EFAP #289 – Talking about M. Night. Shyamalan's SIGNS - These aliens be doinkin'

Man, I'm just thinking of the alien's perspective: here as part of the conquering malevolent alien force sent to take over the world... trapped in a pantry and seeing a knife slowly slide under the door and the eye of some human peering into the room. Needing to slowly and akwardly shuffle back and forth to remain out of view, thinking to myself "what has this all come to?"

My favorite quote, Rags: "oh look there's kids, good thing I'm naked"🤣

53:11 As someone who lived rural most of my life crickets tend to go silent whenever something is making noise near them. Crickets do this with people and animals. It is kinda creepy when it happens

I can't believe we got such bangers as: "don't walk into a cornfield at night" and "doink around on the rug" in the same stream.

Before Graham reaches for his brother during the hug, Meryl's body language says so much about how he thinks of himself as just slightly outside of the family, and also a bit of a tough guy act not wanting to show emotions in that moment. When Graham pulls him in, not only does it say 'You're part of this family', but the way his fingers desperately grasp at his shirt says 'I need you too.' Fantastic acting, great scene.

>the movie that inspired him to love film-making >his analysis is just summary and "THIS IS GENIUS" literally how is this guy famous for being a critic?

"if aliens have cloaking devices they don't need to draw fucking maps in corn" LOL

Watching an M. Night Shyamalan movie feels like having your old, used socks stolen. It's not a significant loss but you still got robbed. It also feels weird, because why would anyone steal your old socks?

It's honestly kind of unfathomable that what should be Stuckman's most passionate and in-depth video, with the film being this important to him, is this surface level and lifeless. Says a lot about his content in general lol

As a Christian, I find the themes of this movie at parody levels. You either believe everything is a coincidence or pre destination. There’s no in between ig lol

Shyamalan's plot twist are the only things that bring me joy in life

Timestamps 0:00 Mandalorian , Ashoka & Filoni 5:04 Lenght 6:00 AI Summary & Dog Meat 10:54 Preamble 21:32 Blurbs 32:00 A Horror With Comedy Bits 40:28 The Dog 55:08 Aliens 1:10:58 On A Farm 1:17:41 Characters & Story 1:30:28 God & Faith 1:46:14 Surrounded by Water 1:54:28 Panic Moments 1:55:12 Stuckman Origins 2:03:53 Starpower & Mission Impossible 2:09:13 Stuckman's Analysis of Signs 2:34:40 The Dog 2:42:35 Crickets vs Aliens 2:48:16 Alien on a Hot Tin Roof 2:55:45 Suspance 2:58:00 Comedy & Horror 3:00:24 Alien Invasion 3:08:14 Character Building 3:13:33 Dr Who? 3:18:07 Characters & Takeaways 3:34:30 Signals 3:39:47 A Night In the Cornfield 3:51:44 Invasion 4:02:58 Analysing 4:14:32 Acting 4:25:34 Still Water 4:27:12 The Scariest Scene 4:50:30 The Last Supper 4:58:10 Shelter 5:08:43 A Copyright Odyssey 5:16:39 Theatre Adventures 5:21:09 The Kidnapper 5:25:12 Attack & Vengence 5:29:41 Faith, Closure & AI Recap 5:34:58 Complaint #1 5:49:05 Complaint #2 6:20:13 Closing 6:23:15 A Theory 6:28:05 Conclusions 6:33:45 What are you up to?

There's something almost Patrick Bateman-esqe about the way Stuckman talks. For someone who claims to be passionate about film, he has a distinct lack of emotion.

without the crop circles, how are the aliens sopposed to know which way is up?

That kitchen scene where he walks away then goes back and the claw is just in your face no stinger no nothing legit made me leap out of my seat the first time bc it was so well built up and executed

My favourite headcanon for the aliens is: It's the scenario like in Alien, but the aliens are just unprepaired workers on a flyby, registering a liveform that has acid as blood and urin. After getting the order to capture "samples" for biological weapon development they try to attack but have no necesary equipment nor training.

The biggest issue I had with this movie is that it was set in a small town in the US, and not a single person has a single gun. Realistically speaking, small midwestern towns are the LAST place aliens like this would want to go. The amount of tannerite alone that they'd encounter would trigger on seismographs all the way over in the Java Sea.

When I'm driving through the desert, there's only two reasons I'd stop at a town with a population of 40 people: For exploration, or for hostile reasons. Or if I need gas. Or if I'm hungry. Or if my car is making a weird noise. Or to take a shit.

"I like my own fingers... I'm really attached to them!" Well, not anymore xD

I'd love to see them break down 'Old', also by M. Night, cause that movie legitimately baffled me on how inept it was. At some points it felt like a total amateur wrote/directed it rather than a successful film maker with a 20+ year long career.