Signs 2002- Director M Night

[Brazoo]

I really enjoyed everything up to the last 30 minutes or so. The paranoia of an invasion and suspecting there might not be an invasion was more interesting than the invasion itself - which was just slapped-on B-grade typical nonsense.

It's the first Shyamalan movie where he forced on the twist ending and it really made a mess of things for me.

Gibson's daughter has a strange compulsion for leaving glasses of water everywhere --- it's such a weird characteristic that I can't imagine people not knowing that it was obviously going to play a part in the climax. Come on.

The message of that movie was so obvious and cliché it's hard to believe Shyamalan wasn't playing homage to the speech at the end of "Plan 9 From Outerspace".

On top of that you get all the non-science and illogic of the aliens. Just horribly un-thoughtful stuff for everything towards the end of the movie.

[johnmiic]

As for the aliens getting locked in a closet? So what? It's an alien. We don't know if it was a drone that doesn't have a high IQ and is bossed around by more intelligent aliens inside the space ships.

We don't even know if these aliens even understand the concept of doors. Ants don't use doors, either. They're still an incredibly advanced race in the insect world.

Well 2 things come to mind tho these are not common experiences for everyone. First, in the real world, we know animals such as raccoons and bears can open garbage pail lids an food lockers. I even saw a video of a bear that untied a bird-feeder rope to get at the food. I have also had cats in my family for years and I have seen them open a door that is slightly ajar with their paws and even one locked herself in a room trying to reach for the doorknob. So I think if animals can figure out how to open a door shouldn't an alien?

Second we are a bit spoiled by Hollywood because we have all seen the Jurassic films and they theorize that dinosaurs would be intelligent enough to work handles and doorknobs to open doors so we expect it of our Hollywood aliens too. Your argument is still a very good one tho. Not a bad argument at all.