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Summary: OK, this is a stretch ...
Review: I looked at this film as a dream sequence (or, more appropriately a nightmare). The aliens represented Mel Gibson's inner demons, the invasion of earth standing for his loss of faith in life and the world after the senseless death of his wife. The movie, therefore, is one man's subconscious attempt to find meaning in a world that's seemingly gone mad.
That's about the only way that I could look at this mess and not frown at it. Otherwise, the plot seems too simplistic, the aliens too hokey (and kind of dumb, for that matter), and the script has a few too many clumsily written passages for its own good.
But M. Night Shyamalan's bad movies are still better than many directors' good ones. Signs is rife with tension, owns a few startling moments, and there's also some good moments of lunatic comic relief. And Gibson gives a fine performance as the confused, hopeless reverend who says he's all on his own, but it looking for any sort of sign or reason to believe otherwise.
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER!
Review: When I saw the previews of Signs before it came out on theatres, I was excited because I loved the stuff about Crop Circles and Aliens, and was a big fan of Mel Gibson. When I finally got to see it, I was shocked. It was better than I thought it would be. BONECHILLING. I was shaking threw half of the movie because you didn't know what was coming next. One of the scariest scenes was at the kid's birthday party, when the alien goes across an alley unexpectedly, and of course the end was scary as hell when u see the alien threw the TV holding the boy. But this movie was just chilling all threw out. Shyamalan is one of the best directors on Earth. He knows how to make a good time. I have the DVD and watch this movie regularly. I recommend this to people who have never seen this movie or want to buy the DVD.
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Summary: THE GREATEST FILM IN HISTORY
Review: I mean, come one, it makes perfect sense. An advanced alien race comes to planet earth and tries to take it over. The only problem is that they are allergic to water and even thought they can make spaceships that fly all throughout the universe, they are apparrently unable to make suits that make them impervious to water (even though we have been able to make suits like that for the last hundred years). By the way did you guys know that Shyamalan uses the old Hitchcock adage that "what you don't see is scarier"? Well, he does! In fact you "don't see" so much that I was scared out of my tiny little mind! Show more, Shyamalan, I'm freaking out! I guess the scariest thing about these aliens is that they are so brave. See, they're allergic to water, but they traveled to a planet where over 70% of it is covered in water. Not to mention that water shoots out of the hoses on most everybody's lawns, faucets, squirt guns, balloons, and genitals! Give those aliens some props! Did I mention that I can spit water? That's right! I actually SPIT water out of my mouth with relative ease! Bring on the aliens, I think I have a fighting chance!
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Summary: M. Night Shyamalan's Atypical Religious/Sci-Fi Pic
Review: M. Night Shyamalan has been hailed as the next Spielberg with such writing/directing/producing credits as The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs & his new venture, The Village, and rightly so, in my humble opinion. This film is generally unlike The Sixth Sense & Unbreakable. That is precisely why Signs received mixed reviews from critics at the box office. Mel Gibson stars as the newly widowed ex-reverend/father Graham Ness. Along with his younger, ex-baseball hero brother, Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix) and two young children, son, Morgan and little daughter, Bo (Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin), the recently faithless ex-minister & his family experience accidents, death, crop circles, extra-terrestrials, and much more while director/writer/ producer Shyamalan pursues a spookfest with great (thank you, H.G. Wells) "War of the Worlds" undertones. While the whole Ness clan re-evaluates their spiritual past, present and uncertain future, Graham & Merrill debate/discuss what kind of people they really were while growing up, what kind of people they are now and what the experience that they go through in the film makes them out to be in the end. There are many a spiritual idea/moral to this odd story by Shyamalan & certainly worth a look-see. Does the Ness family perceive a phenomenal occurrence as a series of spiritual signs and heavenly portents, or do they only believe in fate, chance, luck and divine providence? Watch this oddly, extraordinary film and find out for yourself. Happy Watching!
