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I just saw this and I must say I liked it a lot! Very very creepy. I wasn't expecting much from the previews but once i found out it was about more than crop circles, i started to really get into it. This was also the first time I really noticed good directional (DTS surround) sound in a theater. The scenes in the cornfields are a perfect example. Anyone else seen it yet? whatdidya think? |
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Saw it with my girlfriend and loved it! Definitely the corn field scenes were great--they really put you into the film! |
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Damn good creepy movie...... not to give anything away but that one scene with the kids looking out the window in Brazil .... on tv... holy shit that was nuts. The score was GREAT.... and the effects with the surround sound was AWESOME.... I really enjoyed it |
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you all say you like it? well have not seen it myself but isnt mel gibson a little bit off the track? hes getting oldd and ive never liked him as an actor. |
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me and my boyfriend really liked this movie. i was glad he was there for me to hold on to, cos lemmie tell you there were some TENSE moments. =0) i thought bother joaquin phoenix's and mel gibson's preformances were excellent. i think as mel has aged he's become a BETTER actor. he's still a HOTTIE!! their preformances were what i'd call quiet....and it was just the purrfect tone for this movie. the two little kids were great too, the lil girl was such a cutie! XLR....do a search on 'signs' there were a few other threads about this movie a few weeks ago, if you wanna see what others thought. |
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I think the best part about Signs was that there were really only 6 people in the cast. The inside-the-family feeling was very well-done. However, the whole religious theme (and eventual outcome) was totally sellout. Yay, catholicism. And why the hell did the director, who is dark/Arab-looking/Indian, play the only real "bad" character? I think M. Night Shaymalan (sp?) has a lot of talent but needs to get away from directing movies with the same formula (Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs). ALL YOUNG DIRECTORS, GET OUT OF HOLLYWOOD! before it implodes. |
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I REALLY HATE MEL GIBSON So I suppose I ain´t gonna see the movie... |
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yeah, I hate Mel Gibson, too--but he's managable in this one. |
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that avatar of yours is kinda JANDish, if ya know what i mean. |
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Ok I just came back from the movie.. I didnt dislike it..infact there was quite a bit that I enjoyed about....but not what everybody else did... I enjoyed the droll sense of humour and the subtlety of the whole thing..I agree the kids were great actor as was Joaquin Phoenix..Mel Gibson was a bit stiff..but then as an ex preacher he was meant to be.. now what I didnt like about the movie ws plenty as well..let's just say that I am getting tired of M.Night Shalaymans style..he deals in the equivalent of negative space in a painting, in inaction and things that may go bump in the night but never make it on to the screen... It's a style more suited to the low budget arthouse and stage...I mean he has got intellectual, high art ambitions but just doesnt have the depth or the definition or attention to detail to pull it through... In the Sixth Sense it was a refreshing departure but the big explosive hyper kinetic CGI laden horror fare that hollywood dishes out.. On Unbreakable while he mastered the suspense and stretched the long eerie silence to the breaking point but the reward for putting up with the piano wire tension was ridiculous, childish and totally anti climactic.. he fared better with that this time..like I mentioned the addition of self deprecating humour to his mileau was refreshing..a lot of the scenes involving interaction between the children and the Uncle were geniunly funny..the tension and suspense was built up with a deft delicate hand...but the ending was the worst part of the movie..(spoilers here)..hitting and subduing the alien with a baseball was the most ridiculous patriotic allegory ever..might as well have been beating the alien to death with an apple pie... resisting succumbing to the Hollywood norms..( a family up in arms kicking and screaming right to end and blowing up hordes of aliens with a conveniently stashed arms dump..would have been an average Hollywood hack's resolution)..to end up with a scene like that was my anti-climax...a better ending in my opinion wou |
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gets me everytime...... |
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would have been showing an aftermath of the cataclysm with an alien body or two strewn about..ala many Twiligh Zone episodes that this film was so obvioulsy inspired by..inaction taken to it's logical conclusion would have been far more satisfying. |
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am i the only person who thought 'the sixth sense' was brilliant, scary and clever, while 'unbreakable' was a load of meandering, pointless, made-up-as-they-go-along crap? |
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flea....thanks for sharing your thoughts on ze movie. the director is still young and i think there's so much great stuff to come from him i'm really looking forward to it. i read he gave up directing/writing the 4th indiana jones to do 'signs' that shows that he's not out to suck up to the BIG doods of hollywood. i was impressed. as i'm sure the people he turned down were!! |
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Anyone catch the Newsweek with M. Night on the cover. Very well written article on him. |
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That movie is amazing, I just saw it, and it moved me to tears several times (I'm a manly man). It's just my worst nightmare and my dream, fucking scared the bejeezus out of me but I want it to really happen. |
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that seems so fucking horrible i mean take only the advertising posters with the circles into the oceans right thats so un creative as always Mr M. Shamalan or wathever he calls himself ill call him the love symbol of strange movies he completely definitly sucks |
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4 me signs and sixth sense (sic) andunbreakable (thats definitly the worse but not far away from the others) are pieces of crap watch old sci fi films stuff per pitty |
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Unbreakable, I have that on CD-R, I should watch it soon... Sixth Sense didn't impress me that much. But THIS one did, it really hit a nerve. |
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the alien talking sounded like autechre i was thinking that when i heard it, and then when the movie was over my mom was like "the aliens sound like that wierd music you listen to" hehehe |
