Picking Nits
The strip joint staying open; happy reactions to the invasion; Manhattan-to-Washington travel time
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- The strip joint stays open during the invasion; it is assumed everything would close and most people would want to be with family.
- Everyone reacting happily to the alien arrival is explained by that pop-culture take-me-to-your-leader moment.
- No nits at all: everything lined up perfectly, which is agreed as pretty solid. — Shea Serrano
- It all made sense, except Judd Hirsch and Goldblum getting from Manhattan into the White House within six hours despite apocalyptic I-95 traffic. — Chris Ryan
- An alternate script where they die on the highway is joked about.
- The last-second squeeze out of the mothership was an early example of the move, the same as the Bad Boys ending.