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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?

It did have a weird comic touch that was quite nice, but they should have forgotten about the crop circles and the aliens and stuff and concentrated on Gibson's relationship with his family - that was far more interesting.

*SPOILER*

Goatboy wrote:
> Sixth Sense - Dull "horror" movie for girls and wimpy

I saw this and after the first scene I turned to my Mum and said, is he supposed to be dead now then? My Mum turned back and said I bet thats the twist. I didn't even realise that I'd got the twist I just assumed since he had been shot he was dead now, otherwize that scene was a bit pointless. You don't have someone getting shot in the first scene for no reason (or if you do its a crap film). So it didn't particularly impress me. I thought that Angel Heart used the same sort of idea to much better effect.

Is Unbreakable worth seing then?

Goatboy wrote:
> Sixth Sense - Dull "horror" movie for girls and wimpy
> blokes.
>
> Unbreakable - Uh....you forget the ending mate.
>
> Signs - Gibson + crop circles + little kid = No thanks.
>
> Am I the only one that wants to punch Midnight Shamalamadingdong?


no but i'll let you have the first few hits and i finish off the twit.

Sixth Sense - Dull "horror" movie for girls and wimpy blokes.

Unbreakable - Uh....you forget the ending mate.

Signs - Gibson + crop circles + little kid = No thanks.

Am I the only one that wants to punch Midnight Shamalamadingdong?

Ohh I saw the trailer for it an the PSW DVD this month and I thought it looked really good. I'll think twicw before I go and see it now.

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?