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No offense, but IMO you're wrong on all counts.

Posted by Audiophilander (A) on August 4, 2002 at 22:32:49

In Reply to: Re: First review of Signs, and others... posted by Joe S on August 4, 2002 at 19:46:57:

My wife, myself and one of our friends saw this film earlier today and for the most part came away quite impressed. FTR, Signs is nothing at all like Sixth Sense or Unbreakable and it really doesn't rely on a shock ending to carry the story either. Which brings up the comment you made about Unbreakable (i.e., "who really cares about comics other than comic book fans?"). As a comic book fan for over four decades I find the superhero genre every bit as respectable as other genres, but that isn't the point. Unbreakable wasn't really "about" comic books per se, comics were simply the framework for a fascinating character study about heroics and villainy being facets of the human condition that feed off of each other.

You have every right to your opinion, even if you wear tin foil on your head while trashing the movie. As I see it, Signs may not be a great film, but it's a very good one and IMHO it certainly isn't emotionally hollow. It never plays down to the audience by trying to explain everything up front as so many less inspired films seem to do (i.e., it's very literary in this regard). As the story unfolds, the background information gradually falls into place and the audience begins to understand the motivations and responses to the unearthly dilemma faced by the characters. As for your "one trick pony" remark, well, I don't know what horse you rode in on, but we've seen all three of M. Night Shymalan's groundbreaking films as well as the others you referenced and Signs didn't seem that derivative to any of us.

AuPh

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