Mel Gibson and the Crop Circles, what a crap!

[Black Omega]

The very same spaceship unequivocally referred to in multiple posts by multiple people throughout this entire thread.

Ok, the lights in the sky that are never unequivocally shown to be spaceships in the movie. Thanks, just making sure.

 

[Pielorinho]

Yeah. "You killed my wife, afflicted my son with a dangerous disease, made my daughter weird, and denied my brother his chance at athletic and career greatness, all so you could restore my faith in you. Thanks. Couldn't you just have sent me a vision of the Virgin Mary, instead?"

Mysterious ways, dude .

I figure after that series of coincidences, Mel probably said, "Okay, either there really is a God, or I've somehow gotten trapped in an M. Night Shyamalan movie."

Daniel

 

[fnork de sporg]

There's a scene where the litle girl says the water tastes "contaminated" and mel gibson replies that it's just what tap water tastes like.

Now, it's not actually explained but I figured that it wasn't the water it self that was hurting the aliens but the chemicals, the flouride and chlorine and whatnot, that were used to treat the water. So bottled water, for instance, wouldn't work.

 

[David Howery]

Jurassic Park takes a close second.

12 year old girl "Oh, this is UNIX. I know this."
Wait, it's a virtual reality operating system. That's not UNIX. Oh, and it's running on a Mac - with an IBM keyboard. That's definitely not UNIX.
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UNIX? I thought she said Unit.... but yours makes more sense, I guess...

 

[Piratecat]

Yeah. "You killed my wife, afflicted my son with a dangerous disease, made my daughter weird, and denied my brother his chance at athletic and career greatness, all so you could restore my faith in you. Thanks. Couldn't you just have sent me a vision of the Virgin Mary, instead?"

Clearly, Mel Gibson fell prey to the Muffin Basket conundrum.

This is KidCthulhu's Empire Strikes Backl Star Wars theory. "Wait, Darth Vader. You kick the crap out of me and cut off my frikkin' hand, THEN you tell me you're my Dad and ask me to join you? Next time, couldn't you.. I dunno... just send me a muffin basket or something? Trust me, it'd have made your offer a lot more attractive."

 

[Quasqueton]

Clearly, Mel Gibson fell prey to the Muffin Basket conundrum.

This is KidCthulhu's Empire Strikes Backl Star Wars theory. "Wait, Darth Vader. You kick the crap out of me and cut off my frikkin' hand, THEN you tell me you're my Dad and ask me to join you? Next time, couldn't you.. I dunno... just send me a muffin basket or something? Trust me, it'd have made your offer a lot more attractive."

Hmmmm. I feel a new thread coming on. . .

Quasqueton

 

[Klaus]

Clearly, Mel Gibson fell prey to the Muffin Basket conundrum.

This is KidCthulhu's Empire Strikes Backl Star Wars theory. "Wait, Darth Vader. You kick the crap out of me and cut off my frikkin' hand, THEN you tell me you're my Dad and ask me to join you? Next time, couldn't you.. I dunno... just send me a muffin basket or something? Trust me, it'd have made your offer a lot more attractive."

For a couple of seconds I registered that as a McGuffin Basket...

 

[Pielorinho]

This is KidCthulhu's Empire Strikes Backl Star Wars theory. "Wait, Darth Vader. You kick the crap out of me and cut off my frikkin' hand, THEN you tell me you're my Dad and ask me to join you? Next time, couldn't you.. I dunno... just send me a muffin basket or something? Trust me, it'd have made your offer a lot more attractive."

Darth Vader can't eat muffins. And if he can't eat muffins, NOBODY will eat muffins.

Daniel

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

My theory is that the main alien fleet was invading Mars or some other planet. The aliens that showed up on Earth were the really incompetent and useless members of the fleet, and the commander saw an easy opportunity to get rid of them.

"Good luck invading that blue-green planet, Ugga-Thathlu!"

"Er...I heard that it's mostly covered in a liquid that kills us, that the inhabitants are mainly composed of that liquid and always have easy access to it, and that it falls from the sky in great amounts, regularly. Shouldn't we at least take some protective gear? Or weapons."

"Nonsense, you'll be fine!"

That was much better than the actual movie.

 

[jester47]

As an IT professional, Independence Day takes the cake for the most mind-blowingly stupid way to defeat the enemy. The odds that one could compile code and upload them into ALIEN technology and have it execute have to be something on the order of 500 quintrillion to 1.


Jurassic Park takes a close second.

12 year old girl "Oh, this is UNIX. I know this."
Wait, it's a virtual reality operating system. That's not UNIX. Oh, and it's running on a Mac - with an IBM keyboard. That's definitely not UNIX.

Unless she was referring to some space-sim video game called "Eunechs" the chances are that a 12 year old girl knows UNIX are slim to none.

You need to talk to my co-workers daughter and tell her that she has to forget unix.