I’m perfectly willing to admit that the aliens weren’t the point of the film, but they are present in the film, which means you should at least try to sew up the giant, tractor-trailer sized holes in their conception.
The biggest problem? For the most part, there is always water vapor in the earth’s atmosphere. Regardless (with a few exceptions, but Pennsylvania ain’t one) there’s always humidity…which means the aliens would have been under chemical assault the whole time.
Now, I don’t know about you, but there’s NO way that I’m going to fall on my knees and worship the a-hole who killed my wife, nearly killed my son,and messed with my daughter’s mind simply to kill someone and say [GODVOICE] I EXIST. FEAR ME![GODVOICE]. Wo knows? the aliens may have been good. They may have been trying to save the rest of the universe from “Them-there monkeys with missles”. They may have had SOUL, something that M.Night Shayamalan seems to lack.
And the aliens should have looked MUCH cooler.
Anyways, the one funny thing that I saw in the movie is this scene:
“And you wanna know what I’m having? You wanna know? I’m having a CHEESEBURGER. With BACON. NYOH-HOH-HOH-HOH! NYO-HO[coughcoughcuaagh!]”
“Regardless (with a few exceptions, but Pennsylvania ain’t one) there’s always humidity…which means the aliens would have been under chemical assault the whole time.”
I think it’s perfectly possible that it is poison to the aliens only in liquid form and not as a gas. I guess it’s a matter of opinion but this really doesn’t seem to me to be the kind of plot-hole(if it is one) which stops me from enjoying a film.
The plot holes were bad enough, but the heavy-handed attempts to manipulate our emotions - e.g., as mentioned above, the kid who knows more than anyone else, & he was the tip of the iceberg - were just too blatant & clumsy for me. The movie didn’t draw me in, it pushed me away early & often. At the end I was simply angry that I’d spent so much time watching it.
I liked M Night’s first 2 films, so he gets once more chance, but that’s it.
Films like these are propaganda beamed out into space with the singular and intent purpose of scaring off any would be alien invader.
Buddy Alien: ‘whoa we can’t go that Earth planet, they’ll spill water on us, chop off our fingers and abuse us with sports equipment!’
Other Buddy Alien: ‘right you are my boy, let us invade another planet not populated by ingeneous and violent primates’.
SEE!!! The message is loud and clear-don’t mess with earth.
So for all you who say ‘why haven’t the aliens visited us yet?’ I’ll tell you why…they are scared man… really scared… we might fly F-15s at them or sneeze on them.