Spoiler stuff blah blah... I usually enjoy M Night Shamalan(sp?)'s movies. well, I enjoyed the *other* two anyway. Signs just bugged the crap out of me.
I wonder if the concept of "door" interfered with their understanding of the concept of decompression in space? or perhaps their concept of "hatch" on a submarine? Oh, but they were hurt by water though...hmmm so being that our atmosphere contains vast quantities of water *vapor* (still water, even if we can't see it or "feel" it) how the hell did they manage to stand around in our atmosphere in the first place? Doors flummox an alien life form that has the technology to fly thousands?/millions?/billions? of light years (without doors on their spacecraft I guess), but Melly Mel cuts the space dude's fingers off and the alien can find his house without trouble (and get in using a window?) what a craptacular piece of garbage that was... will "...swing away..." Raymond Camden wrote: >Ack, hit enter too quickly: > >Speaking of cultures, something interesting I read once. > >The following is spoiler space for Signs: >The following is spoiler space for Signs: >The following is spoiler space for Signs: >The following is spoiler space for Signs: >The following is spoiler space for Signs: >The following is spoiler space for Signs: >The following is spoiler space for Signs: >The following is spoiler space for Signs: >The following is spoiler space for Signs: >The following is spoiler space for Signs: >The following is spoiler space for Signs: >The following is spoiler space for Signs: > >If you have see Signs, then you know the aliens had an issue with doors. >When asked about it, the director made the point that a kangeroo >couldn't open a door but it could still hurt you if it wanted. Not sure >how serious he was, but it does bring an interesting point. What if an >alien race had no concept of a door? In theory, the idea that a wall >would just "open" would not be something they could even consider. > >Further ramblings: This then reminds me of the concept of 'newspeak' in >1984 (forgive me if I get the term wrong, it's been _many_ years). If I >remember right, the idea was that if there were no verbal way to express >dissent, then there would be no way to rebel against the government. > >-rc > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 12:35 PM >>To: CF-Community >>Subject: RE: The Grand List of Overused Scie nce Fiction Clich�s >> >> >>Xenophobic or simply humanocentric? >> >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
