[reagan_fanatic]

(1) Why didn’t the family have firearms and blast away at the aliens instead of hiding
(2) Why didn’t the humans destroy the crop circles when they first figured out the crop circles were for navigation by the ETs and
(3) Why would the aliens go to so much trouble to try to “harvest” two adults and two children from a rural Pennsylvania farm house when they could have gone to even a medium-sized city and had much easier, and more plentiful, pickings?

Because that wouldn't have made an interesting movie, that's why.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

“Because that wouldn’t have made an interesting movie, that’s why.”

That’s what I figured. Don’t get me wrong; I thought “Signs” was one of the best sci-fi movies I’ve ever seen. It didn’t have the hi-tech razzle dazzle fast pace action of “Independence Day,” but in many ways it had more suspense (and a better story line).

Interestingly, the actress who played the sheriff’s deputy in “Signs,” Cherry Jones, is the same person who plays the President in “24.”