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Summary: Awesome!!!!!!!!!
Review: This movie is scary and funny! I was surprised. Horror is not dead, it's back, and even if the scares become num after 5 times seeing it, you still have an amazing sci-fi film! This is one of the greatest films of this year! Definately go see by yourself! It's scary!
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Summary: And the bug eyed monsters? Are green, yes.
Review: Signs tries to have a bob each way on too many horses in the race for it to turn up a net winner. The premise is simple, and schlock-ish enough: Mysterious corn circles appear all over the world, explicable by none but the proverbial crazed Doctor Hans Zarkov, formerly of NASA, whose best shot is that a greater intelligence from another world is here to say a big hello to planet earth. Maybe to make friends. Maybe to invade. Maybe to take humans for food. They're clever than us, so who knows? So far, so ID4. The cinematic hat-tipping doesn't stop there, though: Independence Day begets Close Encounters of the Third Kind, begets ET, begets Invasion of the Body Snatchers, begets (creepily and effectively) The Birds. But all this thriller/Sci Fi schtick is a ruse: the film actually ruminates on a few topics more cerebral than that, and to a large extent the thriller element just gets in the way. For example: it doesn't become clear till fairly late in the piece what is causing the crop circles. Up to that point, Mel Gibson and family spend considerable energy chasing rustling corn cobs around their back yard. Despite how it sounds, this is eerie, and makes a point (of which something has been made in the press notices on this film) about the new American Sense Of Unease. In the same way that Invasion of the Body Snatchers commented on the McCarthyist programme in the 1950s, there is good mileage to be made in the observation that, without much prompting, fully grown men will cack their pants when the wind blows on the plants over their back fence. But the force of that point evaporates the moment a rubbery green man pops out of the foliage and legs it, Benny Hill style, past the back porch and down the lane. The "Signs", it turns out, aren't really the crop circles at all, and this is the other major bone I have to pick with this film. This is a simple matter of preference, and I don't mark the film down on it at all, but simply mention for the record that I think it's bogus: The film has, from the very start, a pretty obvious metaphysical/religious angle (Gibson plays an ex-priest who has lost the faith) and, while it's finally addressed late in the film, the issue continually dangles throughout, hovering just so as you know it's there, only you don't know which side of the fence the film will come down on. It's like watching a golfer take a really long birdie putt. Well, and without giving the game away, it's firmly struck, the ball rolls true, and ... in the last yard it breaks violently the wrong way and careers down a very fast green and into a bunker. Bogey. Enough said.
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Summary: I liked the heart of this movie
Review: I liked this movie so much I saw it two times. Both times I enjoyed it overall. I really loved the theme of a man who lost his faith when his wife died, then keeps denying he has anymore faith, then sees a miracle and realizes that there is a reason to believe after all. As I struggle with my own life problems and my own faith, this movie comforted me. The end brings me to tears.
However, I didn't rate this movie a five stars for several reasons. First, the thing with the baby monitor. As anyone knows, baby monitors come in twos. One is the sender, and one is the receiver. I always wondered, if the boy had the receiving monitor, where was the other one? There was some discussion that he got it from the basement. So why didn't he bring up the other one? How did they all know they weren't listening to the rattlings of the basement heater? that was the first thing I had problems with.
The second thing I had problems with, was how Mel Gibson talked to his children when the aliens were pounding at the doors. I could understand his explaining to his daughter about how she was born, when they were not in a crisis situation, but at the height of the alien pounding, he chooses to tell his son about his birth? It seemed an odd thing to do at the time, and the only thing I could make of it, was that he thought they were all going to die. I just seemed an odd way to react.
You could actually see Mel Gibson kind of unravel during the movie. His children actually remained cooler than he did.
Then the boy's asthma attack seemed a little odd. I have had two children with asthma, and believe me, if the boy was struggling for air as much as he was, I found it hard to believe he would have lived though the night.
Then the next day, his lungs "were closed" during the alien thing, so why wasn't he dead? How long can you live without air or brain damaage?
I didn't really mind the end, but my husband thought the movie would have been much better if you never saw the alien. I think the director did do a good job keeping him in the shadow, but my husband thought it was hokey.
The final end I found satifying...how could they have lived here at all? Well, it is just a movie I guess. I did enjoy it overall though.
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Summary: Scaryist film i've ever seen, but i loved it!!!
