Just saw 'Signs'

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-03-17 01:24pm

I rented the movie 'Signs' starring Mel Gibson and watched it last night.

I'm not going to be sleeping well for a while.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-03-17 01:27pm

Just think of it this way, if you close your door, you'll be safe from the "obviously inteligent" aliens. Have water just in case.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-03-17 01:29pm

anarchistbunny wrote:Just think of it this way, if you close your door, you'll be safe from the "obviously inteligent" aliens. Have water just in case.

Problem is, I have a VERY overactive imagination. At times, this can be a benefit. At other times, it's a freakin curse.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-03-17 01:52pm

Same here, thats why I sleep with a machette next to my bed. It's awfully comforting.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-03-17 01:56pm

anarchistbunny wrote:Same here, thats why I sleep with a machette next to my bed. It's awfully comforting.

That sounds like a good idea. I think I'll try it.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-03-17 01:57pm

Remember, if highly intelligent aliens come and are vulnerable to water, they will do the extremely intelligent thing of running around the Mid-West, naked.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-03-17 02:07pm

Those same scary smart aliens will also most likely not use so much as a pocket knife as tools and any advanced gasses they bring with them to immobilize and capture their prey will need to be directly breathed in deeply. None of this absorbed through the pores or mucous lining thing that we backward people have in our gasses.

I'm sorry but this movie took a GREAT premise and shat all over it by the last reel.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-17 02:16pm

Somehow I'm not afraid of Aliens who would be defeated by Fog.

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-03-17 02:32pm

What I learned from the movie: If God exists, he's a psycho.

Man rediscovers God during an alien invasion..... what a premise. God's miracle: Give kid asthma, kill wife so her dying words would help, have baseball bat handy...and in the end if you have faith in God, you'll figure out God's plan and your kid won't die!? "It's a miracle!"

Yup, that's a God miracle all right; all about getting people to worship you, not about results. Wouldn't it have been much easier if God had simply hinted to board up the attic? ... wait that doesn't include pain, death, and suffering... hammer people down with that stuff and then they'll come crawling back to worship you.

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-03-17 02:36pm

IG-88E wrote:I rented the movie 'Signs' starring Mel Gibson and watched it last night.

I'm not going to be sleeping well for a while.

When I was a kid, after watching something really scary, I could still sleep because I was convinced that my bed was complete protection against all forms of monster attack. Instead of dealing with the irrational belief in monsters, I instead latched onto an equally irrational belief that my bed was safe..... which says something about how people deal with situations that 'scare' them.

Oberleutnant · Post by **Oberleutnant** » 2003-03-17 03:24pm

"Signs" is an excellent movie. It scared the shit out of me when I saw it for the first time, and I don't usually care about horror movies. Much better than "6th Sense", which is already quite an accomplishment.

Oberleutnant · Post by **Oberleutnant** » 2003-03-17 03:24pm

"Signs" is an excellent movie. It scared the shit out of me when I saw it for the first time, and I don't usually care about horror movies. Much better than "6th Sense", which is already quite an accomplishment.

The Great Unbearded One · Post by **The Great Unbearded One** » 2003-03-17 03:54pm

Stravo wrote:

I'm sorry but this movie took a GREAT premise and shat all over it by the last reel.

What was so wrong with the last bit? I loved it. Signs is one of the best movies I saw at the cinema last year, it was still as good (if even better due to thinking on it) when I saw it on a plane and I liked it just as much when I rented it. The end bit makes sense of a climax Mr S. is building upto. I thought it ended it off nicely, however most people seem to disagree with me.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-03-17 04:02pm

The only possible explanation I can think of for the aliens being as fucking stupid as they were is because they had a warrior culture, and going into a dangerous environment unarmed was part of some kind of ritual.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-17 04:07pm

Yes, yes, the science and aliens were all bunk. Now if you watched the film you'd know that it wasn't about aliens at all. Look harder, this is M. Night Shyamalan, NOT George Lucas.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-03-17 04:25pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Yes, yes, the science and aliens were all bunk. Now if you watched the film you'd know that it wasn't about aliens at all. Look harder, this is M. Night Shyamalan, NOT George Lucas.

