibrations. Well, guess what is [[UpToEleven even better]] conductor? Yes, metals. Even if Melvin didn't do anything more than lie on the roof and breathe, it would still be enough for graboids to focus their mind on it. But he was actively shouting while on it, stomping, cheering, and whatnot.whatnot.
** In addition to the question, but about inverted situation. Burt's jeep is certainly NOT making any sound before graboid attacks it. Sure the alarm went off, but that was after graboid started drowning it. Why did the graboid target the car unless the graboids are more intelligent than they're letting people know? But that goes in contrast to the original question. Melvin should have logically been between the victims in the movie. Graboids did not benefit in any way leaving him alone.
** In addition to the question, but about inverted situation. Burt's jeep is certainly NOT making any sound before graboid attacks it. Sure the alarm went off, but that was after graboid started drowning it. Why did the graboid target the car unless the graboids are more intelligent than they're letting people know? But that goes in contrast to the original question. Melvin should have logically been between the victims in the movie. Graboids did not benefit in any way leaving him alone.
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** There's also the fact their seiso-monitor didn't show any indication of any other Graboids in the area, which would've been beeping up a storm.
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** There's also the fact their seiso-monitor didn't show any indication of any other Graboids in the area, which would've been beeping up a storm.storm.
* In the first film, when everybody gets on the roof, Melvin is on the roof of a goddamn side-storage hut (or whatever it is). The "building" probably doesn't even have a foundation to begin with, and is made of thin trapeze sheets of metal. Graboids perform just about a ten second attack on it (and pretty vicious one, as you can see they tear a few sheets apart) and then immediately leave Melvin be for the rest of the second act of the movie. Graboids will be shown next to try to tear down the store and Nancy's house. They successfully trip over Nestor's van. But what is going on with the miraculous shed that Melvin resides on? One may argument that they "might" have forgotten about the shed, BUT then I remembered Rhonda saying that the rocks are very good conductors of sounds and vibrations. Well, guess what is [[UpToEleven even better]] conductor? Yes, metals. Even if Melvin didn't do anything more than lie on the roof and breathe, it would still be enough for graboids to focus their mind on it. But he was actively shouting while on it, stomping, cheering, and whatnot.
* In the first film, when everybody gets on the roof, Melvin is on the roof of a goddamn side-storage hut (or whatever it is). The "building" probably doesn't even have a foundation to begin with, and is made of thin trapeze sheets of metal. Graboids perform just about a ten second attack on it (and pretty vicious one, as you can see they tear a few sheets apart) and then immediately leave Melvin be for the rest of the second act of the movie. Graboids will be shown next to try to tear down the store and Nancy's house. They successfully trip over Nestor's van. But what is going on with the miraculous shed that Melvin resides on? One may argument that they "might" have forgotten about the shed, BUT then I remembered Rhonda saying that the rocks are very good conductors of sounds and vibrations. Well, guess what is [[UpToEleven even better]] conductor? Yes, metals. Even if Melvin didn't do anything more than lie on the roof and breathe, it would still be enough for graboids to focus their mind on it. But he was actively shouting while on it, stomping, cheering, and whatnot.
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*** But it's no ordinary mollusk, and perhaps a Graboid carcass can last longer.
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** Most probably, they went by what was known grabboid behavior. Grabboids are ambush predators that prefer to come up directly under their prey and wouldn't expose themselves by climbing on a rock. In fact, they found the grabboid in distress on the rock pretty damn unusual in the first place.
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** Most probably, they went by what was known grabboid behavior. Grabboids are ambush predators that prefer to come up directly under their prey and wouldn't expose themselves by climbing on a rock. In fact, they found the grabboid in distress on the rock pretty damn unusual in the first place.place.
** There's also the fact their seiso-monitor didn't show any indication of any other Graboids in the area, which would've been beeping up a storm.
** There's also the fact their seiso-monitor didn't show any indication of any other Graboids in the area, which would've been beeping up a storm.
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* In the second film, when Burt and Grady found the ailing Graboid dead, with huge hunks missing from its body, why didn't they initially assume it was ''another Graboid'' that attacked it? Burt poo-poos the idea that anything could eat that much in two minutes, but a Graboid could probably munch a huge hunk of meat off a hapless fellow-Graboid in two ''seconds''.
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* In the second film, when Burt and Grady found the ailing Graboid dead, with huge hunks missing from its body, why didn't they initially assume it was ''another Graboid'' that attacked it? Burt poo-poos the idea that anything could eat that much in two minutes, but a Graboid could probably munch a huge hunk of meat off a hapless fellow-Graboid in two ''seconds''.''seconds''.
** Most probably, they went by what was known grabboid behavior. Grabboids are ambush predators that prefer to come up directly under their prey and wouldn't expose themselves by climbing on a rock. In fact, they found the grabboid in distress on the rock pretty damn unusual in the first place.
** Most probably, they went by what was known grabboid behavior. Grabboids are ambush predators that prefer to come up directly under their prey and wouldn't expose themselves by climbing on a rock. In fact, they found the grabboid in distress on the rock pretty damn unusual in the first place.