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Summary: Rectum
Review: Uh... so let me get this straight. Aliens are attacking the entire planet, kidnapping people and everything and you're not going to explain why because you think we want to watch Mel Gibson struggling with religion. Dude, I don't know where you're from but that is a crappy movie idea in America. Judging from your name you ain't from here and it shows. Seriously, man, make a movie that has some kind of story or shows me crap that I care about. Don't make aliens take over the world and then not explain why. And I don't care if you have some bigger message. Your message sucks. Get a real job.
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Summary: A stumble for Shyamalan
Review: M. Night Shyamalan rocketed into the pantheon of my favorite modern directors with his first two films, "The Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable." His signatures are twofold: an element of the supernatural, and a glacial pace, which serves to highlight the moments of action that do happen. The pace in particular would have to be Shyamalan's trademark; after watching only two of his films, I imagine I could now identify another one in the absence of any other information merely by viewing a few minutes' worth. His characters walk through his stories like zombies, nearly devoid of obvious emotional reactions, contributing to the effect. The result is peculiarly dreamlike, further enhancing the creepiness of "Sixth Sense" and the portentousness of "Unbreakable." Shyamalan's third film is a new take on the basic "War of the Worlds" premise--aliens invade and quickly overrun the planet, only to be beaten off by the most primitive of means (although not, in this case, due to disease). The twist here is that Shyamalan chooses to view the proceedings almost entirely from the perspective of a family of four in their rural Pennsylvania farmhouse; the only window on the rest of the world is provided by the TV. The family itself is made up of a father (and recently ex-Father) his two children--an asthmatic boy and a younger girl, the latter prone to prophetic dreams--and his brother, an ex-jock who has come to live with the family after the death of their mother. Shyamalan has a second twist to add, however, in that the real focus of the movie isn't the alien invasion, but a question of faith. Or, to paraphrase Gibson's character, are you the sort of person who believes in signs and miracles, or who sees only coincidences? It's an interesting idea, and Shyamalan infuses "Signs" with enough style to nearly make you forget the B-movie premise beneath it. Nearly, that is. There is enough humor in the movie to deflect accusations that it takes the alien invasion premise too seriously, but the climactic scene is patently ludicrous. Shyamalan has not provided a blueprint for how to make a ridiculous premise believable in a dramatic presentation. In the end, the alien invasion gets too much in the way of the crisis of faith that is clearly the main point of the film. No matter how much I was supposed to care for Gibson's acceptance or rejection of the "signs" that have been given him, I failed to see how it amounted to more than a hill of beans in relation to the vast invasion taking place in the wide world outside that farmhouse. I still want to give Shyamalan his style points, since there are a few moments of genuine eeriness before it gets too silly. But this is a minor effort compared to Shyamalan's earlier work.
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Summary: Good!
Review: This has to be up there with one of my favourite movies of all time. I rarely give 5 stars, but if a movie was to recieve the full quota, then this is it.
A great story. Not only about Alien Invasion, but also asks the question if there are really coincidences. Or is someone above watching over us? A truly great film, in which everyone of most ages can enjoy :-)
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Summary: Creepy Signs
Review: Signs is the best sci fi movie in a long time. The plot is a man, his brother, and his two children, find a crop circle in their yard. And it turns out to be aliens that attack them. VERY creepy movie.
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Summary: Less is more
Review: I enjoyed this film a lot. I liked how the scale was kept small, meaning that the focus was on the farmhouse and family, with only tidbits from the outside world entering the plot. That's what real life is like; something big may be happening, but for most of us, we experience only a tiny little corner of that event. My only qualm about the film was the plot device of water as a weapon. If these guys can't take water, why go to a planet that is 3/4 water? Perhaps the filmmaker was trying to use water symbolically; after all, it is used for baptism. My only problem with the DVD itself is that there is no option to include the deleted scenes (most of which are really good) into the film in order to makes a sort of Director's Cut. Or if there is, I didn't notice it.
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Summary: It was really good but.....
Review: The beginning of this movie was strong kept you guessing and made you think. The last half hour or so was crap. The alien looked completely fake and that aliens are like alergic to water is b.s.. Overall though the movie was good for the most part.
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