Posted: 1/21/2003 7:50:57 AM EDT
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Don't get me wrong, I liked the movie, it sort of had a '50s war of the worlds feel to it. Did anybody else find it odd that a farmer was trapped in a basement from marauding aliens and didn't have a single weapon? All I can say is, not on my farm. There'd be a few dead E.T.s on the other side of that door, and if they got through, they'd have to waid through empty casings to get to my family. _______________________________________________ When in doubt, empty the magazine! [X] |
| I found it a little unbelievable that he didn't at least have a shotgun. Then again, it seemed a bit implausible that the first alien couldn't get out of a wooden-doored cabinet/closet----yet, by the end of the movie half of the boards had been ripped off of his windows. |
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Yes, also, aliens with high-tech spaceships like to communicate by transmitting a grossly simple FM modulated signal at around 45MHz. [%|] Back to the gun topic: My GF and I were laughing at the notion of how we would have handled it. I don't give a rats ass if they can be killed by water.........I'm shooting 'em! |
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I'll start off with I liked the movie. I really get in to anything I watch, and even though I saw everything coming before it happened, I still jumped a litte at points. Yes, water hurts them, so if you had a supersoakers, good for you. However, I have real firearms, and no water guns, so I suppose I'll have to shoot them until they stop moving, then I'll piss on them. I also think I would have done a better job at boarding up and securing my house. Then again, I live in Tampa, Florida, where most people have hurricane shutters. |
| Yeah, I found it odd that he didn't have a gun. Being farmers, you'd think he would at least have a double barreled shotgun or mabye a .22. but then again, they wouldn't have had much of a movie if Mel had gone out shooting all 'dem thar aliens like friggin robo cop. |
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The way I figured it, Mel should have: 1) Boarded up all the windows. 2) Lured all the aliens inside the house with Reese's Pieces. 3) Once all the aliens are inside, hook unto the house via tow strap with his beefcake dually pick-up and rammed away till the house fell down. 4) Intentially dislocated his shoulder in order to squeeze into the now demolished house. 5) Once in the house he screams bloody murder and kicks alien ass with several guns. [:D] |
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From [url]www.flashbunny.org[/url] (great website): Consider the lack of suspense and drama if proper gun usage was depicted in the following movies: Cujo: "Oh no, I'm trapped in my car by a large, rabid dog. Where did I put my Glock?" The Birds: "Boy, the air is so thick with birds, you don't even have to aim." [red][size=3]Signs: "Unarmed aliens are trying to kill us? Grab the AK's boys, we're going a-huntin'."[/red][/size=3] Se7en: "Some psycho is trying to force me to eat until I die. I think I'll shoot him instead." Fargo: "Oh no, two men have broken into my house and are trying to kidnap me. How will I get their bloodstains out of my carpet???" Friday the 13th: "If I can't actually kill Jason, he's going to look pretty damn funny walking around after I blow his head off with a 12 gauge." Any Zombie Movie: "Well, we're trapped in a house surrounded by flesh eating zombies. Good thing we've got a couple of belt fed weapons around, isn't it?" Silence of the lambs: "Clarice, the man you are looking for is dead. He was shot by his last intended victim. Do you have any fava beans?" The Fugitive: "Good thing my wife was able to shoot her one-armed attacker. He was trying to murder her and frame me for it." |
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Quoted: From [url]www.flashbunny.org[/url] (great website): Consider the lack of suspense and drama if proper gun usage was depicted in the following movies: Cujo: "Oh no, I'm trapped in my car by a large, rabid dog. Where did I put my Glock?" The Birds: "Boy, the air is so thick with birds, you don't even have to aim." [red][size=3]Signs: "Unarmed aliens are trying to kill us? Grab the AK's boys, we're going a-huntin'."[/red][/size=3] Se7en: "Some psycho is trying to force me to eat until I die. I think I'll shoot him instead." Fargo: "Oh no, two men have broken into my house and are trying to kidnap me. How will I get their bloodstains out of my carpet???" Friday the 13th: "If I can't actually kill Jason, he's going to look pretty damn funny walking around after I blow his head off with a 12 gauge." Any Zombie Movie: "Well, we're trapped in a house surrounded by flesh eating zombies. Good thing we've got a couple of belt fed weapons around, isn't it?" Silence of the lambs: "Clarice, the man you are looking for is dead. He was shot by his last intended victim. Do you have any fava beans?" The Fugitive: "Good thing my wife was able to shoot her one-armed attacker. He was trying to murder her and frame me for it." No guns, and I thought of one that could only be a stupid thing movie characters could do: We got one almost helpless by itself and perfectly good family dog tied up out back. Let's eat whatever we want and leave it out there. |
