I always assumed that the lights were some kind of propultion system using the light energy to push them along. But then again I have never seen a UFO, so who knows?
Maybe the aliens removed their windows because the last time they came over to earth they saw the set for signs and were so disgusted they removed said windows on the off chance they saw something so crap next time.
The lights are probably just to fuck with us.
I bet they drink lots of water.
don't believe in aliens? Don't let Tom Cruise know... he'll be pissed and so will all his scientology friends
| stof said: Here's a quick rundown of SIGNS (damn you Goose!) Don't worry, I'll blank out the spoilers Oh my goodness, we've been visited by aliens smart enough to travel through space and hover above us in cloaked ships but too stupid to operate a doorknob. But don't worry, God caused your brothers failed career, your wife's death, your son's asma and oh yeah, An alien massacre that kills untold thousands (if not millions), just so your son would survive and you'd get your faith back. Believe in god, he kills thousands of people with Aliens, but your kid lived, so he's compassionate.
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And yeah, I didn't think about propulsion for the lights. I still think it's bullshit though.
Also, Food Network is one of my random networks I watch but nothing interesting was on it. I usually cycles between Food Network, Discovery Science (Discovery channel is shit now), and the National Geographic channel.
The problem with UFO's is that these days we have hundreds of thousands of people who's job is to take photographs and videos and often in outdoor areas yet all the ufo footage appears to have been shot with BlurryCams.
Heck, with photography satellites covering the whole of the planet if UFO's existed they'd routinely show on satellital photography.
Current-gen game collection uploaded on the profile, full of win and good games; also most of my PC games. Lucasfilm Games/LucasArts 1982-2008 (Requiescat In Pace).
Unbreakable is the best Schyamalan movie without doubt. Disagree and ill send Tom Cruise to your house when your sleeping.
Tom Cruise loves probing, volcanos and mediclorians ( whatever that shit is that says if your CLEAR or an SP).
Oh and the electric machine that electrocutes scientology members bcoz the other scientology members are sick in the head. Like hazing, they must continue the circle of abuse.
See here for examples of crazy scientology batshit -
http://wikileaks.org/leak/scientology-ethics-orders-misc-people.pdf
UFO's are the most ridiculous idea ever to sprout from the head of a sci fi comic fan who doesn't know what a plane or chopper looks like.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
stof said:
I'd say the big difference between the two is that the main protagonists don't drive the story in War of the Worlds. They're just random people caught up in an Alien invasion attempt. If the ending of the invasion did have to do with the protagonists, it would have really hurt the story.
But in Signs, It's a movie about god pulling the strings to spare a single kid from the Alien invasion... which by that reasoning would have been his doing as well. Which is a different complaint from the "water!?" complaint, but a valid one none the less.
So yes, Germs in War of the Worlds = logical and fulfilling as an ending Water and God's will in Signs = I want my money back. |
Oh I was just referring to the ages-old plot formula. If the protagonists aren't involved in the ending, that's a major flaw. It's like finding out it was a dream or the whole world exploding or something. There are many movies that play with or ignore the formula, that still kick ass, including the original War of the Worlds. As you said, the ending does make sense.
You know what one of the biggest plot flaws of all time is? Where the fuck did the eagles come from in Lord of the Rings? They save the day 3 times, but they say that they won't just drop the ring in the volcano because they don't like to meddle in human affairs. Either Tolkein forgot about them or made them liars and/or cowards and never explained it.
| stof said: Ok, so what are some good movies set in current times that revolve around aliens? There's Contact, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and X-Files - Fight the Future (which I thought was really good). What else we got? |
Damn, that's tough.
E.T.?
I don't remember if Alien Nation (1988) was good or not, but it spawned a TV series and 5 made-for-TV movies, and a video game, and it took place in 1991.
When they were made, both War of the Worlds and Plan 9 From Outer Space took place in the present.
Mars Attacks!.
Independene Day.
John Carpenter's The Thing.
My favorites are porbalby the 3 you mentioned and John Carpenter's The Thing.
@Rubang
Its only a guess but maybe even the eagles carrying the ring could be corrupted by it.
"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murders will foam up about their waist and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"...
....and I'll look down and whisper "no."
- Rorschach
| BringBackChrono said: @Rubang Its only a guess but maybe even the eagles carrying the ring could be corrupted by it. |
That's a possibility, but the theory is that they could just fly there super fast, saving the day in a matter of seconds, like they did 3 other times. Their argument that they don't meddle in human affairs is a lie that's not explained. Tolkein should have had some eagles at Rivendell (or anywhere really) explain that they refuse to touch the ring for some other reason.
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