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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: GmanJoe on August 04, 2002, 07:15:50 PM
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"Signs "was a very good suspense movie. I higly recommend it. Unless you thought The Fast and the Furious was great movie, then don\'t watch this one. The suspense is a slow build up, similar to Alfred Hitchcock movies.
Go watch it.
Please don\'t expect peek-a-boobs(flash nudity) or lasers and high speed space crafts....
This movie is more than just about green long legged Mexicans invading the US. Did I say Mexicans? I meant aliens. ;) This movie is also about a man\'s belief in faith or coincidence.
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OMG...best movie i have ever seen....NO JOKE
Scared the poops outta me several times....not to mention during the
SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Newscast in Mexico
great flick
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rather not
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shut up and go see it ya cracker!
im serious...theres a lot more to it than you think.......orrrrr r u scared
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I saw that and Goldmember and I got so scarred that I went home because where my uncle lives is basically in the middle of a corn field.....I\'m such a wuss.
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i....damnit SPOILER...again
i cant look into a black TV screen ne more
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im so scared it hurts
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I thought it was a great movie too. The comic relief in it was pretty good, and well placed. The suspenseful parts worked well too, and it was one of those movies where everything just seemed to come together. Good stuff.
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yea.....i think mel gibson has his best acting i have ever seen since braveheart in that movie.
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Originally posted by square_marker
i....damnit SPOILER...again
i cant look into a black TV screen ne more
****ing true to that.......and
*SPOILER*
[sp]I\'m not looking out any windows at night...[/sp]
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*spoiler*
it was scary enough that I wouldn\'t go anywhere in my house without a water bottel.
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Best movie I\'ve seen this year, at least in theatres, except for maybe we were soldiers, other than that , it was awesome,
*spoiler*
the aliens were pretty generic though.
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Its impossible to read through this thread if you haven\'t seen the movie cuz\' its packed with spoilers.
*Spoiler*
Now I know something is freaky with turned off TV\'s, windows, and I\'m guessing you kill the aliens with water?
Don\'t answer any of those questions.
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Sorry Vapor but you\'re correct. :laughing:
[sp]- Seems the ailens have trouble getting through boarded up windows, doors, etc.
- Like the movie says, everything has a weakness.. This time around, it\'s water.
Movie was cool, lots of thrills.. Had a few laughs, loved the part when Gibson was running around the house cussing. Damn, that was funny. But like someone said up there, the aliens are CHEAP!!!! ahh they are so ugly and not scary. Oh well, great movie.[/sp]
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Originally posted by serrano007
Sorry Vapor but you\'re correct. :laughing:
SPOILER
- Seems the ailens have trouble getting through boarded up windows, doors, etc.
- Like the movie says, everything has a weakness.. This time around, it\'s water.
Movie was cool, lots of thrills.. Had a few laughs, loved the part when Gibson was running around the house cussing. Damn, that was funny. But like someone said up there, the aliens are CHEAP!!!! ahh they are so ugly and not scary. Oh well, great movie.
Spoiler...
I\'M INSANE WITH ANGER!
Ah, that was great.
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best film ive seen in a long time
makes you scared of whats NOT there, instead of what is
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Originally posted by serrano007
SPOILER
Movie was cool, lots of thrills.. Had a few laughs, loved the part when Gibson was running around the house cussing. Damn, that was funny.
*SPOILER*
[sp]Gibson-"I\'m gonna kick your ass. I\'m gonna beat you up...umm we\'re gonna kick your ass." *to his brother* "I cussed."[/sp]
:laughing: That was funny and when:
*SPOILER*
[sp]His kids and brother are wearing those tin hats.[/sp]
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If you didn\'t see the word SPOILER a dozen time above, then look again...
[sp]I can appreciate this film on a very low level, and I really enjoyed the scary and shocking parts, just as everyone else did. I liked the night scenes of Gibson walking though the misty cornfield. The first reveal of an alien on top of the barn seen through a window is really stunning.
Beyond that, I was somewhat disappointed. I always expect Shyamalan\'s films to be more meaningful than they are. I wanted Unbreakable to present new ideas about the universe and our role in it, but really it was just a superhero origin story. Likewise, I wanted Signs to explore a new angle of the crop circles mysteries, but really it was just another "aliens invade the earth" story like any 50\'s movie or pulp novel. The most meaningful part of it is the exploration of the family and how they cope with loss, but even that is paced much too slowly and too heavy handed.
It\'s like two unconnected movies welded together. One is the story about losing a wife/mother in an automobile accident, and qustioning your belief in god. The other story is a recycled 50\'s alien invasion movie, little better than "Independence Day." They should have remained two separate movies, or Shyamalan should have made the alien story smarter and less stereotypical. He could have depicted the aliens as vaguely threatening in a mysterious way, without making them seem so openly hostile. That\'s what Philippe Mora does in "Communion." The aliens are depicted as seemingly threatingly, but mostly because we can\'t understand what they want. Communion is my benchmark for "smart but scary" aliens.[/sp]
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Great movie, I thought it was boring at first and was about to leave but, the story picks up after the first 15 minutes.
