Re: Similarity between "Alien" and "Signs"

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dakota Monroe) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I guess this is on topic since one of the two movies was made in the
> last 3 years.
> 
> Anyway what I mean in similarity is not quality or plot etc but this.
> 4 or 5 years ago a friend of mine had this Alien Graphic novel that
> went into more detail of the backstory.I can't remember all of it but
> I do remember it told a little bit about the large ship they found on
> that planet in Alien.
> 
> Apparently that race (like the large guy they find in the piolet
> chair) conquers planets by going from one to the next and depositing
> the Aliens on the planet where they run wild killing everything in
> sight and once they are finished they let out a gas that then kills
> off the aliens and they can come in and claim the planet.
> 
> I guess also it was shown in the graphic novel that the coordinates of
> the large ship that crashed indicates it was heading for earth.
> 
> Now I would imagine say if that ship didn't crash that would would
> have a situation almost like what happened in the movie Signs. This
> would also explain why the aliens in signs seemed so clueless at times
> (not being able to open a door) and yet were able to travel
> interstellar space. I always suspected that the aliens we saw were not
> the guys calling the shot and were probably nothing more than slightly
> intelligent beasts used for the dirty work. Anyway not really here to
> argue plots holes and such since I know there are many but just to
> comment on what seemed like a similarity to me.


Signs wasn't about aliens, hence the lack of a good explanation as to
why the aliens in the story weren't too swift-- an explanation wasn't
necessary to advance the plot nor resolve it.

Still, an alien bursting out of that McCulkin kid's chest... hmm.