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devilmunchkin
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first circle of the inferno
Jul 2001
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i saw signs and it was ok....
I've been seeing alot of movies lately where a person has "lost god" and ends up "coming back into the fold of xianity" again...which is..well....yuck! i think it's cheesy and too typical of alot of films...it breaks a screenplay writing rule: don't preach!
Signs was ok to see once but not one to go spend money on again. I haven't seen unbreakable so i can't comment on that, but i did enjoy 6th Sense MUCH better.
i actually viewed this movie as a pseudo comedy..the kids cracked me up..the whole audience laughed..and perhaps that's what the director wanted..because then we'd scream at thumps and what not..kind of messing with our emotions...but it was a mediocre movie.
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CyberGnu
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of the Virtual Serengeti
Apr 1999
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I tried and tried and tried to come up with a theory about these poor aliens... The best I could come up with were that they were basically interstellar barbarians. Understanding of techonology lost when their civilization collapsed, they roam space in search after... something. The first part explains the lack of even basic technology for hand-to-hand combat and the shileding by day but not by night, the second part explains the two day wait before the invasion begun (they tried to find whatever it was they were looking for without landing, but since they failed the landed en masse).
Also thought a little about that water thing. If they react that violently to water, they would have burned up even in relatively dry atmospehere... Anyone who has ever done a Grignard reaction knows that.
However, what if it wasn't the water that did it? How about chlorine? Or even better, chloride? Most tapwater in the world is clorinated, the pennsylvania farmhouse was probably no exception. A lake has a slight but measurable quantity of chloride, sea water quite a bit. Rain or moisture on the other hand would be harmless.
Doesn;t really salvage the movie for me, however... Do take some intellectual pride in managing to patch the huge enormous plot holes, but it still leaves me with the same feeling I often get from hollywood pictures: if they are going to spend a few million dollars on special effects, why can't they spend $5 to get some dyslexic homeless person to at write a script?
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reismark
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Paragon of Virtue
Jan 1970
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For the record: Signs rules, M. Night Shyamalan is Michael incarnate. End of discussion.
The people who bash this movie are looking at the "big picture" too much. Yes, whoever suggested that this movie is meant to be a "small-town War of the Worlds" is exactly right, but you're putting too much emphasis on the "War of the Worlds" part of it. If the aliens were truly vital to the theme of the movie, we wouldn't have had to wait until the very end to see them clearly. This movie is about faith and family dynamics - the alien invasion is merely secondary, and it's merely the catalyst for all of the re-examination and self-discovery.
Three simple and concise reasons why Signs rules:
-- If this movie doesn't get nominated for its sound, I'll eat my hat. This is the first movie in YEARS that has genuinely scared the hell out of me - and it had so much to do with the haunting silence, the "shock-alert" sound effects, and the Hitchcockian soundtrack.
-- Have you ever been to a movie where you've been both scared out of your mind and delirious with laughter? That's exactly the trick this film manages to pull, and a lot of it has to do with the work of Joaquin Phoenix and the kids. You mock that picture of the three of them sitting on the bed with the tinfoil hats - in the context of the film, that sight is not only unspeakably hilarious but also very moving. You *sympathize* with these characters. Anyone have real sympathy for the people stalked by Chucky or the T-1000? I didn't think so.
-- The reason I love Shyamalan's work: Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, that we find out is important in the end. Too many films these days throw out stuff that does nothing to enhance our image of a character. But everything ties in together: Merrill being a failure at baseball. Bo's dislike of "contaminated" water. Morgan's asthma. Colleen's final words. They ALL mean something in the end. Too often, things like this are just left floating in the breeze.
I waited a year for this, and I was not disappointed. It's one of the most immensly satisfying films I've ever seen and is worthy of its placement on the IMDB list. Period.
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red_jon
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Uni of Wales Swansea
Oct 2000
time: 05:21
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quote:
Originally posted by reismark
For the record: Signs rules, M. Night Shyamalan is Michael incarnate. End of discussion.
The people who bash this movie are looking at the "big picture" too much. Yes, whoever suggested that this movie is meant to be a "small-town War of the Worlds" is exactly right, but you're putting too much emphasis on the "War of the Worlds" part of it. If the aliens were truly vital to the theme of the movie, we wouldn't have had to wait until the very end to see them clearly. This movie is about faith and family dynamics - the alien invasion is merely secondary, and it's merely the catalyst for all of the re-examination and self-discovery.
