Signs

[dennisbench]

I don't know if anyone saw this movie, but I just finished watching it in complete darkness(except the tv of course), and wow my heart is just now getting back to its normal state. I have really enjoyed all three of Shamalyn's(sp?) movies, but I think this was by far the best. Whew!!

[mike]

I haven't seen it. Mrs Mike doesn't like those kind of movies, so I have to see them with friends, or watch them while she's in a different room. I do want to see it, so thanks for the review!
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[plummer150]

That movie is great, not as great as The Ring though. Definitly check that movie out when it comes out on dvd. Can anyone guess where Signs was filmed by the way?........Yup, thats right, none other than....Pennsylvania! Yeah!
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[cakewalk]

I was actually dissapointed with Signs. After all the hype, I thought it was going to be more scientific, kinda like Contact was. I will admit, however, it did have its moments.

The ring didnt hold my attention for more than the first 10 minutes, it sits in a pile with thte rest of downloaded movies.

[ck1]

[dennisbench]

cakewalk, I also loved the movie contact. What I love about Shamalyn's movies is the way he ties everything together. Also in Signs, he basically made a great movie, imo, without much there. I mean that there really wasn't much to the movie prop wise or special effect wise for the most part, and it took place mainly on the that one farm. Yet he was able to create a great story with a great message, as ck1 said, thats the type of thing he did with 6th sense & unbreakable.

[Daddee]

I was actually very disappointed in "Signs" - you're trying to tell me that a creature that can hold a medium sized boy with one arm, who can jump onto the roof of a house without any effort, who are essentially a "hunter-killer" species - is somehow foiled by a locked door? They weren't strong enough to kick it down? From a pantry no less? Their excellent "problem solving" ability couldn't tell them to just go get something bigger to bash the door in with?

And a species that is affected adversely by water - aren't humans made of over 80% water - but they still want us dead, for what? food? They can't touch water but they can ingest it? Isn't our whole planet 3/4 water? Doesn't something like 3/4 of the world's population live in costal cities? Wouldn't this seriously affect their ability to "harvest" us? If there were no crop circles near water - doesn't that REALLY affect their ability to harvest us? How close? close enough that a local resivoir counts - but ocean's don't?

Sorry - there were just a few too many things that stretched credulity that I just couldn't take it. It had a good premise - and some decent spooky moments - but after about half way through it just got too silly for me.
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[dennisbench]

I see your points daddee, I don't know if you saw his other two movies, neither are really "believable" in the sense that they could happen, in my opinion. I think it really comes down to suspension of disbelief, which I think is required in almost every movie made. I too find myself analyzing parts of some movies, and I don't seem to enjoy the movies where I end up doing it.
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[Daddee]

I really enjoyed "6th Sense" - although it didn't strike me as "real" by any stretch, at least the premise was consistent and it held the movie together very well. None of the characters went outside the bounds of the rules that were set forth in the movie. While I don't believe for a moment that there are dead people with the marks of their fatal injury floating around, and I just can't see them, the movie MADE it believable. And the twist at the end TOTALLY threw me - but made it much more interesting to watch a second time.

I'm perfectly willing to suspend belief if it progresses the movie along - but the problems I had with "Signs" were of a differnt sort - he sets up certain parameters, and then disregards them later on. That is what I have a problem with - or he gives counter-productive traits to some aspects of the movie. All I ask for is a little consistency.
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- Abraham Lincoln

[evenstar]

I was also somewhat disappointed in Signs. Best movie of this genre I've ever seen was the original "The Thing" with James Arness, from Gunsmoke, as the Thing. Saw that as a teenager, so probably way, way, way (Oops! Don't wanna get TOO many "Way"s in there!) before you youngsters' time. Scared the living hell outta me!
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[Daddee]

Oh, no - the Thing (both the original and the remake of the late 70s) were two of the best "alien horror" movies of all time. I had nightmares after seeing it for proabaly 2 years.
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- Louis XIV

"...haven't you lived long enough to know that two men may honestly differ about a question and both be right?"
- Abraham Lincoln

[srlatty]

I was thinking silent movies
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