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53900, so you know but you choose not to share
Posted by The Damaja, Tue Apr-17-07 07:26 PM
don't worry i'm 90% certain i know what you were going to say anyway
>>fact remains Shyamalan CHOSE to make the aliens dimwitted
>and
>>vulnerable in a way that would surprise viewers who thought
>>Mel Gibson would have to pilot a stolen saucer into the
>>mothership and upload a computer virus to their Mac OS 9
>>server
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>>he didn't just write an alien invasion and then think 'oh
>>shit, how are the humans actually going to defeat them? damn
>>damn damn i'll have to make them allergic to water or
>>something'. it's ludicrious to think so.
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> so he did it deliberately as a twist to throw viewers who
>were expecting Invasion Day for a loop? LOL - now THAT is
>ludicrous to think so.
no he didn't do it FOR that reason, but he was aware that some would have that reaction/expectation
when people say 'do you even know what the film is ABOUT?' alluding to some theme in the story in cases like this it usually indicated to me they don't really understand fiilms properly
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