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Summary: Cool!
Review: This movie is so cool don't read those bad reviews this movie is SO Creepy
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Summary: An exercise in suspense.
Review: Signs presents a unique twist on the alien genre, by combining it with a very personal story about a man who has lost his faith and how this affects his family.
In Pennsylvania, crop circles are found on the farm of Graham Hess (Gibson), the town's former reverend. The circles test Hess's faith as he attempts to find out the truth behind them.Mel Gibson gives what is perhaps his best performance as a damaged father trying to do what he has come to believe is best for his children. Joaquin Phoenix, in quite a turn from his Oscar nominated performance as the antagonist in Gladiator, provides some humorous comic relief. This is a minimalist thriller. As repeatedly demonstrated by Hitchcock, and to a lesser extent Spielberg, what you don't see can be far more intense than what you do see. Director M. Night Shyamalan takes this to heart and uses lighting and sound to their full, suspenseful potential to indicate the presence of an other-worldly menace. James Newton Howard's Herrmann-esque musical score also adds greatly to the tension and mood. Signs falls apart during its outrageous finale that also tends to be unintentionally funny, and in my opinion, anti-climatic. All the atmosphere and anxiety that Shyamalan had built up throughout the film is abruptly released, resulting in an unsatisfying climax.
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Summary: Are you all MAD!! The Swamp thing just isn't scary.
Review: OK, how can anybody find this film Scary!! Granted, moments will make you jump but they all lead to a rather disappointing and almost humorous ending. Starts Well: The 1st hour is tensely intriguing fuelled by the notion that strange things are happening on the Farm with no indication as to what's causing it. This psychological approach to fear is great (made Sixth Sense what it was) but it is soon spoilt by the swamp thing. The Swamp Thing: As you intensely watch a Hammy Mock TV report of the 1st Alien sighting in Mexico I gasped as the Green Alien strolls out of a bush. Gasp in disbelief at the appalling costume and its complete Naffness. From now on the film becomes a B-Rate SCI-FI that renders the good build up as nothing more than a joke. Saviour: Luckily the casting is superb with Mel Gibson & Joaquin Phoenix adding a humorous quirk to the film ensuring it doesn't take itself too seriously. With all aside the film is OK if you're willing to believe anything but if you're sceptical or critical at all, don't bother.
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Summary: I've never hated a movie more
Review: Signs was the most pretentious, empty film I've ever seen. The ending is so STUPID, you'll seriously wonder if someone was doing drugs while writing it. It's insultingly dumb and deceptively simple. I hate 'homages' to better films, too. Get this, as one of Sign's suspense moments, Gibson walks toward a door. Very original, very creepy stuff. While SIGNS' main concept should have worked, the script should have been finished before they filmed. It's the "McDonald's" of suspense films.
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Summary: The monkey still likes signs!
Review: Hello, this is me, more eloquently stating my thoughts on Signs. The first thing you'll probably like (and notice, if you're bright enough;just kidding!) is how deep the roots of sci-fi run in Signs. This is a very well done spin on a very primitive and memorable type of sci-fi that shouldn't be taken for granted. The music,sound, and very obvious upbeat humor, along with a very literate and down to earth emotional message that shows Mel's considerable acting skills complete the tapestry and make this a very enjoyable follow up M. Night's other movies. How anyone could not like this movie because of it's "obvious logistical problems and superficiality" only proves to me that these people's idea of the entertainment medium is starting to stoop lower and lower and that these people are very critical of SCIENCE FICTION THRILLERS (audience goes 'ooooo!'). And also, just to give them some more pointers on citing an opinion about the "logistical problems"(though I completely respect their opinons), how come they didn't notice what the end "swing away" ment? Obviously, it was just like the Jaws ending; a farce about facing your fears! The alien isn't scary at the end because it ISN'T TO THE CHARACTERS! Oh well, I hope I made an impact, Live long and prosper, folks!
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Summary: NO fluke, but not a master-piece
Review: This is a solid movie, really beyond Hollywood stereotypes for alien movies. Very clever, very smart, sometimes badly conducted by Shyalaman. Anyway, the positive aspects suplant the negative ones by a large margin. I enjoyed it, only endorsing the general complaining about the weakness of the aliens. Gibson and Phoenix give solid performances ...
As for the young CUlkin, don't much of a future for him. ...
