Signs

[OldBloke]

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  

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

[smilodon]

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  

[Stryker]

I found it was independence day from the point of view of some country hick.  Fun to see.

[Dr Sadako]

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:

[Stryker]

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?  

[Dr Sadako]

Originally 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?  

:worship:

[Cadaver]

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

[smilodon]

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: