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Summary: Shyamalan directs a truck through the plot holes in this one
Review: I don't really mean to be a jerk about it an all, I mean hes a great director and I love the suspense but come now...1) Why in the name of all logic and reason would aliens that have travelled in cloaked spaceships from stars of unmeasurable distances away think that the best way to take over a planet is with hand to hand combat? 2) OK, that aside for the sake of interesting storyline, but what the ... is up with the idea that these beings would come to a planet where not only is 3/4th of the surface, but 98% of the beings inhabiting it are made up of a substance that EATS THROUGH THEIR SKIN!!..."Come on Alien Bob we're all gonna down and camp out on the acid world, wanna come?!" I mean this is aside from the illogical idea that this fundamental building block of life is duracell juice to these chameleon cross-breeds, but you would really think that they would protect themselves against it, or at least HAVE KNOWN WHAT TO EXPECT! 3) One last thing, ok... so these aliens are down doing what they are supposedly trained to do, which is take over other worlds, and the best defense against them is simply closing and locking your door? Short of spreading lambs blood across the hearth I doubt extraterrestrial beings are to be stopped by a plank of word and a dead bolt.... watch COPS enough and you'll learn the easy 1-2-3 method of entry to any drug lab in town! Im sorry to rant like this, it is a good movie... the little girl and the dog got me jumping and I love when the ex-father dealt with the pharmacy chick. Also I loved the relation of M. Night to the family in this movei, well done. Sorry, it just seemed like that story wasnt on its last draft. ... I just cant get over those huge plot holes, please dont tell my I was the only one yelling at the screen during this one...
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Summary: Interestingly frightening
Review: I watched this movie at night, all by myself, with headphones on. The amazing thing about this movie is that it doesn't scare you with grotesque or gory images. Instead it tries to scare you psychologically, building up suspense, until the tension is suddenly increased by a jolt. This movie is about a family living on a farm. They are a family of 4, a father named Graham (played by Mel Gibson), his brother (played by Joaquin Phoenix), and his two children (Bo and Morgan). Life starts to change when strange events occur. Bo and Morgan notice strange crop circles on the farm. Is it pranksters or an unearthly thing? Graham's newly acquired atheism denounces the possibility of it being an influence of God. This movie is a really good one that doesn't have any smut or really objectional material. It's entertaining by being suspenseful. The only reason it's PG-13 is because of a few profanities (and a few frightening moments). This movie has a really good way of scaring you. It scares you indirectly, by making you try to predict what's going to happen. It's also an emotional movie. At the end, I couldn't help fight tears because of it. That's really rare for a movie to make my eyes water.
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Summary: Major Dissapointment
Review: What started out to be a great edge-of-your-seat thriller turned into a ridiculous and almost laughable plot. The previews were deceptive, this is not what it seems. Signs is a "alien attack" B movie in disguise.
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Summary: waste of money
Review: This was a hash of the sort you'd see when a dump-truck unloads at the recycle factory. Certainly the lack of plot was the big feature, followed closely by total lack of connection for the limp noodle chain that was supposed to pass for one. M. Night Shaymalan had three stories to give some flesh to, but couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with "Fat-Man" for even one. We have a cleric who "lost his faith" after the death of his wife, an alien invasion, and crop-circles; -- 1-2-3,3-2-1,3-1-2,2-3-1, etc., ever puts this Humpty together. Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of Earth's dust-mote status in the vastness of the universe knows full well that our planet is far from being a desirable target for aliens to attack, and to suggest that crop circles are some sort of "landing-lights" for alien crafts is simply puerile fantasy. As much as we'd like to think we are special, this movie never corrected our arrogant train of thought. Hel-LOW, folks! Give me intelligent Sci-Fi ala "Contact", the "Alien" series or give me death. Somehow, I don't think Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Carl Sagan or Rod Serling will be one whit disturbed by this weak-sister effort by Mr. Shaymalan. How about dialog swimming in muck? You have it here too. Facial expressions from "actors"? Madame Tussaud would hire them on the spot for her wax museum, were she not already dead. This turkey hit the #1 spot on my Worst of 2002 list...
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Summary: Signs- Nothing is Coincidence.
