Signs 2002- Director M Night

[kennermike]

I just watched this very underrated Sci Fi Invasion film had not seen it close to 10 years its very good forgot Joaquin Phoenix was in it

[mego73]

I love this movie. I wish M Night would get his mojo back for more movies like it. I thought Mel Gibson was great too (even after "the tapes").

[spamn]

I just recently found out that the little girl who played the youngest daughter in this went on to be the gal in 'Little Miss Sunshine' and the younger sister in 'Zombieland'. So she's three for three in awesome movies.

As for this movie, it started a lot of the Shaymalan backlash, but I think it's fantastic. Funny, with a great heart, and nice, minimalist scares and tension building. Great stuff. I live in hope M. Night can relearn/remember how to write and craft films as good again.

[Hector]

I agree with everything said in the following...

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=signs

[gummi]

I agree with everything said in the following...

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=signs

Darn, you beat me to it. I've always loved that review and it sums the movie up perfectly. To me, Signs marked the beginning of M. Night Shyamalan's nosedive.

[Nostalgiabuff]

I thought signs was his last good movie. everything after that was garbage.....especially the Village....although I will say I have not seen Last Airbender yet

[megoapesnut]

Signs is my second favorite M. Night flick after Unbreakable.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

This one bothered me. So.... Mel gets his faith back, and it ONLY COST THE LIVES OF 10,000 PEOPLE! Wow, what a great trade....

And the aliens were pretty wimpy. What kind of invader gets locked in a closet? Or taken down with a baseball bat. (Thus providing an important life reaffirming event for Mel's brother. *sigh*) "Invader Zim" maybe?

Don C.

[johnmiic]

I liked this and The Village but anyone who as seen Twilight Zone can see The Village was a little like the Episode A Hundred Yards Over the Rim with Cliff Roberston. Only he did away with the Time Travel aspect and made it a community that was isolated.

Signs was like War of the Worlds without the spaceships. I think I figured it out. I know this is lame but you know why the aliens were defeated by wooden doors? Wood is made from plants. What do plants need to grow? Water. That's why they couldn't defeat wood. Not glass, not metal-wood. Water was the answer! That's like copying the idea that our native microbes killed the Martians and springing it on the audience in the last 5 minutes of the film!

[ODBJBG]

Signs was incredible. One of the deepest, well written science fiction movies in decades. Not only was it a great homage to War of the Worlds, it used so much deep, thought provoking underlying story to rise above just an alien flick.

As for the aliens getting locked in a closet? So what? It's an alien. We don't know if it was a drone that doesn't have a high IQ and is bossed around by more intelligent aliens inside the space ships.

We don't even know if these aliens even understand the concept of doors. Ants don't use doors, either. They're still an incredibly advanced race in the insect world. We never saw their spaceship, so it's not entirely impossible that their craft doesn't have any form of doors. People like to think that aliens are just going to be little green men or completely humanoid, but in theory, aliens wouldn't understand a lot of things that we take for granted.

Unfortunately M. Night's reputation has went in the crapper (The Happening may be the worst movie I've ever seen) and somehow Signs has been dragged down with it. Everyone loved this movie when it came out. Now somehow, it sucks. Whatever. It still rocks.

[samurainoir]

How do folks think Signs compares to Spielberg's War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise?

[palitoy]

I liked the journey that Signs took me on rather than the destination, some wonderful suspense and great acting, it wasn't perfectly logical but I still enjoyed the film as a whole.

[kennermike]

Signs was incredible. One of the deepest, well written science fiction movies in decades. Not only was it a great homage to War of the Worlds, it used so much deep, thought provoking underlying story to rise above just an alien flick.

As for the aliens getting locked in a closet? So what? It's an alien. We don't know if it was a drone that doesn't have a high IQ and is bossed around by more intelligent aliens inside the space ships.

We don't even know if these aliens even understand the concept of doors. Ants don't use doors, either. They're still an incredibly advanced race in the insect world. We never saw their spaceship, so it's not entirely impossible that their craft doesn't have any form of doors. People like to think that aliens are just going to be little green men or completely humanoid, but in theory, aliens wouldn't understand a lot of things that we take for granted.

Unfortunately M. Night's reputation has went in the crapper (The Happening may be the worst movie I've ever seen) and somehow Signs has been dragged down with it. Everyone loved this movie when it came out. Now somehow, it sucks. Whatever. It still rocks.

I agree

[ctc]

>How do folks think Signs compares to Spielberg's War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise?

I didn't like either of them. They both looked good until you thought about them for half a sec. Signs with the most ill-concieved alien invasion ever; War of the Worlds with the worst tacked on dad and the kids subplot ever. Anyone else notice that "son" (I don't remember ANYBODY'S name) was ENTIRELY CORRECT?!?!

Although War had a poorly thought out invasion plan too. ("We'll bury our giant war machines for a few hundred years.... they'll never notice!") And it REALLY missed the point: germs didn't stop the aliens really; a guy with a TOW did. "WOOOO!!!! Earth! Earth!Earth!Earth!"

Okay, maybe War sucked harder.

Don C.

[spamn]

How do folks think Signs compares to Spielberg's War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise?

They're two very different executions of the same subject matter, and I think they're great companion pieces.

My biggest complaint in War of the Worlds was the miracle survival of the Son at the end - a little too Hollywood contrived happy ending for me. I really like War of the Worlds for the sheer 'running down an avalanche' feeling it maintained - and that's its greatest success. But what Signs did was to tell an intensely personal story taking place while the the world almost ended in the background. It rang a little more true - it wasn't about how the lead characters were key players in saving the earth - so it was the story that happened off screen of an alien invasion film.

What's odd is that thinking about it now, there are a lot of parallels between the two, and I'm hard pressed to say how War of the Worlds isn't the same. But it doesn't feel the same, despite its similarities.