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aliens logic: water is like acid to us...


...so lets invade a planet that is like 70%water, and where there are water everywhere because the people that live there need it to survive.

nice one M. Night

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What's really pathetic is that this is supposed to be one of his good films.

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It is one of his best. I consider it his BEST. You have no idea what those aliens situation was. Raiding earth might have been their only option. The water thing has been discussed over and over again. I hardly see anyone discuss why they came to earth, what they needed humans for etc.




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Also maybe they never heard of water. Maybe water is only an earth thing

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You know there's water on loads of other planets and moons right? Like Mars, Titan, Europa, Enceladus, Ganymede etc.

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An that means what lol these aliens could be from an entire different galaxy

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You're still foolishly assuming that the Aliens exist within our galaxy to begin with which is laughable.

As if to say, its an Alien so it has to come from one of these given planets that us humans have already discovered.

LMFAO

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Why would other galaxy's be any different than our own?

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Why would it be the same as our own or completely identical to everything we know now through reading about history?

Thats the actual question.

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Obviously not everything would line up to what humanity knows as we don't know everything there is to know about the universe or universes, but I think we have enough information to know that the universe we live in follows a set of rules and that is enough for me to think that things may not be so different out there. Plus the movie gives us basically no information as to the history of the aliens, so while it's fine to come up with your own theories I think it's only fair that you allow others to think what they want cause the movie is not doing a great job of backing you up.

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The irony in this one is strong.. Good grief " WE HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION TO KNOW THAT THE UNIVERSE WE LIVE IN FOLLOWS A SET OF RULES " ... Enough to know that things "may" not be different out there.

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We had such a "GREAT" argument man. I'm so enlightened by your detailed response.

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When was it an argument?

... or was that what you wanted it to be all along?

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Water exists on other planets, also there's water vapor in the air, they would have burned even though they didn't get wet.

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Night loves intentionally annoying Americans, always pushing the envelope to see how far he can go before they twig. So far they have NOT as he shows in The Happening

In Signs and 6th sense notice how he sets up some logically impossible scenarios BUT the audience feels there MUST be rules to tie them together, AND they get annoyed if THEIR own invented rules don't work.

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When they were in the basement the guy on the radio said "we were wrong, they didn't come here to invade, they came here to harvest us". So I'm thinking that they just came to take humans for whatever reason.

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The aliens never invaded earth to conquer it, they were taking as many humans as they could in a 3 day period. The radio stated that they were there to harvest the humans

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It boggles my mind people still use the water as an excuse to dog the film. The film goes out of its way to show that the aliens are there to raid, not conquer. It makes its clear they are desperate. The film flat out explains itself and people still piss and moan. Pathetic.

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Your kinda of missing the point.The whole movie is about faith an if its real this movie is a faith based movie at heart the whole thing about the water was it looked like it had something in it like the little girl said its meant to say is everything determined by god or is it random chance something being different about the water is like divine intervention by god to save the people

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I didn't hear anything about the aliens diving into the oceans and rivers and lakes and all just dying. Since they invaded on land, they were after the humans themselves and that water stays in the oceans, lakes and rivers.....water just doesn't jump out of the ocean and attack you 300 miles inland......I think your complaint is invalid.

It wasn't raining during the attack so water wasn't an issue. Humans live on the land.....not in the water.

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Humans are 70% water. A human could spit them to death. We are basically their version of a xenomorph.

The water thing could be forgiven if the damned aliens weren't also naked. Managed to invent intergalactic travel but somehow didn't invent pants? Humanity figured out covering ourselves was a pretty effective form of protection from the environment on day one as a species.

This movie was so stupid!

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Who said they "Managed to invent intergalactic travel"? Perhaps they found whatever means of transport they used. Or who says that the creatures sent down aren't the equivalent of trained monkeys or dogs? Or weren't prisoners from another species? Or created in a lab for cannon fodder? Or that their “ships” were actually ships at all? Or that they were even intergalactic, as opposed to interdimensional? We have no idea where they came from, how they got here (we never even actually see a ship, merely lights in the sky and an invisible tangible field in the sky a bird flies into), or what their circumstances are. It can only be seen as a possible story problem if you make assumptions and apply your own preconceptions and expectations onto what you’re experiencing.

Remember, the entire point of the story is that “everything happens for a reason according to God’s will”. That alone quashes any perceived “plot holes”. Why were the aliens sent down to the surface naked? Because God wanted them to be. That’s the internal logic we’re presented with as it exists within the context of the story’s universe. And it trumps everything.

Also, it quite clearly wasn't H2O that harmed them. It was the specific mixture of ground water on Earth that harmed them. Otherwise, the fog, moisture on the ground, etc. would have been a problem. We're directly shown that it isn't, while being shown that water from an underground aquifer and up through a faucet did harm them, and we're told they avoided "bodies of water", i.e. mineral-enriched ground water, with a solution specific to Earth, and clearly only in quantities sufficient enough to be poured from a glass. Ever put a dab of bleach on your skin compared to pouring a glass of it over your arm, especially if you’re particularly allergic? It’s the difference between no reaction at all to permanent disfiguration, a difference that may very well look like what happens in the movie. H2O itself wasn't their problem. It was Earth-specific ground water that was.

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The "no clothes" bit is the most viable question to ask, though. But there's so little information, the answer could be anything, which nullifies it as a legitimate complaint from an objective standpoint. Plus, God’s plan supersedes all else. If we think about it logically, however, clothes are a strictly human conception. No other species we know of wears clothes, although some do commandeer shells and wear them. Additionally, stealth when prowling around on the ground was clearly an objective, and we’re shown that they have a natural ability to camouflage by reflecting their surroundings. Wearing clothes would have completely negated this benefit. Plus, culture plays a huge role in clothing. It may simply be a concept their culture never developed, or that prefers against it in lieu of stealth, with their organic camouflaging ability being a major factor. Even among humans here on Earth there are cultures that wear very little or no clothes at all, even in some harsh jungle environments.

Having said that, like any work of art viewers are free to feel how they choose, and no one likes every movie they see.

As a side note, Shyamalan’s original intent was for the aliens to be octopus creatures, which is where their camouflaging ability stemmed from. However, after trying to get the SFX guys to get the CGI right, he wasn’t satisfied with anything they offered so they landed on the humanoid creature we ended up with (and probably less screen time for aliens). But I wonder if that would have been better, or if it would have just rendered it all sillier and even more derided than how it turned out? Hmm.

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I take it as it's not the water but it's something in the water. Each member of the family had their own "sign." The water being "contaminated" is Bo's sign.

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Maybe these aliens were former slave drones like District 9. They were not scientist or some shit but after a revolt on a slave ship they overcame their masters and took over the ship. Right, now they free but they got no idea how to sustain resources so they go planet to planet on raids like in this movie.

After the last raid on earth they were like fuck, what’s with this wet shit. And maybe we should get some material next time before we go down to a planet Nimrods

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Maybe they forgot their umbrellas!!!

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