Advanced Sci-fi Civilisations Too Stupid To Really Exist Ep.02- "Alien" Signs

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[@withinmyscope]

If you didn't already deserve a like for this, your Sam clip at the end brought it over the edge.

[@LuizeLândia]

Valeu pela legenda em português ;)

[@BrettonFerguson]

Maybe they weren't invading. Maybe they were trying to teach us to read their language like that other stupid movie. Then this whole thing would make sense. They didn't bring weapons because they didn't want humans to feel threatened. Then they were running around in the corn making letters and messages, then climbing on the barn roof to see if they spelled it correctly.

[@joseffblake]

I'll throw this in the mix and see what happens: What if these are not Aliens but rather Demons? I'll leave It at this :3

[@jonathonrobinson6081]

@@joseffblake That's what Shayamalan wanted the twist to be. The water that was hurting the demons was actually supposed to be holy water that the daughter was accidentally blessing (it had something to do with leaving the water out for her deceased mother or something like that, it's been a while since I read about it so I might be getting the details a bit confused).

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

Not to mention this would put them at an extreme disadvantage in close quarters combat. When humans fight, they sweat and exhale moisture. If you injure a human, they shed a substance that's 90% water. The human body is a walking biohazard to these aliens. It would be like a human trying to punch out a Xenomorph while butt naked.

[@D-One]

I mean we could just spit on them to death.. or piss on them lol

[@ElOchentero]

Hell, you can pee on them and you'll be safe.

[@eviljohnnybravo7575]

That would have made this movie an instant classic if Mel Gibson would have just whipped it out and just started peeing on the alien lmfao. It's probably not a stretch for Mel Gibson anyway.

[@putzthewondersloth]

Will Smith, a la Independence Day. "Welcome to Earth!" Zip... psss

[@perspectivedetective]

FrozenWolf150 LOL That kind of makes us the equivalent of a xenomorph to one of those things.

[@samiamrg7]

Imagine these guys invading Earth and using chemical weapons (like chemical spray guns) on us only to find out the deadliest chemical weapon known to their race has absolutely no effect on us, and that we in fact bathe in the stuff for fun. Now that’s a “humans are space orcs” entry if I’ve ever seen one.

[@humanshapedbottomfeeder2194]

we don't just bathe in it, it runs throw are vain's and it is 60% of are body mass. we are the living chemical weapon (think xenomorph with acid for blood but it's just red water)

[@Predator20357]

@@humanshapedbottomfeeder2194 “These bastards really think that a Super Soaker is going to stop us”

[@ronnydarko9046]

This concept is already better than the actual movie 🎬

[@draco_1876]

“Humans are space orcs” is the most boring concept ever

[@samiamrg7]

@@draco_1876 It can be, yeah. But I think it can be executed well.

[@Tzryylon5]

"Today on Intergalactic Jackass, we're gonna invade this planet made almost entirely out of dihydrogen monoxide acid... NUDE!"

[@NodDisciple1]

Tzryylon5 Hey SteveGlarp-0!

[@nurse425]

NEXT TIME ON STUPID ALIEN INVASION PLANS: Superman declares WAR on a planet comprised entirely of Kryptonite orbiting a red sun!!!! LOL

[@darnacwelsherzengrog5193]

LOL an alien tv show would make the most sense of it 😁 thumbs up dude

[@robertharris6092]

Tzryylon5 oh god. "Dihydrogen monoxide" i was just thinking about that yesterday.

[@lenlimbo]

+Jennifer Pyrce Eh, it wouldn't be the first time Superman has destroyed a planet surrounded by green kryptonite in a single blow.

[@FoshuV]

I'm still convinced the aliens in this movie were stupid teenagers stoned out of their minds, taking their parents' spaceships for a joyride to go take naked selfies with scared earthlings.

[@FoshuV]

Or, or OR! The Happening and Signs are part of the same movie universe and the aliens were all infected by the plants that turned them suicidal, heading off to a planet filled with water! The crop circles were like targeting bulls eyes or instructions for the humans how to kill them! Shamallama GENIUS

[@gothnerd887]

@@FoshuV I like your way of thinking

[@Blinki6500]

Seems legit 😅👍

[@KnakuanaRka]

Yeah, we’ve had space truckers in the Alien franchise, now let’s have the aliens be the truckers!

[@Rouxkat]

Bill Brison!

[@1handedtyper]

It makes sense if the alien invaders were just a bunch of A-holes on a drug binge, whose society is so advanced that having a star ship is the equivalent of owning a 30 year old used car. It would explain how the alien got out of the closet. He eventually came down from from his high, and realized he could easily break out.

[@cromartini]

what if the aliens were just the serial killers and rapists of their civilization sent to earth as a punishment. it would explain the alien arriving at the birthday party as a pedo.

[@Mikazuchireborn]

It would've been a good twist if these invaders were the alien equivalent of doctors without borders, and we humans are the violent assholes who just murdered a bunch of pacifists. I'm actually baffled Shyamalan wouldn't go for a twist like that.

[@murciadoxial8056]

you know what?, if that was the case and the movie was about jsut that, signs would have been one of hte best sci fi comedies in history

[@Bezaliel13]

I prefer the interpretation of them being desperate looters, landing on the planet just to take stuff before leaving.

[@mrmaxwell346]

@@Mikazuchireborn You know your a pathetic writer when a guy in a youtube comment section can write a better twist than you.

[@yellowpig1026]

i like to imagine a 12 year old dressed as a military general and a bunch of other kids holding squirt guns taking the fight to the aliens

[@samiamrg7]

I just imagine an alien race invading Earth wielding squirt guns and freaking out upon realizing their greatest weapon has no effect on us.

