'Signs' of a bad movie...
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major_clanger...include going in to what has been billed as Scariest Movie Of The Year, and coming out barely unable to supress your mirth.
Oh dear. Signs tried so hard. Too hard at times, but we could forgive that. And then the last ten minutes of the film came up.
Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
M Night Shaylaman is famous for twist endings. But having the twist be a plot element that would have ashamed a Dr Who writer thirty years ago really takes the biscuit. Trust me: if you are any sort of sf fan, you will emerge from Signs wondering how anyone can imagine such a hackneyed cliche resolution ties in with what until that point had been a creditable attempt at psychological horror. Or you'll come out barely able to suppress your sniggers, like we did.
"And in latest developments, the 101st Airborne traded their M-16s for soda syphons and Super Soaker water pistols, and routed the alien invasion of Philadelphia. A spokesman for the aliens said 'They had H20. The bastards!' and then dissolved leaving an awful mess on the pavement."
MC
Oh dear. Signs tried so hard. Too hard at times, but we could forgive that. And then the last ten minutes of the film came up.
Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
M Night Shaylaman is famous for twist endings. But having the twist be a plot element that would have ashamed a Dr Who writer thirty years ago really takes the biscuit. Trust me: if you are any sort of sf fan, you will emerge from Signs wondering how anyone can imagine such a hackneyed cliche resolution ties in with what until that point had been a creditable attempt at psychological horror. Or you'll come out barely able to suppress your sniggers, like we did.
"And in latest developments, the 101st Airborne traded their M-16s for soda syphons and Super Soaker water pistols, and routed the alien invasion of Philadelphia. A spokesman for the aliens said 'They had H20. The bastards!' and then dissolved leaving an awful mess on the pavement."
MC
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Date: 2002-09-15 05:58 am (UTC)but then I was watching in less than ideal circs and the movie was a glowing light of sanity compared to the masses that i was sitting amongst...shiver...maybe a second viewing sometime on the future will clarify or change my mind.