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Rented it last night. Better than reviews gave credit it for, but its potential to be a strong spiritual film wasn't exploited.Gratefully, no cartoonish special effects. Unremarkable cinematography and editing. Both Gibson's and Phoenix's characters had much unrealized potential; the actors' capabilities (especially Phoenix) were largely wasted. Too much odd behavior with no foundation. Too many fatal storyline mistakes; probably the only farmer in North America with no shotgun or .22; the ubiquitous lady sheriff no where to be found when things finally do get threatening; the father's unlikely choice to keep his kids on an isolated farm while a threat looms in their back yard.
There's something up with Gibson's abandoned faith, but it gets no air. Same with Phoenix failed baseball career. Too many such elements that are hard to determine if they were always in the characters, or stuck on to justify a focus group's selected climax.
Jamming the film's major thematic point into the last moments made "The Sixth Sense", but crippled "Signs". A shame, too, it could have been a sci-fi classic in the hands of a better storyteller. I hope Shayamalan learns when, and when not, to snap a Rubic's cube of way too subtle elements into place at the very last possible moment before the credits before he wastes more good story lines to get a one second "so thats it".
I felt jipped...it was like being a serve an ill-cooked lobster dinner.
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i see the precision of your points. but i don't quite feel it has unrealized potential. i thought it made alot of a little.i liked the film. it was interesting. i thought the spiritual message got across well. the message that there is a good reason for everything. this whole idea was tied in seamlessly.
i also liked the idea of an ominous enemy not being so ominous after all. quite a turn of events. simple.
agree that Signs should have been much better... for such a mysterious phenomenon (as crop circles), the movie was strangely unmysterious; also a bit of a "rip" of other similar ideas such as War of the Worlds and Mars Attacks and Close Encounters to name three. The beings could have been much more ominous/mysterious, even that was not well carried out. Unfortunately, the trailer for Signs was much better at generating goosebumps than the actual film, in fact some of the better parts of the trailer were not even in the film, disappointingly. Like Unbreakable, Signs should have been much better.
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