Review: I thought Signs was a very thought out movie. I thought it was done well but the ending was different than what you would expect. Mel Gibson does an excellent job in this movie along with the other cast members. When you first see it, you don't know what to expect. Throughout the movie, it keeps you guessing. Close to the end, you think it is all over. The look of the alien was sort of cheesy, but the story turns out not being about aliens. It's about God and his wierd ways of doing things. It is a movie that really makes you think. Not about aliens, but about ourselves and how we live. We often think if something bad happens, God just did it for no reason. But it's not that way, nothing is coincidence. The extra feautures are what is expected from any director, but one special feature was the movie that M. Night Shaymalan made called "Pictures". It was kind of cool seeing his first alien movie. It probably wouldn't have been a hit, but you know, everybody's got to start somewhere. I would suggest this movie to anyone who likes suspense movies or movies that make you think. It was well thought out and I thought it was a very good movie.
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Summary: Absolutely Spectacular!!!
Review: I had heard how wonderful this movie was - and was even a little reluctant to watch it. I WAS AMAZED! From the beginning to the end, the suspense was amazing! Spectacular. Personally, I believe it was MUCH BETTER than The 6th Sense (which just left me wanting more). A satisfying movie. It was visually appealing, it had a real story line, it has a beginning, climax, and resolution... something a lot of movies these days are missing. DEFINITELY two thumbs up!!!
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Summary: WOW!!!!!!!!
Review: Ok, I'll admit it, I usually don't like watching horror flicks. They freak me out. I only rented this movie because my friends said that it was good. But I ended up loving it!! I watched it late at night, and when I went to bed I kept seeing aliens everywhere and had to keep a nightlight on, and I'm 16!! The weird thing is that I just had to watch it again the next day. The acting by Mel Gibson is splendid, and Joaquin is just so cute! I think that I am going to have to by this movie and watch it once a week. It's playing at the maxisaver where I live, and I want to see it there to get the movie theater experience of it. Rent it! You'll love it or you'll hate it, but it will probably be the former!!!
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Summary: Another hostile alien movie
Review: I was thoroughly prepared to love this film, what with all the hype about it being a big hit over the summer, and was totally disappointed to find another philosophically incoherent bad alien flick which attempts to masquerade as something only the truly "deep" can understand. The scene where Joaquin Phoenix (fabulous in "The Gladiator" and wasted here) beats up a dimly-focused extraterrestrial with a baseball bat is truly tasteless, but I get the impression I was supposed to be moved by the fact that he did so using his beloved bat from the minor leagues. I felt cheated and violated for about two days after seeing this movie.
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Summary: Been there, done that.
Review: This movie is slow, static and shallow. Overall: MEDIOCRE.
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Summary: Love Shamaylan's films and his sense of humor...
Review: I see there is an ongoing argument concerning this film. I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed it, and highly recommend it as an enjoyable film. This one had significantly less philosophy behind it as seen in The Sixth Sense, which was magnificent. But my husband and I enjoyed the subplot concerning the loss of the farmer's wife in such a traumatic way, and her final comments to her devastated husband. Her loss triggers his own doubt of God's presence in our lives. But everything she told her husband (Gibson) at the end and in flashbacks, had a meaning which he could not see until the he experiences the signs in his cornfield and the following events involving his remaining family. The director takes it for granted that viewers will know something concerning the rash of 'signs' created in a variety of places growing corn stalks. That may be a bit of a problem for someone coming into the movie with no knowledge of the connection originally made with these occurences...that extraterrestials made them, and not human beings with too much time on their hands. Gibson...well, what can you say. He surprised me again. He's known to be such a practical joker and so many of his films have been humorous, or he injects his own sense of humor and his ability to see life from different points of view (even a childlike faith that is damaged and then mended). When I watch him in a film now, I always expect him to be a certain type of character, but I never expected him in something as serious as this particular character or as a minister. Phoenix, as Gibson's brother, who comes to be with him when he loses his wife, is absolutely great. So were the kids. I totally get the panicked awakening of Gibson when his young daughter stands at his bedside silently. My own kids have pulled that one on me. I also used to do it to my own parents, to make sure they were still there. There is more humor in this film, and it isn't as dark as his last film. There are a couple of parts in the film I'll always remember...first, where the two grownups run around the house screaming threats because they think punks are playing tricks on them. Then the picture of the two children with foil cones on their heads, with their uncle in between them, also wearing a foil cone. Just extremely funny, in an unfunny situation. So it's not deep...big deal. It's very entertaining, and the subplot about faith was more than worth the money and the time to watch it. Karen Sadler
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