This film is Awesome

well it is nearly 20 years old...did you know dorthy makes it back home in the wizard of oz?

"it's all in the reflexes"

Well if you're that rude then you deserve to have the ending spoilt so there!!!

I've learned this much. Take what you can, when you can- Jenner

I find it funny that you have the decency to beep out whatever is supposed to be between fat and idiot, yet use the terms dickwad and *beep* with no apology.

Also, it'd really strengthen your argument to use full words rather than "U". Your IQ is showing.

If you don't like spoilers, why visit the site before you see the movie? That's all any of this is anyhow.

Great film, surprised I had never heard of it before. Bought it on DVD where I work, cheap as **** :-) so...

What I find really appealing is Quaid's character isn't one-sided, I mean the alien learns english but also Davidge learns his. A break from the usual "english prevails all" style. Also that the antagonists (and their respective races) share so much in terms of morals, lifestyle, personalities which, just like in everyday life, is so easily missed out for outer differences. Isn't it great? An average space pilot plays football with his adoptive alien son!

If there's anything I'd like to have seen more after Davige's recovery - telling humans about his experience in an in-between passage before his second departal. Good though he was not immediately placed in mental care.

Hey, did it reap any awards?

"The only redeeming thing about this movie was that the acting wasn't too bad from either of the main characters, but the story was just shallow. Written to appeal to people who see fool's gold and go 'ooooh'. The thinly veiled 'message' is old, and boring."

I realize no one will read or even care about this post, but I'd like to speak up anyway.

This quoted comment seems so symptimatic of our society today. Today people have the attitude that if you can't watch a movie and have excessive violence, sex, explosions, and gore it must not be worth watching.

Barry Longyear wrote the original story in 1979. We were still reeling from the horrors of the Vietnam War. At the same time, we knew it was over. It is interesting to note that if you look at the fiction stories written years ago: the original Star Wars, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, or Close Encounters of the Third Kind - there was a more hopeful attitude.

After all, we had sent the Voyager probes out and were actually exploring our solar system. We were working positively toward real solid gains in science, and some of the best minds of our generation: Hawking and Sagan were bringing us along.

Today, NASA founders and lacks a real vision of what they are going. We are embroiled in yet another "war" that has no clear ending. Our children are indoctrinated into a culture of video game violence.

One thing I have definately noted is that with the new generation of writers in various genres (especially television), is that the story ends before the consequences are asessed. Heaven forfend that fiction today should be like real life and that characters suffer, fail, and die.

After all, the so called "heroes" of film today get the girl, blow up buildings, shoot guns like crazy, and innocent people never get hurt. If they do the "hero" doesn't care.

Reminds me of a video game. You can always restart and kill some more.