The aliens aren't actually pictured in the movie. The aliens took some other race of warrior people with limited technology to earth for their own entertainment because it is hilarious
It's funny because I've always assumed that Signs was just a really serious translation of one part of The Sirens of Titan.
I remember reading a religious interpretation of Signs that actually fits a little better
Like, they're a demonic force rather than actual aliens, and it's not just any water that hurts them, but holy water (I don't remember why the glasses of water the little girl left out became holy, I forget a lot of the details)
And they say that they first figured out how to fight them in the Middle East i.e. the holy land for 3 of the world's biggest religions
I wish I could find wherever this whole thing is written out
Yeah I was coming in here to say just this. They weren't weak to water. They were weak to holy water
I remember reading a religious interpretation of Signs that actually fits a little better
Like, they're a demonic force rather than actual aliens, and it's not just any water that hurts them, but holy water (I don't remember why the glasses of water the little girl left out became holy, I forget a lot of the details)
And they say that they first figured out how to fight them in the Middle East i.e. the holy land for 3 of the world's biggest religions
I wish I could find wherever this whole thing is written out
Yeah I was coming in here to say just this. They weren't weak to water. They were weak to holy water
The demonic interpretation makes even less sense
Why the need for crop circles? Are non-Christian countries just fucked? How did Shyamalan's deus ex machina character know that they don't like water? Why do they even need physical bodies? Was the baseball bat made out of the one true cross?
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Anyone know who's the band/artist behind the OP trailer's song?
It totally made the video, almost reminds me of the "mad world" cover for the gears of war trailer - that sad slow mix with the frantic action on-screen.
Skyline was fucking awful. Nothing happens. Most of the time the film tries to disguise the fact that its basically an effects-piece (I have no idea why, they should have embraced it). This leads to the film meandering in frustrating awkwardness which at best is enjoyable for its embarrassing hilariousness (the dialogue has some truly so bad-its-good moments).
A sequence where marines fight the aliens starts up at one point, and I was like awesome finally something interesting, then the protagonists ran off and the camera followed them. I was so desperate to go back to the marines who were at least doing something interesting. Which is why I have some hope for Battle Los Angeles.
Also because the movie has no point, other than 'aliens invading', it makes it really easy for your mind to wander. Some things that bugged me in a silly nerdy way (the acting and script in Skyline is so bad it goes without saying):
- If there is anything America's military is built for, its hitting large targets and obliterating them. Im sick of giant monster movies where the monsters seem to be impervious to weapons fire and the entire stockpile of the worlds ridiculous firepower goes unused.
- Also giant monsters. If they 'exist' in a film thats trying to convey a semblance of suspension of disbelief, they obey the laws of physics, a fucking rocket to the face is a rocket to the face, they shouldnt be bullet sponges or have an infinite array of abilities. Also giant monsters in general are starting to bug me, something that big in our gravity should collapse into itself. I wish for once we were fighting foot-soldiers with some humanoid personalities or relatable (but scary) characteristics, perhaps warped into something genuinely horrifying (an example would be something like the Collectors in Mass Effect etc or Combine from Halflife 2).
- Again, the Aliens have too many abilities, regeneration, giant beasts that have lashing tongue-like tentacles to suck people up, it gets to a point where I just tuned out because the Aliens were amorphous CG blurs seemingly capable of anything.
Other weird things in Skyline:
We fire one nuke at a ship, it destroys it, but the ship regenerates. I assume we only fired one nuke because we were saving the rest for a rainy day. Dont we have like 30,000 of these things? And our attack strategy was 'send stealth-bombers to dogfight and fire the missiles at close range'. We dont need to do this, just use remotely targeting missiles to shoot down the massive slow moving targets the mother-ships represent.
Sorry for this awful nerd rage rant, I saw this on a whim and unfortunately didnt take my friends along, which is nightmarish, because id imagine its only tolerable if you're enjoying the hilarious dialogue with friends.
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I rather liked how in District 9, the big alien death robot still goes down to small arms fire.
Apparently that's something that only happens when its the protagonist, I guess.
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why else would the story be about a minister finding his faith in god
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
yeah fuck metaphor
do the aliens want anything from us, or are they just being cocks?
Those aren't tractor beams, those are hug beams. They're bringing all the humans in for a big hug.
At this time of year, in this part of the counter, localised entirely within your kitchen!
These are always the dumbest things.
They know we have pigs right? We can supply them with tons of pig brains without ever running out.
It's funny because I've always assumed that Signs was just a really serious translation of one part of The Sirens of Titan.
Yes!
That is
fantastic
Yeah I was coming in here to say just this. They weren't weak to water. They were weak to holy water
...May I see it?
If your metaphor creates plot holes you can drive a bus through, yeah, fuck it
The demonic interpretation makes even less sense
Why the need for crop circles? Are non-Christian countries just fucked? How did Shyamalan's deus ex machina character know that they don't like water? Why do they even need physical bodies? Was the baseball bat made out of the one true cross?
...No.
It totally made the video, almost reminds me of the "mad world" cover for the gears of war trailer - that sad slow mix with the frantic action on-screen.
Cheers, thank you sir.
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Good work, everybody.
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You're looking particularly
extra crispy
tonight.
he also made an amazing album that was inspired by the sounds of an ibm 1401 computer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBw_wSoVQrY
Let's skip the small talk and just start making kissing noises.
I'll start
muahmuah
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A sequence where marines fight the aliens starts up at one point, and I was like awesome finally something interesting, then the protagonists ran off and the camera followed them. I was so desperate to go back to the marines who were at least doing something interesting. Which is why I have some hope for Battle Los Angeles.
Also because the movie has no point, other than 'aliens invading', it makes it really easy for your mind to wander. Some things that bugged me in a silly nerdy way (the acting and script in Skyline is so bad it goes without saying):
- Also giant monsters. If they 'exist' in a film thats trying to convey a semblance of suspension of disbelief, they obey the laws of physics, a fucking rocket to the face is a rocket to the face, they shouldnt be bullet sponges or have an infinite array of abilities. Also giant monsters in general are starting to bug me, something that big in our gravity should collapse into itself. I wish for once we were fighting foot-soldiers with some humanoid personalities or relatable (but scary) characteristics, perhaps warped into something genuinely horrifying (an example would be something like the Collectors in Mass Effect etc or Combine from Halflife 2).
- Again, the Aliens have too many abilities, regeneration, giant beasts that have lashing tongue-like tentacles to suck people up, it gets to a point where I just tuned out because the Aliens were amorphous CG blurs seemingly capable of anything.
Other weird things in Skyline:
We fire one nuke at a ship, it destroys it, but the ship regenerates. I assume we only fired one nuke because we were saving the rest for a rainy day. Dont we have like 30,000 of these things? And our attack strategy was 'send stealth-bombers to dogfight and fire the missiles at close range'. We dont need to do this, just use remotely targeting missiles to shoot down the massive slow moving targets the mother-ships represent.
Sorry for this awful nerd rage rant, I saw this on a whim and unfortunately didnt take my friends along, which is nightmarish, because id imagine its only tolerable if you're enjoying the hilarious dialogue with friends.
Apparently that's something that only happens when its the protagonist, I guess.
it sounded sort of familiar but i guess i didn't put them together
Well like Prohass said, a rocket to the face (in this case arm) is still a rocket to the fact (arm).