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"Signs - God, no!"

Oh dear. I had the misfortune of seeing Signs last night and I advise you to avoid it at your peril! Never have I seen a film so uttterly swept up in it's own hype that the conclusion felt like being dropped from a great height into a skip full of mousetraps. Sure, M. Night Shyamalan (who wrote, directed and produced this, lest we forget) had a bit of luck with The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable (which wasn't as good really, was it!?), but now he's got a reputation as this cinematic genius. The truth is, he relies on deception to fool the audience and part of the fun is trying to figure out what's real and what isn't. Except this wasn't fun. If you've seen a trailer for Signs, the deception has begun. I won't spoil it for you by telling you the one, miniscule, event that the whole film feels like it was concocted to surround, but if you think it looks boring, you're not wrong. Am I right?

Signs rules.

Hitchcokian.

monkey_man wrote:
> I advise you to avoid it at your peril!

Erm... surely that means we should go and see it?

:-)

I thought Unbreakable was decent, kind of confusing though, you have to watch the film without distractions to understand the strange twist at the end.

Was going to see this tonight, can someone put down some spoilers for me (since I don't mind knowing what happens as I'm only going to appease the girlfriend)

monkey_man wrote:
> ~Res~ wrote:
> twist my A$S
>
> Easy there, Guv'nor. This is a family site.


LOL sorry but when i read monkey man's little comment (shown above) his little cockney comment made me smirk a bit.


and what familys actualy come here? it's all teenagers and childish 20 odd year olds like meself. with the odd inmature 30 year old to balance it a bit.

My Night in Shining Shyamalan is a gimmick man. He's used gimmicks in all his films. Wanna know the signs gimmick?

~Res~ wrote:
> twist my A$S

Easy there, Guv'nor. This is a family site.

One of the stupidest, most boring films I've ever seen.

And worst ending ever. It just stops with 2 cue-cards.
I thought "Er....this sucks".

when i saw sixth sense and heard there was a twist i guessed it stright away and said it quite loud to my mate p!ssing everyone off in the row in front and behind as they heard LOL it was so damn obvious though, twist my A$S

Rosalind wrote:
> Is Unbreakable worth seing then?

I could ruin it for you in one sentence - that's how hollow it is.