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Signs ***spoilers!***

 
  

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The Return Of Rothkoid
20:52 / 06.02.03
People... people who see dead... people... are the luckiest people...

Thankyouverymuch. Yerthebest.
 
 
Foust is SO authentic
14:32 / 07.02.03
I thought Signs was the best movie of 2002. I laughed, I shuddering, I cried. What more can I ask for?
 
 
that
14:48 / 07.02.03
Are you serious? Signs and Reign of Fire (I managed 15 minutes of that, a record unequalled since The Hand That Rocks The Cradle - I've seen more compelling made-for-TV movies) are the two worst major(ish)films of 2002, without a doubt. Signs is even worse than the bloody series Taken, for crying out loud.
 
 
Bear
15:25 / 07.02.03
I'm going to have to rent this out, I remember liking it but your starting to give me doubts Cholister

I liked the opening titles though, very Hitchcock.
 
 
that
18:30 / 07.02.03
Sorry bear... I realise some people like this film, and though I can't fathom that at all, I accept it, obviously - hell, I liked 'Unbreakable', and that's definitely a minority taste, on this board at least. So there's not much I can say, really...
 
 
The Natural Way
12:29 / 21.08.03
I watched this again the other day just to make sure...

And it's still terrible.

I just don't get it, guys:

the characters and plot are flat and lame

the exposition and foreshadowing is so thick and clumsy you could scrape it up with a trowel

the water and "Swing, Meryl!" stuff is just fucking laughable and, well, deeply fucking unsatisfying

And that crap about signs and coincidences: sheeeeeeeit

God, I really don't understand this..... And that "An M Night Shyamalan" film business: Uuurgh. It's so, umm, vain. As though we're all sitting there thinking "Oh, yes, another powerful, worthy piece of cinema from the new auteur!"

His whole *authorship*/"This is my DISTINCTIVE voice!" deal really fucks me off.

I wish Boboss or someone would turn up and kick the shit out of this film, too. All the other haterz I know are so much more eloquent than me.
 
 
The Natural Way
12:34 / 21.08.03
And I can't stand the whole *portentous* vibe that abounds in Shyamlan's movies. Something he absolutely FAILS to deliver on.....
 
 
The Falcon
15:21 / 27.08.03
I watched this a month or so ago with two 7-year old twins, who declared it 'shite'.

They were not wrong.
 
 
Lurid Archive
19:55 / 27.08.03
I really like sixth sense and I absolutely loved unbreakable. But I was disappointed by Signs. I don't really mind the plot holes as they are often excusable in an otherwise good film, but this film never took off for me. I didn't care about the characters and I found the whole thing about faith unconvincing. Perhaps it was Mel Gibson, whose performance constantly jarred with me.

I don't think it was terrible, just not nearly as good as his previous efforts.
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:31 / 27.08.03
He went from Unbreakable to Unwatchable.
 
  

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