[@samiamrg7]

Kinda like the Yugopotamians (or whatever) from Fairly Odd Parents, except they don’t have any actual weapons, just the gag weapons.

[@thehappy15a]

I would no joke watch that

[@FallingPicturesProductions]

I'd pay to watch this movie.

[@richardarriaga6271]

Mars Attacks in the White House was two kids with ray guns wrecking Martians.

[@birgirbirgisson5901]

So... Signs is essentially Aliens in reverse... "These humans have acid for blood!"

[@alqu6375]

lol that's one way of looking at it.

[@dr.calibrations7984]

Was just about to say that humans could literally cut their hands and splash them with death.

[@overlorddante]

Zack Kerber we dont even need to cut ourselves. We spit water. They're trying to enslave a species that spits acid lol

[@dr.calibrations7984]

THOMASWINN! I thought about mentioning that but it doesnt seem like i would be enough to do "A LOTTA DAMAGE!"

[@overlorddante]

Zack Kerber not much but still hurt like hell. I wouldn't want to get close to an animal spitting acid lol And spitting doesn't leave you injured.

[@quentingivens4]

I've solved the real plot. They weren't wearing armor because air dissolved it all. Their attack plan was so shit because their equipment disintegrated when they made landfall, and the encrypted signals are all distress calls. The ships are floating in the sky because the whole plan fell apart and they're trying to sort out an evacuation. The crop circles mark zones for evacuation landing craft, and the alien at the end of the movie, terrified and starving, couldn't figure out what was edible, so he panicked and tried to take an asthmatic boy from a remote farm near the LZ.

[@thomasderp8434]

FAIL (on the aliens part)

[@soop597]

That’s believable

[@kyriss12]

I still like like the theory where its reality show that drops contestants on primitive murder planet, and has them try to survive with only what nature gave them. Either that or a bunch of drunken frat boys took a wrong turn somewhere in the spiral arm of the galaxy, and now they're freaking out trying to figure out where they parked the ship, and how to get back home while everything tries to kill them.

[@BATCHARRO]

Space Bay of Pigs.

[@drewlop]

This is an interesting read, nice :)

[@SergeantC2]

Mankind's best weapon might simply be the local volunteer fire department.

[@murciadoxial8056]

or air... atmosphere has humidity in it you know?, one step out of an alien ship and they would feel their skin burn almost instantly

[@supermagnificence7503]

VFD

[@SergeantC2]

Good thought.

[@eclipseslayer98]

I like apples too, especially if they taste like... horses?

[@Plasmon19]

Fire departments everywhere suddenly become barracks for earth's most elite alien killing soldiers.

[@NimhLabs]

Okay... have you ever watched a television series called "Jackass"? What if... this is like Alien Jackass... on an interstellar level? What if they were filming all of it for amusement?

[@lucasluck5559]

Katrina Payne it’s almost like you stole this comment from the top voted “on today’s episode of intergalactic jackass” comment or something

[@st4ne4rmthevill63]

Then they died for nothing

[@NimhLabs]

@@st4ne4rmthevill63 They died being FUCKING LEGENDS mate... which isn't nothing Why people will talk of them at the pub for at least a day--maybe two!

[@AndrooUK]

We have humans eating glass for fun, so I don't see why some epic Jackass: Earth Invasion wouldn't make for a good 6 episode series. 🥳

[@BTAL1ama]

​@@AndrooUKi know this is old but now I want an alien society somehow evolving to believe dying in some jackass stunt is the ultimate honor, like Klingons but they value hilarious fail videos as supreme entertainment. Come one The Orville that's a good one!

[@theta682pl]

"Hey is that compound covering 70% of the surface water" "No don't be stupid its probably sulfuric acid" "It sure looks like water and if we had sensors it would probably be water" "No water is too rare lets send a naked scouting party to investigate" "sure!"

[@onlinebusinesslearning2610]

Philipp Lyanguzov lulz

[@unknow11712]

"the team didn't come back , what we do?" " lets invade the shit out of it ... naked!"

[@hainleysimpson1507]

More like stupid alien highschool kids.

[@magiv4205]

@Zerebrat Eightyseven well, they already are

[@Jebu911]

Sulfuric acid looks just like water so thats actually believable if they only had like an alien shitty spyglass and were looking outside. Venus has sulfuric acid clouds so this is all completely believable. Then when they sent in their away team to scout all their gear was vaporized by the humid atmosphere and they were left stranded on the planet writing sos on cornfields in their native language. Thats the only way this movie makes any sense. Also the aliens had to be like their versions of hillbillys riding a shitty space saucer around.

[@vontosmagicmurderbag2611]

It hurts my brain when people try to argue that a species of aliens have mastered interstellar travel but have never encountered water.

[@samiamrg7]

There are nebulae millions of light-years wide made almost entirely of water vapor.

[@DeathBYDesign666]

@@samiamrg7 First of all which nebula have been discovered bigger than our galaxy and how are they somehow getting enough heat to form that much water vapor?

[@Bruh-hq1hx]

Yeah its impossible ice is everywhere and they must have even accidentally melted ice

[@BigMikeMcBastard]

As an X-Com fan I liked to pretend the aliens were actually drones created by the ACTUAL aliens specifically to abduct humans without the risk of advancing human civilization in the process. The way they are burned by water was a fail-safe to ensure that if killed/captured they'd invariably disintegrate within a short period of time, leaving nothing for humans to study/learn from. Hence the lack of any technology used by them, either, just wrist things with a built-in/totally biological knock-out gas dispenser. Of course I know it's just bad writing and a mediocre movie, but yeah.

[@Beetlebub]

It hurts my brain when most people talk

[@Libluini]

Now I'm suddenly getting the urge to write a parody of this movie, where humans try to invade a planet covered in hydrochloric acid. Naked.

[@elysiankentarchy1531]

My first thought with that is "We're invading Hell then." Which, come to think of it, is probably what the aliens in this movie think of a water covered planet like Earth anyway.

[@Lodov]

let's invade the sun!

[@KauanRMKlein]

Man, thank you! Do this! I truly missed these aliens in the first instalment of this series, they are the most stupid of all. Maybe it was some sort of mass suicide/sacrifice? I mean, they had no weapons. Even if the alien hit Joaquim Phoenix, it would just get splashed by his blood and die anyway. This film is so absurd that I think Shyamalan can pull off a retcon with a Signs 2. The story has a lot of hidden logical possibilities, but naykid aliens invading a water world (the very premise of the script) is not one.

[@freman007]

If we invade the sun we'd better go at night though, when it's cooler.

[@Lodov]

Good thinking, you should be our general.

[@mrfrog3876]

Announcer 1: "It appears that some of our contestants have chosen to go to a planet composed almost entirely of acid based life naked." Announcer 2: "An interested approach blog lets see how that works out for them."

[@The_Chef2511]

Another funny point. We were supposed to be afraid of the ships because the aliens were invisible to radar. ...okay...? So use thermal imaging. And can't lock on missiles? So what? The aliens didn't have the sense to wear protective gear, basic AA guns should be able to shoot them down. In fact maybe that's what happens. In the middle east a ship is effortlessly shot down by someone with an RPG, and firefighters putting out the resulting blaze noticed the alien bodies were water soluble. Then the movie ends with a devout Muslim being so disappointed by the anti climax he becomes an atheist.

[@calmgoodfire4662]

Use missles that releases water on impact

[@magoswes3588]

Calmgoodfire Rocket Propelled Water Balloon

[@Bruh-hq1hx]

@@calmgoodfire4662 we could just use firefighter planes

[@richardarriaga6271]

TOW missles

[@dimitrilium3912]

-Captain! The reactor is out of control, the ship is gonna blow anytime now! -Alright, everyone evacuate with the escape pods. There's a planet nearby. If your communication equipment fail, and most will, write your name so it is visible from the sky and wait nearby, help will be on the way. -But sir, this planet is mostly water! Our clothes will disintegrate and every moment will be torture! What are we even going to eat? -Do you have a better idea? You can die here, or you can do what it takes to survive until the rescue team can find you. Now go! And be careful with the locals. they may help you or try to kill you. You never know with primitive races. -Good luck captain! -Good luck major, we will need it. Few episodes later. The weak and confuse captain get beaten up by a local with a baseball bat, he would never see is home world or is family again.

[@fightingmedialounge519]

Why would their clothes disintegrate.

[@JoseJimenez-sh1yi]

@@fightingmedialounge519 huminity

[@fightingmedialounge519]

Except that would mean their skin should be burning as well.

[@DeathBYDesign666]

Yes there also is a huge amount of water vapor in the air and at the very least would cause severe skin rash for them. How would they even breath? Our normal air would be like thick and toxic smoke to them. If their biology is that different I doubt they would even breath No2 to begin with.

[@Lachdonin]

Only way to salvage this... Bioweapon test. The 'Aliens' aren't the actual ones who built or piloted the ships, they're engineered bioweapons on a test run against a mildly competent planet-locked species. And now it's back to the drawing board for their masters.

[@drakor98]

Lachdonin Maybe they were drunk off their asses and dared eachother to invade the planet.

[@williamtimonen6814]

Lachdonin Or they simply put some of them down, let them pick up some humans. With the value of the amount of humans they take being more than the aliens lost.

[@rock3tcatU233]

Planet locked species? How dare you sir! We're not all like Belgium, some of us actually landed on the moon.

[@MrCyberboobs]

Even once we land on Mars we are still functionally "planet-locked". Astronauts wouldn't be able to survive on Mars for extended periods of time. It would be like the Apollo missions: land, take a few pictures, and come back. Not until we can terraform other planets or we find one that can sustain human life will we stop being planet-locked

[@EarthboundX]

The problem with that is then it became aliens who made bioweapons weak against a vast easily obtainable resource.

[@DanteYewToob]

I like the theory I read a while back, about how the Aliens were peaceful and trying to make contact with us. Just watching and learning and trying to make contact any way they could. The theory says the alien at the end was helping the boy, and the reason they never outright attacked anyone is because they didn't want to. They came naked and vulnerable, leaving messages and showing they meant no harm. Even when attacked at the end, he didn't fight back. He gassed the kid and immediately dropped him when threatened, he might've had the ability to heal him. I dunno, I don't remember the full theory but it was really good and made a lot of sense.

[@YourBeingParanoid]

I'm certain it's more about human attitudes and xenophobia towards each other and not an invasion movie.

[@mommalion7028]

I like this. I saw old recently and it has lived rent free in my head, so its making me reconsider m. Night Shyamalans older films

[@xBINARYGODx]

well that tends to fall apart given we know many humans were kidnapped before the aliens left - so... not so peaceful, unless those people are having an amazing time, then fine.

