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Signs!
Jun 11, 2005 12:07:28 GMT -5
Post by Julian on Jun 11, 2005 12:07:28 GMT -5
Once again M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable) dishes up an almost thriller carefully engineered to key the audience for a final twist. And once again he uses camera tricks--like distorting wide angles for medium shots--to create a weird, slightly off-kilter world. Mel Gibson plays a minister who's left the church after his wife has been killed. Now crop circles and creepy night visitors are disrupting his quiet farmer life. Are UFOs hovering overhead? Is God testing him? Can any contemporary filmmaker get away with the obvious symbolism of a minister who's lost his faith facing the ultimate test of it? Borrowing heavily from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Shyamalan tries to lighten his trademark gloomy tone--and almost kills the suspense he's working so hard to achieve. Individual sequences generate an eerie tension that's always deflated, creating a jarring stop-and-go rhythm, and the atmospheric trickery never strays beyond a lot of smoke and mirrors.
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Jun 19, 2005 21:34:26 GMT -5
Post by Calenfalathiel on Jun 19, 2005 21:34:26 GMT -5
I didn't really like this movie...most alien movies tend to not be scary
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Jun 21, 2005 11:08:52 GMT -5
Post by Absolute Dan on Jun 21, 2005 11:08:52 GMT -5
I really enjoyed this movie. It wasn't that scary and the ending was a bit weak but it was still highly entertaining.
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Asli Notaree
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Jun 21, 2005 20:13:31 GMT -5
Post by Asli Notaree on Jun 21, 2005 20:13:31 GMT -5
This movie gave me kind of a weird feeling I've never felt before. And nothing has given me that feeling since. It was kind of a mixture of happiness and the deepest sadness you could imagine. It really doesn't make sense. I loved that movie....
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Jun 26, 2005 13:33:14 GMT -5
Post by ben on Jun 26, 2005 13:33:14 GMT -5
I don't like this film very much. Like someone has said earlier, its not very scary. Although when you here those dogs die at the end its quite sad
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Jun 26, 2005 13:48:08 GMT -5
Post by Ember on Jun 26, 2005 13:48:08 GMT -5
I don't like this film very much. Like someone has said earlier, its not very scary. Although when you here those dogs die at the end its quite sad That's exactly how I felt about it. Poor dogs.
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Jun 26, 2005 13:57:17 GMT -5
Post by Favorite15 on Jun 26, 2005 13:57:17 GMT -5
The best part of the movie, for me, is when Mel cuts off the fingertips of an alien reaching under the door...
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Jun 27, 2005 1:05:57 GMT -5
Post by Ember on Jun 27, 2005 1:05:57 GMT -5
lol that part was pretty good. I would have done the same thing.
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Mara
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Mar 20, 2007 15:18:18 GMT -5
Post by Mara on Mar 20, 2007 15:18:18 GMT -5
Ahh, I loved Signs.
Yes, it was a little predictable, but it was a lot more surprising, in my mind, than some of the alien/suspense/thrillers out there. I thought it was highly imaginative. Shyamalan is a master.
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Mar 20, 2007 15:56:40 GMT -5
Post by xkamelx on Mar 20, 2007 15:56:40 GMT -5
Ahh, I loved Signs. Yes, it was a little predictable, but it was a lot more surprising, in my mind, than some of the alien/suspense/thrillers out there. I thought it was highly imaginative. Shyamalan is a master. I agree with that, this movie was very suspenseful and told a good story.
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Mara
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Mar 20, 2007 16:30:35 GMT -5
Post by Mara on Mar 20, 2007 16:30:35 GMT -5
Yeah, I liked how the aliens and the invasion was only a backdrop to the real point of the story: struggling with things in the past and with faith.
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Mar 23, 2007 1:47:04 GMT -5
Post by Dillson on Mar 23, 2007 1:47:04 GMT -5
The tension and suspense in this film held up better than most films of this ilk because of Shyamalan's restraint. One of man's greatest fear is that of the unknown, and we see precious little of the creatures that take up much of the focus of the film. Another good example of Shyamalan using his protagonists sparingly is in The Village. I suppose when we did first get a glimpse of the aliens it was a bit of an anti climax, but it's about the journey reaching up to that point not about what happens when we reach it. And yes, it was predictable, but again it's about the suspense and the build up. It's the same with The Village.
I've only seen the film once; I'm sure if I watched it a second time it wouldn't be nearly as tense because there is no 'unknown' anymore.
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Mara
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Mar 23, 2007 14:53:59 GMT -5
Post by Mara on Mar 23, 2007 14:53:59 GMT -5
Yeah, I agree.. it's a lot more about the individual journeys of the characters themselves and not about invasion, ultimately.
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Mar 23, 2007 15:19:30 GMT -5
Post by Dillson on Mar 23, 2007 15:19:30 GMT -5
I like the fact that the actual invasion is pretty much completely left to us to speculate about, instead of shoving it down our throats like ... I dunno, Independence Day (completely different kind of film, but I couldn't think of anything else). It makes it far more eerie and it means it keeps us guessing right until the end. And, as Mara said, it gives more room for character development.
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Mar 23, 2007 16:02:10 GMT -5
Post by Mara on Mar 23, 2007 16:02:10 GMT -5
Yeah, during the invasion part, it focuses on the characters in the basement... we don't actually get to see what the aliens are doing on the outside.
And, to me, it seemed that we didn't even know if they were evil or not.. not until one of them takes the boy.
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