[ SECRET POST #3816 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3816 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[soldatsasha]

The Sixth Sense is one of my fav movies, but Signs is really fantastic and one of the few movies I've watched more than a handful of times.

I honestly think that if it weren't for Mel Gibson being a fucking asshole, and the amazingly stupid and totally necessary "twist", Signs would be widely regarded as a masterpiece. It does SO MANY things right, and nails so many different themes and disparate scenes.

I mean, a pastor who's lost his faith since his wife's death + a brother who never managed to grow out of being the cool 'small town sports hero' + midwest small town creepiness + War of the Worlds + kid actors who don't suck + maybe God is real or maybe not??? If it wasn't for the stupid fucking ending it'd be amazing.

[(Anonymous)]

The ending is perfect for the kind of movie Signs is, but Signs is kind of a lunatic over-the-top unrealistic movie and Hollywood and critics tend not to appreciate that kind of movie

[soldatsasha]

Nah, the structure of the ending is great, neatly tying together all the separate components and all, but the allergic to water thing is fucking awful. It pokes a million plotholes into everything else in the movie.

Aliens that can be harmed by a glass of water are somehow okay roaming through a misty, dew-soaked cornfield? What happens when it fucking rains? etc. etc. etc.

Up to that point things are over-the-top, but everything is firmly grounded in the real world. The aliens are scary because of this. But the twist just throws it all into question.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

And if they're allergic to water, why invade a planet that is like... 70% water?

[sarillia]

Maybe they didn't know water was dangerous to them because they had never encountered it before.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a fair enough explanation.

[(Anonymous)]

I know it's like "this alt theory will blow your mind!" clickbait meta pretentiousness, but I saw a pretty funny explanation by someone theorizing the aliens were on a hazing challenge - very fratboy logic really "you gotta go to this 70% of dangerous-to-us-water planet without a protective suit and interact with local fauna, go!".

[kaijinscendre]

I like the theory that the aliens are actual demons.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ubaqq/what_fan_theories_have_blown_your_mind_with_their/c4ubvmy/

[(Anonymous)]

Wow. That just made the film about 110% creepier to me than it already was. Rewatching tomorrow. Thanks! <3

[meredith44]

I really liked the movie. Until the end. I just can't buy that the aliens were able to be on Earth if they are allergic to water. I mean even when it isn't misty or raining, there is a lot of water present in our atmosphere. "At any moment, the atmosphere contains an astounding 37.5 million billion gallons of water, in the invisible vapor phase. This is enough water to cover the entire surface of the Earth (land and ocean) with one inch of rain." Link. I just can't imagine aliens being able to survive walking around if they can't handle water.

[(Anonymous)]

Iirc, one of the newscasts in the background theorized they were drones/scouts, so it was like District 9 where they didn't mean to be on earth... and the ones we saw were too stupid or sick to leave once something happened to the leadership.

[(Anonymous)]

They weren't "staying" they were sending scouts. The ones we saw were the ones left behind after they spent the night probably getting sicker and sicker.