[@bryanm498]

​@@YourBeingParanoidI think it's a movie about God. The f*ing movie literraly are named "Signs". And it's a Shayamemuslaya movie. About a priest recovering his faith. The Aliens are just "plot fodder".

[@KangwithoutaKangdom]

​@bryanm498 well duh😂

[@S0vereignX]

Watching the aliens from Signs getting hilariously obliterated by simple water devices an entire movie of its own. Never thought I'd want a sequel to the worst movie ever but PLEASE!

[@MediaZealot]

I had so much fun with that part of the vid, I could have kept going forever. These B grade movie producers should be pumping out movies like this, they'd probably outperform the original flick.

[@MrDalisclock]

Aliens are here! Quick, get the kids some super soakers and point them st the aliens!

[@irishpanic]

Nah after earth was the worst movie ever

[@andygygi5135]

@@irishpanic The Last Airbender live action movie exists. I tried to forget about it too, but it still does.

[@irishpanic]

@@andygygi5135 both equally horrible movies

[@jjrsbigo]

“Star Trek Federation vessels can tell what cologne someone’s wearing from high orbit” I laughed my ass off when I heard that.

[@sirkane5727]

They run around a cornfield in the morning naked and somehow don't melt from the dew. Nor to they just melt walking around, since our atmosphere is pretty humid.

[@murciadoxial8056]

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, this movie is great shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@nurse425]

God forbid they weren't walking around when the sprinkler systems went on, lol

[@Yorgar]

The only logic places for them to invade would be the handful of mostly dry western states, but even then those states are prone to torrential storms.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

It's a good bet that they bypassed Mars and went to us instead after they saw Mars Attacks, and realized the little shit lord Martians would be too big a pain in the ass for them to handle.

[@coitip2920]

They're demons not aliens, and the water left around the house is blessed by the hands of a (former) holyman

[@murciadoxial8056]

so... the movie should have ended the moment that scout walked out of his ship, the atmosphere of the earth is humid, there is water in the air, in some places, like paso fondo brasil, where the birthday scene happens, the humidity can go up to 90%...being out, in hte open, naked, would have killed them, right then and there, so that kills the plot, instantly

[@JimboShogun0686]

Basically the alien invasion would be over by the rainy season

[@MartianManHunter2258]

In other words they would have no chance of invading the Northwest.

[@Echo_Reyes]

MartianManHunter2258 somebody call Katrina we need another hurricane for the alien

[@darthrevan4933]

MartianManHunter2258 unless it's summer other wise yes it rains 24:7 here but like he said sprinklers and a garden hose become WMDs

[@williamtimonen6814]

Jimmy Owens They werent trying to invade Earth, if someone tells you that you cant trust them because they were obviously not paying attention to the plot.

[@NiraSader]

then what the fuck were they trying to do? I haven't watched that piece of shit movie and I will never

[@deadaccount7520]

it's like if we found and went to the home world of the xenomorph. It's entire weather system and 70℅ of its surface is made of the same stuff thats in their blood. And decided yeah that's paradise. They couldn't even safely kill a human....or any animal because of what the chief ingredient of blood is.....water. We are the xenomorph in this film

[@AlexSDU]

Maybe they're too advanced that they forgot how to Basic anymore. Can't figure how to open pantry's door, because everything is automatic back at their home planet.

[@GeorgeMonet]

Opening a door is basic tool use. If they can walk and see and build spaceships then they can use basic tools.

[@Jellyfishbrainz]

mikkel larsen It would be like us going from guns to bows and arrows.

[@daverobson3084]

@@Jellyfishbrainz Except using a bow is kind of difficult( the old saying " to make a bowman, start with the grandfather") whereas doors are pretty simple.

[@oh-not-the-bees7872]

That a very surface level idea

[@InquisitorShepard]

The alien high command went prob like this: Alien Emperor(?): so who did. You put in charge of the invasion. General: Gunther. Alien Emperor: No you did not. General: Yes my liege. Alien Emperor: But he is a moron. General: Well he did come out of the academy... Alien Emperor: He's not just a regular moron. He's the product of the greatest minds of a generation working together with the express purpose of building the dumbest moron who ever lived. And you just put him in charge of the entire invasion. Yeah Ik it's a copy of portal lines but it fits.

[@Predator20357]

If it works it works because these guys are just as smart as the guys at Aperture

[@goufr3540]

Not sure I am the only one here, but after seeing that these were the "Aliens" from Signs, I can not help but think of the Nostalgia Critics clip from it when the aliens had trouble breaking into the house since it was made of wood. You know your advanced sci-fi civilization sucks when you are easily defeated by wood and water.

[@wingracer1614]

Well, it's entirely possible an advanced race with a weakness for wood and water could develop but if such a race was smart enough to figure out interstellar travel, they would also be smart enough to NEVER invade Earth NAKED! Just like if we discovered and advanced race living in the sulfuric acid clouds of Venus, we would not invade with naked ground troops. We'd send in the drones.

[@goufr3540]

It would help if they some gear. Beyond just clothing or protective suits, but use drones, hand or suit mounted gear and so forth. A good example would the Predators with their protective and surveillance gear.

[@Slayer_Jesse]

hell, just even a freaking handaxe would be miles better!

[@mojavewastelander4035]

"Run, he has a board with a nail in it!"

[@neosildrake]

CWDTrixie a dayly occurence for any pc and video gamer. Cannot enter abandoned house because wooden door is locked, despite broken windows and the axe you carry. Die when falling into water, but survive drop from orbit... M.N.Shalalala thought taking inspiration from things like this for a movie would be a great idea.

