The Faculty (1998)
Plot summary
Directed by: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Bebe Neuwirth, Clea DuVall, Famke Janssen, Jordana Brewster, Josh Hartnett, Laura Harris, Robert Patrick, Salma Hayek
When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make a chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet! As mind-controlling parasites rapidly begin spreading from the faculty to the student's bodies, it's ultimately up to the few who are left...an unlikely collection of loners, leaders, nerds and jocks...to save the world from alien domination.
Continuity mistake: Mr. Furlong pushes Zeke into the fishing tank and it breaks, soaking him from head to toe with water. Moments later they are walking out and he is dry.
Coach Willis: You're not much into sports.
Casey: I don't think that a person should run unless he's being chased.
Coach Willis: "Being chased." I like that.
Trivia: In the beginning of the movie, Marybeth asks a girl with a piercing where the office is. That girl is actually the director Robert Rodriguez's sister, and she has a tattoo in the same place where George Clooney had in From Dusk Till Dawn, another of Rodriguez's movies.
Question: Why are the aliens in that town? If they come from a oceanic planet then why not go directly into one of our five or so oceans?
Rob245Answer: Whales and dolphins also lack manipulating appendages and the ability to survive on land.
LorgSkyegonAnswer: The aliens need to infect intelligent life to thrive. There is no intelligent life in our oceans.
BaconIsMyBFFThat is not exactly true. Whales and dolphins are considerably intelligent, arguably near human-level, and live in complex social groups.
raywest
Answer: Well if they need to stay hydrated whales and dolphins make more sense than inhabiting people.
Rob245Dolphins and whales are also far less numerous. With populations numbering fewer than 10 million total across all species versus nearly 6 billion at the time for humanity.
LorgSkyegonAnswer: It could be the salt or pollution. The aliens were drinking nothing but pure bottled water.
Good answer. Dang all you guys on this site are pretty good at this. I enjoy these answers you give since hardly anybody ever listens to me.
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Answer: The aliens needed fresh water. All the infected were drinking bottled water. When the gang were examining the slug in the garage, it dried up and died from salt, like a snail.