It's possible that he didn't know anyone who died in an utterly meaningless fashion, like his wife did. I dunno, none of my friends have passed away for no reason and my deceased grandparents are dead because of old age.
But, you've heard of death, right? And you probably had the mental cojones to realize that sometimes, people die in pointless and almost comical ways?
Yeah, but he had a flashback. Suddenly x number of years of being pissed off at the world and convinced that nothing has any meaning whatsoever hit him like a punch in the face.
IRL, we'd all love to wax poetic whenever the drama of a situation calls for it, and hell, what wouldn't we give for our own personal soundtrack to soar into play whenever we feel the need to glorify whatever point we're trying to make? Which of wouldn't love to be able to kick ass on demand without repercussions? But, remember how annoying it is when someone actually thinks they can pass this off? Like goth chicks, schizophrenics, and Mel Gibson? High-flown Hallmark sentiments fall flat whenever it's not YOU uttering them, and they grate on the nerves of such a down-to-earth, deadpan soul such as I.
That really bugged you? I thought it was great. "Swing away." That's movie magic. Of course it wasn't something that happened in real life, but then again there aren't aliens there either.
It bugged the shit outta me, but that's only one example. For the record, I'll use this paragraph to state that the characterization in the movie, the very lack of drama in most of the characters' outward behavior was something I liked about the movie, but that was also overused. Everybody in the entire frickin town was so low key and humble it made me think that there wouldn't be any such weekly happening like Ladie's Night at the corner watering hole, because nobody would ever
dare to utter anything even remotely cheesy. Gett off the home-spum, small-town wit already, we know you're all white trash...
This was his finest performance in ten years, at least. How great is it to see an action star act for a little bit? I dunno, maybe I am a sucker for that. But much in the same way I liked Tom Cruise in Magnolia, I liked Mel Gibson in Signs.
I hate Tom Cruise, too. And finest performance in 10 years says more about scriptwriters than Mel's acting, because he plays the same solid, dependable, intense citizen in like every role, except Payback.
You're just kind of going on what other, fictional handlings of aliens have come up with before. I don't think it's valid to dock a fictional story points for something just because other fictional stories did it differently and all did it the same.
No, I'm blaming the
movie for bogarting what every pop-culture idiot and diner poet has to say about aliens. They should have come up with something new for the aliens, but instead, not only did they copy their ideas of alien life from other sources, but they even included
other sources in the movie, and then actually had the plot
follow the course of that source, a book, which was probably less taxing than using imagination, I guess.
Yeah, but any civilization that could get here would also be presumably smart enough to not need the resources of an inhabited world. I would also submit that if they were aggressive (and they were) and they had weapons of mass destruction, they would have used it on themselves before getting faster than light travel and then not made it here at all.
True dat. But, if they were nice friendly aliens with groomed poofs at the ends of their tails and bows on their heads, they sure as hell wouldn't bother with us, either.
How on earth can you hate Mel Gibson so much? The man who brought us "GIVE ME BACK MY SON!" is not a man that I would think would inspire such rage.
That was the only movie I ever wanted to leave the theater during.
The kids were kind of annoying (but then, they all are) and the use of water as a weakness was kind of weak because he used it in Unbreakable.
The kids were somewhat less annoying then usual, I'll give them that. What came up the other night after we all watched it was that of the 3 people who were there, I hated Signs, 1 guy hated Unbreakable, and the third hated The Sixth Sense, and this very nearly caused a shouting match at 3:30 am. I've actually never seen Unbreakable, but thought the plot sounded pretty rad.
But other than that, I thought it was excellent. I'm just glad that you didn't like it because it dared to have something positive to say about religion.
I have no problem with religion, it keeps the idiots occupied with killing each other and out of my way.