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I had a great time going to see this in the cinema - the vibe was awesome and the movie scared we witless - first time in years and years. Dunno if I would enjoy repeated viewings, the story was pretty derivative - but it was the most fun I've had watching a film for a good while. Fuck, the dog barking had me creeped out from the start! |
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lol but i cant go to theater to see bad american films i wished it will be that way and it will Society hit a nerve and dozens of great artistical films, that arent made in boringhood ! ;oY |
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what was so scary about the movie? |
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i have the unbreakable dvd....i got it free with some other dvd i purchased....ehhehe i really like samuel l jackson....so for me the movie was worth it FOR his preformance.....very weird and creepy in a strange way. it was a lil slow, but over all i wasn't bored and so i guess it's a semi-recommendation. if anyone wants to borrow the dvd....you can....tee hee =0) |
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hhmmm another thread about this totally crap movie that does definitely not deserve the positive critique it's getting. |
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What's so wrong with it, other than ''it's Hollywood''? |
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x-tomatic...gimme five ;oY unbreakable must be on my ever worsts movies seen's 10 list |
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not much persons here liking real good films hum? u just all eat the shit they give u... will it never stops????????????????? |
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Stop this elitist shit ... It is possible to enjoy both mainstream and independent film - to like "Happiness" and "The Godfather" at the same time. And what's wrong with liking a movie for the pure sake of entertainment? Rumble in the Bronx and The Matrix fall into that category. I haven't seen Signs, but hopefully you get the point. By the way, has anyone seen "Spirited Away" yet? |
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Exactalactaly. |
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it reminds me something... but in french must be another title godfather is great happiness is stupid Funnygames and Sitcom are great |
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here here whaley!!! i'm a film buff and i LOVE them all, silly movies like 'chopping mall' to serious films like 'schindlers list' i mean if something makes you laugh, think, feel good, feel bad, it's worth the small amount of time you took to watch it! there have been movies i have WALKED out of tho.....so don't get me wrong! 'spirited away' sounds famil.....short synopsis? |
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Spirited Away is Miyazaki's latest - he did "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Princess Mononoke." I think the basic plot is that a child's parents are accidentally trapped in a spirit world and she must rescue them. I want to go see it but my wife has some aversion to animated films ... so if you see some lonely guy in the back of the cinema, that might be me. |
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ahhhh yes.......i've heard of that then. i'm not a anime fan.....but i've heard such amazing things about princess mononoke so i may have to break down and check it OUT!!! thanks |
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i would rather eat my own flesh (and im a vegetarian) then to sit through a movie with mel gibson in it.. in the past when ive seen movies with him in them i just hope that the bad guy will kill him but he never does. most hollywood moves sucks bigtime so i almost never watch them. im quite amazed they can do such bad fucking movies with the budgets they have. a waste i tell you!! give it to the poor instead or something.. |
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Signs? Is that a joke or is it just another stupid movie from hollywood? |
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I bet if Darren Aronofsky directed it instead of M. Night Smahyalyalalanawhatshisname, everyone would love it. |
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am i the only person who thought 'the sixth sense' was brilliant, scary and clever, while 'unbreakable' was a load of meandering, pointless, made-up-as-they-go-along crap? I think its the reverse of what you said, unbreakable was definately better than sixth sense. |
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I dislike mel gibson as well but i found the movie 'Signs' to be a pleasant surprise.. spooky, suspenseful, and semi-uplifting without being cornball. yeah, the end with the kid was a tad cliche/corny/whatever but looking past that, i found it quite good. i like rory culkin. i like all the culkins, they're still cool |
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i was talking on the phone today with my parents. as you guys may or may not know, i lived in italy for highschool. it was great. i went to an american highschool there anyways... what this has to do with the topic is: mel gibson is in italy for a year shooting some movie... so 2 of his kids are goin to my old highschool. ones in highschool, and the other is in elementry i think... yeah just some odd info. |
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i fucking loved this movie! when you could see the aliens reflection in the tv... weeee! it was so good. my gf hated it. |
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i was disappointed. it wasn't at all what i expected it to be. i just didn't care about the family and such... |
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zeus> you know that the only right thing to do is to kidnap them and hold them for ransom. kill one of them and send gibson the head and/or genitals. make gibson him sign a deal preventing him form EVER doning any more movies or appear on tv, magazines, radio.. |
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MYASAKKIIIII in french that's Chihiro's journey !!! Myasaki is a human-god from personnal opinion |
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spirited away is as good even better(difficult to say)than princess mononoke |
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glass_eater> why do you almost always post two short messages after each other instead of just posting one? trying to keep your addict status or what..? |
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trying to put everything i think about... but my memory sucks i forget everything...even aphex cds... so... and i speak french actually dont forget that i speak english quite fluently, but sometimes they are bugs ! and... as if u had read all my past messages !!! real fun Oo. ;oY |
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well, ive seen it alot from you. its not that big a problem its just annoying with threads filling up with 1-2 line messages IMO. im just being such a bitch today :) |
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i see that little angry cartoon birdy ! i wish i'd still have my freddy krueger avatar !!! Oo. ;oY |
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I can enjoy "hollywood" movies as much as I can "independent" movies, however, both require a solid plot and at least the slightest bit of logic and intelligence, and sadly "signs" is lacking severely on both parts |
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