[@_Muzolf]

This is essentially the movie that makes sense only to idiot UFO believers who think the Pyramids would make good navigational beacons, and that someone doing interstellar travel would need shitty bird pictures on the ground to land.

[@maj.romuloortiz7832]

Well Battleship's aliens just crashed onto Earth, guess our 'beacons' don't work to well 😂

[@robertnett9793]

@@maj.romuloortiz7832 Maybe interstellar travel has a terrible cost on your mental health. Between the Signs Aliens, the Battleship Aliens, the John Travolta Alien and the guys from District 9.... None of them seem to have all their marbles together.

[@AndrooUK]

Well, it's not exactly a dumb idea to have navigation beacons that don't require energy, and can survive centuries of weathering. When the aliens turn up, they can calibrate their navigation and orientation with the markers, then can use their maps or whatever

[@Titan360]

"WOOD!" "How could we have known that they would construct barriers from wood!?"

[@martincann5052]

FUCK. MY .SHIT!

[@martincann5052]

FUCK. MY .SHIT!

[@martincann5052]

FUCK. MY .SHIT!

[@majsuacyuaheaburta353]

FUCK. MY. SHIT!

[@lookatthepicture4107]

FUCK. MY. SHIT!

[@MrWizeazz]

The story just makes so much more sense when you go with the demon theory though. I’m honestly starting to think that M. Night was probably pressured from the studio to go the alien angle, because to them films involving aliens usually do better financially than films just involving religious parable.

[@DrZombieMoogle]

Btw, I've got a plan to invade a hydrochloric acid planet...

[@lookatthepicture4107]

Count with me too

[@darthrevan4933]

(the one smart alien) yaaaaaaa I'llllllll catchup with you later.

[@theakiwar9118]

Count me in

[@rock3tcatU233]

General Butt Naked here, reporting for duty.

[@Plasmon19]

Well what those aliens did was the human equivalent of having to send people to Venus naked.

[@keeganpitts5677]

When invading Earth, they must have gotten the "Stealth is optional for this mission" dialog.

[@razuaza]

they could be a presentient species which was dumped on earth for shits and giggles by another as a n experiment, or to just test how humans would react. doomed to fail but sent anyway for the lulz

[@sawyernorthrop4078]

**hits alien bong** "you know what would be hilarious"

[@nathanschmitz2302]

Humm yes, maybe if we give them drones a umbrella?

[@Adros2121]

Stellaris xenophobic gameplay

[@mirceazaharia2094]

@@Adros2121 *laughs in Necroid*

[@Shotgunman5]

“Children become our most valuable foot soldiers in the war against the invaders” - This line was pure gold made me laugh my ass off. 😂😂🤣🤣🤡

[@fortkavanagh]

I'd love to see more episodes on "Advanced Sci-fi Civilisations Too Stupid To Really Exist" please?

[@LetruneInedil]

I imagine it could be saved by the aliens going bonkers and being regressive on the long way back, like... their species took the route on lightspeed. Lost ALL knowledge as the armada underwent a mutiny and regressed back to at least tribal, at best bronze age technology... with their entire technology breaking down or being held together by the alien equialent of duct tape and faith... Essentially, these guys took off into the space and gone crazy before they even got to Earth.

[@ThrottleKitty]

I live near Seattle... There's like one month a year these guys could invade without being slaughtered by a gentle evening rain.

[@KS-PNW]

Even then between the pudget sound and all the various creeks/lakes/ponds it's not like you have to go far in the PNW to find water

[@matthhiasbrownanonionchopp3471]

"God is only ever on the side of invasion if it's America" Died laughing

[@Karou812]

In Stargate one of the main characters pretending to be a bad guy says to other bad guys preparing to invade earth "The invasion of earth has been called of due to... rain" It's funny because that would actually be a mortal threat to the Sign aliens

[@hhnoyeet342]

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[@DeathBYDesign666]

Remember when Samantha Carter references this movie and remarks about the aliens invading a planet that's 70 percent water? Then she remarks to Daniel if he was curious if the movies are anywhere close to being right about their depiction of real aliens.

[@zatoth13]

Aliens: "We die if we come in contact with water!" Also Aliens: "Let's hide in this field of crops where there are huge ass water sprinklers running all summer long!"

[@ccghidorah1]

I heard a theory that the invaders in the movie were their species' condemned criminals.

[@jackhenderson1039]

ccghidorah1 That's kind of interesting.

[@RC1191217]

"Send 'em to Earth, they'll kill 'em for us!"

[@InsanityForce]

I saw a theory that the aliens from Signs were not even invaders, and the humans just got scared. And that the alien who shot gas in the asthmatic kid's face actually healed him.

[@lostsaxon7478]

Lol *banging on doors and breaking windows* LET US HEAL YOUR KID!

[@MediaZealot]

Would be a cheap low maintenance prison they must have come from, you wouldn't need more than a bit of balsa wood and a few misting machines.

[@AegixDrakan]

"There's a theory that the aliens are actually demons..." ...Ok, so can we petition Bethesda to make the NewDOOM sequel have a super soaker as a weapon that's highly effective? XD

[@Predator20357]

You know what’s funny? I think in one of the Doom games, they have a Holy Water squirt gun

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

"then they're advanced horror demons too stupid to exist"

[@DHNetwork]

HELP we're being attacked by aliens from space! CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT

[@YokaiX]

Imagine it’s your 6th birthday and you and your friends are blasting “evil” aliens to death with Super Soakers and Water Worms instead of laser tag😂

[@jackransom.]

This is the funniest breakdown of signs I've seen to date.