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Summary: An interesting reversal of the sci-fi norms
Review: I love a movie that makes me remember it. And I found myself thinking back to "Signs" a number of times. The film had a significant impact on me. There are some great scenes to replay: Mel Gibson getting his son breathing during an asthma attack, the group-hug at the dinner table, and the pep-talks Mel gives his kids at the "darkest hour". I found myself interested not only by the basic "aliens" plot but also by the effect the plot had on the family, and also by the message of the film, concerning synchronicity and spirituality. Talking of the aliens plot, I was lucky enough to go along to this movie not being aware that it was about an all-out alien invasion. Hence I was increasingly open-mouthed as the invasion took place. Initially I was wondering if the prospect of the invasion was just paranoia on the part of the characters. But as more and more fell into place a sense of unreality began to overtake the proceedings. So believable it was unbelievable, is the best way I can put it. I think the reason for this was that normally alien invasion movies, even if they start on a local level, eventually pan out to a national or international level. Presidents, generals and word-heroes dominate the proceedings. Great pronouncements of scientific and philosophic profundity stream from the mouths of the earnest cast members. An example of this would be Independence Day, a movie I did enjoy. However "Signs" is Independence Day from the point of view of a crop-farming family in the middle of nowhere. It is a masterly inversion, a "micro" view of such an occurrence. For example, the tragedy of the family losing its mother a year before the events in the script is almost as important in the movie as the tragedy of the alien invasion. The classic HG Well's story "War of the Worlds" is also done from the point of view of a single person. But that person eventually travels towards London and sees great events pass. However the family in Signs stay on their isolated farm all through the invasion, and even their television gets cut off, further isolating them. (Partly because of this, and like Ridley Scott's "Alien", we don't really see an invader directly for the whole of the attack.) Some of the television footage is great by the way, especially the scene of the amateur footage of an alien appearing at a kids' birthday party. Interestingly, the director's use of the camera is more like that of someone filming a newscaster on TV. He frames people individually as if they were speaking directly to the camera. There doesn't seem to be the same degree of panning and sweeping shots that I am used to in standard Hollywood fare. Apart from the wonderful Back-to-front-Independence-Day nature of the movie, it has an interesting spiritual commentary. There is a kind of a "twist" as found in other movies by the same director, like The Sixth Sense, however the twist in this movie is far more subtle and thought provoking, in my opinion. (Though no doubt some will disagree.) I suspect the spiritual element may alienate the less spiritually-inclined, but for me it just added to what was already a interestingly complex movie with many strands. The final plus point for this movie was the cast and characters. The effects of the invasion upon the family is just fabulous to watch. I was totally caught up in their relationships. Mel Gibson does great, though seems a bit out of character in what was one of the best parts of the movie: the revival scene in the basement. Mel's brother in the movie dove-tails with him perfectly, and the kids are just excellent! The only negative point for me would have to be the ending. The gassing and following survival (see the movie to understand what I'm talking about) didn't seem to fit into the flow of the movie at all. The point about synchronicity had already been well made. The asthma that allows the survival seems a little "clever-clever" to me, and just seems like the director showing off, rather than attempting a satisfying narrative finish. If I was one of those people who coloured a whole movie by its ending, then that could almost spoil the effect for me in some ways. However the rest of the movie was just so fascinating that it did not spoil it. I suspect I will watch "Signs" again at some point in the future, just to return to that strange eerie world of the isolated, emotionally troubled family, during an alien stealth-invasion.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This film is one of the scaryest I have ever seen!Its brilliant, especally got freeked out at the bit with the video camera in Brazil!!10/10 Mels best film yet!!
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Summary: Signs
Review: Its an interesting movie. I saw it in theaters back then. Mel
Gibson is a great actor for this movie, and the UFOs and the
special effects are unbeleveable to see. I like the part about
the guy was watching the newscast part, that was pretty interesting, really a good sci fi film. at almost to the end there was some parts that you have hold on to your seat. I was
good. You got to see it, to believe it.
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Summary: Nope!
Review: I have heard tons of postive thoughts on Sign.Everybody told me that this movie is really scary and that everybody screamed and it's just engrossing...but from what I saw....it's wasn't.Sign was far far away from being engrossing and it was slow are some moments.Plus it had a really dull ending that is just predictable if you thought about it a little bit.The movie could have been good if it didn't try that hard to be good.The movie did have it's highlights such as the scene in the neighbors kitchen and the humor that the director put in the movie which was also surprising to me.I didn't expect there to be humor in such a movie but the way that they put it in made the movie good.Even though the idea was good this movie just didn't work for me. Graham Hess(played by Mel Gibson)is a former priest but stopped preforming his duties after the death of his wife Colleen six months ago.He is single and raising his two kids Morgan and Bo with the help of his brother Merril(played by Joaquin Phoenix).Grahem is a farmer who plants his crops like a normal man untill one mourning there is a strange sign planted inside of his crops.A crop circle!Then the dogs start to act strange causing them to kill one of them and Bo's old baby monitar starts to pick up stange signals.All over the country there are crop circles being reported by farmers and over big cities there are thousands of lights overhead just there.Horror begins to spread through the house when those two words are told by all... IT'S HAPPENING! So if you do want to see Signs go see it and enjoy it but I am just saying that I didn't enjoy it and just giving out anthor point of veiw. ENJOY!
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