Three simple and concise reasons why Signs rules:
-- If this movie doesn't get nominated for its sound, I'll eat my hat. This is the first movie in YEARS that has genuinely scared the hell out of me - and it had so much to do with the haunting silence, the "shock-alert" sound effects, and the Hitchcockian soundtrack.
-- Have you ever been to a movie where you've been both scared out of your mind and delirious with laughter? That's exactly the trick this film manages to pull, and a lot of it has to do with the work of Joaquin Phoenix and the kids. You mock that picture of the three of them sitting on the bed with the tinfoil hats - in the context of the film, that sight is not only unspeakably hilarious but also very moving. You *sympathize* with these characters. Anyone have real sympathy for the people stalked by Chucky or the T-1000? I didn't think so.
-- The reason I love Shyamalan's work: Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, that we find out is important in the end. Too many films these days throw out stuff that does nothing to enhance our image of a character. But everything ties in together: Merrill being a failure at baseball. Bo's dislike of "contaminated" water. Morgan's asthma. Colleen's final words. They ALL mean something in the end. Too often, things like this are just left floating in the breeze.
I waited a year for this, and I was not disappointed. It's one of the most immensly satisfying films I've ever seen and is worthy of its placement on the IMDB list. Period. |
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These points are fairly subjective. The only time the film only made me laugh twice. And one of those was when the son was captured by the alien. I seriously wanted every character in the film except the little girl to die.
And I don't see the fact that everything linked as being a good thing. It's incredibly unrealistic.
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Prifysgol Caerdydd
Dec 1999
time: 15:21
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quote:
Originally posted by reismark
Three simple and concise reasons why Signs rules:
-- If this movie doesn't get nominated for its sound, I'll eat my hat. This is the first movie in YEARS that has genuinely scared the hell out of me - and it had so much to do with the haunting silence, the "shock-alert" sound effects, and the Hitchcockian soundtrack. |
One. Fair point. Though 'M' only rules because he copies Hitchcock, as you yourself say...
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-- Have you ever been to a movie where you've been both scared out of your mind and delirious with laughter? That's exactly the trick this film manages to pull, and a lot of it has to do with the work of Joaquin Phoenix and the kids. You mock that picture of the three of them sitting on the bed with the tinfoil hats - in the context of the film, that sight is not only unspeakably hilarious but also very moving. You *sympathize* with these characters. Anyone have real sympathy for the people stalked by Chucky or the T-1000? I didn't think so. |
Two. Yes, the film was scary (until my snorts of derision!), and it was very funny in many parts though most of that appears to be at the expense of small town America as a whole (The entire world already thinks that the average American is braindead without having to continue to provide continuing cinematic examples), but then when you realise what the object of the fear is - there is no more fear whatsoever! In fact you're left feeling slightly stupid that you were scared at all in the 1st place!
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-- The reason I love Shyamalan's work: Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, that we find out is important in the end. Too many films these days throw out stuff that does nothing to enhance our image of a character. But everything ties in together: Merrill being a failure at baseball. Bo's dislike of "contaminated" water. Morgan's asthma. Colleen's final words. They ALL mean something in the end. Too often, things like this are just left floating in the breeze. |
As RedJon says, this use of 'signs' like this as though everything that happens is meant to be, exposes the plot as a totally unrealistic and linear contrivance!
Ooh, ooh, everything was meant to be! So everything is preordained... It's a f*cking 'Godflick', that's the only 'faith' Mel regains - that's why Mel's wearing a dog collar again at the end of the movie, he's on God's leash again after God sic'ed the most woefully pathetic aliens in the entire universe to make him see the light and bring him back into the fold...
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I waited a year for this, and I was not disappointed. It's one of the most immensly satisfying films I've ever seen and is worthy of its placement on the IMDB list. Period. |
Oh dear, well we'll just have to agree to differ...
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Faeelin
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Tau Ceti
Oct 2001
time: 05:21
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The aliens can jump 9 feet and shoot poison gas out of their hands but can't batter down a door.
Look, I'm not knocking it. Until the end, I loved the movie.
But the ending was such a cheap cop out. You knew it was going to be the water. You hoped it wouldn't be, but it was. Then there was the asthmatic's poison gas; if the lung's were close, the gas would still be in his upper throat. So when he does inhale, rasping for breath.....
I'm sorry. But when i see a movie, I don't expect to see aliens which are killed by firing a super soaker at them. Why the hell were they invading earth if they fled in terror at the sight of a rain cloud?
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