[@mbaxter22]

LOLILOOOL This video had me legit laughing hard. “A brain tumor may have saved Mark Ruffalo’s career”. Best line ever.

[@hunted4blood]

What if a bunch of technologically advanced alien invaded a primitive planet where the very atmosphere was toxic too them but the planet is rich in a valuable resource, so in order to manipulate the natives they create remotely controlled clones of them. THen one call the movie Avatar.

[@magnatcleo2043]

Yes, but the humans in Avatar were at least smart enough to bring protective gear and weapons to Pandora.

[@c97x]

That joke was hilarious about directors acting in thier own movies, "The movie is so booring at times the director is litterally just reading from the script"

[@swimfeared]

wait if a human bled on the alens them wouldn't it be similar to a xenomorph bleeding on a human?

[@Old_Guard2]

swimfeared we have water that give blood its liquid form so yes >:)

[@williamtimonen6814]

swimfeared It isnt the water. If you actually watch the movie you would know that there was something wrong with it.

[@fightingmedialounge519]

No William. We hear about middle east being able to them with water.

[@rlosable]

One thing everyone forgets is that the males of the intended target species all come with the equivalent of a machine gun attached!!!

[@andyspark5192]

never watched the movie the crop circles, were enough to say "nope, to stupid" now by listening to this 'water issue' and co., the movie sounds totally idiotic

[@bingo784]

Well of course it's stupid, it's by M Night Shamaramalamadingdongdoodle.

[@raygiordano1045]

I think the movie was designed to frighten women and children.

[@adolfodef]

What a Twist! xD

[@ModernDayGunSlinger]

Andy Spark The movie is actually really good. The acting, the dialogue, the cinematography, soundtrack, and suspense. Everyone says it's a terrible movie because the aliens invaded a planet almost completely covered by a substance deadly to them. But what most people fail to realize is that the aliens didn't invade to capture the earth. They came for us. Human beings.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

FromBeyondTheVeil -And they came naked, without weapons, without anything to capture us with. What a superior species. :D

[@RobertLeather]

16:00 I always wondered if the "primitive" way to defeat the aliens was in fact to just hit them with some 2x4.

[@jasonirwin5171]

I detasled corn. You walk out of the corn field soaked in the morning.

[@naota3k]

Also, thank you for the humorous Tuvok Voyager inserts. It's hilarious to see a character so intentionally designed to question and be confused by Human behavior, being the single voice of reason on Human behavior. I've often held a somewhat intentionally-contrary opinion that "Star Wars" is basically like "Star Trek" for dumb people. Although it's almost always just technobabble, I have always appreciated the amount of thought that went into the nonsensical futuristic tech and describing it. Even if it's not *true* (because it's fcking Sci-Fi), it really pretends that it is, and convincingly. That's how you build a universe.

[@ornerylurker8296]

Glorious. It always feels good to have the depression brought about by terrible writers puking out bad sci-fi validated. I suppose this is a case where the aliens could quite literally be defeated by a stiff, humid breeze.

[@charliecooper6586]

I absolutely love this channel and series, your sarcasm while ripping into these films is just amazing.

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

The little girl in the movie is called 'a miracle' and she has a habit of filling a glass of water, taking one sip, then getting a new glass. She could be effectively blessing the water she's left everywhere. Holy water=burning demons. The Middle East winning first also makes even more sence under this theory, because every. Single. Water source. Has been blessed by hundreds of millions of priests every couple decades for 10,000 years.

[@johng6950]

For that premise to work they would've had to show a scene in which un-blessed water was proven to be ineffective. Also, regardless of whether that theory is true or not, the demon/aliens are still vulnerable to blunt-force trauma and simple blade weapons. They're not much of a threat. They don't seem to travel in packs, either.

[@OniFeez]

You know, when I first saw this movie, my interpretation of it wasn't so much as they were 'invading' but sort of doing the next level up from saying 'hi, we're here.' I mean, it's the humans that go all martial arts on them etc and bludgeon's them with baseball bats. Of course, the Aliens, given their technology, could probably have said: 'we come in peace', but then again, since we are stupid humans, we wouldn't believe that at face value.

[@cathalhughes5996]

i wanna know what happened when they went somewhere like brazil or canada, canada being mostly covered in snow which is water slightly hardened or if they went to believe where people sweat (water) and the air is humid and everywhere else in the world either rain offend enough, humid or is so hot the person they want to harvest would be sweating or so cold that the place is covered in snow also plants are made up of more water than us so even making crop circles would kill them

[@triggerwarning7868]

Stonersloth Hughes the video when alien is seen for first time in the movie is from Brazil

[@Bandit69ply]

Canada is NOT mostly covered in snow.

[@RobertLeather]

The fact they even had the alien turn up at the kid's party in a city with one of the worlds highest levels of humidity always cracked me up. I think he was just there going "Please, help me. Have you got some silica gel packets?"

[@Suzaku455]

I just believe the aliens are prisoners and they got dropped off to die. And the alien going to the birthday party was hoping to get help.

[@MortyKaiShalom]

I don't know why, but that movie kind of freaks me out. Maybe because the first time I watched it, I watched it solo, in the dark, and I was a teenager. I'm not really sure. Even the dumb ending, doesn't negate my deeply ingrained heeby-jeebies for this movie. It annoys me to no end. Maybe it was just the early scenes and the soundtrack.... In any case, just discovered this series. Love it, will watch more!

[@antonkovalenko364]

In fairness they were originally meant to be demons, which explains a lot. The water all over the house was supposed to have been blessed by Gibson's character, thus burning the demons.

