Lady Butterfly she/herWhat's yours?
xxce2AAbOkay, that’s inspired, and I’m going to make it a thing around here come hell or high water.
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Boomer Humor DoomergodThe aliens in Signs are idiots for invading a planet that’s 70% water. And if they landed in a cornfield in rural PA in the middle of summer the humidity would have killed them instantly.
And what’s worse is Shyamalan lives in PA and should know this.
It wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t also naked.
Also, they have interstellar travel but need to use crop circles to communicate. I know that’s just part of the premise but it’s still stupid.
But not nearly as stupid as flying all the way here and trying win a land war completely unarmed. If your battle plan can be beaten by a baseball bat and asthma, you should maybe rethink your invasion.
I think the movie would work better if the aliens were just messing with this one family on a farm, like they’re a scout force.
But it’s like humans trying to invade Mars in their birthday suits.
Who says they were the aliens?
Man, the aliens sat it out in their dry ass ship and sent a crop of vat grown drones to go harvest all the organs they wanted on a world covered in H2O.
The drones aren’t bright, but the get the job done. They only last 30 hours or so before they start decomposing, so it doesn’t matter if they get locked in a pantry or clubed with a bat.
You think a starfaring species would come all the way to Sol 3, and not being a bio organic drone to go out and brave the hazards of an acid covered water world hell planet?
Shit. Don’t get me fucking started on how many people miss the point of the aliens in fucking Signs.
If there was this much world building I’d probably like it more.
But the only rules they established for the aliens are poison gas and water dissolving.
Actually, The only world building they did firmly establish was that the aliens did not matter…
For all the audience needs to know, they used the gas to transfer their consciousness into a new host, and they do this everytime they visit a new biosphere.
But no, you fucking de-cloak early during one childrens birthday party in South America and your ass is a joke, you get fucking anthropomorphized for the next 20 years…
I like the holy water fan theory. They were not aliens but demons and all of the glasses of water were blessed when Mel Gibson regained his faith
Which would work if the aliens were only attacking his farm and not the entire planet.
On the radio I mentioned that people had discovered an old technique to fight them, there are other priests on earth
And Toto has Africa pretty well covered.
edible_funkI needed that chuckle.
You never see spaceships and you only see how a single creature is defeated. The radio says the war turned around in the holy lands, which aren’t overflowing with water everywhere.
It’s faith that defeats them, not water.
I thought that was the actual reason and not just a fan theory?
“The characters in that movie called them aliens, but it was never explicitly demonstrated what they were or why they were on earth. People are much more accepting of aliens these days, and the idea was that if demons appeared among us, they would be perceived as aliens.”
If it had been talking about demons at all during the movie this would eliminate my major problem with the movie.
There just weren’t enough rules about the universe demonstrated to the viewer to know what’s going on.
And I know Shyamalan is capable of this because he did such a good job with this in The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.
I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.
Captain Carter said the same thing
Alien invasion is always stupid. Interstellar travel uses so much energy, it can power a civilisation for a year, and that’s for just below light speed from our nearest star. Their tech level would be high enough to just scoop up whatever resource they want from astroids, if not ourright skimming from gas giants or stars. Oh, you need genetic material? Musquito drones would do the job. I mean, only the Predator movie makes sense as they just come here for hunting.
The only alien invasion scenario that makes sense is one where the aliens are so advanced they don’t even notice us.
Kinda like we don’t hesitate to step on grass.
I mean, it’s not completely unrealistic that some alien race builds a generation ship, points it at Sol 3 because it has a strong magnetosphere, conditions for liquid water and a fairly oxygen rich atmosphere then after their 10,000 year journey they discover a race that’s just beginning to figure out space flight on the planet previously observed to lack any industrial capabilities. Honestly that would make for a good film, and I’m sure there’s science fiction books based on that idea already (Douglas Adams wasn’t far off from that with the Galgafrinchians too, only they arrived about 20,000 years before our present day and supplanted neanderthals as the dominant hominid race on Earth)
I disagree. If water is essential for their spaceflight, IE fuel, reaction mass, ect then it’s fine that they would invade.
Humans have invaded the Sahara desert, which is hot enough to kill, the arctic and Antarctic which is cold enough to kill, the submarine realm which can crush, freeze and drown us, and even the moon, which is hollow and full of dangerous reptillians.
We go to extremely dangerous places to fulfill our need for resources and territorial ambition
Yes but they wouldn’t show up bare-ass nekkid on a planet full of water if they knew it dissolved ‘em!
I almost wonder if it’s like Mt Everest climbers who climb without oxygen tanks, they do it more to prove that they can than for any rational reason
Lol I actually grew up near where the movie took place and now I feel stupid for never thinking about the humidity factor. Summer in PA is underestimated by those who think “it’s the northeastern US, how bad can it get?”. For those of you who don’t know, most summer days you can see the humidity and you’re drenched in sweat about 2 minutes after you exit a cool shower.
In the mountains it’s not too bad but Chester country might as well be Leesburg in July.
Miles O'BrienHan solo didn’t “shoot first”, he was the only one who shot, period.
Greedo didn’t shoot the wall (and miss a 6ft target sitting 2ft away), that was added (poorly) many years later for a special edition.
They changed the movie because in the interim years, George Lucas was feeling like it made Han Solo look less “noble” and more scoundrel-like.
Rubberneck Han isn’t real. Rubberneck Han can’t hurt you.
skulblakaHan Solo is supposed to be a scoundrel, he’s a damn smuggler. The bar they meet him in is described as “a wretched hive of scum and villainy”.
George Lucas has an incredible talent for fucking up the intent of the author in a story that HE’S THE AUTHOR OF, it would be very funny if it weren’t so annoying.
samus12345And the guy he worked for previously was described as a “vile gangster” two movies later.
otterIf anything, Han shooting and being a “scoundrel” adds even gravitas to his change of heart near the end.
When I posted this I had no idea we’d get anything THIS controversial. Yowzers
Greedo was pointing a gun at him and talking about claiming his bounty. How exactly was he going to go about that without shooting Han?
So yes, Han shot first, as in, shot before Greedo could, which he was certainly intending to do.
Similar idea to the radio 4 show ‘just a minute’
There’s a variation of this on Dropout’s “Make Some Noise” with 3 people where one player starts a rant, then is told to stop mid-rant, and the next person picks up where it stopped and takes it in their own direction.
Sounds like a good way to enhance your critical thinking skills. Something we humans direly need today.
whotookkarlThe Socratic method is a sort of dialectic game too. Someone takes a position by providing an argument for it, and you provide your best counter arguments for the strongest form of the argument.
I was going to say theatre kinds/improv troupe, but that too.
Evil KittyThe Game
Fuck… I lost…
I can’t believe people just go around making up games on the fly. Like who thought this was a good idea?! There’s no way you’ve possibly playtested the rules to ensure everything is balanced. Without corporate oversight and a solid profit motive there is no way some “friends” in a “car” could make a successful game. The premise is just absurd.
And then to think you could go around sharing your dumb “game” freely on the internet in forums and such?
Don’t even get me started…
Made up? Sure. Made up on the fly? Absolutely not, learn some basic goddamn planning skills and actually figure your game out properly. People just going with the first idea that slobbers out of their malfunctioning brains and giving it no further thought is how we end up with money for landing on Free Parking in Monopoly and the very same people complaining that Monopoly takes too long. You put in a house rule that makes the game take longer. "Oh this food is too spicy for me. I don't like it. Can you pass me the hot sauce so I can add some more please?"
Wooosh!