Review: I am really 13 years old but I want to use the kids form. When I saw the t.v spots of this film it didnt look scary but it looked ok. When I herd it was scary it made me want to see it more. Now did i get a hell of a fright of how scary it was! Through the whole movie i was gripping to my seat. It was pure guenuis how this movie was done. Although I must warn parents that this is not sutible for younger childern, i spoke to all my friends who saw it and the are really freacked out! Although this movie was scary it has to be the best movie I have seen in a while. Now to also say how scary it was, the second time i saw it I was still scared but that dosnt stop me seeing it for the third time. The first time i saw it i had a very sleepless night, and a whloe lot of 13-14 year olds I know did to. I carnt wait untill the DVD comes out! one last thing, THIS IS A REALLY SCARY MOVIE!
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Summary: He's Right
Review: ... This is the best movie i've ever seen. The storyline is very smart. It's even funny and freaky. Freaky but not scary it's a little bit of everything and the storyline is great. And Mel Gibson is awsome. But anyway this is an AWSOME movie...
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Summary: He's Right
Review: He is right the only people who didn't like this movie are the ones who don't get It. This is the best movie i've ever seen. The storyline is very smart. It's even funny and freaky. Freaky but not scary it's a little bit of everything and the storyline is great. And Mel Gibson is awsome. But anyway this is an AWSOME movie. You guys should take time to see it again and think about more and you might start to get it so try it again. It's not a waist of ... 147 minutes. Think about it more and you will love it...
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Summary: He's Right
Review: He is right the only people who didn't like this are the ones who don't get It. This is the best movie i've ever seen it's smart it's even funny and freaky. Freaky but not scary and sort of sad it's a little bit of everything and the storyline is great. And Mel Gibson is awsome at least we were soldiers he wasn't good in that. But anyway this is an AWSOME movie. You guys should take time to see this again and think about more and you might start to get it so try it again. It's not a waist of
7 Dollers or 147 minutes. Think about it more and you will love it. BYE(= P.S. The Birthday Video Seen Is Very Freaky And I DON'T Have A.O.L.
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Summary: What's that???
Review: Is this the most extraordenary movie I've ever seen? Yes it is. Better than The Sixth Sense or What lies beneath! The whole movie you have the feeling that in the next second something happend, and so you've this feeling during every sceen I think in this time it is extraordenary to make such a movie, where the audience has seen everything, but after this movie you've seen nothing. You world has changed. Watch this movie and believe!
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Summary: Sometimes the Strangest Things Are Meant To Be
Review: Immediately after watching "Signs" I placed it on my list of favorites. I'll admit I'm a bit of a sap when it comes to movies (I'm drawn to the tearjerkers). However, I believe Signs has qualities that many can enjoy or at the least, respect. The movie is a personal view into the lives of a small farming family, the Hess'. They are dealing with the tradgic loss of their wife and mother at the beginning. When strange patterns appear in their crops and the world starts speaking of extraterrestrial war even more confusion is added to their lives. These events compell the Hess family to rediscover their lost faith. If I give more information it might give away the ending. However, the movie will give you the hope that even the strangest events are planned and that everything happens for a reason. My advice-watch the movie, it will touch your heart, keep you on the edge of your seat, it might even make you cry (I did)!
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Summary: As A Whole, Not Equal To The Sum Of Its Parts
Review: There are some wonderful things about "Signs", M. Night Shyamalan's latest cinematic offering. Its presentation is almost unparalleled; from the opening credits, we're swept away into a world of uncertainty and dreaded expectation. The opening credit sequence is simple, but extremely powerful, with towering words and booming music. My heart jumped into my throat and stayed there through much of the rest of the film. Shymalan is extremely talented in creating atmosphere; the thrills and chills are exquisitely choreographed. The performances are pretty solid, too. Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin are terrific as Mel Gibson's young children, and Cherry Jones is wonderful, as always. Gibson is very evocative as a grieving widower, but at times I felt he was drowning in spiritually-conflicted pathos. Similarly, I enjoyed aspects of Joaquin Phoenix's performance as Gibson's younger brother, but there was some scenery chewing evident. In addition, the climax of the film left me cold. After a devastatingly chilling lead-up, I felt deflated. I appreciated the message at the end (which gave an additional meaning to the title), but it seemed awfully pat. I'm glad I saw this film, but I wouldn't consider it great. In the end, a movie needs more than atmosphere to elevate it to something above mere entertainment.
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