Most Reviewers Apparently Made No Effort to Get It

Rating: Null/10 (4 February 2003)

I haven't read all of the reviews here. (How could I?) But the few I have read nearly all fail to grasp the complexity and hidden meaning in this movie. Sure, I guess it is okay to do nothing more at a movie than sit back, drink coke, eat popcorn and veg out. But do you think the director made his movie doing that? Would you make a movie doing that? Do you honestly think you can get this movie with that kind of mentality?

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There were probably no aliens at all. The whole thing was probably an elaborate hoax by the townspeople to restore the Father's faith. Think of the little girl's line, "There's a monster in my room, can I have a glass of water?" When you thought a witch or monster was in your room when you were a kid, would you calmly say, "can I have a glass of water?"
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I just don't know why people watch a film in such a way that they would have to watch it again to get anything out of it. This ain't "American Pie."