"Signs" - Movie Review

I was VERY DISAPPOINTED

1. The movies is INCREDIBLE MISTITLED . . . not unlike CYBORG with Jean Claude Van Damme. . . at best it was mis marketed

2. If you replace the aliens with terrorist using mustard gas . . . with an american invasion .. . .the movie would have been the same.

Alot was not adequately explained. . . .This IMO is Night's 1st flop. It is an ok movie. . . but i guess i hold him to a higher standard . . . this is no where near as good as unbreakable or Sixth Sense


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How is it mistitled? What did you expect the movie to be about? The story of a bunch of guys running around with plywood and ropes making crop circles?

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I'm assuming you are saying a creative flop, because this movie made twice as much as sixth sense did in its first weekend and abou 60% more than Unbreakable.

 

Now here's why:

Basically, as a movie, it was good. I loved how the glasses of water came into play (how did she know that).

BUT, being a sci-fi fan, I'm waaaaaay over the idea that our first contact will be us defending ourselves. It just doesn't make sense these days. True, I loved ID4, but I love anything that unites the people of the world. But on a personal level, which this film is on, it encourages fear of the unknown.

Just my thoughts.

RR

 

Excellent movie. A must see. And probably the best movie of the year.

However, why go the whole movie without showing the alien and then suddenly show him at the end. If he doesn't show the alien. The movie lives beyond the ending. He could have stuck with the distorted TV image and it would have been much better.

Other than that, he hit the mark.

I don't think a lot needs to be explained either. The story is about the family. Not the aliens.

 

Also, you could say the exploration of faith or not having faith was a little lean. They boiled it down to #1 and #2. A little weak in the dialogue. Contact did a much better job exploring the same type of subject matter. Creating a blurred line between the two.

 

I thought it was pretty good despite some of the predictability of it, especially the water. I also would rather have not seen the Aliens at all. The scene in Brazil they should have used a rip off of the famous Big Foot picture. Something that you could obviously tell was alien but not clear enough to see much. I also really liked how some of the scenes were shot. The TV in the closet was terrific. The reflection of the knife and the TV. The hands under the door and the sounds of them going around the house. This movie could have been pretty horrible but they pulled it off except for the ending.

 

yes creative flop [remember Sixth Sense came out of no where. . . this made money on his rep . . .but anyway]

SIGNS - they marketed it about the crop circles and the Aliens and to be honest. . . both had little to do with the movie . . . It set an expectation of more alien involvement IMO.

Like I said. . . you could have gotten the same drama replacing the aliens with an american invasion . . [ala red dawn]

So after watching this. . .what did the crop circles mean in the movie? What did the aliens want? Why did they come here? WHAT WERE THE MOTIVATIONS OF THE ALIENS???? They were simply a prop . . like the bat on the wall . . . that was disappointing.

This movie was about the same thing as CONTACT . . .faith! contact just did a MUCH better job of it.

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I am curious, now that I think about, but if you don't like water why would you harvest a human body that is like 98% water. Dehydrated Human jerkey perhaps. Who knows, but it seems like Humans would be somewhat toxic.

Actually, the aliens should wait until cloning blossoms. The yield would be much greater for the harvest.

They were lucky it wasn't raining . You know Seattle was pretty safe.

Anybody think the Arabs are going to let it go to their heads that they were the ones to figure out how to kill the Aliens.

 

basically . . .what was the alien's motivations .. . and i thought it was the Indians [country not native americans] did.

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are Indians considered Arabian?

 

I don't know how people reacted at your showing, but I dont people would have been jumping out of their seats and screaming like hell when they showed that Brazilian footatage if an American walked by...

 

Really good movie...until the ending, which was OK, but it seemed, well, I don't know...

DISCLAIMER: partial spoiler except for the fact that everyone else has already spoiled it

...you have the whole alien set-up thing, done fairly well, all to prove a point about "there are no accidents" and faith?

Still, I'd recommend it (mostly) because I liked the humor, the tension, and the humanity. Joaquin Phoenix is excellent as always ("I'm vexed...I'm very very vexed") but Mel Gibson does one hell of a job. WHo knew Sgt. Riggs could really act?

 

I could have heard it wrong. It might not have been the Arabs, but I think it was.

 

***SPOILER***





I thought the whole movie was worth it just for Night's parting shot as he is driving away. "Oh, and don't open my cupboard. I saw one of them in there so I locked him in." Awesome.

 

That was a pretty good line hydra. Probably my favorite part too. There were some great images and some great lines delivered. This guy knows how to tell a story. He definately has a Dickens/Hitchcock style to his work. Often throwing two characters together who are completely different (dickens) and then Scaring the crap out of my dates (Hitchcock).

 

I just saw "Signs" today and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I loved the whole feel of the movie. It really made me think about what we would be like if an alien invasion was on the way. I loved the newscasts and "Brazil footage".

The only thing I didn't like was the very last scene. I'm not a religious person, and frankly, I would have enjoyed the film a bit more had Mel remained an athiest. But that's just me.

I highly recommend this movie.

It's nice to see a movie where not one gunshot is fired.

 

I thought it was very good. As said here, a little slow, and personally I thought some of the acting could have been better (although it was not by any means bad - Joaquin Phoenix was especially good, but Mel wasn't his usual explosive self, still not bad though). I was pleased with the puzzle ending, as I was with his previous movies (I for one didn't put it all together in the first frame this time...).

I appreciate the suspense/humor approach to the whole alien invasion thingy. Nice change. There can only be so many Independence Day redux's before everyone gets bored with them...

I'd personally like to see more flicks along the vein of Signs and Unbreakable (which I personally thought was a really good superhero take). Night's stuff may all have the same feel to it, but it is refreshing to see suspense take precedence over effects.

The only complaint I'd have about the movie is the apparent stupidity of the aliens. I mean, c'mon - a spacefaring race decides to attack a more primitive one using hand-to-hand combat? Sure, it had to be that way for the ending to work, but... The aliens sure didn't think through the invasion very well.

 

OK movie 7.5 out of 10.
Ending just sucked.

Sound was great and scary, I think Mel Gibson talent was wasted in this movie, this was an easy part for him.

The directors should have gotten somebody else decent to do the part and made the ending better. And the movie could have been a 8.5 out of 10.

 

Questions: 1. how did that alien get out of the Pantry? 2. how did it know where Mel Lived? I don't remember the alien looking under the door either. . . . so how did it recognise ole Mel as the one who chopped his fingers?

The aliens were quite stupid and inferior. . . I wanted to know how the d*mn aliens were defeated. [Probably just turned on the sprinkler systems in the corn fields]


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