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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Firebeetle" data-source="post: 2820867" data-attributes="member: 34506">Signs is the ultimate alien invasion movie! It's better than Invasion of the Pod People, Day of the Triffids, AND They. Why? It shows one family who don't repel the whole invasion, just their part of it. As such a movie (sci-fi by designation only) it follows all the rules:The aliens are unlike us in intelligence, being more primal creatures. How did such primal creatures get superior technology to get here? Never explained. Maybe you don't need to be terribly sentient to be a great engineer, maybe the followed some more advanced aliens down an alleyway, mugged them and checked their pockets for loose technology. Maybe they are hive creatures, guided by a higher intelligence queen.The aliens need to kill/kidnap us to survive. Maybe they want us as slaves, or breeding stock, or dinner. Whatever it is, they need us. Why? Maybe they don't like to work, maybe eating less intelligent animals offends them (the same way we don't like to eat perfectly nutrious worms and bugs), maybe they "borrow" DNA from other races. Again, never quite explained. Hive creatures would steal slaves to work for them.The aliens are vulnerable to some common thing. This gives us hope that the main characters will survive. Why do they come here when water/salt water/liverwurst/roll-on deodorant kills them? Why do we go out in little boats in the middle of the ocean, or jump out of airplanes, or drive in multi-ton vehicles at high speed narrowly missing each other? Same answer, we don't think we will get hurt or die.The aliens, unless dressed like us, are naked. Of course they are. Why spend all the effort and time on making multi-colored wrapping? Why spend such considerable space storing it and time maintaining a pile of the stuff? Aliens don't see the need for clothes, see primal creatures above. Again, hive creatures have no need of modesty nor manufactured clothing.Also, the aliens do have an attack, they spray people in the face with poison, remember? Sure, it's not a ray gun or anything. They are steal, skulk, and grab by nature. Not "stick and gun in your face and yell at you" by nature. Again, hive creatures would be like this. They don't "dominate" each other as primates do. And why worry about armaments when drones are a dime a dozen?So, it follows the rules and my theory is that they are hive creatures. Guided by a superior intelligence the naked, unarmed drones follow the signs, like a honey bee's dance, to guide them to likely targets. There they kidnap slaves to take back to the hive. They don't need superior technology on the ground because they don't spend time to manufacture it, they might not even thing that way or don't want it to end up in the target's hands. Just a good, old-fashioned "smash-and-grab" raid.</blockquote>

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