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I was about to post a thread on the same movie.I saw it last night and thought it was an extremely clever, well-planned out flick.
When you think back on it, everything ties in.
Some bits were quite humourous and freaky. For example the dog barking in the first 10 minutes! Everyone jumped in the whole cinema!
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The problem I had with the movie was tthe sub-plot about the aliens.
You see, this was a movie about faith. It wasn't about aliens. It was about how everything happens for a reason, and how the many signs you come across in life are all part of one huge tapestry. It was a story describing the now-so-common loss of faith and answers for the "why does God let this happen?" question. For example, his wife's comment about the baseball bat as she was dying, allowed him to kill the alien at the end. It was shown that she died for a reason, than enabled him to save his family.
That's what the movie was about - not aliens.
But there were huge plot holes regarding the aliens, which I didn't buy. It was almost as if the director decided to make a movie about faith and then decided to add aliens in at the last minute! That alien in the house at the end, might as well have been a burgular, and the story could still have been told the same. Why aliens? These aliens are allergic to water, but have obviosuly never heard of evaporation where water is in the air they breathe! They have cloaking ships, so they obviously don't want to be seen, but they shown themselves THEN hide their ships?
They can jump 10 feet n the air and land on a roof, and traverse the galaxy in a spaceship, but they can't break out of a closet?
The actual story of fairth, and "everything happens for a reaosn" was absorbing and perfectly paced. It build up to a point where you were anxious to find out what happened. The tension was fantastic. But the ending was hollow and not enough was explained about the aliens to make the viewer really accept the story.
It felt as though they were just added in, to get the sci-fi fans to watch a story that had nothing to do with sci-fi and everything to do with God, and faith.
Was I the only one that thought this?
You see, this was a movie about faith. It wasn't about aliens. It was about how everything happens for a reason, and how the many signs you come across in life are all part of one huge tapestry. It was a story describing the now-so-common loss of faith and answers for the "why does God let this happen?" question. For example, his wife's comment about the baseball bat as she was dying, allowed him to kill the alien at the end. It was shown that she died for a reason, than enabled him to save his family.
That's what the movie was about - not aliens.
But there were huge plot holes regarding the aliens, which I didn't buy. It was almost as if the director decided to make a movie about faith and then decided to add aliens in at the last minute! That alien in the house at the end, might as well have been a burgular, and the story could still have been told the same. Why aliens? These aliens are allergic to water, but have obviosuly never heard of evaporation where water is in the air they breathe! They have cloaking ships, so they obviously don't want to be seen, but they shown themselves THEN hide their ships?
They can jump 10 feet n the air and land on a roof, and traverse the galaxy in a spaceship, but they can't break out of a closet?
The actual story of fairth, and "everything happens for a reaosn" was absorbing and perfectly paced. It build up to a point where you were anxious to find out what happened. The tension was fantastic. But the ending was hollow and not enough was explained about the aliens to make the viewer really accept the story.
It felt as though they were just added in, to get the sci-fi fans to watch a story that had nothing to do with sci-fi and everything to do with God, and faith.
Was I the only one that thought this?
thought it was good...
pretty good edgey suspensful movie...
*** SPOILERS ***
there were a few too many funny bits in it.. which ruined it for me..
and i probably would have enjoyed it more, if it didnt show the whole alien at the end..
the tv footage... the fingers under the door... and the shadow as Mel was moving the tv for his son to watch... was enough... should have kept it like that... ah well..
pretty good edgey suspensful movie...
*** SPOILERS ***
there were a few too many funny bits in it.. which ruined it for me..
and i probably would have enjoyed it more, if it didnt show the whole alien at the end..
the tv footage... the fingers under the door... and the shadow as Mel was moving the tv for his son to watch... was enough... should have kept it like that... ah well..
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The whole alien invasion thing was too "incidental" for my liking. Yet the bulk of the movie's runtime was concerned with this plot.
Great suspense, and I gotta admit that it scared the willies outta me, but the alien story was just too full of holes to be believable and completely irrelevant to the main theme.
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I hated it.
What was with the Aliens.
All this build up and how do they knock them off??
WITH WATER
W T F
The world is 3/4's water it rains every second day and these "superior beings" not only decide to take over a planet that is 3/4's there Kyrptonite BUT they make absolutely no provision to protect themselves from it.