[@fightingmedialounge519]

That's still leaves several issues.

[@haddenja]

Aliens with knuckle dusters, it just got real

[@publiccomment2053]

I've always wondered why the aliens invaded when water is the one thing clearly visible with the naked eye from as far away as our moon or further.

[@maiqtheliar789]

I found your channel today and just watched all your videos. As far as advanced civilizations too stupid to exist you should add the Mondoshawan from the Fifth Element to the list. Of course the humans in that movie are not much better. But the Mondoshawan knew the exact moment that the threat to all existence would return and they literally wait until the last moment to even prepare the countermeasures against it. Let alone leaving the task of informing the humans about the threat to a priest that the people in power would think was a crack pot. You should also add the Predators. Have all that tech and what do they do with it? Build their entire culture around trophy hunting other alien species. Their infrared vision can be defeated by a human rubbing mud on themselves. They have a personal cloaking device and yet they suck at actually being stealthy when using it. And and last but certainly not least. Even though they talk about honor the moment they are losing to a less advanced species they rage quit, pussy out like a bitch, and commit suicide with a tactical nuclear weapon attached to their wrist.

[@4Drow]

Predators are actually quite reasonably designed aliens, compared to almost any other fictional aliens. The technogy their hunters use is very ineffective, but it is supposed to be ineffective. Sending an artificially inteligent, relativistic equivalent of nukes to other planets from your homeworld would probably not count as a proof of manliness or good hunt. We don't know their actual technology, what we see is their equivalent of our hunting spear. The fact they've build their entire culture around trophy hunting other alien species isn't so strange, actually. Their civilization is probably way beyond any real problems, so it can concentrate solely on amusement. It is probable, their evolution made them almost incomprehensibly aggressive and violent, so instead of doing something equal to watching TV whole day, they prefer this violent and dangerous stuff. Regarding the ragequit. What harm do they cause themselves by doing it? None. It may not seem very honorable or manly to us, but who says that they have completely identical concept of honor? In this macro-view, they seem to be quite reasonably designed. But yeah, the way the individuals fight/hunt is pretty stupid (although far from utterly ridiculous like in the case of Signs), as they're regularly outsmarted by fairly simple things and then killed.

[@andrewchappelle5429]

M'aiq The Liar nuking themselves prevents a lesser species obtaining their tech.

[@AlexSDU]

No need to like further to understand the Predator. They're like the British trill-seeker/adventurer back in the 19th century. Going to foreign lands hunting exotic animal and mount it's head as trophy on the wall of their house.

[@MediaZealot]

Thanks for watching all my vids M'aiq! I've got a few notes jotted down on the Mondoshawans, I'm unsure about the predators though, as there are answers in non-canon materials that explain how the Predators maintain their society using a caste system. Since it's not been investigated in the main canon, at the moment its more an unanswered question I think. But I'd still be keen to find a way to poke a bit of fun at less-stupid species like the Predators. Perhaps a video- "6 Advanced Sci-fi Civilisations That Are Just Kinda Stupid".

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

M'aiq The Liar How did you get here, M'aiq? I thought I locked you in my dungeon. Anyway, the Yautja have an honor code, as shown in Predator 2. They don't kill pregnant females and should the hunted kill the hunter, they let the hunted live and give them a reward if they are sapient. Some comics that are regarded as canon expand upon this. The nuclear detonation is a way to insure they die with honor. Dying from sickness, infection, or bloodloss or being captured is considered dishonorable. Dying by being killed by a gun, have their heads smashed in by a rock, or blowing themselves up is considered honorable.

[@mojavefry2617]

You know, I would say this movie did not make me question his “direction.” If anything, this is one of his best direction-wise. It’s the writing part that shits the bed at the end.

[@niller88]

I can't even begin to say how deeply I buried my face in my palm when I saw the ending of this fucking movie.

[@daverobson3084]

"Genocide Machine" will be the name of my new metal band.

[@CuleChick11]

Babies First Invasion

[@DaveCM]

You also have to admit that since they are an invasion force, they would be highly trained military. The aliens in this movie haven't even seen a Rambo movie. Not to mention the fact that a large military movement can be destroyed by a short rainstorm.

[@sebs-shenanigans]

I think these guys deserve the golden medal.

[@kinyutaka]

There was a theory that they aren't allergic to water, but they are allergic to HOLY water. And that the little girl was blessing water all over the house.

[@mohitmishra1984]

loved it. great job. my cheeks hurt from laughing.

[@Bezaliel13]

I like the pillager theory. Could you imagine how desperate they must have been to go to our water covered Earth for supplies.

[@Mailed-Knight]

The aliens ivaded because they wanted to harvest humans to find out why they we are immune to water. That WaterSigns joke was awseome.

[@spencergilchrist1457]

I want to see the parody version of this movie where this massive alien force trying to invade Earth and us average middle-class folks at first being scared, then realizing the aliens' weakness, then turning this into a routine thing. "Wake up, brush teeth, use hose to get aliens off my lawn, go to work."

[@thuzan117]

I actually think signs is a great movie, I love the tone and the suspense, but I freely admit that the alien plan does not seem to make sense (if there even is one) and failing to realize that most of the planet is covered in a compound that basically melts you alive on contact is an unforgivable oversight on their part, we could fend them off with super soakers.

[@Amberscion]

13:26 "This place is marked in crops and such. None of it is really near water." I won't comment on the odd phrasing of "marked in crops." Well I guess I just did. I may be misunderstanding what the guy said when I heard "marked." Whatever. But this is clearly written by a city boy who has never even taken a drive through crop country, where you can see the irrigation ditches around all the fields and the huge watering machines that walk across acres of field when there hasn't been any rainfall in a while. Do these writers think that crops can grow without water?

