# They're aliens. Get over it.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 1, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863 "2004-08-01T19:58:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/21 "2004-08-02T01:19:20Z")
But the guys in the woods in “Village,” those are aliens. Right?
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### Author:  [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/22 "2004-08-02T02:17:53Z")
> [@Revtim](#):
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> If there was tasty food there, and we could stand the mist long enough to round it up (or if we had an underclass or subspecies to brave the uncomfortable mist for us), we might. Especially if we were short on food.
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> People dive for lobster and other sea foods, and they can’t stay underwater forever without dying. But it’s fun, so people do it. Or they have to do it to survive. Maybe it’s sport for the aliens to go to inhospitable atmospheres to round up exotic species to eat, just like it is for us.
Yes, but if I’m not mistaken, humans have about 70% water in their bodies. One bite and the evil alien is dead!
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Random)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/23 "2004-08-02T02:31:08Z")
> [@Dog80](#):
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> Yes, but if I’m not mistaken, humans have about 70% water in their bodies. One bite and the evil alien is dead!
I guess the human feast would have to be properly prepared by an expert alien chef, then. Does that make humans the fugu of the cosmos (much like tuna is the chicken of the sea)?
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/24 "2004-08-02T02:43:09Z")
> [@Dog80](#):
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> Yes, but if I’m not mistaken, humans have about 70% water in their bodies. One bite and the evil alien is dead!
Jerky.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/25 "2004-08-02T02:49:17Z")
> [@mike1dog](#):
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> Apparently, the humidity, and the rain, and the dew didn’t affect them. Just water thrown by people. Also evidently they couldn’t figure out how to get out of a closet.
They’re gay?
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### Author:  [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/26 "2004-08-02T04:17:27Z")
_Signs_ was a ridiculously retarded movie. If you can defend the crud in this, you can defend anything.
“But it’s about **faith**!”
Fiiiiine. It’s a fuckin’ retarded movie about faith.
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### Author:  [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/27 "2004-08-02T04:43:19Z")
> [@JonScribe](#):
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> But the guys in the woods in “Village,” those are aliens. Right?
I don’t want to wreck it or anything, but actually their ghosts.
I think the reason people don’t get Shamalyan (or whatever his name is) is because they expect versimilitude. He uses ghosts, aliens, and monsters only iconically, and doesn’t care about versimilitude. I see them as thriller-comic surfaces, really, and think he is quite good at telling a story and evoking a movie within that milieu. The movies aren’t retarded, bust most movie goers are – and I don’t mean stupid, I mean the real meaning of retarded, as in undeveloped or stunted.
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### Author:  [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/28 "2004-08-02T04:56:38Z")
> [@skutir](#):
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> The movies aren’t retarded, bust most movie goers are – and I don’t mean stupid, I mean the real meaning of retarded, as in undeveloped or stunted.
And isn’t that a nice pair of drawers the Emperor is wearing?
_The Sixth Sense_ was a masterpiece. _Unbreakable_ was dumb and forgetable. _Signs_ was drooling retardation.
I don’t give a shit about what is intentions are; he’s been telling crap stories with techniques that just don’t work. The dialog in _Signs_ was atrocious. The ideas were boneheaded.
The average person in the theater is **not** retarded; anyone who says so can fairly be called a snob and an elitist. The average person just wants a good show. He who can communicate big ideas while keeping people entertained is the true master. Shakespeare never seemed to have any problem keeping both the intellectuals and the groundlings coming back for more.
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### Author:  [@dry\_gear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dry_gear)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/29 "2004-08-02T08:13:20Z")
> [@Dewey Cheatem Undhow](#):
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> Of course they’re aliens. They’re extraordinarily _stupid_ aliens, seeing how their weakness is water and they chose to invade a planet whose surface area is 3/4 covered with the stuff.
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> Almost as dumb as the ID4 aliens running Appletalk on their mothership computers. Silly aliens.
I had made a little bet with myself that someone would say this by the 7th post on this thread. Turns out I was right.
Whenever a conversation about this movie comes up, someone will invariably say that, and they’ll always act like it was a point that no one had ever brought up before.
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### Author:  [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/30 "2004-08-02T12:03:45Z")
I’m agreeing with **Aeschines**. Scary.
Come on people, _Signs_ is in the running for dumbest movie ever. It’s just one idiocy piled on another.
