Refreshing

Rating: Null/10 (19 August 2002)

Given the usership of IMDB, many of comments on 'Signs' are surely going to be negative. *** SPOILER *** It's amusing how passionate people can be in describing naked, unarmed aliens as unrealistic. (what do they say about E.T.?)
'Signs' wasn't the best film, but it was refreshing to see a movie that uses a science fiction plot for a backdrop to an intelligent story. It's also refreshing to see world-affecting events from the perspective of common people. Other personal favorites like this include Miracle Mile (1989) and Trigger Effect (1996).
Which would you choose... Challenging films that aren't so much about the events depicted, but the characters dealing with them. Or Jeff Goldblum writing a computer virus that causes an alien spaceship to coredump?