[quote=Jster]
It was more when they started actually fighting and destroying things but we only got told it was happening and didn't get to see it that I was annoyed.
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I chose to perceive it as a natural disaster more than anything, it was kind of the same feeling about hearing about some crazy thing like a tsunami across the world and how the world reacts to it. I thought it was kind of a neat angle.

Besides, I knew at the end of the movie they'd show us everything, so I wasn't too fussed. It wouldn't make sense to have several smaller battles throughout the movie, because that would just be ridiculous for them to keep finding each other and buggering off.