What a joke
By far the poorest in the series
What was with the Aliens.
All this build up and how do they knock them off??
WITH WATER
W T F
The world is 3/4's water it rains every second day and these "superior beings" not only decide to take over a planet that is 3/4's there Kyrptonite BUT they make absolutely no provision to protect themselves from it.
What a joke
By far the poorest in the series
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I have a problem with science fiction movies, because you know before you see it who's gonna win.
It's always the humans.
If this weren't so, who would be left to tell us the story, after all we have to have a point of view. This is the structure of all twentieth century and beyond literature.
A film is only writing, all the rest is bumpf.
It's always the humans.
If this weren't so, who would be left to tell us the story, after all we have to have a point of view. This is the structure of all twentieth century and beyond literature.
A film is only writing, all the rest is bumpf.
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Wasn't impressed.
You could see what Shyamalan was trying to do with the film's themes of belief but in the end it just dissolved into a rather poor alien movie. Whoever mentioned the humour was right - too often there was a joke thrown into the script that blew whatever tension was being built up. And the scare devices - the dog's loud bark, the alien hand shooting out, etc - all just standard movie fare. None of the subtlety I expected.
Some bits of it were quite good though - the way Joaquin Phoenix's character was camped in front of the telly, waiting for the next bit of news to break, and the way the media kept replaying their limited footage over and over again...all very reminiscent of my night (Aus time) when September 11 occurred.
You could see what Shyamalan was trying to do with the film's themes of belief but in the end it just dissolved into a rather poor alien movie. Whoever mentioned the humour was right - too often there was a joke thrown into the script that blew whatever tension was being built up. And the scare devices - the dog's loud bark, the alien hand shooting out, etc - all just standard movie fare. None of the subtlety I expected.
Some bits of it were quite good though - the way Joaquin Phoenix's character was camped in front of the telly, waiting for the next bit of news to break, and the way the media kept replaying their limited footage over and over again...all very reminiscent of my night (Aus time) when September 11 occurred.
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Personally I enjoyed it. Dan if you're going to make a comment on a movie, could you please at least add 'spoiler alert' for those who hadn't seen it?
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Did anyone think the aliens ships hovering over the major cities was reminiscent of Independence Day? Also a few of the lines at the end referring to how they beat the aliens made me think of the same movie.
Overall I liked it though, it was a bit different and kept you on the edge of your seat at times but still had it's funny moments. It won't go down in history as the best script ever written and chances are you will either mildly enjoy it or come out of the cinema asking the person next to you what the hell it was about, but it isn't a bad film.
Overall I liked it though, it was a bit different and kept you on the edge of your seat at times but still had it's funny moments. It won't go down in history as the best script ever written and chances are you will either mildly enjoy it or come out of the cinema asking the person next to you what the hell it was about, but it isn't a bad film.
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I enjoyed it. The way things dawn on you when you watch a Shyamalan film. SPOILERS DONT READ ON!!!! The way Gibson explains why his wife said swing away when she died, yet at the end of the movie you really realise why she said it. Also his daughter and drinking the water, left tonnes of glasses with water all over the house.
The son has asthma (sp?) and his lungs were closed when the alien tried to kill him with the poison. I thought Jaoquin was very good and some parts of the film were very tense and scary. Particularly the alien stuck in the closet bit. The way you can see him pacing inside and then when Mel says something he stops...then the scary fingers under the door bit.
I actually liked not seeing the aliens until the very end aswell...added suspense. M.Knight Shymalan has the same problem Oasis have though. He brought out his best work first. He blew us all away with The Sixth Sense and since then hasnt being able to surpass it. Same story with Oasis' first two albums and the drop off afterwards.
Still i enjoyed it.
The son has asthma (sp?) and his lungs were closed when the alien tried to kill him with the poison. I thought Jaoquin was very good and some parts of the film were very tense and scary. Particularly the alien stuck in the closet bit. The way you can see him pacing inside and then when Mel says something he stops...then the scary fingers under the door bit.
I actually liked not seeing the aliens until the very end aswell...added suspense. M.Knight Shymalan has the same problem Oasis have though. He brought out his best work first. He blew us all away with The Sixth Sense and since then hasnt being able to surpass it. Same story with Oasis' first two albums and the drop off afterwards.
Still i enjoyed it.