At 8:33 AM, Tuesday, January 28, 2003 Star Drifter posted the following:
I saw M. Night Shayamalan's Signs last night -- *SPOILERS* *SPOILERS* *SPOILERS*

There are spoilers in this. I will be giving away what might be key scenes in the films as I rant. But I have to do it somewhere.

These were undoubtedly the dumbest aliens ever put to celluloid. Why? Even the aliens in Spaced Invaders or Mars Attacks were able to grasp the nature and culture of the planet they were hanging around on.

Mistake #1. Earth. It would be like us invading a planet where battery acid falls from the sky and collects on the ground. Especially when it's cold.
Mistake #2. No protection. Seriously now. They can make a spaceship invisible but they can't make an umbrella.
Mistake #3. Bad scouting / management. "General! Grgrgrok was defeated by a vet wielding a potato!" "GRR! THAT MAKES ME MAD! INVADE! INVADE!"

Ah, but you have to overlook this to get to the religious tones. Let's see. That dude killed a preacherman's wife, the wife died, because God was pulling strings instead of letting things happen like he said he would in that book he wrote. Hm. A quick questionairre comes to mind.

Pick one of the following:
[__] YES! I WANT TO BELIEVE IN A MANIPULATIVE, LYING GOD!
[__] NO! MY DEITY OF CHOICE TELLS THE TRUTH!

I admit, I don't even believe in any such figure, but stuff like this is just swaying people to believe in the lying manipulator. If you're going to do something, do it right. (That's why I don't, by the way.)