Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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I don't even know what the twist in "Signs" was, because my Mel Gibson hatred pre-dates the Jesus movie. What was it in "Signs"?
It was a whole predestination thing, where Mel's kid's asthma caused him not to have breathed in the alien poison, and Joaquin's baseball ability allowed him to break shit, and the aliens were vulnerable to water. Or something.
I really didn't think it was as awful as everyone else, but not as good as his first two films.
The aliens were allergic to water. Which they hadn't thought of before invading the planet covered in water inhabited by creatures made up largely of water where it rains all the time.
But there really were aliens?
Yep. Also, M. Night giving himself far too big a "cameo."
I didn't see Signs either, Tep (Unbearable Unbreakable wore out my Shamalamalamadingdong tolerance), but IIRC, it ended up revealing that
that the aliens could be killed by water (which makes their invading of a planet 75% covered in it idiotic in a way that is at odds with their apparent ability to build spaceships). The wife's dying words, "Swing away" lead Mel to realize he should swing a baseball bat at a glass of water, which caused the aliens to get wet and die, thus restoring his faith in God.
[eta: x-post, of course. And some of my details are fuzzy.]
I just wanna say that the first five minutes of the series premier of Enterprise just cracked me up. A bunch of evil aliens chasing a Klingon through a cornfield in Iowa (or wherever).
Too bad everything after did nothing for me.
Right, right. See, I actually liked the God-works-in-mysterious-ways stuff, cause I've always been into that sort of trope. I overlooked the water issue.
The aliens were allergic to water. Which they hadn't thought of before invading the planet covered in water inhabited by creatures made up largely of water where it rains all the time.
Maybe they didn't know water would melt them like the Wicked Witch of the West.
Besides, it's not like they went to earth for the fishing.
That spoiler is the funniest thing I've read in a long time! Ha! Excellent. How is Charlton Heston not involved with this movie?
I think the Signs aliens and the aliens from V need to have a death-match. Or at least convene to work out who gets the water-planets, and who gets teh dry-planets.