SIGNS got me good * FIRST TIME WATCHING * reaction & commentary

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  • @johnezell1628
    @johnezell1628 Місяць тому +95

    Never be Mel Gibson's wife in a movie.

    • @davidword8568
      @davidword8568 Місяць тому +2

      That's funny...or related period

  • @bradh1235
    @bradh1235 Місяць тому +247

    "Is the daughter an alien?!?!"...cut to M. Night watching this at home "Honey!...I just found my new writing partner."

    • @Drkwolf31B
      @Drkwolf31B Місяць тому +19

      “What a twist!” - M. Knight Shamalan (Probably)

    • @macedindu829
      @macedindu829 Місяць тому +2

      rolf. You're way better than M. Night.

  • @alexisnaranjo
    @alexisnaranjo Місяць тому +203

    "Felt wrong not to swing.."
    My favorite line, it means so much.

    • @danholmesfilm
      @danholmesfilm Місяць тому +5

      underrated for sure

    • @loodlebop
      @loodlebop Місяць тому +18

      My grandparents said that when putting their car keys in a fish bowl. Never was sure what they meant

    • @alexisnaranjo
      @alexisnaranjo Місяць тому +6

      @@loodlebop /slow clap

    • @johannesbowers7467
      @johannesbowers7467 Місяць тому +6

      As someone who has pulled off base hits from an overhead chop at the ball I understand the sentiment....
      You miss every swing you don't take.

    • @timmyfoxworth6710
      @timmyfoxworth6710 Місяць тому +1

      Great reaction. Oh and your super cute. To me.

  • @michaelm2726
    @michaelm2726 Місяць тому +43

    "You didn't think we'd make it through the night, did you?"
    Ashleigh: "fuck no I didn't!"
    Absolutely killed me 😂😂😂

  • @joshuacoldwater
    @joshuacoldwater Місяць тому +159

    My mom took me to see this in the drive-in theatre, middle of nowhere, behind the screen and to the left giant ass cornfield. I swear to god, every breeze that went by I lost a year off my life.

    • @ronnyschedler24285
      @ronnyschedler24285 Місяць тому +18

      But we do agree you've got a cool mom, right?😂

    • @joshuacoldwater
      @joshuacoldwater Місяць тому +18

      @@ronnyschedler24285 Definitely, there has not been one second of my life that I have ever thought anything different. Our ages are close though, she had me early in life. She was, and still is a best friend.

    • @reneemixon3994
      @reneemixon3994 Місяць тому +5

      God bless your mom for giving you the best scare of your life. All these years later and you’re still talking about it, you’re lucky, what a cool mom.

    • @bobhowell9377
      @bobhowell9377 Місяць тому +1

      That happened to me with the fourth kind.

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 Місяць тому +295

    Joaquin Phoenix freaking out when he sees the aliens is both hilarious and terrifying! It was on Bravos 100 Scariest Movie Moments!

    • @NWAWskeptic
      @NWAWskeptic Місяць тому +20

      Imagine Mark Walberg. “Uncle Merrill, are the aliens gonna try and kill us?” “What? No!”

    • @moonlitspider2827
      @moonlitspider2827 Місяць тому +15

      @@NWAWskeptic The fact I read that and heard his voice is great. Lol

    • @user-wl6yz6uc7g
      @user-wl6yz6uc7g Місяць тому +2

      I like in the Poconos about an hour away from Bucks County, Joaquin Phoenix was in The Joker and if you want to see a good "older " movie" he was in check out Clay Pigeons which also has Vince Vaughn in it the movie is from 1998. Yes I am back now had some family health problems to take care of. Needed to help my mom after she had a small stroke. She is better now just needs physical therapy for walking

    • @lynnevetter
      @lynnevetter Місяць тому +5

      He was so magic in this movie over all. When he's running around the house with Mel. 😂😂😂

    • @brentwittman547
      @brentwittman547 Місяць тому +10

      You should definitely watch “Contact”. It’s a great sci-fi/alien movie.

  • @TwiggehLeaf
    @TwiggehLeaf Місяць тому +181

    I love the theme that there are no coincidences. Boo’s OCD with water, her brothers asthma, these things ended up saving the family in the end. Also the humor in this movie hits so well!!

    • @kw7378a1
      @kw7378a1 Місяць тому +22

      That's the thing. I know this movie gets flack for not being logical but it's not meant to be. It's about everything happening for a reason and a lost man finding his faith after loss.

    • @GeryonM
      @GeryonM Місяць тому +19

      The illogic of this movie is believing aliens would travel light years to take over a planet they are 70% allergic to.

    • @karablak-je6ed
      @karablak-je6ed Місяць тому

      ​@@GeryonM Ah! But you see, they didn't travel light years to take over a planet they are 70% allergic to. They traveled light years to go onto a planet whose surface is 70% covered in what they're allergic to, whose atmosphere contains what they're allergic to, in sufficient quantities that it reguralry falls down on the surface in massive quantities, in order to hunt for food creatures that are 60% composed of what they're allergic to! 🤣
      Oh! And they traveled all those light years despite lacking the capacity to use their super tech to navigate around the world without making markings in crop fields!🤣
      Hmm, actually that might explain the first part. Maybe they're really dumb and incompetent, got lost, and made a desperate attempt to grab some food here. That does make it even more nonsensical on the whole though...
      Good job writing, M. Night Shalalalaman! As always!

    • @HeatRaver
      @HeatRaver Місяць тому +6

      @@GeryonM Humans are just that tasty, it's worth the risk! ;)

    • @daerdevvyl4314
      @daerdevvyl4314 Місяць тому +2

      HeatRaver Can confirm. You can’t stop at just one.

  • @surferles589
    @surferles589 Місяць тому +67

    This movie is really about one man's loss of faith. The alien story is actually the subtext. Love it

    • @bigpoppaplump462
      @bigpoppaplump462 Місяць тому +1

      Right on the nose, but the aliens are the PREtext, faith is the subtext

  • @morphman86
    @morphman86 Місяць тому +28

    One of the best scenes in movie history, in my opinion, is when the father is hugging the kids, they are all crying, and then the camera just pans to the uncle and you see the father's hand coming from offscreen and pull him in too.

  • @ZankuroMinazuki
    @ZankuroMinazuki Місяць тому +59

    I always appreciate how on-point Ashleigh is with spotting tractors in movies :D

  • @CrazedPop
    @CrazedPop Місяць тому +3

    "There's a monster outside my room. Can I have a glass of water?"
    That line always stuck with me. Glad you included it. It's so terrifying and calm all at the same time.

  • @Ashwgun
    @Ashwgun Місяць тому +16

    I wasn't of the faith when I first saw this movie, but I appreciated that moment when he realizes all these things had a purpose. The Asthma, the glasses of water and Merrill and the baseball bat, and swing away.

    • @sandrosliske
      @sandrosliske Місяць тому +3

      I like the theory that the aliens are actually demons. Burning lights in the sky, afraid of water so maybe holy water

  • @Sk3tch22
    @Sk3tch22 Місяць тому +64

    "I never had a holler on the channel like that before" haha

  • @MagicianDragon1
    @MagicianDragon1 Місяць тому +38

    I remember showing my sister this movie. I grabbed her shoulder at the moment the alien in the coal chute grabbed the boy's shoulder. Took forever to get her off the ceiling. 😂

  • @PrettyBlueFlowers
    @PrettyBlueFlowers Місяць тому +40

    I remember seeing this with a group of friends in the cinema and being absolutely terrified 😂 it’s amazing how iconic the alien at the birthday party scene was. No one in the cinema was expecting to see that!

  • @ttngarage
    @ttngarage Місяць тому +8

    The little girl germophobia saved them (water glasses everywhere in the house).
    The little kid ashma saved him from the poison gas (closed his lungs and didn't get it).
    Merryl's bat and past talent saved them (knocked the F out of the E.T. with it)
    The agonizing mother told Merryl exactly what he needed to do against the alien before she died ("swing away").
    All the signs gets connected and gets their meaning on the last act. :)

  • @timthompson3569
    @timthompson3569 Місяць тому +135

    I love this movie. Most alien invasion stories are action movies about the military or scientists trying to defeat them, etc. This one basically ignores all that and focuses on one family coping with it amidst the grief they were already suffering.

    • @kpmac1
      @kpmac1 Місяць тому +13

      Yeah, I’ve never really thought of this as an alien movie at its core. What it is to me is a story about a man who lost his faith and regains it. The alien stuff was just the vehicle to move him though that journey.

    • @HeatRaver
      @HeatRaver Місяць тому +1

      In that context, A Quiet Place is like a modern version of that concept.

    • @timthompson3569
      @timthompson3569 Місяць тому

      @@HeatRaver Yes, good point.

  • @rmhartman
    @rmhartman Місяць тому +20

    "what's the water going to do to the monster"
    You'd be surprised.

  • @Candicexan
    @Candicexan Місяць тому +14

    I love this movie. Not only a cool alien movie, but “Signs” that are sprinkled through that carries the backstory. This movie showed me to always look for “signs”. And to be fair, all little children are aliens, lol! I know I have 3 and always leaving their drinks everywhere 😂

  • @auntylizzer
    @auntylizzer Місяць тому +16

    I thought the same thing 😂 I was like “she’s never hollered like that before” loved it😂

  • @jessm229
    @jessm229 Місяць тому +48

    that scene of the two brothers talking on the couch about fate/coincidence is one of my favorites ever.

  • @RicketyKrickett
    @RicketyKrickett Місяць тому +33

    lol the terrifying scream when it reached under the door .. that was amazing lol

  • @ajtheronin
    @ajtheronin Місяць тому +35

    "Felt wrong not to swing" - Always love that line.

  • @catserver8577
    @catserver8577 Місяць тому +6

    If I ever get in a bad situation where I'm trapped in place, I want to hear Ashleigh saying "Hey, buddy, you going through it?".

  • @brittroberds5500
    @brittroberds5500 Місяць тому +148

    Funny story: my mom and dad moved into a new house when I was a baby. Started hearing static and voices over the baby monitor. Freaked them out to the point of them taking turns sleeping in the room with me. Then realized….they were picking up radio traffic from the small town airport. 😂🤣😂 #notaliens #notghosts

    • @inside98
      @inside98 Місяць тому +18

      Yeah, that's what they told you!
      👽

    • @brittroberds5500
      @brittroberds5500 Місяць тому +21

      @@inside98 oh snap, you may be right…*grabs the tin foil*

    • @brentjacks1412
      @brentjacks1412 Місяць тому +9

      Responsible parents. 👍

    • @strangebiped
      @strangebiped Місяць тому +1

      @@inside98 Good Call "INSIDE"!!

    • @ajivins1
      @ajivins1 Місяць тому +1

      I heard about a couple who kept hearing a kid giggling in their bedroom. They traced it to a talking Captain Scarlet doll in a closet that was picking up next door's baby monitor.

  • @marybrown6128
    @marybrown6128 Місяць тому +245

    The guy who played Ray is M. Night Shyamalan, just like Stan Lee he always does a cameo in his movies. Watching you accuse Bo of being an alien was cracking me up!! Great reaction!

    • @jeffh1266
      @jeffh1266 Місяць тому +24

      Even more related to the genre, Alfred Hitchcock also would do cameo's in his movies, as well.

    • @TB_Rays
      @TB_Rays Місяць тому +10

      I believe Stephen King also appears in his movies

    • @Uatu-the-Watcher
      @Uatu-the-Watcher Місяць тому +9

      @@jeffh1266I’ve always thought of Shyamalan being my generation’s Hitchcock.

    • @jeffh1266
      @jeffh1266 Місяць тому +2

      @@Uatu-the-Watcher Yup, that's the way I looked at him, as well

    • @renewillner5061
      @renewillner5061 Місяць тому +5

      Quentin Tarantino does as well, I believe. Lovelovelove ❤️✌🏻🌷

  • @chriscrockett8540
    @chriscrockett8540 Місяць тому +15

    Your Scream when the alien hand came out under the door...Epic. Truly made my day...Could not stop laughing, after making sure you did not have a heart attack..Of Course😂😂😂😂 Love this movie!!!

  • @DatDeals
    @DatDeals Місяць тому +32

    "There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?"
    this is one of my favorite movies. i remember walking down stairs when i was a kid while my parents were watching it at the birthday party scene, it fucked me up.
    glad you liked it!

    • @reneemixon3994
      @reneemixon3994 Місяць тому +3

      After 30 years, I still jump at that scene and the one on the tv screen holding Bo.

  • @robmissen
    @robmissen Місяць тому +28

    I rarely fall for jump scares in movies because I tend to predict what's going to happen next but, in the pantry scene, when we were all looking for the alien in the knife's reflection... and the HAND shoots out instead!!!.... It was SUCH a good misdirect. You had to scrape me off the ceiling of the cinema that day. LOL

  • @tntkff9901
    @tntkff9901 Місяць тому +27

    I heard a fun theory that the twist in the movie was supposed to be that the aliens were actually demons, which was why there were no spaceships, and they were basically naked with no weapons aside from their own gases, they were stopped by wooden doors and the water (in a priests home) melts them.

    • @turbopokey
      @turbopokey Місяць тому

      Ooo, maybe that “primitive method” was holy water, not just plain water? I mean as a priest there is a reasonably good chance during all his meal prayers he could have said a line like “and bless this house” which coming from a priest would hold significantly more chance of actually creating holy water in the pipes then a regular person saying that.

  • @Aurochhunter
    @Aurochhunter Місяць тому +3

    There's a fan theory that claims the alien was actually spraying Morgan with an asthma spray, but if that were the case it would mean the aliens were friendly and would make Merril the bad guy for taking a baseball bat to them.

  • @JadeReloaded
    @JadeReloaded Місяць тому +3

    I went in to see this movie all alone at a late night screening, not knowing anything about it. I had a very interesting busride home through the city in the dark on my own.

  • @kpmac1
    @kpmac1 Місяць тому +68

    The interleaving of the wife's backstory is really fantastic. And the last segment is timed perfectly. I think this is my favorite Night movie.

    • @w1975b
      @w1975b Місяць тому

      I can't remember which Scary Movie it was, maybe 3, but it parodies Signs :)

    • @LittleBlueOwl318
      @LittleBlueOwl318 Місяць тому +7

      It gives me goosebumps when Colleen is dying and she says "Tell Morgan to play games, it's okay to be silly. Tell Bo to listen to her brother, he'll always take care of her. Tell Graham to see. Tell him to SEE. And tell Merrill to swing away."
      The crop circles are signs... navigational signs for the aliens to follow - like a map Just like the signs that Graham needed to SEE were to help him navigate his path in faith so he ended up right where he needed to be.

    • @danholmesfilm
      @danholmesfilm Місяць тому

      @@w1975b yeah its 3 lol

    • @reneemixon3994
      @reneemixon3994 Місяць тому +3

      Definitely my favorite, watched it with Ashleigh like it was my first time. Watched it so many times, I can’t count and still jumped when she jumped.

  • @scottboswell6406
    @scottboswell6406 Місяць тому +75

    So, the little girl is "Little Miss Sunshine" (Abigail Breslin); she's all grown up and a newlywed! This is the same director as "The Sixth Sense" and was the guy who locked up the alien in his house. For me, this might be his most underrated film. I saw this in the theaters when it came out, and no one knew what this story was going to be! My dad, who usually didn't like this type of film, liked this! It's not really an alien invasion story, but about faith.

    • @andrewpetik2034
      @andrewpetik2034 Місяць тому +1

      I agree..... the funny thing is that I never really thought of this before but we all have a 'measure of faith' that we place in SOMETHING.....whether it be religion or spirituality or science or media or politicians or money .....we all place our faith somewhere

  • @JustinJaymz
    @JustinJaymz Місяць тому +4

    Love this movie. Great reaction! One of taglines for the movie was something like “Don’t see it alone”, and the first time I saw it was in a tiny theater and I was the only one at that particular screening. It made for a great viewing experience, especially with the surround sound. The scene with Mel in the cornfield by himself and you hear their “clicking” coming from different directions was very cool.

    • @NevTheDeranged
      @NevTheDeranged Місяць тому +1

      Saw this in the theater with my wife, and after we were home I just randomly started making the clicky noises and she just about jumped out of her skin.

  • @HelplessTeno
    @HelplessTeno Місяць тому +3

    I saw this in theaters with my Dad when I was 7, scared the living hell outta me but I do love it as an adult. Mel Gibson is always fantastic and I love the movie's whole message about faith.
    6:25 - I can't believe she missed it! That's the first thing that really grabs your attention for the rest of the movie.
    17:13 - This is one of my favorite scenes in the movie. The dialogue is so flipping good.

  • @skinnyjax
    @skinnyjax Місяць тому +46

    Useless Factoid #75:
    the actor that plays the newscaster 26:55 is the same actor that played the grieving dad (the one where the wife was poisoning the little girl) in the Sixth Sense.

    • @reneemixon3994
      @reneemixon3994 Місяць тому +5

      Good lord, you people are so alert and know your stuff.

    • @Jessica_Jones
      @Jessica_Jones 2 дні тому +1

      I totally paused the video at that part to stare at his face for twelve seconds until I figured it out 😆

    • @skinnyjax
      @skinnyjax 2 дні тому

      @@reneemixon3994 Just don't ask me what his name is! lol

  • @terryotoole3265
    @terryotoole3265 Місяць тому +9

    It's an interesting debate between fate and random chance that permeates the movie that I find most interesting.

  • @drummergirl2319
    @drummergirl2319 Місяць тому +3

    Saw this movie for the first time when I was 10 and couldn't walk down the hallway by myself for a week and a half. XD I think the next time I saw it was in high school. My church's youth room was a separate building, out by a cornfield, so the youth pastor thought it'd be fun for us to watch it outside by the cornfield with a projector. And yes, we did indeed wear tinfoil hats. It was a lot less scary that time.

  • @ComradeArthur
    @ComradeArthur Місяць тому +2

    3:45
    "You think one person did it?"
    Crop circles, like the one just shown, can be made by one or two people in a few hours.

  • @CapFan80
    @CapFan80 Місяць тому +31

    I watched this in the theater and then drove home at 10pm... I was living in Iowa at the time and it was roughly 20-30 miles in the country with almost nothing but corn fields.

    • @Maya_Ruinz
      @Maya_Ruinz Місяць тому +3

      That would suck.. lol personally if I had to live near a cornfield I would build a serious fence line, barb wire and all.

    • @LittleBlueOwl318
      @LittleBlueOwl318 Місяць тому +2

      @CapFan80 Ikr? With a prickly feeling on the back of your neck the entire drive...
      (I'm from corn country, too)

  • @ThatVinylChannel
    @ThatVinylChannel Місяць тому +8

    My wife and I saw this in a theatre on our very first date. 21 years later we are still together. We sometimes will pull out the Blu-Ray and watch this on our first date anniversary.

  • @michaelmammano-cheydleur2651
    @michaelmammano-cheydleur2651 Місяць тому +4

    I went to summer camp in the 90s with Merritt Wever, the woman who played Tracey the shop girl.
    She used to regularly reenact scenes from The Breakfast Club. Quite well, I might add.
    Honestly, one of the coolest people I ever met in my life.

    • @Jessica_Jones
      @Jessica_Jones 2 дні тому

      I totally recognized her this time as Elizabeth in New Girl! Funny to hear that about her, it's honestly not surprising!

  • @ZachCornett
    @ZachCornett Місяць тому +2

    12:57: "Is it a stranger?"
    Me: "No silly, it's M. Night Shyamalan!"
    This was my first "horror" movie I had ever seen. The music is so aggressive right at the get-go (rude) and the feeling of isolation with the corn fields... I grew up around many corn fields. "There's a monster outside my room. Can I have a glass of water?" No, girl.. go back to bed. And then the birthday party seen?!?? NO NO NO! Thank you so much for reacting to this film!

  • @ToABrighterFuture
    @ToABrighterFuture Місяць тому +201

    "Stop calling me Father...I don't hear my children." One line, two meanings.

    • @hulkslayer626
      @hulkslayer626 Місяць тому +9

      Wow!! Love that!

    • @YoureMrLebowski
      @YoureMrLebowski Місяць тому +3

      what is the two meanings?

    • @hulkslayer626
      @hulkslayer626 Місяць тому +16

      @@YoureMrLebowski the literal reasons for him saying it and him saying he no longer hears his "children" as in congregation, because he is no longer a priest.

    • @YoureMrLebowski
      @YoureMrLebowski Місяць тому +3

      @@hulkslayer626 thank you. 👍🏼

    • @NataliePine
      @NataliePine Місяць тому +8

      I think it's also a reference to how the Father (God) doesn't hear his children (humans), which is Mel Gibson's character's belief at the start

  • @vonbass1300
    @vonbass1300 Місяць тому +44

    Aliens: lets go to the water planet. But water kills us so dont touch it. Whats the worst that could happen?

    • @chrisbowers7523
      @chrisbowers7523 Місяць тому +4

      Why go to a planet that is surrounded by water if water is your weaknesses . It makes no sense..

    • @Blutteufel
      @Blutteufel Місяць тому +5

      @@chrisbowers7523 What did you expect? Shyamalan has always been a second-rate hack.

    • @chrisbowers7523
      @chrisbowers7523 Місяць тому +5

      @Blutteufel true too true and he should not have almost ruined the climate of this movie climax of the movie.

    • @mrkelso
      @mrkelso Місяць тому +12

      Humans: lets go to that Moon, and then over to that red planet. No atmosphere, so we could suffocate, and the solar radiation would kill us quick, but hey. Whats the worst that could happen?

    • @Blutteufel
      @Blutteufel Місяць тому +3

      @@mrkelso Textbook definition of false equivalence...

  • @kevinkuptz7397
    @kevinkuptz7397 Місяць тому +5

    "whats the water gonna do to the monster" .......... ................ ........................ the coincidence of that comment is amazing .

  • @MsrSiris
    @MsrSiris Місяць тому +4

    Morgan and the Reverand both saying "I hate you!" to their father when they are afraid and needing comfort/protection.

  • @markbechtold7372
    @markbechtold7372 Місяць тому +57

    Another great reaction. I've always loved that the baby monitor really only "worked" when all four of them were connected physically, even all touching the car.

  • @gutz1981
    @gutz1981 Місяць тому +80

    "Tom, I'll need a ride home."

    • @Sk3tch22
      @Sk3tch22 Місяць тому +17

      i will never unsee that...thanks scary movie 3 lol

    • @gutz1981
      @gutz1981 Місяць тому +2

      @@Sk3tch22 Ha ha, same.

    • @deadbynightupbylunch
      @deadbynightupbylunch Місяць тому +13

      Scary Movie 3 has definitely ruined this movie for me.
      “I heard they can’t open doors!”
      “…They’ve mastered space travel but they can’t get through a wooden door?”

    • @Johnny_Socko
      @Johnny_Socko Місяць тому +5

      Funniest line in that movie. At least to me!

    • @PaNDaSNiP3R
      @PaNDaSNiP3R Місяць тому +5

      Best line ever!

  • @magicbrownie1357
    @magicbrownie1357 Місяць тому +5

    "The Village" is another one of my favorite M Night films. Great star studded cast too.

    • @xtremejay2000
      @xtremejay2000 Місяць тому +2

      YES! Though nbody talks about it anymore and it does seem to be a movie people either love or hate. I wish ANY reactor would watch it. They always do Sixth sense, unbreakable, signs.

    • @heatherryan3969
      @heatherryan3969 Місяць тому +1

      The Village sucked

  • @Wraiven22
    @Wraiven22 Місяць тому +3

    The scream at 24:00 was so hilarious I literally rewatched it like 10 times 😂

  • @tehawfulestface1337
    @tehawfulestface1337 Місяць тому +51

    The first time everyone saw Ray outside, the movie for me came to a screeching halt! I really expected the dialogue to go: “Is that him? Yes, that’s him. That’s M. Night Shyamalan. He’s the director of this movie we are in. Where were we….?” I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!

    • @asiawest1973
      @asiawest1973 Місяць тому +4

      he cameos in all of his movies

    • @RealTechZen
      @RealTechZen Місяць тому +4

      That moment is the worm in this apple. Director cameos should be as blended into the background as possible. Instead, he's the town misfit; blending in like a flasher in an elementary school yard.

    • @pauldryburgh6346
      @pauldryburgh6346 23 дні тому

      ​@@RealTechZenYou decide how you should be blended into the films you make. To tell others what to do in theirs seems rather cuntish to be honest.

  • @Joellebee_
    @Joellebee_ Місяць тому +62

    One of my all-time favorite movies. A thought-provoking story on coincidence versus a higher power, all tied up in a family drama. Also the score is incredible!

  • @jameswinterbottom245
    @jameswinterbottom245 Місяць тому +3

    Next up, The Village and then Lady in the Water. Two of my favorite by M. Night Shyamalan

  • @matthewdekker6064
    @matthewdekker6064 Місяць тому +2

    My stepdad and I went to the midnight screening of Signs when I was 12, and afterward, we were both super jumpy when we were walking back to our car in the parking lot, and for the rest of the night. I basically didn't sleep that night, and he let me stay home from school the next day. I think it's still one of my stepdad's favorite movies that he watches probably twice a year.
    It's considered one of M. Night's best movies and made everyone really excited to see what he did next. He started with The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs. Unfortunately, he followed up Signs with The Village, Lady in the Water, The Happening, the shitty Last Airbender movie, After Earth, and The Visit - all pretty terrible IMO (and in most people's opinion, though I think the The Village and The Visit have a decent amount of fans). Then he did the Split movie and redeemed himself a little bit. Nowadays, he's largely considered pretty hokey and is known for always having a twist ending - usually a pretty crazy twist ending that either makes the movie great or completely ruins it (the twist in Signs caught a ton of flak but I think most people would say it doesn't ruin the movie, though). He's clearly talented if he's got the right material, but now you just never know if a movie of his is gonna be any good.

  • @williambryan3346
    @williambryan3346 Місяць тому +51

    @9:58 “It’s the Scandinavian Olympian women.” 🤣

    • @strangebiped
      @strangebiped Місяць тому +2

      I wondered how many "TAKES" that entire scene it took since everyone was probably LAUGHING THEIR BUTTS OFF!

    • @teddyj5187
      @teddyj5187 Місяць тому

      I would love for a Scandinavian female high jumper stalking me.

    • @sgtpepper1138
      @sgtpepper1138 Місяць тому +3

      Her "I don't appreciate the sarcasm" comment always annoyed me. I would be like "well, you're going pretty unreasonable lengths to disprove what I'm saying".

    • @teddyj5187
      @teddyj5187 Місяць тому +2

      @@sgtpepper1138 yep he should have never apologized

  • @ToABrighterFuture
    @ToABrighterFuture Місяць тому +24

    At the 10:36 mark:
    That's small-town America for you, honestly. My grandparents owned a farm twenty miles or so outside of a small town in North Dakota. How small? Less than a square mile, with a population right around 1500, give or take, when I was a kid.
    And when we went into town--stocking up the icebox, visiting the bank, church on Sunday morning--no one ever thought twice about letting the kids walk around town unaccompanied, and none of the locals batted an eye at the sight of unaccompanied minors.

  • @dannybonett8349
    @dannybonett8349 Місяць тому +2

    The dead pan way little Abigail Breslin delivers her lines cracks me up. Also, I think the reaction Merrill gave on the TV was necessary for his terror to add to the suspense as well as the humor when we see him wearing the tin foil. Glad you enjoyed it.

  • @philadams175
    @philadams175 Місяць тому +1

    I was an extra in this movie. I was one of the fire fighters at the accident scene. BTW it was filmed on 9/12/2001 and we held a prayer vigil prior to filming.

  • @lbea04
    @lbea04 Місяць тому +31

    Sarah Paulson fact: the woman who plays the officer is Cherry Jones. She is also Sarah Paulson's ex-girlfriend.

    • @reneemixon3994
      @reneemixon3994 Місяць тому +1

      Oh really, nice little piece of gossip.

  • @Nostalgio
    @Nostalgio Місяць тому +88

    Just thought I should mention that M Night Shyamalan mentioned in an interview once that’s this isn’t an alien or sci-fi movie, but that it’s actually a movie about a man who’s faith has been tested and the “aliens” are fallen angels invading earth to further prove that him falling out of faith after his wife’s untimely death was a SIGN. Wild stuff, but if you look at it in that POV it makes total sense. 🤯

    • @Blynat
      @Blynat Місяць тому +17

      Every time I mention this people call me stupid and say things like, "did you even watch the movie!?!?!?" Then I am like, yeah. Did you?

    • @michellecasey5752
      @michellecasey5752 Місяць тому +12

      I liked how we could gasp at Morgan telling his father he hated him for letting his mother die and then Mel’s character reflecting his feelings later when told God, the Father, he hated Him because his wife died and his son was dying.

    • @tremorsfan
      @tremorsfan Місяць тому +4

      That reminds me of a legend called the "Mowing Devil". A man complained about the job one of his farmers was doing, so the farmer threw down his thresher and said "let the devil mow it for you then". The next day all the crops where laid down like a crop circle.

    • @robgeach8105
      @robgeach8105 Місяць тому +9

      the fallen angels should've brought scuba suits before they invaded a planet 70% covered in water where it rains all the time.

    • @markmurphy558
      @markmurphy558 Місяць тому +1

      The Ray character was played by M. Night Shaymalan.

  • @LittleBlueOwl318
    @LittleBlueOwl318 Місяць тому +2

    M Knight Shyamalan likes to do a cameo in movies he's directing. He was "Ray Reddy" in this movie, a drug dealer in Unbreakable and "Dr Hill" in The Sixth Sense.

  • @Jarakin
    @Jarakin Місяць тому +3

    5:48 "What's the water gonna do to the monster?"
    Welp, actually...

  • @tarheeldd
    @tarheeldd Місяць тому +25

    This movie did an amazing job of building up suspense and anticipation with the music and sound effects. It's never overtly about the spectacle of seeing an alien, up until the very end that is. This one freaked me out GOOD and was the first move I'd seen in surround sound from speakers in my home. Those sound effects would raised the hairs on your neck for sure!

  • @balansboy
    @balansboy Місяць тому +19

    Love Signs. My second favorite M. Night movie after Sixth Sense. Loved The Village as well.

    • @mena94x3
      @mena94x3 Місяць тому +2

      I _adore_ The Village.

  • @jazziered142
    @jazziered142 Місяць тому

    Ashleigh, if I had had a daughter in my lifetime, I would have hoped the heck that she would have turned out like you. You are a precious gift to this world.

  • @MrRyguy2112
    @MrRyguy2112 Місяць тому +1

    That was quite the scream Ash!😂😂😂

  • @DeconvertedMan
    @DeconvertedMan Місяць тому +15

    When I took EMT training in the military, we were told a story about an enlisted man (or officer I can't quite recall now) who had been pinned to a tree with a tank. They called the mans wife and got her there as soon as they could, and she said goodbye to him and they told each other they loved each other. Then they took her off somewhere, because as soon as they would move that tank... that would be it for him - he was kept alive by the pinching of the tank/tree - no more lower half. Instantly dead as soon as they moved the tank. Yikes.

    • @floydlooney6837
      @floydlooney6837 Місяць тому

      crush syndrome

    • @tonyb7615
      @tonyb7615 Місяць тому +1

      ​@floydlooney6837 thats when you can't breathe because your diaphragm was crushed, so the lungs won't inflate. People look normal but asphyxiate. This is similar but the lungs work well enough to not die right away and the blood doesn't all drain out.

  • @ElisaH_DarklyiShine
    @ElisaH_DarklyiShine Місяць тому +118

    I like Signs quite a bit. Love the idea of everything in the movie happening for a reason, especially that idea of Morgan having asthma, them forgetting his medicine which means his lungs were closed up and is the reason the poison didn't kill him. Chef's kiss

    • @vanyadolly
      @vanyadolly Місяць тому +7

      Yeah! It's really satisfying as a coherent story in a way that most movies fail at nowadays. Even if it makes no sense that these aliens would come to a planet that's 70% water with frequent rainfall 😄

    • @Tateorsomething
      @Tateorsomething Місяць тому +4

      ​@vanyadolly of course they have the ability of intergalactic travel, but have never encountered water.

    • @kucing_oyen6839
      @kucing_oyen6839 Місяць тому +1

      The extraterrestrials are more terrifying than ghosts, because they can make strange patterns in the cornfields and lose a few dollars*

    • @xavvi
      @xavvi Місяць тому +9

      @@Tateorsomething I hate this argument. Human history is FILLED with us exploring settings, things and places that are a threat to us in some way, many people often underestimating just how deadly something is to us. For all you know small amounts of moisture are all that existed on their world or something, or they didn't know just HOW toxic water is to them. Then there's the other interpretation, which is that Bo is literally an angel (he tells her that she looked like one), and that the aliens are actually demons sent for the Father to fight to gain his faith back, in which case the water is actually holy water. Either way though, the hurr durr aliens arent that stupid argument is tired and boring because WE'RE that stupid.

    • @Tateorsomething
      @Tateorsomething Місяць тому +5

      @@xavvi WE'RE not capable of intergalactic travel. To be that advanced, I would assume (just an assumption) that they would have encountered water somewhere in the universe. I'm not even hating on the movie, just a question I have. Chill.

  • @mgwilliams1000
    @mgwilliams1000 Місяць тому +2

    Great choice, it was fun watching this with you. I was on deployment in 2003, my last with the Navy after 30 years, on the USS Lincoln. My wife recorded this on a CD and sent it to me. So, one night I was alone in our Air Wing office, turned out the lights and watched it on my laptop. Scared the crap out of me. And, there's a ghost story that goes along with that story that happened a week later in the middle of the night in the passageway outside the same office.

  • @AthanImmortal
    @AthanImmortal Місяць тому +1

    23:59 I've been watching you for years Ashley, that's probably the most genuine full body scream I've ever heard from anyone. Never change ❤

  • @basicsam9187
    @basicsam9187 Місяць тому +24

    When I tell you my 10 year old self peed a little in the theater when that birthday party scene happened.. That scene altered my brain I swear.

    • @Baiko
      @Baiko Місяць тому +2

      I wasn't even a kid when I saw this the first time a couple years after release, and that scene still gets me.

    • @katwebbxo
      @katwebbxo Місяць тому +2

      Came here to say this lol. I was around the same age but it wasn't easy for me to get freaked out by movies. That scene did it though. 😅

    • @itzakpoelzig330
      @itzakpoelzig330 Місяць тому +3

      A movie you need a diaper for is a damn good movie!

    • @Dudemeister-id9mw
      @Dudemeister-id9mw Місяць тому +2

      I jumped a mile in my seat at the door scene and was so mad at myself because I saw a flash of it in the movie trailer.

  • @gutz1981
    @gutz1981 Місяць тому +31

    6:25 I was into my 20s when I this movie came out, and that scene scared the hell out of me when I first saw it. Still gives me chills.

    • @Nostalgio
      @Nostalgio Місяць тому +1

      What?? 🤷🏽‍♂️ 🤣🤣

    • @gutz1981
      @gutz1981 Місяць тому +4

      @@Nostalgio Didn't you see the alien on the roof? Look again.

    • @trryhin
      @trryhin Місяць тому +4

      @@gutz1981 had to go back and look, I don't think I ever noticed that!

    • @Don-lg3oy
      @Don-lg3oy Місяць тому +1

      Covered me in chills too back when it came out in the theaters. I think Ashleigh missed it. I wanted her to rewind it!

    • @Jessica_Jones
      @Jessica_Jones 2 дні тому

      I totally forgot about it and was watching her reaction on my TV -- scared the crap out of me 😂

  • @meganpierce9977
    @meganpierce9977 Місяць тому +1

    Ashley watching Signs, “is this movie gonna make me cry?!” Me, “YES! Every time.” 😂😭

  • @MichaelRBlair
    @MichaelRBlair Місяць тому +2

    "now when I say it out loud that don't make no sense," you crack me up Ashleigh, never stop being you

  • @tccashmoney
    @tccashmoney Місяць тому +4

    Saw this when I was little. To this day scariest movie I can ever remember seeing. That alien walking across....sheesh.

  • @katwebbxo
    @katwebbxo Місяць тому +8

    The scene with the alien walking by traumatized almost everybody back then 😅

  • @danhelphrey6260
    @danhelphrey6260 Місяць тому +2

    "No fuckin' way!" - 😂

  • @QuestionableLifeChoices
    @QuestionableLifeChoices Місяць тому +1

    i saw this movie in theaters and i'll let you know that the shadows are supposed to be/was a little darker; it was actually really hard to see the alien on the roof, to the point where most people actually missed him, and the one at the birthday party, while still out in daylight, was more of a silhouette with hints of skin texture and color visible around the edges. we could tell he looked a bit greenish, but between the slightly darker darks and how quickly the moment passed, dear god was it effective. that being said, the leg in the field is definitely the stronger scare lol

  • @gmchris3752
    @gmchris3752 Місяць тому +16

    I was thinking, "What? of copurse you've seen Joaquin Pheonix. ,If not in Joker, then in Gladiator. Of course his performances are so different you might not have recognized him."
    Then I check and realize Ashleigh hasn't watched Gladiator!

    • @user-tj7sl2ht4b
      @user-tj7sl2ht4b Місяць тому +1

      or,since Ashleigh is a country music fan and even worked at a country radio station,it's possible that she might have seen the Johnny Cash biopic "Walk The Line",or at the very least saw him in promotional photos around the radio station.

    • @siukong
      @siukong Місяць тому

      To be fair this is Ashleigh we're talking about. It's a miracle if she recognizes actors in different movies at all, even the most obviously recognizable ones.

  • @OmegaSoypreme
    @OmegaSoypreme Місяць тому +10

    This movie is such a weird mix of absolutely masterful suspense, unsettling moments, and some absolute bonkers goofiness. Looking at you, recruiting officer guy!

  • @mattschliemann9683
    @mattschliemann9683 Місяць тому +1

    How the Alien just casually walks out at the birthday party but somehow still jolts you! I love that jump scare haha.
    Also seems like the Army Recruiter guy is always called creepy by soo many reactor's immediately when he first shows up in the movie. I dunno he's one of my favorite creatures. I love his awkward mannerisms, and the tone and rhythm of how he speaks.

  • @nuniobinez4066
    @nuniobinez4066 Місяць тому

    I like how Shamalan kept the tight, isolated feelling by showing every scene basically from the perspective of one or more members of the core family.