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### Author:  [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/31 "2004-08-02T12:05:41Z")
Oh, and **skutir**? It’s ver_i_similitude (note the i). Perhaps you should try using easier words?
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### Author:  [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/32 "2004-08-02T12:22:31Z")
Wow. I’m the only one who enjoyed the movie. Oh well, if _retarded_ is the only label I ever get slapped on me here then I’m doing pretty good.
Carry on. 😃
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/33 "2004-08-02T13:07:54Z")
> [@](#):
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> Shyamalan seems to think that they’re aliens. Irrelevantly so, but aliens nonetheless. From an interview with Shyamalan at [SciFi.com](http://SciFi.com):
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> Quote:
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> This movie [Signs], like your other films, deals with faith.
> Shyamalan: I guess I just keep pounding away at this until I get it myself. Which is kind of a guy waking up to his potential and who he is and the things around him. So all three of those movies are this guy waking up. I don’t know why, I just keep writing that guy. I could easily write another one about a guy waking up and realizing this. And then the supernatural or the sci-fi elements of the movie—the ghosts or the aliens—is kind of irrelevant to me. It’s just a backdrop.
Thanks; I hadn’t seen that before. That’s the **first** time anybody here has presented me with a good reason to think the creatures are aliens. (Besides the retarded refrain, “Prove that they’re **not** aliens!” Imagine the response if somebody here used that argument in regards to a real-world claim. Apparently the idea is that Occam’s Razor doesn’t apply because it’s a movie, yet you expect other aspects of logic to apply. You jump to an illogical conclusion, then complain that your own conclusion doesn’t make sense. Fucking brilliant.)
So, sense the writer/director is God as far as the reality of the story goes, they’re aliens. Thanks for settling the question definitively. **Now** I’d really like to get Shyamalan alone and make him explain some things.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/34 "2004-08-02T13:18:35Z")
I was abducted by aliens.
They took out my brain. And then you know what they did with it?
THEY LICKED IT!
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, they _licked_ it.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, I know, disgusting! They _licked_ it!
Okay okay okay okay okay okay, they put it back. But I haven’t been the same since.
Thank you _MAD TV_.
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/35 "2004-08-02T14:04:40Z")
It occurs to me that Shyamalan should take it as a compliment that he’s being held to a higher standard than, say, Roland Emmerich, who makes cheerfully moronic movies that could have been written by software. When somebody’s intermittently brilliant, it’s more irritating when they have lapses.
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### Author:  [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/36 "2004-08-02T14:06:47Z")
> [@Priceguy](#):
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> Oh, and **skutir**? It’s ver_i_similitude (note the i). Perhaps you should try using easier words?
Thanks for the spell-check. You may keep your insult.
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### Author:  [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/37 "2004-08-02T14:08:21Z")
For me, what’s retarded is using the word “retarded” a lot, and being incapable of finding vocabulary or explanations other than name-calling.
Again, I mean “retarted” in its real meaning of undeveloped and stunted. Juvenile.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/38 "2004-08-02T16:00:30Z")
Actually, the part that gave me eyeaches from going :rolleyes: – ??
Advanced-technology extraterrestrials zoom down and prepare to dominate the earth, hovering over our major metropolitan centers where they get photographed and videotaped As Seen On TV…
Including, of course, that strategically important terran hub, **WestBubblefuck Cornfield, Iowa**?
WTF _is_ it with aliens and cornfields anyhow? Can’t some of them do rice paddies or orange orchards occasionally?
I suppose it _does_ explain Corn Nuts® though…
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### Author:  [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/39 "2004-08-02T16:08:25Z")
The part that gave _me_ eyeaches etcetera was the bit where a small Middle Eastern village figured out how to kill the aliens (Water. So original. So credible. So logical.) and from there it spread throughout the globe in a matter of days, but the CNN reporter didn’t know yet. Of course not. He only has ten cell phones, five fax machines and a room full of computers connected to the internet, how was he supposed to find out?
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### Author:  [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-aliens-get-over-it/257863/40 "2004-08-02T16:12:54Z")
> [@Priceguy](#):
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> The part that gave _me_ eyeaches etcetera was the bit where a small Middle Eastern village figured out how to kill the aliens (Water. So original. So credible. So logical.) and from there it spread throughout the globe in a matter of days, but the CNN reporter didn’t know yet. Of course not. He only has ten cell phones, five fax machines and a room full of computers connected to the internet, how was he supposed to find out?
But it’s about FAITH!
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