Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Moment spent staring at the upside-down riverboat. Yes, they camp out in it, and yes the movie seems to imply the aliens are behind it, but... the fact that it is an upside down riverboat and is never explained and has no bearing on the plot - it wouldn't have made any difference to the story if they had stayed the night in an abandoned shack instead.
The trope is about an entire sequence which makes no sense, doesn't fit with the plot, and is never mentioned again.
Just that a scene is set in someplace odd, and that the oddness of that someplace is not explained, does not make it a BLAM.
The trope is about an entire sequence which makes no sense, doesn't fit with the plot, and is never mentioned again.
Just that a scene is set in someplace odd, and that the oddness of that someplace is not explained, does not make it a BLAM.