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I didn\'t read through this thread because I don\'t want my experience spoiled. But I just wanted to notify you that there\'s a new feature - you can use a [ sp] tag [ /sp] to cover anything, that should be considered a spoiler.
[sp]See, here\'s a test. USE IT PLEASE![/sp]
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ive heard nothing on this film..... whothout any spoilers whos in it?? whats it about??? havent read much of this thread incase of spoilers
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There are a lot of spoilers in this thread, kopking.
The movie has Mel Gibson in it and is a story about crop circles.
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yeah i kinda guess that, thats why i want unsoilered info
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Beyond that, I was somewhat disappointed. I always expect Shyamalan\'s films to be more meaningful than they are. I wanted Unbreakable to present new ideas about the universe and our role in it, but really it was just a superhero origin story. Likewise, I wanted Signs to explore a new angle of the crop circles mysteries, but really it was just another "aliens invade the earth" story like any 50\'s movie or pulp novel. The most meaningful part of it is the exploration of the family and how they cope with loss, but even that is paced much too slowly and too heavy handed.
Core, if you thought that was the most meaningful part of the movie I suggest you see it over and over again until you relize the true meaning of the movie.
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Originally posted by cloud345
Core, if you thought that was the most meaningful part of the movie I suggest you see it over and over again until you relize the true meaning of the movie.
Perhaps it would be faster if you just told me your opinion, instead of posting such vague statements.
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i saw the premiere of it
it was a damn awesome movie
suspense build up is incredible.
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[sp]hey dose this thing realy work ?[/sp]
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[sp]yes it does, you tosser![/sp]
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[sp]why come the text is in black?[/sp]
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[sp]nevermind, i just got it. im a moron.[/sp]
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[spoiler] Did I do it right? [/spoiler]
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[sp]No u didn\'t, and yes luke u r a moron!!! [/sp]
;) ;) ;)
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Where\'s the spoiler button? eh? eh? eh?
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i swear noone reads anything when i make a thread
http://www.psx2central.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23571
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[sp]That\'s coz you\'re posts are boring. ;) Mine are provocative, at least! You should see the amount of posts that were locked by Bob! I\'m susrprised I\'m not banned![/sp]
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[sp]Is it just me or is everyone gonna be doing this now?[/sp]
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Originally posted by mm
i swear noone reads anything when i make a thread
[sp]give this man a cookie![/sp]
[sp](https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stevens-tech.edu%2F%7Edbelson%2Fcookie.gif&hash=05e7ea0e5e5cb8a4e887268e5aa41aae425f6690)[/sp]
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C is for cookie, which is good enough for me
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anywayz back to the movie..........
i liked fast and the furious and i liked signs too.
Signs scared the hell out me, and the story and the way it ends. that was off the hook. the whole ending........beautifu.........pretty.......wow
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The end sucked. :(
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what are you talking about.....the end was off-da-hook.
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Did they show they aliens, the damn better have because if they\'d pull a Contact on me I\'d go and kill this shamalama guy.
And if they did what did they look like, gimme a description in one of those spoiler tags because reading them makes me feel so secretive.
And I\'m not one of those idiots that\'s scared that it might spoil the "experience" for me.
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no-0ne, they did a great job with the "look" of the aliens
they even described why they would probably look the way they did (which made perfext sense)
like i said, the film makes you more scared of what ISNT there and what you CANNOT see, like a true suspense film should
[sp]imagine souly\'s girlfriend on crack, thats what they looked like[/sp]
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i missed that part, why did the aliens look the way they did mm?
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http://www.mysterystuff.com/cropcircles_whatisgoingon_4.htm
something i found interesting..........
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The aliens looked emmmm... Generic. Don\'t expect no Men In Black aliens here. Just some green guy with big eyes. Like mm said, it\'s all suspense, you only get to see the alien clearly once in the movie, and that\'s towards the end. All the rest are just those thrill thingys with the loud scary music going with it.
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i guess they were trying to keep it to the views of aliens throughout many of the books and videos that depict them.
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finally saw this movie tonite and im more scared now than i was during the movie and that 2 hours ago thats what so great about it
its like the blair witch project that movie scared the crap outta me but not while i was watching it afterwards when i think i might never go camping again
as far as the aliens looking cheap i think what they were trying to do was stick to the sterotypical look of an alien but still still have them be physically menacing
i really enjoyed it but i would like to see another director take the exact same concept but go in a different direction with it a more horror\\sci-fi\\action like independence day but more like a ww2 movie than a will smith pic
i felt the same way about unbreakable great movie i loved it but would like to see anotherwriter\\director\'s take on the whole modern day superhero concept
i like the ending [sp]beating his ass with a bat was funny and fitting but i would have showed more of whats going on in the rest of the world instead of keeping us in the dark[/sp]