I read some reviews before watching this film and it appeared that people who had seen the film either loved or loathed it.
To be frank I was always going to watch this film. After all it's got crop circles and aliens in it :D
So did I enjoy it? Yep. Sure did.
Yeah there's lots of dodgy science in it and the casting (Mel Gibson excepted) is off but in the end it's a clever film that has got some excellent humour and some truly scary moments (I'm easily spooked tho).
I read somewhere that it makes better watching on a TV than a cinema trip and I'd go along with that.
8/10
I can confirm the loved it or loathed it reference....for as Oldie loved it, so I loathed it.
Mr. Shyamalan's career seems to be following a downward spiral, in as much as it started with a truimph (The Sixth Sense) went down to reasonable (Unbreakable) and then went down the toilet (Signs).
Still it's all just personal opinion :)
I found it was independence day from the point of view of some country hick. Fun to see.
Signs ... gah ... you should have seen the signs. I was really disappointed after watching this movie. What a POS.
I know that logic shouldn't be mixed with SF but here it is unavoidable.
1. There are aliens that can jump 6-8 meters up in the air with ease and not being able to knock down a crap cellar door.
2. Aliens don't react well to water. Hmm how do you get by the humidity of air? Most of the time it is 50% and more ...
Sigh .... "thank you for pressing the self destruct button" :frusty:
1) That crap cellar door was damp
2) The air humidity was probably more of an irritant IE caused a nasty rash
There u go anything else prof duldrum? :P
QuoteOriginally posted by Stryker@Sep 4 2003, 01:41 PM
1) That crap cellar door was damp
2) The air humidity was probably more of an irritant IE caused a nasty rash
There u go anything else prof duldrum? :P
:worship:
First half hour was promising - then went rapidly downhill from there.
I don't know where Shyamalan was going with this one. Either he wanted to make an alien invasion movie, or he wanted to make a movie about what happens when a religious man loses his faith. In mixing them up he missed the mark on both counts.
Pants... :thumbsdown:
And the science was crap as well. How come a technologically advanced alien species, who can design craft capable of interstellar travel, forget to wear protective suits when entering a potentially fatal environment? Us humans have had raincoats for years :D
Hmmmmm so as an alien for whome water is fatal why not invade a planet that's 70% water, that has water in every home, fire hydrants on every street corner, swimming pools in half the homes in the US and then attack people who are 70% MADE of water!
Plus we already kicked the crap out of real bad-ass aliens on July 4th a few years back, so these news ones should have known that we were indeed not a species with whome one should Fu.....err TANGO :)
Seriously while I agree the first half of the film was gripping, it really needed a killer ending but just fizzled out. His wifes dieing words inspiring him to get his brother to beat crap out of the alien with a baseball bat. "Keep Swinging" was it? His son being asmatic so closed lungs save him from alien gas or something, his daugher having an insane water fixation............ please.
I've seen a few contrived plots in my time but this was a belter.
The bit where they see the film of the alien at the childs party was riveting, and I would imagine that events would unfold in real life much like they did in the film.
3/10
Although the crop circle references were crap, as everyone knows it's my brothers best friend who does most of them.....err I've said too much I fear. :blink: