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So the German dam would've actually been a good place to hide imo, but if the mimics power comes from being able to reset when an alpha dies, why would they have picked a place for the omega to hide that could be attacked by humans just out of chance? We don't see if the mimics have any anti-nuke defenses but I think it's a non-outlandish idea that when the mimics break into London and "all is lost", or at the very least when they break into America or Russia or China, that the humans attack a place where they know the mimics are, such as Berlin or PARIS. Why would they have picked such an obvious place instead of just some random town or field in the area they control?
Edit: I'm looking for IN-UNIVERSE reasons. Obviously I know that cinematically it's a cool choice
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They may be time traveling metal squid but they're not philistines. The leader wanted to chill while appreciating the Mona Lisa.
Beyond that, not everything needs to have ab in universe reason. It's a cool location fir a finale, sometimes that's all it needs to be.
Same reason the aliens of Independence Day blow up famous buildings and the Mars Attack aliens use the Washington Monument to kill people.
They are famous buildings and it is nice to see them on screen.
Asked about why the Na'vi have boobs although they're not mammals, Cameron said "yeah but it's a movie for humans, and humans like boobs".
Thank you for reminding me to add "in-universe reason", which I really did mean to. Obviously it's because audience-members will recognize the Louvre
Sometimes there just isn’t a plausible in-universe explanation for things :)
IIRC in the featurette for the movie, the director basically said they hadn't finished writing the script when they started shooting the movie.
So, unless there's specifics in "all you need is kill" I'm guessing there is no in universe reason and they just threw it together.
As a derogatory term, philistine describes a person who is narrow-minded and hostile to the life of the mind, whose materialistic and wealth-oriented worldview and tastes indicate an indifference to cultural and aesthetic values.[2]
Do the mimics know that humans have nukes? Do they know about nukes seeing as they have developed so differently to humans?
Paris is the most central place to operate from in Europe, if attacking London then Paris is strategically placed to command that attack. The omega is big, hiding in a city makes more sense than hiding in the open as there is more cover, an army would have to fight street by street and get past lots of alphas to get to the middle of Paris.
Mimics have no air capability which makes it seem they would be vulnerable to bombing, but due to the reset ability bombing is useless against mimics. You carpet bomb a mimic stronghold and you are certain to kill an alpha and cause a reset, the mimics then know exactly where the bombs will drop and just move.
Nuking a city wouldn't work either, unless your bomb lands exactly on the omega, cos if you kill an alpha just a fraction of a second before the omega then there is a reset and now the omega has 24 hours to escape. So even if they knew the omega was in Paris, they would have to know the exact building it was hiding in to be able to kill it.
Hiding in a lake would not be good, if the omega was spotted by a surveillance plane, it would be totally exposed.
If we wanna seriously discuss the tactical Advantage: it is a somewhat easily defenceable Position with Open courtyards where noone could approach unseen, with big parts of the structure being underground with a system of tunnels to escape If necessary, while still being a super central Point from which to command troops. Personally i Just think the whole atmosphere of the final encounter is awesome, and it looks dope, shouldnt that be reason enough for a movie? Because i mean, seriously, who in their right mind would reset the Timeline Just because random Lieutenants of your Army died in Battle? Considering how little of a defence we could muster in open Battle, who would bother for a reset? Seems kinda Like a win-more strategy in a Battle you are already winning. So i wouldnt go looking for super logical things in a futuristic, science-fiction, Time-Reset Story, but maybe thats Just me 😂
IIRC in the movie they say the Alphas are extremely rare, something like 1 for every million regular ones, and they aren't supposed to be on the front line. Cage only managed because they thought they had cleared that area. So I think the idea is that if an Alpha dies, something went very wrong. Or at least, could have been done better. That also probably explains Cage; they're lax clearing areas because of you miss something, then next time remember there a guy hiding in that hole.
It also seems like an involuntary reaction. The Omega couldn't judge the situation and decide if that loss was acceptable. Instead it knee jerks and tries to avoid that loss the next time.
The vision of the dam was a red herring to trap Cage. They knew he was controlling the loop so they wanted to draw him out. Instead the big bad was hiding in plain sight. Paris seems to be devoid of human life at that point so it would be a good spot to dig in while sending Cage on a wild goose chase.
You call it an obvious place but can’t think of why it would be there?
Don’t they mention something about being unable to go further due to the heavy losses they take in alien controlled areas?
I thought they did.
Oh well, not like I needed another excuse to watch this again.
Sssaaaaayyy, now that you point it out, here's another question: did they ever talk about capturing and studying the special alien which gave Tom Cruise his powers? Since they knew the alien would be there it seems like an easy decision to make.
Because - movie.
Nothing has to always make sense.
its a cool action movie. lets leave it at that.
The in-universe explanation is that the actual ending in the source material is different. There is no Omega in the Louvre. The role of the mimics is clearer - they are just the machines terraforming earth for the new occupants.
Spoiler
>!Spoiler< Rita and Cage have both become part of the loop and Cage kills Rita to break the loop and kill the mimics in their area. And only the mimics in their area are killed, not every mimic worldwide >!Spoiler<
Maybe they thought we wouldn’t bomb some of humanities cherished and historical buildings. So they would be good places to hide.
So the movie can happen!
(Wow wow wow wow, wow)
I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back!
They like cheese, bread, wine, and art!
If they think like humans mostly likely hubris and either taking pride in conquering a really important place for human culturally or that omega liked human art/artifacts and wanted to be surrounded by them for study. Basically like the Nazis and art. They also would think that they were invulnerable and couldn’t put up more then a hive of angry hornets have against an modern army