Posted on 02/22/2010 9:00:04 AM PST by LouAvul
I watched it on Netflix instant downloads. These galactical thugs show up on earth terrorizing the community until people realize they can be beaten with a baseball bat and glass of water. That might be the solution for Britain, but not the United States.
Right away, one of our 100 million gun owning God fearing Americans would have met the alien challenge with a 12 guage Remington Express shotgun with Knoxx stock loaded with 00 buck shot.
Remember the scene where an alien walks across the screen looking at the camera? If that had really happened, you'd see an alien walking across the screen and then his head exploding. Then Junior would proudly enter the frame with his 870, grinning from ear to ear.
There would be clubs formed to see who could pop the most aliens. In free states where full-auto ownership is allowed, they'd have annual shoots just to see who could bag the most trophies.
That's the way it would have really played out. Forget baseball bats.
More guns = less slime.
Signs was, without a doubt, one of the stupidest movies ever made.
Great stuff. Only on FR.
Well, to set the record straight, that particular scene wasn't set in the U.S. of A.
If mere water was as lethal to these aliens as the story puts it, then just the act of walking around naked (as the aliens did in the movie) in our atmosphere would be like constantly being misted with hydrochloric acid to them.
Also, the aliens chose the planet Earth -- 70% water -- as the landing spot?
Nope, I’d say Jodie Foster’s movie was in the SCI-FI arena...however, neither can compare to the infamous Uma Thurman’s “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”....absolute worst anything, ever.
It had its moments. Two of my favorites were the girl mentioning the monster and asking for a glass of water and the kids and uncle watching TV with the aluminum foil headgear.
Shoot away.
And we are made out of ~57% water ourselves.
So, the very thing we need to drink in order to survive, is deadly toxic to the alien. That would be like kidnapping sentient beings that are mostely made out of hydrochloric acid, and have to drink even more hydrochloric acid just to survive.
Not a well thought out movie. But, for entertainment value, it did manage to keep the suspense going.
Except for the female Cop, no one in the world seemed to have a weapon to use against the alien.
The movie would have been more believable had Mel Gibson LEFT his gun down in the basement when he happened upon the Alien in his house.
IOW's just One gun misplaced would have made the movie more believable.
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“Signs was, without a doubt, one of the stupidest movies ever made.”
The best stupid scene was when he put a chair against the door to keep the alien from entering the house.
In the spoof Scary Movie, Charlie Sheen asks what kinda aliens can fly across the universe but can’t get through a door.
I hated this movie. About halfway through, I started rooting for the aliens.
Signs and Unbreakable are the only two M Night films I like. The thing with Signs is you cannot enjoy it if you think of it as an alien invasion film; that part of the plot is so full of holes its ridiculous. The real point of hte film is a study of faith and redemption. Mel Gibson has lost his faith through the death of his wife, but his faith in her allows him to read the signs God gave to defeat the aliens, which in turn restores his faith in God.
Why waste ammo on something that dies on contact with water? People might have used guns on them for a bit, but once the water thing got known they’d have turned on the sprinklers and loaded up the supersoakers.
I loved the movie.
The hate for Signs has always amused me.
IT’S NOT A HARD SCIENCE FICTION FILM, IT’S A HORROR FILM.
People who are willing to accept sharks that stalk on particular family, or birds that take over a town, or a guy with a hockey mask who gets his brains blown out every movie but comes back to life shortly after....but for space aliens? WE DEMAND REALISM!
Yes.
Cause sometimes we gunnies just like blowing things up.
Exactly. I've given up trying to convince people that it's not a movie about aliens. It could have been terrorists. It could have been wild dogs. It could have been giant elephants. The aliens were merely there to accentuate the story of faith lost and regained.
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