Just saw "Signs" over the weekend. With Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix and Mac's little bro Rory Culkin (who was excellent!)...wow! What a flick!

I expected it 2 b this one kinda movie, and it turned out 2 b something entirely different!

Suspense!

I won't give away the secrets, but, what a good job!

Very "Hitchcock-esque"!

Anyone else see it? Here's a clueless summary:

Writer/Director M. Night Shyamalan follows up THE SIXTH SENSE and UNBREAKABLE with his new feature film, SIGNS, a thriller set in Bucks County, Pennsylvania focusing on the mysterious appearance of a five-hundred-foot design of circles and lines carved into a family's crops. Mel Gibson stars as Graham Hess, the family patriarch, who is tested in his journey to find the truth behind the unfolding mystery. Joaquin Phoenix is Merrill Hess, brother to Graham and a former minor league baseball star.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some frightening scenes.

Shyamalan is gettin into a rut with these movies that follow similar themes and suspense cliffhangers resolved in the end all nice and neat.

That being said, some of the dialogue in this film is quite entertaining. Jaoquin Phoenix is hilarious with his subtleties and Shyamalan seems to really know how to direct children very well cuz both the little boy and little girl really gave great performances.

My favorite scenes: the car conversation about nerds not getting dates, and the scene when Mel Gibson comes home and sees the three of them sittin there with the foil hats on ROFL.

I liked it. But I hope for his next project he gets a cowriter to help him inject new ideas and twists into storyline.

i loved it..i semi agree with NuPwrSoul's comments but I dont think Shyamalan needs a co-writer. He just needs to drop the whole "twist" ending. The man is a wonderful writer and creater of suspence...his camera angles and use of mood, sound and editing is lightyears ahead of any other director within this genre...Im gonna go out on a limb here and say this man is a better director then Hitchcock (only because he has more toys at his disposal).

great film...(even with the korny ending)..

IS M. Night Shyamalan a Prince fan...not just because of the Prince reference in UNBREAKABLE (soft and wet) but he also uses the "Produced, Written and Directed," like Prince does in all his movies...now before anyone flames me I can't think of any other director that uses that same credit scheme...

As for SIGNS...I saw it last night and I was sooo disappointed...I won't give anything away either but I found it silly...and the ending was such a let down...I was disappointed because UNBREAKABLE was such a brilliant film in my opinion...

"Signs" was silly. I didn't find the suspense in it at all. I agree with TheResistor on this... the ending was a let down and it was a disappointment. Much more of a disappointment than my bowling average of 65!

LowDown said:

LMFAO!!

Slightly off subject, But "The Others" really pissed me off becuase it totally ripped off the ending of "The 6th Sense". Had to say it.

Just a little spoiler for The Others; the mother and her kids are ghosts!

LOL >

Tom said:

Actually, the director and writer of The Others (Spanish by the way ) has stated several times that the script he wrote was prior to the release of the Sixth Sense and the similarity of both endings is pure coincidence...

Signs has not been released in Spain yet and I am really looking forward to seeing it.I loved the Sixth Sense and I found Unbreakable dissapointing but this M. Night Shyamalan is a seriously talented artist, imo.

garganta said:

At 1st, I found "Unbreakable" disappointing 2... but I watched it again recently and actually found it more interesting the 2nd time around.

The per4mances of Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis r subtle... but intense!

Watch it again...M.Night's direction is nothing short of amazing. The man can certainly tell a story.

NuPwrSoul said:

YOU RIGHT

HE IN RUT

HE NEED MAKE BAD MOVIES NOW!!!

WHAT GOOD IDEA!!!

YOU SO SMART

POOK said:

Ummm you KNOW that's not what I was saying.

(Hey, can I get somebody back there to translate this into Pookesian for this monkey?)
[This message was edited Tue Sep 3 20:16:29 PDT 2002 by NuPwrSoul]

NuPwrSoul said:

Maybe you're just trying to say he's using the same formula for his films and they're getting predictable, losing their "punch"?

The movie was bad...

I was not impressed. The movie was WAY too neat.. the mid-movie philosophical conversation.. a TIRED old topic, please. The acting may have been good, but the story wasn't great.. the green men were kinda interesting.

I loved Sixth Sense, and I didn't like Unbreakable until the end. Signs gets a so-so from me. Then again, I haven't been impressed with a movie since Lord of the Rings..