Signs (the movie)
Mar. 26th, 2005 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythI know a lot of people like Signs, but I can't really say I enjoyed it. The acting and the camera work was well done, but the story just left me very eh. I'm reminded of this because the family's watching it now. More behind a cut, for spoilers.
To start with, I didn't find the aliens that scary.
Secondly, and biggest, the plot just didn't make any sense. Why are aliens who're weak to water attacking Earth, which is 3/4 water? And wouldn't the humidity kick their butts then for us?
And if the whole point was everything happened for a reason, and this brought Mel Gibson's character faith in God again, well... I just don't get it. Okay, yes, I wander the spectrum between atheist and agnostic, but the whole plot doesn't make any sense to me from a religious angle. There's like a zillion easier ways for things have gone. The girl leaves glasses of water around, which are just in the right places for the guy who used to be a baseball player to hit, and the son's asthma closed his lungs when the alien tried to gas him. Um. Yeah. Okay, but... I dunno, the movie seems to limit God a lot. Why not just, I dunno, have a water pipe burst on the alien? So why did God send the aliens in the first place? Since "everything happens for a reason". Which I guess just sorta goes back to the fundamental Problem of Evil, which is really out of the scope of this entry.
The movie doesn't do horribly in the showing one family reacting part, but the pretentiousness and the gaping plot holes about the aliens just blow a giant hole in it for me. It was pretty good, if not great, up to that point, moody and atmospheric and everything, and then the "twist" which shot the whole movie full of holes. For me, at least.
Tags: Mindscribbles, Movies, Religion
To start with, I didn't find the aliens that scary.
Secondly, and biggest, the plot just didn't make any sense. Why are aliens who're weak to water attacking Earth, which is 3/4 water? And wouldn't the humidity kick their butts then for us?
And if the whole point was everything happened for a reason, and this brought Mel Gibson's character faith in God again, well... I just don't get it. Okay, yes, I wander the spectrum between atheist and agnostic, but the whole plot doesn't make any sense to me from a religious angle. There's like a zillion easier ways for things have gone. The girl leaves glasses of water around, which are just in the right places for the guy who used to be a baseball player to hit, and the son's asthma closed his lungs when the alien tried to gas him. Um. Yeah. Okay, but... I dunno, the movie seems to limit God a lot. Why not just, I dunno, have a water pipe burst on the alien? So why did God send the aliens in the first place? Since "everything happens for a reason". Which I guess just sorta goes back to the fundamental Problem of Evil, which is really out of the scope of this entry.
The movie doesn't do horribly in the showing one family reacting part, but the pretentiousness and the gaping plot holes about the aliens just blow a giant hole in it for me. It was pretty good, if not great, up to that point, moody and atmospheric and everything, and then the "twist" which shot the whole movie full of holes. For me, at least.
Tags: Mindscribbles, Movies, Religion
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Date: 2005-03-27 01:19 pm (UTC)Beh.
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