Mel Gibson and the Crop Circles, what a crap!

[Elemental]

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!"

 

[Turanil]

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!"

It's the best and most valid interpretation so far!

 

[Banshee16]

The problem is not with their motivation it's with them doing so essentially stark naked and without any weapons or tools. THAT is just stupid. Of course people have done plenty of stupid things, but the difference between fantasy and reality is that Reality doesn't HAVE to make sense.

Well, they weren't there to fight a war. And given that they were a species with natural weaponry, sharp claw/spikes, and poison gas they could spray around them that kills, and could also turn invisible, did they really need lots of additional weapons for what was essentially a raid? Sure, the humans had guns, but if you can't see your target, what use is the gun? Then the creature gets in close, and the human is defenseless.

Regarding going to a planet where the environment is lethal, humans went to the moon, right?

What if they were vulnerable to water because those weren't really the aliens? What if those were their battlesuits or something, and the aliens were actually these tiny guys sitting in a control room in the chest a la Men in Black?

Banshee

 

[Morrus]

Regarding going to a planet where the environment is lethal, humans went to the moon, right?

In spacesuits.

 

[Turanil]

What if they were vulnerable to water because those weren't really the aliens? What if those were their battlesuits or something, and the aliens were actually these tiny guys sitting in a control room in the chest a la Men in Black?

Even worse: you don't create space-suits (err... Earth-suits) that are vulnerable to a major compound of the place where you go.

But according to the most valid interpretation of this movie ( ), it could be a deliberate trick (using flawed Earth-suits) to get rid of the incompetent among the aliens...

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

I've seen this movie two days ago on TV...[/B]

The movie is one of those you watch one time, 'cause by the second time you know when all the things are going to jump out at you.

That said, the aliens are only what Hitchcock called a Mcguffin and Whendon calls a flobotnym - just a thing to set the plot in motion, to make people move and provide a nominal excuse for why things are happening. They are not the center of attention - the family dynamics are supposed to be the center of attention.

Not an excuse, just an observation.

 

[Krieg]

I think the problem here is that some people are presenting their interpretations as fact.

To whit:

Yeah, they really are explicitly aliens.

The problem isn't that people are presenting their interpretations as fact, the problem is that the film didn't fit the preconceived expectations of what it was supposed to be by some viewers.

The window dressing isn't the point, it's just decoration.

This post is why you deserve to be in charge of this website.

Need I remind you that no one likes a kiss up?

 

[Kahuna Burger]

I could come up with a dozen different explanations for the plot hole by making stuff up to fill in the gaps (the demon allegory being one), but that's all it is - my imagination explaining away holes in a dodgy plot.

I still think of this sort of "explaination" as "No Prize" logic from the no prizes offered in the old Marvel Comics letter pages.....

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I really liked Sixth Sense.

I really liked Unbreakable.

After that his movies have been as crap unto me, nay beyond crap, for they do not nourish as simple manure would, but rather lie fallow in desolate waste. (In other words I hated both Signs and The Village. )

The Auld Grump

 

[ssampier]

The movie is one of those you watch one time, 'cause by the second time you know when all the things are going to jump out at you.

That said, the aliens are only what Hitchcock called a Mcguffin and Whendon calls a flobotnym - just a thing to set the plot in motion, to make people move and provide a nominal excuse for why things are happening. They are not the center of attention - the family dynamics are supposed to be the center of attention.

Not an excuse, just an observation.

That makes perfect sense. I guess I was disappointed and bored because I was expecting an alien movie; Man vs. the supernatural, not Man vs. Self.