Bad Things Happen?!

Rating: 5/10 (11 March 2012)

I saw this movie in theaters and enjoyed it, but then I read some negative reviews and decided to watch the movie again to see if I missed something, boy did I miss something.
The dialouge pretty much every kid sounds like Eli Roth wrote the film which is strange seeing how JJ Abrams made good dialouge for the teenage crew of the enterprise in Star Trek. And Just Like in Star Trek..
The two dads relationship makes no sense, why does Joe's dad act like Alice's dad killed Joe's mom? it was an accident and Joe's dad does not realize that until four months after the fact and grows unnecessary hated for Alice's dad.
How did a fire cause the town to evacuate, why didn't the military just commandeer the town?
If Charles likes Alice and wanted to get to know her by putting her in the film why didn't he, you know get to know her? He should have and would have spent time with her showing her exactly what he wanted to see on the film instead of constantly making Joe give her makeup?
The military is molding tire tracks which goes no where and why didn't they try following the footprints the monster made when he escaped the train!
But the worst part is the ending, as many people have said. The movies that inspired this movie have a good message behind them, the message in this movie is that bad things happen. Not only is this message weak but it's not even a real message it's just a statement sort of like how this movie is just a statement by JJ Abrams saying "I Like Spielberg Films"
The movie does have potential which is why this movie isn't a 1 but there is just so much bad stuff in this movie as you might see