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One Incredibly Advanced Alien to another IAA in "SIGNS", as their Incredibly Advanced Spaceship travels closer to Earth and fills the view screen or porthole: "What be all that whack blue shit all over the place and shit?" I have not seen the movie, and understand that the "message" is one of faith, but director M. Night Shabamadoobiewah and the scriptwriter are seriously insulting viewer intelligence with the "water kills them" premise. You would think that if these Incredibly Advanced Aliens are so effing smart as to build a ship and travel here from great distances that they would know WAY ahead of time that the effing place is COVERED in what amounts to acid or poison? Incredibly Advanced, maybe, but Just Plain Stoopid, surely. Not on my Blockbuster shopping list. Noah |
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Quoted: but director M. Night Shabamadoobiewah and the scriptwriter are seriously insulting viewer intelligence......... LMAO! Outside of the movie, the DVD is filled with hours of testimony and first person accounts of how cool and great he (M. Night Shabamadoobiewah) is. |
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"What be all that whack blue shit all over the place and shit?" Noah Damn son, that's funny. Signs, Tarantino style. "I don't give a shit how pimp Marsellus says this planet is, Vincent! Earthlings may taste like pumpkin pie...but I'll never know. Not with all that water n'shit. Tell The Wolf to turn our ass around." |
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You know... The thought of aliens actually landing here on earth is a definate possibility... That much of the movie is believeable, and could be considered "realistic"... A Bucks County, PA resident not owning a firearm to blast the shit out of aliens ??? THAT'S unrealistic.... Anyone notice firearms were not even mentioned in the radio broadcast Mel listened to ??? "Unconfirmed reports indicate the aliens were driven off by citizens using primitive means, the actual method is still yet unclear" Not even a mention of a firearm, weapon, gun, whatever... If anyone desrves bombardment from the AR15.com army, it 's the guy who wrote this movie... |
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Quoted: If anyone desrves bombardment from the AR15.com army, it 's the guy who wrote this movie... Forward emails to M. Night Shabamadoobiewah. (thats STILL funny to me) here is a entertaining critque: [%|] [b]M. Knight Shyamalan is a tool of the Illuminati! Why else would he be trying to push his portrayal of aliens in this manner, when everyone with Delta Green clearance knows that the aliens are really just meat-puppets for the Fungi from Yuggoth? The faithful and faithless all taste alike to Great Cthulhu. [/b] This website is HILARIOUS: [b]Watching this film was like unwrapping a pretty package to find a box filled with vomit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Director M. Night Shyamalan and his god can lick my balls. Watching this film was like unwrapping a pretty package to find a box filled with vomit. Shyamalan appears to be under the impression that if the package is pretty enough, I won't mind the fact that I'm getting vomit for a gift. Personally, I don't want to spend my time opening the present and admiring the wrapping. Just barf on me. At least it's over quickly. While trailers make "Signs" out to be a suspense-filled story about alien invasion, it's really just a ploy to beat us over the head with Shyamalan's faith-based film initiative. You see, former reverend Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) discovers that things happen for a reason and that faith is really important. It saves his life and his family's life. Unfortunately, in the process of this alien invasion, Hess's brother, Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix), states flatly that many people are killed. To me, this is the fatal flaw in this whole faith con job. Oh, it's so wonderful that Graham saves the day for his two children, Morgan (Rory Culkin) and Bo (Abigail Breslin), but what about the entire family of Quakers who got to watch their children force-fed their own eyeballs? What about the Hindus who were set on fire? What about the seemingly endless number of other Christians who died, but whose faith didn't do them one iota of good? If I've come to one conclusion about God while I've been on this Earth it's this: He hates people who live in mobile homes. That's why the tornadoes always hit them. And boy does Shyamalan set us up. There isn't a cliché he doesn't pour from his jug of holy water. Graham is no longer a reverend because his wife died in a horrible car accident. Naturally, he immediately drops his faith and becomes an ex-reverend. His two kids are so perfectly melodramatic I wanted to puke. Bo is the cutest thing on the Earth and seems both insanely smart and somewhat psychic. Morgan has asthma, so naturally Shyamalan forces us to wait around for that predictable moment where they forget his medicine. Didn't David Fincher pull exactly this same stunt in "Panic Room"? It's not tense enough that kid-eating aliens are invading, so let's give one of the kids asthma so his panic will be that much more grating. Hess gives a really insidious speech in the middle of the film. He says something along the lines of: There are two kinds of people in the world, those who see the unknown and feel hope and those who see the unknown and feel fear. The ones who feel hope are the religious people and the ones who feel fear are the secular people. Remember, Shyamalanadingdong wrote that. His theology is about as complicated as checkers. Ultimately, his movie is as insulting to those who don't believe as those who do [/b] [url]http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/signs.html[/url] |