Signs was sooooo bad

[Anonymous User]

That was such a boring movie.  How could anyone watching that movie care about that family.  Besides catholics who call there reverends father?  I don't know of any....   What did the brother represent?  Missed opportunities?

[Chris K.]

Say Joey, was Mel Gibson playing it straight in SIGNS. I mean, in bad flicks like BRAVEHEART and THE PATRIOT he does his usual "I'm the good guy, everybody else is the bad guy" routine. Does he do that in SIGNS?

I haven't seen SIGNS yet. And if Gibson FINALLY plays a role where he is equal to everybody else, then I might go see SIGNS. If not, then I will watch Charles Band's PARASITE instead.

[Chadzilla]

Everybody I have talked liked it, haven't seen it yet myself but that should change this weekend...

the local critics were pretty evenly devided between the "it's great" and the "it stinks!" side.

[jmc]

I didn't think it was a bad movie, but it was definitely a letdown.  Too much comedy, too few scares.  About halfway through I began to wonder if SIGNS was actually a comedy horror movie about aliens.   If they'd taken out about half of the comedic scenes, one-liners, etc., they might have had an effective horror/science fiction flick.

[koontzfan]

Signs was really good. Mr Shymalan has tackled ghosts (Sixth Sense), superheroes (Unbreakable), and now aliens (Signs), I'm eager to find out what he does next. If anything the movie is suspensful, but hey everyone's entitled to their own opinion. Think of Signs as War of the Worlds, or ID4 from one family's point of view. Effects were really good, and the director created a great backstory about the aliens. Check it out!!

[Susan]

The trailers are misleading , it's not supposed to be a scary movie about aliens. That's the subplot to a more complex storyling revolving around gibsons personal beliefs and relationships. The crop circles in the movie aren't the signs you're supposed to see - it's the one's in your everyday life. IT was sort of a metaphor..but I figured it would attract the wrong crowd looking for another 'independence day'. I think that's why people who saw it are so divided, there are those who got it and those who had other expectations of what they were going to see.

[jmc]

Oh I got that aspect of it, I just felt it wasn't worth the trip.  And he really needs to cut down on the comic dialogue and such....any time the movie started building up tension, something funny would happen and it would defuse everything.  

Still, I enjoyed it more than UNBREAKABLE [which I didn't hate, I just didn't think it really had anything original to say.]

[Susan]

I think signs is going to generate that, unfortunately once you come out with one of your first films as a huge hit (ie: Signs) it's really hard to follow up on that because everybody always goes on..conciously or subconciously with expectations. The trailers for me were misleading (as most trailers are) so i was actually suprised by how different the film was and that I enjoyed it. I agree with the comedy, i think they were trying to lighten it up a bit since it was heavy material or maybe show that life has it's odd funny moments.

Overall that military recruiter HAD TO GO. What the hell planet did they get that guy from? lol

[jmc]

That guy seemed more out of a David Lynch film.  

Actually, the movie might have been better had it been a family drama, and they had just left the aliens and the signs out of it.

[J.R.]

THere's a rumor making the rounds that Mel might play Jesus Christ. I thought I was the only one who pictured the Son Of Man as an Australian out for revenge.

[littlenemo]

Yea, alot of people will be going to this movie with the wrong expectations. This movie is a comedy drama with a lot of religion and an unimaginative alien threat, only because, what would threaten religions more then proof that we are not the center of the universe? The message i came away with was that there is a reason for all things good and bad, and there might even be a higher power that is directing our lives. All agnostics should see this film though they might find it a little scary...

[Lee]

LOL!!! Sounds cool to me!

[Chris K.]

J.R. wrote:
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> THere's a rumor making the rounds that Mel might play Jesus
> Christ.

Sorry, but I really think it's going to be a bad flick if Gibson plays Jesus Christ. He already tried pulling that off in BRAVEHEART in which when in the end William Wallace was gutted and yelled "Freedom" to make the character Christ-like (and, from what some historical sources I have heard, Wallace did not yell "Freedom" when he was gutted). You got to hand it to Mel and company, they can really turn out some bad crap.

I am still considering seeing SIGNS, but I will see it for the story and ignore Gibson's ability to not act well.

[Chadzilla]

Saw it on Saturday and it blew me away.  But I wish people would stop comparing Shyamalan to Spielberg.  There seem to be a lot of comparison's of M. Night Shyamalan to Steven Spielberg, and that is unfair and just plain wrong. Shyamalan is a far more mature and character focused filmmaker than the former whiz-bang wunderkid of seventies popcorn features could ever wish to be. The comparison's to Hitchcock are suitable, since Shyamalan shows the same mastery of subjective camera work that the Master of Suspense had. But one comparison not made is that to famed screenwriter Rod Serling. Not since The Twilight Zone has fantasy themes been used with such quiet power than in Shyamalan's building body of work.  Although there is a menacing alien invasion behind all those crop circles in Signs, the invasion actually is an important part in the main character's (beautifully underplayed by the usually comically manic Mel Gibson) crisis of faith. Gordon Hess, having become an atheist when his wife dies in a horrible car accident, finds his struggle complicated by a crop circle. As more and more circles spread and lights appear in the sky over major cities, it becomes apparent that some non-human force is massing for what might be an attack on Earth.  But elevates Signs above the average over-the-top effects laden summer popcorn thriller is its preoccupation with the very real emotional struggle of the lead character. As with The Exorcist, the paranormal is used as a tool in which to examine the mysteries of God's work and it is that that makes Signs something special. Highly recommended although some will no doubt dislike it.

As far as what the brother meant?  I guess that whole "Swingaway" thing just went past you (not surprising, more and more audience members are content to let the movie do the thinking, or lack thereof, for them - and I through myself into that group, more often than not it is easier just to not think and watch all the pretty colors and things going boom), as well as the true meaning of one child's asthma and the other's obssession with water.  All were a crucial part a much larger intelligent design, something Hess did not notice until the events were played out.

It was like a an old Twilight Zone episode, "A Passage for Trumpet".

[Hamburger Pimp]

When I left this movies, there was only one thing I could think of.  A bunch of people trapped in a farmhouse while scary creatures lurk outside, until they break in and chase our heroes to the basement?  "Night of the Living Dead," anyone?