  • @NetanelWorthy
    @NetanelWorthy Місяць тому +6

    I think of scary movie when I watch this now
    “Hey, I’m gonna need a ride home”

  • @timcarder2170
    @timcarder2170 Місяць тому +5

    I like the slow burn of this movie. I know a lot of people shit on it's shortage of action, and over abundance of exposition, but that's only because small minds can't process the need to 'think' (for themselves) sometimes. 😊

  • @taylorh7993
    @taylorh7993 Місяць тому +4

    If you want another alien contact film, I highly, HIGHLY recommend Arrival. not only one of my favourite sci-fis, but one of my favs in general. it's a beautiful film with a beautiful message and theme. not a thriller, but very thought-provoking

    • @WeberIMayRoam
      @WeberIMayRoam Місяць тому

      Yes! Please watch Arrival!
      I would love to see Ashley put it together!

  • @KCHunter
    @KCHunter Місяць тому +1

    Anyone else say “funny you should say that?” When Ashleigh asks what is water going to do to the monster? 😅 5:40

  • @zvimur
    @zvimur Місяць тому +61

    5:44 "There is a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?"😢
    For me that phrase is up there with "I see dead people..... They don't know they're dead" &" It's time we shake hands". I know there is another major phrase in Signs. But *this* one!!

    • @chris...9497
      @chris...9497 Місяць тому +9

      "Swing away"

    • @zvimur
      @zvimur Місяць тому +3

      @@chris...9497 I know, but the other one is the one that hits you after the movie. Way after.

    • @brownstarslots
      @brownstarslots Місяць тому +9

      "it was meant to be." Everyone overlooks these words or think of it in disgust when Ray says it but forget it was also about the last thing his lucid wife said to him before telling Graham "what to do"

    • @ctbhaley
      @ctbhaley Місяць тому +3

      @@zvimur Are you the type who sees signs, or is everything just coincidence? Paraphrasing, I don't remember the exact quote.

    • @zvimur
      @zvimur Місяць тому

      @@ctbhaley I see signs in Shyamalan's work, because he likes to put them there !😃

  • @mikerhodes8454
    @mikerhodes8454 Місяць тому +6

    You always say you like movies about aliens, but it's always "Please, I don't want to see aliens" at the moment of truth. Also, the little girl who played Bo later played one of your favorite characters on the channel, Olive from Little Miss sunshine.

  • @darrenheideman2546
    @darrenheideman2546 Місяць тому +1

    Fun story, shortly after I first saw this movie, I was walking through my house at night, the only light coming from the kitchen. I suddenly caught sight of a figure standing still, almost perched. I froze momentarily, before realizing that it was a pair of coveralls me dad had hung out.

  • @arthurfields1639
    @arthurfields1639 Місяць тому +2

    The thought that Beau was an alien never entered my mind, but I can see how Ashleigh would think that. I just noticed that the news man who was announcing the arrival of all those space ships also played the father of the dead ghost girl in The Sixth Sense.

  • @BrewmasterDedspace
    @BrewmasterDedspace Місяць тому +17

    If you like alien movies, please watch "Fire in the Sky." This movie scared the crap out of me as a kid. It's probably one of the most realistic things to what we think aliens would look like . Plus, alien abduction! You will not be disappointed!!

    • @micheletrainor1601
      @micheletrainor1601 Місяць тому +4

      Great movie

    • @SgtRoninGIS
      @SgtRoninGIS Місяць тому +3

      Came here to say that. Based on a true story as well.

    • @micheletrainor1601
      @micheletrainor1601 Місяць тому +2

      @SgtRoninGIS so is Communion which is a fantastic book and movie.

    • @chris...9497
      @chris...9497 Місяць тому +3

      I prefer "Cowboys & Aliens" (2011) starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford.
      But the best is "John Carter" (2012), roughly the same time period as "Cowboys & Aliens", the 1860s-1880s.

    • @andreamiller3578
      @andreamiller3578 Місяць тому +3

      ​@@chris...9497those are both underrated but great movies. John Carter should have succeeded and i will never understand why it didn't.

  • @lesliesummey5880
    @lesliesummey5880 Місяць тому +5

    The alien at the birthday party thing I thought was SO scary! Creeped me totally out and I loved that that's the way they chose to reveal the alien.

  • @josephscally6270
    @josephscally6270 Місяць тому +1

    All I can tell you about turning 30 is that I wish I had any concept of just how young I was when I was 30. Celebrate that. Realize you are in the prime of your life. Your 30's and 40's should be the some of the best years of your life.. It's a great time to get into shape and hopefully you've got a few bucks in your pocket.

  • @jasonsarver668
    @jasonsarver668 Місяць тому +1

    The reaction in the theaters to the birthday scene was wild. Straight up screams!!!! The knife and the pantry scene too.

  • @carynjackson5307
    @carynjackson5307 Місяць тому +7

    The way I said - ASHLEIGH with all your drinks. And I'm working at my home office with 3 empty drinks at the moment. Twin, where have you been lol.

  • @Geth-Who
    @Geth-Who Місяць тому +6

    32:50 asthma attacks are brutal on a kid. Basically your throat muscles clench and swell, and constrict your airway - your own neck is strangling you. Medicines for it usually involve relief inhalers that fill a breath with relaxants like salbutamol, to get it to ease off.

    • @LittleBlueOwl318
      @LittleBlueOwl318 Місяць тому +1

      Yes, and without his medicine Morgan could barely breathe - that's why the poison didn't get in his lungs to kill him.
      Like they say, do you believe in coincidences?

  • @adrianhunter109
    @adrianhunter109 Місяць тому +5

    Water is like acid to them but they invade a planet of 70% water. Not to mention summer time in southern PA, the amount of humidity should have destroyed their lungs.

    • @MP197742
      @MP197742 Місяць тому +1

      In the nude. Why not have protective suits?

  • @melissamurray7378
    @melissamurray7378 Місяць тому

    Your scream during the kitchen scene is so validating. People (historically) love to say this movie "isn't even that scary", but this movie fully gave me nightmares for years. Loved your reaction as always ❤