Signs is one of those movies where if you ask someone their opinion of it, you'll tend to get one of two answers. Either "that movie is amazing and the arguments against it are unjust" or "that movie was so dumb" and the people in the latter category usually give one or two specific reasons why they thought it was dumb. I'm going to provide the examples of those reasons below and explain why I think they are invalid.
Spoilers Ahead:
Example 1: "This movie was dumb because why would aliens go to a planet that is 70% water if water hurts them?"
My rebuttal: At first, yes, I can see why people would think this is ridiculous. However, when you look at the timeline of the movie, it can be explained. The aliens were only hovering above/on earth for a total of around 3 days. I believe it's completely reasonable to believe that the aliens came to earth, realized that water harms them, tried to avoid water while still attempting their invasion, then soon realized that between all the water and human resistance, they were not equipped to attempt an invasion of earth and got out immediately. The movie says they left ina hurry, even leaving many of their own behind.
Example 2: "I thought this movie was dumb because the alien had a hard time getting out of a locked wooden door"
Ok, so I have a couole of things to mention anout this. 1. In the timeline of the movie, the alien only took maybe a few hours or so to get out of the door. Maybe that's longer than people would be able to get out of it but it's not easy smashing down a wooden door.
2. If the alien planet that they came from did not have water, it very likely didn't have trees either. Meaning wood is not a material that they would be familiar with and would take time to understand that it can be destroyed and how to do it.
Now of course, it's very hard to understand how there could be any kind of life on other planets without water. As far as we know, water is essential to life. But that is based on all we know about life based on what we've learned here on earth. As unlikely as it may seem, I'm not going to say that it's completely impossible that life could exist without water on another planet. It serms impossible, yes. But there's no way for us to know for sure.
If you made it through this, thank you. I hope it may have provided some explanations about some of the bigger problems with this movie that people have.
Spoilers Ahead:
Example 1: "This movie was dumb because why would aliens go to a planet that is 70% water if water hurts them?"
My rebuttal: At first, yes, I can see why people would think this is ridiculous. However, when you look at the timeline of the movie, it can be explained. The aliens were only hovering above/on earth for a total of around 3 days. I believe it's completely reasonable to believe that the aliens came to earth, realized that water harms them, tried to avoid water while still attempting their invasion, then soon realized that between all the water and human resistance, they were not equipped to attempt an invasion of earth and got out immediately. The movie says they left ina hurry, even leaving many of their own behind.
Example 2: "I thought this movie was dumb because the alien had a hard time getting out of a locked wooden door"
Ok, so I have a couole of things to mention anout this. 1. In the timeline of the movie, the alien only took maybe a few hours or so to get out of the door. Maybe that's longer than people would be able to get out of it but it's not easy smashing down a wooden door.
2. If the alien planet that they came from did not have water, it very likely didn't have trees either. Meaning wood is not a material that they would be familiar with and would take time to understand that it can be destroyed and how to do it.
Now of course, it's very hard to understand how there could be any kind of life on other planets without water. As far as we know, water is essential to life. But that is based on all we know about life based on what we've learned here on earth. As unlikely as it may seem, I'm not going to say that it's completely impossible that life could exist without water on another planet. It serms impossible, yes. But there's no way for us to know for sure.
If you made it through this, thank you. I hope it may have provided some explanations about some of the bigger problems with this movie that people have.