Why should I look harder? If the science and aliens were utterly ridiculous then why should I care what his message was, and BTW the message itself is hardly motivating. God had to save his son in order for him to regain his faith??? So what? That makes faith into nothing more than a Pavlovian response to a scooby snack.

Oh gee, God rewarded me by saving my son so I should start believeing again when the fact that he lost faith is far more real, the utterly random death of his wife. And you can come back and say it was not random, it served a purpose and I say that if God has to slaughter my wife by tearing her insides apart in order to get me ready for an alien invasion of lobotmoized aliens that special olympics children could probably have outsmarted then I say God can go to hell, I don't need that kind of deity.

Premise is what it is all about, DON'T make a story about faith, insert RETARDED useless aliens and expect me not to snipe it. Sixth Sense was a far superior movie because the premise was more believeable. The ghosts acted the way we imagine spirits to act. There was some sort of logic that I could suspend my disbelief on. I could NOT suspend my disbelief on an alien invasion by unarmed, naked aliens that have to shoot poison gas into your fucking mouth in order to kill you and that water could destroy.

Those aliens would be owned in Compton or any other ghetto or slum. And tell me what farmer does not own at least a shotgun?

Don't CONTRIVE a situation to get a message across because thats lazy writing.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-03-17 04:36pm

The aliens coming to earth at all is utterly stupid. Hmmmm, lets see, that planet's surface is made up of 75% liquid death, with constant showers of death, frozen death, and misty death, lets go there and take sentient animals that are always drinking liquid death, and have made liquid death easily accessble, for food, even though they themselves are 70% liquid fucking death.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-03-17 04:41pm

Worst. Movie. Ever.

So this guys starts to believe in God because:

A.) His son has asthma.
B.) Super-Advanced Aliens from another world are apparently retards that could be handled by the fire department.
C.) His wife dies! HUZZAH! A CELEBRATION TO GOD FOR KILLING MY BELOVED SPOUSE! WAY TO GO!

Idiotic for all intents and purposes. It doesn't even try to play on the alien threat, and it does a worse job at trying to show this man regaining his faith.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-03-17 04:50pm

IG-88E wrote:I rented the movie 'Signs' starring Mel Gibson and watched it last night.

About damned time.

I'm not going to be sleeping well for a while.

Wuss.

Baron Mordo · Post by **Baron Mordo** » 2003-03-17 04:51pm

anarchistbunny wrote:The aliens coming to earth at all is utterly stupid. Hmmmm, lets see, that planet's surface is made up of 75% liquid death, with constant showers of death, frozen death, and misty death, lets go there and take sentient animals that are always drinking liquid death, and have made liquid death easily accessble, for food, even though they themselves are 70% liquid fucking death.

I think the movie would have ended better if the kid peed himself and it killed the alien.

Posbi · Post by **Posbi** » 2003-03-17 04:53pm

Stravo wrote: Those aliens would be owned in Compton or any other ghetto or slum. And tell me what farmer does not own at least a shotgun?

Don't CONTRIVE a situation to get a message across because thats lazy writing.

Yeah, that was basically what got me and my friends. "So he's living out there. Alone, with his family. In the Mid-West...and in this four person household with two adult males of whom one constantly dreams about going to the armed forces (read: prone to gun ownership) they have no guns at all?
Jeez, even I have relatives who own firearms, and that's in fucking good ol' Germany...

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-03-17 04:54pm

Baron Mordo wrote:
anarchistbunny wrote:The aliens coming to earth at all is utterly stupid. Hmmmm, lets see, that planet's surface is made up of 75% liquid death, with constant showers of death, frozen death, and misty death, lets go there and take sentient animals that are always drinking liquid death, and have made liquid death easily accessble, for food, even though they themselves are 70% liquid fucking death.
I think the movie would have ended better if the kid peed himself and it killed the alien.

I think the movie would have ended better if zombies attacked everyone in the theater.

Posbi · Post by **Posbi** » 2003-03-17 05:00pm

just. don't. ask.

Posbi · Post by **Posbi** » 2003-03-17 05:03pm

grrr, multiple post

Posbi · Post by **Posbi** » 2003-03-17 05:05pm

For god's fucking sake what is wrong with these boards!!!!!!!!!!!

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