Signs

[sexy-girl]

i watched this film the other night it was ok ... despite having some huge flaws

i thought the direction/cinematography was really excellent one of the best in recent hollywood style films ... i really like the feel of shyamalan's films i enjoyed sixth sense and unbreakable i heard signs wasn't that great so i wasn't expecting to much ... it did carry over the same feel as his previous films

but the acting was just awful every moment just felt like a square peg being pushed through a round hole ... mel gibson was terrible even for him ... joaquin phoenix faired no better but maybe slightly less false the woman who played the officer was probably the worst acting i've ever seen in a film

the only people that acted ok were the kids and shyamalan himself


i liked the idea of having something so grand and scary and weird as an alien invasion and only showing basically how one family was dealing with it but it just didn't make sense ... just when things were starting to get interesting and scary they decide to stop watching tv

the way when the aliens are trying to enter the house they just stand there without even trying to get a weapon or defend themselves (and defend the children) ... none of it felt realistic at all and if you're just focusing on one family they need to act like real people and well they didn't ... it also seemed to be saying the younger girl is psychic or something but it never either denies that or go's with it they just sort of forgot about it


i have mixed feelings about the film it could of been really fantastic the direction was great but ultimately the director has to be to blame for all the other faults ... its at best below average


lisa felt same as me really but i guess sometimes you watch a film at the wrong time or its just not for you and you can't help but see faults ... i wondered what other peoples views of it were ?

 

[modest mouse]

[hijack]

Did you get that DVD player you wanted for Xmas?

You should think about taking part in any future film review threads. You've got a good eye for film.

[/hijack]

 

[sexy-girl]

yes i did lisa actually bought one before christmas as an early present to the family


thank you mouse i have to expand my dvd collection though but i did get a few for christmas including my fav film of all time citizen kane


i read the unfaithful thread and it was interesting even though i hadn't seen the film ... i enjoy discussing films because everyone see's them so differently

 

[sexy-girl]

maybe i made the post too long ?

 

[lavender]

I haven't seen Signs yet.

Nice to see you sexy-girl.

 

[Guest]

Woof! Woof!

*runs after the stick*

 

[miles]

I give it two out of four stars. Didn't live up to its previews.

 

[sexy-girl]

I give it two out of four stars. Didn't live up to its previews.

thanks miles i give it about the same mark too it was doubley disapointing because i felt it could of been much better


its nice to see you too lavender

 

[SEX_VAMPYRE]

I liked SIGNS

Warning Spoilers.

I liked Signs with Mel Gibson. I saw it last summer when it came out in movie theaters. It was not overly graphic and seemed like a well paced melodrama. It was directed by M. Night Shyamalan whose trying regain his "Sixth Sense" streak.


There WERE major plot holes that I must mention.
If someone commits manslaughter with a vehicle ,even by accident,wouldn't there be jail time?

When Officer Paski (the sheriff) saw on the t.v that what was happening at Mel Gibson's farm was also happening all over the world, why didn't she notify the feds?

The biggest plot hole was,why would aliens come to a planet with 70% water if it was harmfull to them? The story doesnt explain it. Wouldn't an invading alien race with superior technology be able to protect themselves from water? That would be the same as a human astronaut landing on Mars without a space suit.That part was obviously taken from H.G Wells War of The Worlds.The plot could have been tightened up just a bit.

I did overhear a few people in the movie theater who hated it.The two friends that saw it with me wanted more action.

 

[Lost Cause]

Maybe....

They were trying to give it tension ala, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" You know if it was real life situation, lil' alien perp would be breathing through a 12 Gauge hole between it's legs and head!

 

[capricious_chic]

Thus far, I really haven't been enchanted with any of his movies.

The sixth sense, Unbreakable, and Signs were all much too predictable.

I watched The sixth sense with my best friend, and she got irritated with me because I needed to go to the bathroom and was going to miss the end.. I said, "What's the big deal anyway, so the guy is dead right"?

His style is cool, but the stories suck.

 

[scylis]

[Bwhen things were starting to get interesting and scary they decide to stop watching tv

the way when the aliens are trying to enter the house they just stand there without even trying to get a weapon or defend themselves (and defend the children) ... [/B]

having grown up in the Midwest (of the US), the first bit isn't really that big of a mystery to me. there's somewhat of a feeling of disassociation from what's happening in the rest of the world or even the rest of the country in most small towns and farming communities i'm familiar with. history plays itself out on the TV, and if we don't like it, we just turn it off and pretend it's not going to affect us if we don't watch it.

as for the no weapon thing, did it ever show a rifle or shotgun or anything in the house before the invasion thing? (the question is an honest one, as i havn't bothered to see the movie)

 

[horny_giraffe]

I liked Signs. Personally, I thought of it as an allegory about miracles vs. coincidence. Was it an odd coincidence of his wife's dying words saving his family--or was it a miracle?

The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the fact. Even if he admits it, he admits it as a fact of nature till then unrecognised by him. Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also. The Apostle Thomas said that he would not believe till he saw, but when he did see he said, “My Lord and my God!” Was it the miracle forced him to believe? Most likely not, but he believed solely because he desired to believe and possibly he fully believed in his secret heart even when he said, “I do not believe till I see.”
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky.

I also liked Sixth Sense largely for the fantasy. Not really a thinker, there. Unbreakable was similar to Signs in that it was really about the malleability of one's reading of events.

 

[candlelight]

My boys usually need a lot of action, blood & gore to keep their attention so I was hesitant when they told me they really loved Signs. I was surprised to find it a little slow, though in parts the suspense kept me on the edge of the couch.