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

Aperantly, the set designers came up with such a good technique of watering corn for their set (they planteded and filmed it in an agricultural college), they started actuallt teaching it in the school

[@nathanschmitz2302]

@@jesusramirezromo2037 Article?

[@mustangbeauty4]

Someone said to me "I read a fanfic if MLP was real" Then I thought of this video series...

[@balgursdate5955]

The way I see it, these aliens weren't even on a hostile mission: they hurt no-one on screen (only unsourced hearsay), they seemingly attempt to communicate with the humans, they don't even fight back when attacked and for all we know, the alien helps that boy with his asthma.

[@NomoSapienss]

This was okay at first, turned hilarious when the water part started. Btw now I know what Samantha and Daniel were discussing in the episode, so that's a bonus.

[@themaster1336]

“Acceptable Losses” damn near killed me today when I read that🤣 Hahahahaha, daaaaaaaaaayum! But so true. They really didn’t have an idea of how messed up we are👍

[@christosgiannopoulos828]

Speaking of water, what about the aliens from Oblivion ?

[@IchHassePasswoerter]

*Sees SGC* Ah, so you're a man of culture as well.

[@BadwolfGamer]

Johnny: Water Story Mark! Mark: Yeah you can say that again!

[@jaythomas3224]

OMG i never thought children would have been our frontline defense against the Signs aliens. Firemen would be like a mechanized division armed with water cannons

[@THATGuy5654]

I think I can explain a lot of the plot holes in this movie: have a scene at the end where the surviving aliens fly up to a bigger mothership, and as they meet with the aliens there, one of them says, "All right! You're in the frat! Now put your clothes back on."

[@Suzaku455]

I just believe the aliens are prisoners and they got dropped off to die. And the alien going to the birthday party was hoping to get help.

[@girrafescream]

I've laughed more in the first 4.5 minutes of this, then the last 2 days of watching youtube. Thanks man

[@casualcraftman1599]

The Shroobs from Mario and Luigi partners in time took the concept of "Alien" Signs weakness and made it worse by having the Shroobs being defeated by baby tears. Um Nintendo when people wanted Luigi to be more important than Mario, thats not what they had in mind.

[@jayburn00]

He should do the gould from stargate sg1, he already likes making references to it (some of the gould are smart, but as a whole, they have a lot of crippling weaknesses, mostly psychological, I think it is even canon that they are genetically predisposed to narcissistic tendencies, megalomania, and arrogance).

[@naota3k]

"Wait you guys, that sure does look like dihydrogen monoxide. I'm pretty sure I've heard these creatures calling it "water", and also speaking of how literally 75% of the surface area of this place is covered in it. Also those same creatures we are aiming to depose from its own planet is also, by weight, made of about 75% of this material." "Nah dude, that's obviously liquid Helium. What are you dumb? We're so good right now on this." "I mean, this isn't that hard, just use the long-range array of sensors on our obviously extraordinarily technologically advanced interstellar craft to fucking check?" "Sens-what? Okay, smart-ass. We'll send some unclothed, unarmed, untrained, alien expendibles with zero technology or collection resources to make some pretty designs in their local flora. Also I'll make sure to send them as in-land and far away from these VAST, alleged geographic areas that may potentially contain nothing but the unadulterated version of Kryptonite for our species. You know, for science.."

[@shamrockshnake1366]

When some aliens invade your planet and your firetrucks become IFVs

[@sephandremanticore5438]

I saw this movie in theatre with a girl who had an unforgiving xenophobia. The alien that "ruined the b-day party" caused her to dig her fingernails into the back of my hand. She didn't apologize after nor was their any reward for me being used as some kind of security blanket.

[@Bruh-hq1hx]

So you are saying she posdibly wants to purge the aliens in holy fire for the emperor

[@BirchMonkey857]

Personally, I think M. Night's always had the plot holes we know him for, some of his stuff is good enough in other ways to make up for and cover that fact.

[@peanut4831]

The baby monitor intercepted a signal.. *“AN ENCRYPTED SIGNAL”*

[@blackice9088]

To quote Fred Flintstone: Everybody into the pool!

[@purplehaze2358]

That television is secretly Yog-sothoth, given it’s omniscience of the story.

[@Bluemilk92]

That's why I've always liked the Demons theory. It's a really elegant way to "fix" a lot of the movies problems. For anyone unfamiliar, It's the idea that this was not an alien invasion, but a demonic one. You know, from hell.

[@siriusfox195]

I know I'm going to summon the hate train for saying this, but I don't think the movie was actually about the aliens. I think they were just a story telling tool. I think the central theme of the movie was about faith. But don't mind me I'm just a filthy casual.

[@MediaZealot]

I actually agree. Yes I poked a lot of fun at this film, but I interpret shamalang's intention as the aliens being both aliens AND demons. I think he did intend the aliens to be kind of irrelevant, but such complicated themes are hard to get across to the audience, and I don't think he executed that premise very well. Leave everything in but the water thing, and I think people would have been far more forgiving.

[@murciadoxial8056]

well, choosing an antagonist that dies by water as the main device to question faith and then regain it is a terrible idea that breaks the film and destroys it, killing anything that might be able to redeem it

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Sirius Fox THATS THE PROBLEM

[@artimussantiago4779]

Yea that's why it was stupid, who needs faith if you have evidence