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In Reply to: RE: M. Night is awful posted by barryb on July 03, 2010 at 09:48:39
The "twist" that water was deadly to the aliens was completely idiotic. Our atmosphere has lots of water vapor in it. It's called humidity. If water really was toxic to the aliens then leaving their vehicles without protective suits would have been equivalent to a naked human stepping into the sulphuric acid clouds on Venus.
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...depictions" of anything in that movie. I was less insulted because I watched with my kids on DVR, not as a $50 theater experience. Still, I thought it was more like a comedy that almost worked, with dramatic themes forcibly woven in--which was the films principal undoing.
Joachim Phoenix was great throughout the film and Gibson had several nice dry-humor moments as did Breslin and Culkin. There were even a couple laugh out loud scenes and a few unintentionally dumb moments that also made us smile.
The tension with the Aliens was corny and a contrivance to drive the "struggle of faith" message of the film. There was a nice scary moment or two for our 10 year old. This seemed made for a teen audience with some adult themes. They tried to do way too much with too little.
The film is indefensible on many levels but it was watchable and mildly entertaining on a rainy Saturday. If you look at what PG-13 films are "ok" for kids 10-14 Signs doesn't seem so bad.
Next to the other M. Night films Signs had a few redeeming qualities; mainly humor and a lack of serious language and violence--which is likely why they went with water and trouble with locks as the Aliens undoing.... they fit the silly, mostly mild nature of the film.
The water idea was beyond stupid.
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I don't understand. What "truth about Venus" are you referring to? And you do know that it was the Soviet Union's Venera 4 probe that parachuted an instrument package into the atmosphere of Venus, not an US spacecraft, right?
who knows
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How would we know?
-Wendell
but who knows
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path would result in aliens that can travel through the vast reaches of space to arrive on earth, but, lacking the technological ability to open a cellar door?
This reminds me of the Washington Post critic describing how the aliens were defeated in the movie "Independence Day" by planting a virus on the mothership. He noted that this advance species came millions of lightyears across the galaxy while running a Windows operating system.
who knows
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Judd Hirsch mentions it on Air Force One. I guess they missed one.
-Wendell
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