I'll give Signs 1 thing, it did portray a shattered family quite well, as in I believe Mel was pretty much going on auto-pilot. And that scene when he makes his kids all their meals but he collapses and is comforted by his kids I thought was quite touching, he probably never cried in front of his kids before.
Or the way he talks to his kids almost like he doesn’t really know what to tell them, that really plays into the whole shattered family aspect because it’s like after Mel’s wife died he doesn’t really know how to be a parent anymore
There is one thing that bugs me about the water killing the aliens that one talks about. It is that how can they even stand on this planet when there is water vapour in the air constantly? Why isn't eating away at their skin as small drop of liquid does that in an instant?
Ice Climber People have talked about it. I guess it's just too easy to dismiss if you really want to, like maybe only liquid water is harmful to them. So it's easier to make points like the maize field at dawn where the water is bound to condense on the plants.
Penny Lane Maybe however considering the small amount of water it takes and violent reaction that happens, even as a gas, water would harm them. Their DNA would still be reacting with the water molecules.
Ice Climber I agree that it would be likely but there are so many good arguments to be made without having to argue this particular point, that's all I wanted to say. Oh and that many people still have argued this particular point regardless.
The first time I watched "Signs", I seriously thought the twist was going to be that everyone had already been body-snatched because of how "not right" they were talking :).
It's true that the none of the characters "talk right" in this movie, but I used to sort of justify it by assuming that the reason the children were so monotone, wooden, and robotic was because they were emotionally numbed by the loss of their mother. I can somewhat excuse the children for talking the way they do, but I think that's a bit of a stretch.
I saw Signs in the theater with my mom and dad. We were so excited because everyone had told us it was a good movie. I remember after the movie we were quiet, we all walked out into the parking lot, got into the car, and I said, "...That movie kinda sucked didn't it?!" and my dad said, "How the hell could anyone think that was good?" Then we went to the liquor store. Good times.
This movie freaked me out as a kid. I slept with a glass of water next to my bed for over a month. And still would have random nights where I would get water, just in case. Until I was 16. Needless to say, I don't do horror. Please someone tell me they were an easily frightened child and were also freaked out by Signs.
Sorry I was raised on Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhes, and Michael Myers. Signs barely raised an eyebrow. Maybe instead of hiding from horror movies you should watch a bunch of them, get a thick skin, build up a resistance. Just a thought, might help you in the long run
i like to think that those aliens were filming a jackass episode or something, stuff like "hey we are invading this planet filled with toxins, completely naked"
The birthday party footage scene terrified me when i first saw it, but I was a bit too young for that film when it came out. I agree that basically everything of that scene except the actual alien is done pretty damn well.
I still want to see real thoughts on Garbage Pail Kids. Yes, I know they've talked about it, and already said it's the worst movie ever made but... I just want to see them get REALLY REALLY angry over it again!
That's something that is constantly great in all Shyamalan's films and that is the soundtracks. Even The Last Airbender has one of the best soundtracks of all time, right up in the top five. Especially with Flow Like Water --- Absolutely Gorgeous.
I like what the film tried to do in terms of storytelling, mythology, and fairy tales as well, but I do agree that Shyamalan's cameo as "the author that's going to change the world" and the only character to die was the stereotypical snobbish film critic, was pretty dumb.
Slumdog Millionaire has such a beautiful message. If you're poor, live in the slums and you're down on your luck, don't read a book. Don't educate yourself, you don't even have to know who the 3rd Musketier is. You just have to be lucky, you just have to wait so faith can lend you everything you'll ever need and you will never have to work for anything. That movie truly helped millions of unfortunate people and it's so moving. :.) Like you know how genious it was how the guy, dispite already having enough money to hire an investigator to find the girl, or just money to buy himslef screentime, he just kept playing risking to lose all his money knowing he knows shit. :) Genious.
Question: Did anyone see the "If Scary Movies were Real" where Smosh makes fun of Signs and used water but it turns out the aliens's weakness aren't water? It's fucking hilarious!
For me, I thought Signs was okay. Hell even The Village. While both films have some problems, they at the very least had some good things with it INCLUDING some clever things and interesting elements. But I think we can pretty much agree that both Signs and The Village are not as as bad as his latest films.
You brought up Costner briefly so I'm going to say this: Kevin Costner's best role was in the 1985 Lawrence Kasdan movie "Silverado" and if you haven't seen it you should. Costner is lively, he's energetic, he's riding on a horse, screaming and yelling while firing two Nickel plated revolvers and he is awesome!
I honestly love Shamalan (can't think of how to spell his name) his movies are kinda good (minus a few but that's every director) and I have leaned to love his tropes. I'm honesty excited about his new film coming out just to see how he can Shamalan a found footage type film
I liked Chris Stuckmann's analysis of the film and it made some things make a bit more sense due to things needing to be picked up. Signs are probably also mentioning that we should not expect things to the told right to us, and to instead look for clues in what they show and the subtle hints. Shyamalan expected to have us pay attention a lot. According the Stuckmann, one of the main things that we had to remember was that the aliens weren't after the planet, but the humans inhabiting it (they were harvesting us). They had no interest in Earth itself, and knew of the danger. Thus, their mission was to get in there, take what they needed, and get the eff out, and they had to leave the injured behind. The pantry alien was among the injured. Also, we're only seeing the invasion through the eyes of the family, and not through other perspectives. I recommend his video of this as it gives a lot of interesting theories and points.
To be fair, the twist of bacteria in War of the Worlds was amazing when it was first written, when the whole idea of bacteria was still rather new and unknown. Nowadays we know that if anything has the technology to travel to other planets, it will know about bacteria and know how to protect itself from these things. We've seen what can happen when just travelling to another continent, one would have to be a complete moron to travel to another planet stark naked! xD There's also a theory that the secret twist of Signs is that they're not aliens, they're demons, and the little girl who always wanted a new glass of water every night, only took one sip from each and left the rest standing around the house was actually blessed and so what burnt the alien/demon was not just water but holy water, though if that makes the film any better or worse... eh... not sure.
The Seleuf even when i saw it the first time the twist was stupid asf since they stored their ships centuries before you would think they would try to build a immune system against it
Honestly a movie made by Shylaman and the Wachowskis sounds like something I would watch just to see how confused I get and how many times I would facepalm from it. I know it's never going to happen, though, unfortunately.
my film theory teacher said they were looking for a cure for the water, i dont think so and i agree that the first half is suspenseful and yes the twist ruins it
Making pokemon symbolic of the holocaust? That's.... not that hard. It's call IV breeding. The pure and best above the rest, the others get released? Training to perfection on perfect stats until it's flawless? I can see some similarities there....
Since there's the religious symbolism of water and wood killing non-human beings... this movie might have worked better if this whole thing was in their heads and everyone else in the town thought they were crazy or something. That way the closure in the end would've made sense. But... then again we wouldn't have had NC's epic Door Meltdown. I'm torn.
I really liked this movie when I first saw it but then Phil Plait's review ruined it for me since I didn't realize the whole "invading a planet covered in water while being dissolved by water thing" at first. I think part of it was that I liked to fantasize that aliens invaded but were defeated by water so that I could defend Earth as a kid with water guns, and here was that idea on the big screen.
I liked Signs- loved parts... though I will say my favorite part was him coming in to find his brother and kids all sitting with tinfoil on their heads... I have fun with it if I see it- though it isn't that rewatchable- that part makes me laugh EVERY time... :)
you know that trailer for his halloween movie, is it called "the visit"? can't remember. it did look intriguing at first. and then the old lady said "can you please climb in the oven and clean it?" and i spat my food out
The thing about the Wachowskis that I've noticed over shyamalan is they have more of a clue about what makes a good movie. Say what you will about The Matrix movies but everyone who's seen them remembers something great and unique about them...as well as the bad stuff. Plus they knew how to direct good fight scenes, as was shown in the Matrix films and in V for Vendetta.
I had this movie recorded on an unlabeled VHS tape with a much better movie after it (I can't remember which one at the moment). So most my memories of Signs are me fast-forwarding through it, then hitting Play and wondering if it's actually progressing since every scene of this movie is identical to the next. I would always know I was getting closer to the end when they would be in the same identical scene, but with tin hats on.
i'm gonna be the one who says this right now...i don't think the wachowskis damage actors as badly as shyamalan does. heck a lot of people (myself included) didn't know about the actors in the matrix films until after seeing the films. i'll admit the serious talk is a bit distracting but surprisingly i felt it fit the mood of the film
I hate to say this, because I've always loved that story since I was a kid, but. . . the twist in War of the Worlds doesn't make much sense either guys. And for the same reason it doesn't work in Signs. Just like you can't logically have aliens who are so technologically advanced that they have mastered interstellar space travel also being confounded by wooden doors, you can't have technologically advanced aliens that have mastered interstellar space travel not understand or comprehend that microscopic organisms like bacteria and viruses exist, and that they need to protect themselves from foreign pathogens. How can an alien species be so advanced in physics and engineering that they can travel between the stars, while simultaneously having such a poor understanding of biology? It just doesn't work.
i'd like an honest nostalgia thought on neverending story 3. Or even better a re-review of neverending story 3, seeing as Doug and Rob have said that they had a lot of jokes they wanted to make
+Channel Awesome Don't you consider the possibility that water is an element that these aliens never experienced before? Or is that concept too _alien_ for you to understand (sorry)? Chris Stuckmann did an amazing analysis on this movie which answers some of your questions like: Why did they consider taking the dog to a human doctor and not a vet? Why can't the alien get through a door? The latter was a case of the characters misinterpreting the events. Just because they're the main characters doesn't mean they know _everything,_ that's reserved for Gary Stu's/Mary Sue's.
a movie directed by the Wachowskis and Shyamalan, what could be worse? A movie directed by the Wachowskies and Shaymalan is starring Adam Sandler! The internet would just go insane!
Honestly, I've never had a problem with the way anyone talked in a Shamaylan film. There's nothing wrong with speaking in a thoughtful, methodical manner.
In one of my game stories part of the story involves that there had been an invasion of Earth by a species, sorta similar to Signs, but they were not like every alien you've ever seen before. They actually looked very humanoid, just being taller, their veins glow, and they had small wings on their back. But the 'twist' abit like this one is that someone on Earth was acid to them, this one being blood though. The thing I did here, instead of doing what Signs did where they knew this when they went to Earth, the species had no knowledge of what human blood would do to their bodies, since none of them when experimenting on the humans, dissecting them etc, thought "hey let's contaminate this blood we are using for experiments with our fingers!"
For me Shyamalan is in the same group as David Cage videogames. They have good concepts byt they need to stop writing, especially when it comes to dialogue writing.
No you are just used to the fake hollywood scripts that your brain percieves authentic dialog as bad dialog. Like your brain is used to cuts although there aren't any in the real life. Im talking about shyamalan here. I never played a david cage game.
I literally can't imagine. They're both bad, but they are as opposite as you can get in terms of effects, acting, camera work, story writing, and pacing
***** They would probably balance each other out, and make a good film; Bay is an over the top action film director while Shyamalan is a slow and mellow thriller film director.
I'm one of those people who loves your guys' review, but still thinks that Signs is a fine movie. It's not a masterpiece, and it's dialog is particularly bad, but it is interesting to watch, and for the first half in particular has a very good grasp on creating and maintaining tension. The Village, also, is a good movie. It's a better movie than Signs, you just have to ignore the final 10 minutes.
I thought that The Village was pretty decent towards the beginning. I was in 4th grade when it came out, the 6th Sense was one of my favorite movies at the time, and I was recently introduced to Hitchcock as well. So I was getting really into suspenseful films and couldn't wait to see it. The beginning scared the shit out of me with the things that come out of the woods and all that, but once it's revealed as the village elders dressing up, I got bored really quick. If I wasn't watching it with my dad, I would probably have been yelling bullshit at the screen.
Make it about demons waiting in the fields to kill the family and then they are killed by the water because it is in the house of a priest. Makes waaay more sense right? On top of that instead of the "gray" alien design make some creepy as hell humanoids, like The Babadook or something.
Honestly, the biggest problem with Shyamalan is that he started with The Sixth Sense. It was a huge hit, it was critically accailmed like mad, he got nominated for several Oscars. And like a giant dummy, he let the fame get to his head and started to think he was The Next Spielberg or Hitchcock and that he was the Master Of Twists {even though, nobody called or deemed him the Master Of Twists} and starting with Lady In The Water and still to this day {even with The Visit}, his head is WAY too big.
Oh my gosh I am looking so forward to your review of Lady in the Water... if I could make a suggestion, the next Shyamalan film comes out on September 11th, so maybe you could review LitW then... just a suggestion.
With the exception of that movie I refuse to believe exists(ATLA), I enjoyed most of his movies growing up. Happening- scary especially with the crazy old lady. Lady in the Water- loved it I thought the lady was like a fairy princess (I was 10 in my defense). Signs, sixth sense, Unbreakable especially. Hell when The Village came out I dressed as Ivy for Halloween complete with the Yellow Cape my grandma made. They were the only "horror" movies I was allowed to watch anytime I wanted, probably because my parents and grandparents knew they were terrible, and probably for that reason alone I became a horror buff. So thank you Shyamalan for having movies be considered so terrible I could enjoy them as a kid.
As a Christian, I do totally buy that there are things that we are not meant to understand and that some stuff that doesn't make sense is part of a grand plan and sometimes something bad needs to happen But I also believe that human beings by having free will cause things to happen that have no purpose in God's grand plan. Good Omens bizarrely is one of the best examples I've seen of this concept. To assume that you can understand what the plan is, even if you've been told this is part of the plan, is hubris.
Signs was a great movie, I remember when it first came out everyone loved it. But now that Shammy Lammy has developed this shitty reputation everyone shits on it.
The thing about Shyamalan is that a lot of people like his religious and more morally clean sorts of movies, even if they are kinda cheesy most of the time... But man alive, does Shyamalan REALLY need to do some rethinking of his "plot twist" thing... (Sigh...)
My personal biggest gripe with "swing away" is how stupid that message itself is. Why do you need divine intervention to understand "beat the thing that's attacking my kid with nearby blunt object"? If an alien - or ANYONE - is about to MURDER YOUR CHILD, you grab the nearest object and kick their ass. God doesn't need to kill any wives to make that clear.
I absolutely despise this movie. It's probably in my top 10 least favourite movies of all-time. The acting is atrocious, the script is awful, the twists are beyond cretinous, it's pretentious, annoying and unoriginal tripe.
While it is true that the Lord works in mysterious ways and we weren't meant to understand it all, it is true that, as Rob said, people just assume that God has a hand in everything that happens which I don't believe he always does. I believe many times things just happen by accident or by just people themselves.
The scene that really gets me is the conversation between Graham and Merrill about God. Merrill believes because something good happened to him personally, and Graham doesn't because something bad happened to him personally. Those are both terrible reasons. Now, I kind of give Graham a pass because the "bad thing" was pretty major and he's in grief - but Merrill believes that the creator of the universe personally arranged for him to spit out his gum at the perfect moment to avoid being puked on by the drunk girl? What about all the people who *have* been puked on by drunk girls at parties? Does God just hate them? And how about all the people who didn't have asthma and presumably died from the aliens' gas attack? Oh, I know...God planned for them all to die so the could deliver a five-word message to their loved ones on how to defeat the forthcoming Mole Men from the Center of the Earth...
I got it. Shimalamlamalan-directed and co-written/produced by the Wack siblings as a three part epic trilogy involving a secret war between the Bilderberg Reptilians and the Illumanati Alien Grays over whether the world will embrace "TP Roll Side Up" or "TP Side Down." Starring Eddie Redmayne, Hugo Weaving, Mark Wahlberg with cameos by Christopher Walken, Nick Nolte, Justin Bieber, and Tommy Wiseau. (Set/concept designs by Bo Welch) TELL me you wouldn't pay to see that beautiful shit. GOOOOOOAAAA! :)
I'll give Signs 1 thing, it did portray a shattered family quite well, as in I believe Mel was pretty much going on auto-pilot. And that scene when he makes his kids all their meals but he collapses and is comforted by his kids I thought was quite touching, he probably never cried in front of his kids before.
None of the kids talk right
Or the way he talks to his kids almost like he doesn’t really know what to tell them, that really plays into the whole shattered family aspect because it’s like after Mel’s wife died he doesn’t really know how to be a parent anymore
"NOTHING HAS CHANGED EXCEPT YOU'RE DOWN ONE WIFE!!!" -Doug 2015
I wonder how Chris Stuckmann feels about this video.
He probably never wants to talk to these guys ever again. Also I’m 100% on Doug’s side.
Rob: "Would it kill you to have an emotion?!"
Kevin Costner: "Maybe."
There is one thing that bugs me about the water killing the aliens that one talks about. It is that how can they even stand on this planet when there is water vapour in the air constantly? Why isn't eating away at their skin as small drop of liquid does that in an instant?
Ice Climber People have talked about it. I guess it's just too easy to dismiss if you really want to, like maybe only liquid water is harmful to them. So it's easier to make points like the maize field at dawn where the water is bound to condense on the plants.
Penny Lane Maybe however considering the small amount of water it takes and violent reaction that happens, even as a gas, water would harm them. Their DNA would still be reacting with the water molecules.
Ice Climber I agree that it would be likely but there are so many good arguments to be made without having to argue this particular point, that's all I wanted to say. Oh and that many people still have argued this particular point regardless.
Maybe since humans are mostly water, a punch to the aliens would be a super death punch.
Ice Climber
what about when it rains...
The first time I watched "Signs", I seriously thought the twist was going to be that everyone had already been body-snatched because of how "not right" they were talking :).
It's true that the none of the characters "talk right" in this movie, but I used to sort of justify it by assuming that the reason the children were so monotone, wooden, and robotic was because they were emotionally numbed by the loss of their mother.
I can somewhat excuse the children for talking the way they do, but I think that's a bit of a stretch.
What do you mean none talk right?
I'll give credit to this movie and Shyamalan for the "Last Supper" scene. The overall execution is brilliant. Mel Gibson did a wonderful job.
I saw Signs in the theater with my mom and dad. We were so excited because everyone had told us it was a good movie. I remember after the movie we were quiet, we all walked out into the parking lot, got into the car, and I said, "...That movie kinda sucked didn't it?!" and my dad said, "How the hell could anyone think that was good?"
Then we went to the liquor store. Good times.
This movie freaked me out as a kid. I slept with a glass of water next to my bed for over a month. And still would have random nights where I would get water, just in case. Until I was 16. Needless to say, I don't do horror. Please someone tell me they were an easily frightened child and were also freaked out by Signs.
awesomegreenlantern I'm 24 and the movie still makes me shit myself lol
Sorry I was raised on Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhes, and Michael Myers. Signs barely raised an eyebrow. Maybe instead of hiding from horror movies you should watch a bunch of them, get a thick skin, build up a resistance. Just a thought, might help you in the long run
i like to think that those aliens were filming a jackass episode or something, stuff like "hey we are invading this planet filled with toxins, completely naked"
Before I saw Signs, I didn't realize that boredom could generate physical pain.
BlackburnBigdragon well they say if you get bored like that you're most likely just stupid lol
BlackburnBigdragon #themoreyouknow
***** no
Vinny Raptor
Yes.
I bet your one of them people who only like explosions in films like avengers. Your annoyed signs wasn't like independence day or battle of LA
The birthday party footage scene terrified me when i first saw it, but I was a bit too young for that film when it came out. I agree that basically everything of that scene except the actual alien is done pretty damn well.
I still want to see real thoughts on Garbage Pail Kids. Yes, I know they've talked about it, and already said it's the worst movie ever made but... I just want to see them get REALLY REALLY angry over it again!
+LordoftheJimmy There is a movie out there that's worse than Garbage Pail Kids. Have you ever heard of The Jar?
I'm pumped for the Lady in the Water review.
I love Doug's reaction to the movie, that means it's gonna be a good one!
That's something that is constantly great in all Shyamalan's films and that is the soundtracks. Even The Last Airbender has one of the best soundtracks of all time, right up in the top five. Especially with Flow Like Water --- Absolutely Gorgeous.
+Really Ryan (Doug with a cheeky smile) there's so much material this is amazing
XDD
I like what the film tried to do in terms of storytelling, mythology, and fairy tales as well, but I do agree that Shyamalan's cameo as "the author that's going to change the world" and the only character to die was the stereotypical snobbish film critic, was pretty dumb.
Kevin Smith had better arguments about faith in his movie 'Dogma'. And that movie had a rubber poop monster.....
Shamalan works in mysterious ways, Rob.
Slumdog Millionaire has such a beautiful message. If you're poor, live in the slums and you're down on your luck, don't read a book. Don't educate yourself, you don't even have to know who the 3rd Musketier is. You just have to be lucky, you just have to wait so faith can lend you everything you'll ever need and you will never have to work for anything. That movie truly helped millions of unfortunate people and it's so moving. :.) Like you know how genious it was how the guy, dispite already having enough money to hire an investigator to find the girl, or just money to buy himslef screentime, he just kept playing risking to lose all his money knowing he knows shit. :) Genious.
Channel Ninbikun That was the strongest sarcasm I've ever seen.
Why does everybody keep on hiring me..... All of my work is shiiiiiiiiiit.....
Oh cool are you in the new star wars?
Question: Did anyone see the "If Scary Movies were Real" where Smosh makes fun of Signs and used water but it turns out the aliens's weakness aren't water? It's fucking hilarious!
For me, I thought Signs was okay. Hell even The Village. While both films have some problems, they at the very least had some good things with it INCLUDING some clever things and interesting elements. But I think we can pretty much agree that both Signs and The Village are not as as bad as his latest films.
TOOKAH!!! = WOOD!!!
TheCinematicGamer COK-SAH-LI! = GODDAMMIT!
DOOKAH!!
the colors in his room are beautifully matched
You brought up Costner briefly so I'm going to say this: Kevin Costner's best role was in the 1985 Lawrence Kasdan movie "Silverado" and if you haven't seen it you should. Costner is lively, he's energetic, he's riding on a horse, screaming and yelling while firing two Nickel plated revolvers and he is awesome!
I honestly love Shamalan (can't think of how to spell his name) his movies are kinda good (minus a few but that's every director) and I have leaned to love his tropes. I'm honesty excited about his new film coming out just to see how he can Shamalan a found footage type film
I liked Chris Stuckmann's analysis of the film and it made some things make a bit more sense due to things needing to be picked up. Signs are probably also mentioning that we should not expect things to the told right to us, and to instead look for clues in what they show and the subtle hints. Shyamalan expected to have us pay attention a lot. According the Stuckmann, one of the main things that we had to remember was that the aliens weren't after the planet, but the humans inhabiting it (they were harvesting us). They had no interest in Earth itself, and knew of the danger. Thus, their mission was to get in there, take what they needed, and get the eff out, and they had to leave the injured behind. The pantry alien was among the injured. Also, we're only seeing the invasion through the eyes of the family, and not through other perspectives. I recommend his video of this as it gives a lot of interesting theories and points.
I think I'm the only person who was actually excited to watch him tear into a movie I loved as a kid. (That movie being Sharkboy and Lavagirl.)
To be fair, the twist of bacteria in War of the Worlds was amazing when it was first written, when the whole idea of bacteria was still rather new and unknown. Nowadays we know that if anything has the technology to travel to other planets, it will know about bacteria and know how to protect itself from these things. We've seen what can happen when just travelling to another continent, one would have to be a complete moron to travel to another planet stark naked! xD
There's also a theory that the secret twist of Signs is that they're not aliens, they're demons, and the little girl who always wanted a new glass of water every night, only took one sip from each and left the rest standing around the house was actually blessed and so what burnt the alien/demon was not just water but holy water, though if that makes the film any better or worse... eh... not sure.
The Seleuf even when i saw it the first time the twist was stupid asf since they stored their ships centuries before you would think they would try to build a immune system against it
I'm with Rob. 1 st half was such an awesome buildup . Too bad it was building up to frikken garbage!!!!
Honestly a movie made by Shylaman and the Wachowskis sounds like something I would watch just to see how confused I get and how many times I would facepalm from it. I know it's never going to happen, though, unfortunately.
"Fuck those mysterious ways, the final result makes no goddamn sense!" lol
I remember seeing a trailer for The Village, I had no previous knowledge of Shamalan at the time, and I called the twist right then and there!
Talk about The Temple of Doom.
Video Game Drummer Productions That's one of my least favorite NC reviews.
***** The scenes with the cast of '80's Dan were good but otherwise I am not a fan of that review either.
Master and Commander is one of the few Russell Crowe movies I've seen, and I think he's a good actor. At least whenever he's handed a good script
Wood D:
Courteny Dilley Wood ;)
Wood :/
Courteny Dilley TOOKAH!!!
+Unithes18 COK-SAH-LI!
I was in this movie and M. Night's next movie
J Wizard Phoenix I'm sorry. Unless you had fun doing it, then I'm not sorry, but still you were in a bad movie.
FaceUnreality He's pretending to be Joaquin Phoenix.
StudioInkblot The hell do you mean by pretend?
J Wizard Phoenix By pretend he means pretend.
***** Which is bull because I am no pretender.
They should totally do a Nostalgia Critic of "God's Not Dead".
If the aliens were demons instead it could`ve been that Mel Gibson blessed the glasses of water.
You might be on to something!!!! It would definitely tie into the themes of religious faith a lot better as well.
I want to like Signs and The Village so much. Build up and concept seemed so awesome, but those payoffs just kill it.
my film theory teacher said they were looking for a cure for the water, i dont think so and i agree that the first half is suspenseful and yes the twist ruins it
Making pokemon symbolic of the holocaust? That's.... not that hard. It's call IV breeding. The pure and best above the rest, the others get released? Training to perfection on perfect stats until it's flawless?
I can see some similarities there....
4:22 i haven't even seen signs before but i feel like rob's face here sums it all up
I've been waiting for you to talk about your real thoughts on Good Burger.
Since there's the religious symbolism of water and wood killing non-human beings... this movie might have worked better if this whole thing was in their heads and everyone else in the town thought they were crazy or something. That way the closure in the end would've made sense. But... then again we wouldn't have had NC's epic Door Meltdown. I'm torn.
I really liked this movie when I first saw it but then Phil Plait's review ruined it for me since I didn't realize the whole "invading a planet covered in water while being dissolved by water thing" at first. I think part of it was that I liked to fantasize that aliens invaded but were defeated by water so that I could defend Earth as a kid with water guns, and here was that idea on the big screen.
I would love to hear both of your detailed thoughts on either Food Fight or Master of Disguise, those are both in my top five reviews of the NC
If aliens invade I know what to do: get some pantry doors and glasses of water. 😂 And a baseball bat of course! 🤣
I liked Signs- loved parts... though I will say my favorite part was him coming in to find his brother and kids all sitting with tinfoil on their heads...
I have fun with it if I see it- though it isn't that rewatchable- that part makes me laugh EVERY time... :)
AAHH MY NIPPLES HURT, THEY HURT WHEN I TWIST THEM!!
you know that trailer for his halloween movie, is it called "the visit"? can't remember. it did look intriguing at first. and then the old lady said "can you please climb in the oven and clean it?" and i spat my food out
2:54 my reaction when I watched the "Flubber" review. I was like "You CAAAANNNN'T talk about 'Flubber'!"
I think it'd be fascinating to make a movie with the intention of making it a bad one to see how it comes out. to see what the end result will be.
The thing about the Wachowskis that I've noticed over shyamalan is they have more of a clue about what makes a good movie. Say what you will about The Matrix movies but everyone who's seen them remembers something great and unique about them...as well as the bad stuff. Plus they knew how to direct good fight scenes, as was shown in the Matrix films and in V for Vendetta.
I'm loving your Real Thoughts videos :) Hope you guys are able to sort out your problems with UA-cam soon :(
Respect, for the volumes of Flight in the background. 👍
I had this movie recorded on an unlabeled VHS tape with a much better movie after it (I can't remember which one at the moment). So most my memories of Signs are me fast-forwarding through it, then hitting Play and wondering if it's actually progressing since every scene of this movie is identical to the next. I would always know I was getting closer to the end when they would be in the same identical scene, but with tin hats on.
I love when their umms sync up. So cute
i'm gonna be the one who says this right now...i don't think the wachowskis damage actors as badly as shyamalan does. heck a lot of people (myself included) didn't know about the actors in the matrix films until after seeing the films. i'll admit the serious talk is a bit distracting but surprisingly i felt it fit the mood of the film
The whole Pokemon/Holocaust thing made me laugh and honestly... there is NO WAY that could be anything more hilariously wrong than that.
Thank GOD he didn't do that Pokemon thing...
Hey, will you guys ever do Lady in the Water?
I hate to say this, because I've always loved that story since I was a kid, but. . . the twist in War of the Worlds doesn't make much sense either guys. And for the same reason it doesn't work in Signs.
Just like you can't logically have aliens who are so technologically advanced that they have mastered interstellar space travel also being confounded by wooden doors, you can't have technologically advanced aliens that have mastered interstellar space travel not understand or comprehend that microscopic organisms like bacteria and viruses exist, and that they need to protect themselves from foreign pathogens.
How can an alien species be so advanced in physics and engineering that they can travel between the stars, while simultaneously having such a poor understanding of biology? It just doesn't work.
i'd like an honest nostalgia thought on neverending story 3. Or even better a re-review of neverending story 3, seeing as Doug and Rob have said that they had a lot of jokes they wanted to make
+Channel Awesome Don't you consider the possibility that water is an element that these aliens never experienced before? Or is that concept too _alien_ for you to understand (sorry)? Chris Stuckmann did an amazing analysis on this movie which answers some of your questions like: Why did they consider taking the dog to a human doctor and not a vet? Why can't the alien get through a door? The latter was a case of the characters misinterpreting the events. Just because they're the main characters doesn't mean they know _everything,_ that's reserved for Gary Stu's/Mary Sue's.
Lol Are You Guys Ready For "The Visit" ? The Trailer Makes It Look So Promising But Shyamalan Has Let Me Down Way Too Many Times.
And then scarry movie 3 point it out
They master spaceflight but they cant get through a wooden door.
a movie directed by the Wachowskis and Shyamalan, what could be worse? A movie directed by the Wachowskies and Shaymalan is starring Adam Sandler! The internet would just go insane!
Honestly, I've never had a problem with the way anyone talked in a Shamaylan film. There's nothing wrong with speaking in a thoughtful, methodical manner.
I can't believe Aliens capable of interstellar travel don't know what water is and they don't even wear suits or have weapons.
The movie makes more sense if you think of them less as aliens and more as somekind of extradimensional demonic entities.
And can’t get through pantry doors
Has Critic ever reviewed The Sixth Sense? Would be interesting to pick out the Shyamalan-isms in his only universally praised movie.
In one of my game stories part of the story involves that there had been an invasion of Earth by a species, sorta similar to Signs, but they were not like every alien you've ever seen before. They actually looked very humanoid, just being taller, their veins glow, and they had small wings on their back.
But the 'twist' abit like this one is that someone on Earth was acid to them, this one being blood though. The thing I did here, instead of doing what Signs did where they knew this when they went to Earth, the species had no knowledge of what human blood would do to their bodies, since none of them when experimenting on the humans, dissecting them etc, thought "hey let's contaminate this blood we are using for experiments with our fingers!"
For me Shyamalan is in the same group as David Cage videogames. They have good concepts byt they need to stop writing, especially when it comes to dialogue writing.
No you are just used to the fake hollywood scripts that your brain percieves authentic dialog as bad dialog. Like your brain is used to cuts although there aren't any in the real life. Im talking about shyamalan here. I never played a david cage game.
@@peshmerge44 oh look at me I know what art is, if movie doesn't have long boring fucking dialog then it's not good.
4:06 That can actually be done. No joke.
Can you imagine what would happen if Shyamalan and Michael Bay teamed up, or at the very least Shyamalan took over the Transformers movies?
I literally can't imagine. They're both bad, but they are as opposite as you can get in terms of effects, acting, camera work, story writing, and pacing
***** They would probably balance each other out, and make a good film; Bay is an over the top action film director while Shyamalan is a slow and mellow thriller film director.
I'm one of those people who loves your guys' review, but still thinks that Signs is a fine movie. It's not a masterpiece, and it's dialog is particularly bad, but it is interesting to watch, and for the first half in particular has a very good grasp on creating and maintaining tension.
The Village, also, is a good movie. It's a better movie than Signs, you just have to ignore the final 10 minutes.
So Doug and Rob enjoyed Pacific Rim? That's an automatic 1+ of affection from me.
I thought that The Village was pretty decent towards the beginning. I was in 4th grade when it came out, the 6th Sense was one of my favorite movies at the time, and I was recently introduced to Hitchcock as well. So I was getting really into suspenseful films and couldn't wait to see it. The beginning scared the shit out of me with the things that come out of the woods and all that, but once it's revealed as the village elders dressing up, I got bored really quick. If I wasn't watching it with my dad, I would probably have been yelling bullshit at the screen.
Make it about demons waiting in the fields to kill the family and then they are killed by the water because it is in the house of a priest. Makes waaay more sense right? On top of that instead of the "gray" alien design make some creepy as hell humanoids, like The Babadook or something.
9:40 What is the metaphore about criticism that they use in the movie?
Honestly, the biggest problem with Shyamalan is that he started with The Sixth Sense. It was a huge hit, it was critically accailmed like mad, he got nominated for several Oscars. And like a giant dummy, he let the fame get to his head and started to think he was The Next Spielberg or Hitchcock and that he was the Master Of Twists {even though, nobody called or deemed him the Master Of Twists} and starting with Lady In The Water and still to this day {even with The Visit}, his head is WAY too big.
Oh my gosh I am looking so forward to your review of Lady in the Water... if I could make a suggestion, the next Shyamalan film comes out on September 11th, so maybe you could review LitW then... just a suggestion.
I've got to take Doug's side on this one. Unbreakable > Signs.
I still love this movie, damn it! It doesn't have to make sense!
as for the moviegoers, nope, as long as it entertains you.
as for filmmaker, yes! it should make sense :/
WHAT??!!!?? NOOOOOOOO!!!!!
With the exception of that movie I refuse to believe exists(ATLA), I enjoyed most of his movies growing up. Happening- scary especially with the crazy old lady. Lady in the Water- loved it I thought the lady was like a fairy princess (I was 10 in my defense). Signs, sixth sense, Unbreakable especially. Hell when The Village came out I dressed as Ivy for Halloween complete with the Yellow Cape my grandma made. They were the only "horror" movies I was allowed to watch anytime I wanted, probably because my parents and grandparents knew they were terrible, and probably for that reason alone I became a horror buff. So thank you Shyamalan for having movies be considered so terrible I could enjoy them as a kid.
As a Christian, I do totally buy that there are things that we are not meant to understand and that some stuff that doesn't make sense is part of a grand plan and sometimes something bad needs to happen
But I also believe that human beings by having free will cause things to happen that have no purpose in God's grand plan.
Good Omens bizarrely is one of the best examples I've seen of this concept. To assume that you can understand what the plan is, even if you've been told this is part of the plan, is hubris.
I just wanted to be the 400th commenter. But fun fact; Shamalyan got the idea for the "Sixth Sense" from an episode of "Are you Afraid of the Dark?"
See Life of Pi everyone! It is a way better movie to represent faith without it actually being the focus of the movie... it is a FANTASTIC movie
It is a great movie :)
You guys sound so similar it sounds like critic is arguing with himself lol
I regret that you feel that way
Did Rob go to Michigan state, I just noticed he's wearing a Michigan state shirt. Or is a fan of the sports team.
I have to agree, I absolutely love that found footage scene.
Signs was a great movie, I remember when it first came out everyone loved it. But now that Shammy Lammy has developed this shitty reputation everyone shits on it.
I completely agree with every point you make. I don't know what it is, I just love this film.
The thing about Shyamalan is that a lot of people like his religious and more morally clean sorts of movies, even if they are kinda cheesy most of the time...
But man alive, does Shyamalan REALLY need to do some rethinking of his "plot twist" thing... (Sigh...)
My personal biggest gripe with "swing away" is how stupid that message itself is. Why do you need divine intervention to understand "beat the thing that's attacking my kid with nearby blunt object"? If an alien - or ANYONE - is about to MURDER YOUR CHILD, you grab the nearest object and kick their ass. God doesn't need to kill any wives to make that clear.
I absolutely despise this movie. It's probably in my top 10 least favourite movies of all-time. The acting is atrocious, the script is awful, the twists are beyond cretinous, it's pretentious, annoying and unoriginal tripe.
While it is true that the Lord works in mysterious ways and we weren't meant to understand it all, it is true that, as Rob said, people just assume that God has a hand in everything that happens which I don't believe he always does. I believe many times things just happen by accident or by just people themselves.
Or even by nature.
The scene that really gets me is the conversation between Graham and Merrill about God. Merrill believes because something good happened to him personally, and Graham doesn't because something bad happened to him personally. Those are both terrible reasons. Now, I kind of give Graham a pass because the "bad thing" was pretty major and he's in grief - but Merrill believes that the creator of the universe personally arranged for him to spit out his gum at the perfect moment to avoid being puked on by the drunk girl? What about all the people who *have* been puked on by drunk girls at parties? Does God just hate them? And how about all the people who didn't have asthma and presumably died from the aliens' gas attack? Oh, I know...God planned for them all to die so the could deliver a five-word message to their loved ones on how to defeat the forthcoming Mole Men from the Center of the Earth...
I'd like to see the critic review The Village for some reason. I just think it would be entertaining.
Jorge Cruz umm... yeah I suppose. Are u just stalkin' my comments?
hmmmm
yeah
I got it. Shimalamlamalan-directed and co-written/produced by the Wack siblings as a three part epic trilogy involving a secret war between the Bilderberg Reptilians and the Illumanati Alien Grays over whether the world will embrace "TP Roll Side Up" or "TP Side Down." Starring Eddie Redmayne, Hugo Weaving, Mark Wahlberg with cameos by Christopher Walken, Nick Nolte, Justin Bieber, and Tommy Wiseau. (Set/concept designs by Bo Welch)
TELL me you wouldn't pay to see that beautiful shit. GOOOOOOAAAA! :)
Watchowskis films are so much better than any of what Shaymalan have created.