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The aliens in Signs are idiots for invading a planet that’s 70% water. And if they landed in a cornfield in rural PA in the middle of summer the humidity would have killed them instantly.
And what’s worse is Shyamalan lives in PA and should know this.
It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't also naked.
Also, they have interstellar travel but need to use crop circles to communicate. I know that's just part of the premise but it's still stupid.
But not nearly as stupid as flying all the way here and trying win a land war completely unarmed. If your battle plan can be beaten by a baseball bat and asthma, you should maybe rethink your invasion.
I think the movie would work better if the aliens were just messing with this one family on a farm, like they’re a scout force.
But it’s like humans trying to invade Mars in their birthday suits, just assuming the planet isn’t toxic and uninhabitable.
Like, what did the invasion look like in the tropics, where it rains just about every day? Did they get out of their ships and just start sizzling?
Who says they were the aliens?
Man, the aliens sat it out in their dry ass ship and sent a crop of vat grown drones to go harvest all the organs they wanted on a world covered in H2O.
The drones aren't bright, but the get the job done. They only last 30 hours or so before they start decomposing, so it doesn't matter if they get locked in a pantry or clubed with a bat.
You think a starfaring species would come all the way to Sol 3, and not being a bio organic drone to go out and brave the hazards of an acid covered water world hell planet?
Shit. Don't get me fucking started on how many people miss the point of the aliens in fucking Signs.
If there was this much world building I’d probably like it more.
But the only rules they established for the aliens are poison gas and water dissolving.
Actually, The only world building they did firmly establish was that the aliens did not matter...
For all the audience needs to know, they used the gas to transfer their consciousness into a new host, and they do this everytime they visit a new biosphere.
But no, you fucking de-cloak early during one childrens birthday party in South America and your ass is a joke, you get fucking anthropomorphized for the next 20 years...
Lol I actually grew up near where the movie took place and now I feel stupid for never thinking about the humidity factor. Summer in PA is underestimated by those who think "it's the northeastern US, how bad can it get?". For those of you who don't know, most summer days you can see the humidity and you're drenched in sweat about 2 minutes after you exit a cool shower.
In the mountains it’s not too bad but Chester country might as well be Leesburg in July.
I disagree. If water is essential for their spaceflight, IE fuel, reaction mass, ect then it's fine that they would invade.
Humans have invaded the Sahara desert, which is hot enough to kill, the arctic and Antarctic which is cold enough to kill, the submarine realm which can crush, freeze and drown us, and even the moon, which is hollow and full of dangerous reptillians.
We go to extremely dangerous places to fulfill our need for resources and territorial ambition
Yes but they wouldn’t show up bare-ass nekkid on a planet full of water if they knew it dissolved ‘em!
I almost wonder if it's like Mt Everest climbers who climb without oxygen tanks, they do it more to prove that they can than for any rational reason
Alien invasion is always stupid. Interstellar travel uses so much energy, it can power a civilisation for a year, and that's for just below light speed from our nearest star. Their tech level would be high enough to just scoop up whatever resource they want from astroids, if not ourright skimming from gas giants or stars. Oh, you need genetic material? Musquito drones would do the job. I mean, only the Predator movie makes sense as they just come here for hunting.
And nerf themselves to make it better sport. Like us hunting with a bow and arrows instead of a drone strike.
The only alien invasion scenario that makes sense is one where the aliens are so advanced they don’t even notice us.
I mean, it's not completely unrealistic that some alien race builds a generation ship, points it at Sol 3 because it has a strong magnetosphere, conditions for liquid water and a fairly oxygen rich atmosphere then after their 10,000 year journey they discover a race that's just beginning to figure out space flight on the planet previously observed to lack any industrial capabilities. Honestly that would make for a good film, and I'm sure there's science fiction books based on that idea already (Douglas Adams wasn't far off from that with the Galgafrinchians too, only they arrived about 20,000 years before our present day and supplanted neanderthals as the dominant hominid race on Earth)
Kinda like we don't hesitate to step on grass.
I like the holy water fan theory. They were not aliens but demons and all of the glasses of water were blessed when Mel Gibson regained his faith
I thought that was the actual reason and not just a fan theory?
"The characters in that movie called them aliens, but it was never explicitly demonstrated what they were or why they were on earth. People are much more accepting of aliens these days, and the idea was that if demons appeared among us, they would be perceived as aliens."
https://www.somethingawful.com/news/wrestling-twister-an/
If it had been talking about demons at all during the movie this would eliminate my major problem with the movie.
There just weren’t enough rules about the universe demonstrated to the viewer to know what’s going on.
And I know Shyamalan is capable of this because he did such a good job with this in The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.
I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.
Which would work if the aliens were only attacking his farm and not the entire planet.
You never see spaceships and you only see how a single creature is defeated. The radio says the war turned around in the holy lands, which aren't overflowing with water everywhere.
It's faith that defeats them, not water.
On the radio it mentioned that people had discovered an old technique to fight them, there are other priests on earth
And Toto has Africa pretty well covered.
I needed that chuckle.
Clearly Mel Gibson blessed all of that water, too. Is there anything that guy can't do with his faith? (Besides make a watchable movie?)
Captain Carter said the same thing