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"My biggest fear in
life is to be average" --M Night
Shyamalan
Are you one of those people who loves to
know everything about a film before you
see it? I'm not. But while I was looking
for the official website for Signs, I
found an underground website that has a lot
of information about this
film.
Cast
Mel Gibson (Graham
Hess)
Joaquin Phoenix (Merrill
Hess)
Patricia Kalember (Colleen
Hess)
Rory Culkin (Morgan
Hess)
Abby Breslin (Bo
Hess)
Cherry Jones (Officer Caroline
Paski)
Jose L. Rodriguez (Radio Host)
Michael Showalter
Lanny Flaherty
Nelson
Machado
Written, produced, and directed by M.
Night Shyamalan, [Signs is] a high-octane
doomsday vision built almost entirely around our
sense of anticipation, and that's both its
strength and its weakness. [The] movie is all
tricks and premonitions; it plays on our
primitive desire to see what's coming next in a
way that proves a lot more compelling than what
actually comes next. ... Signs is a virtual
homage to Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
but Spielberg, in his stirring and magical 1977
sci-fi daydream, took a classic B-movie premise
-- beings from another world are coming! -- and
delivered something close to transcendence.
Shyamalan, in his gloss on Spielberg, sets us up
for transcendence, or at the very least a major
wow, and delivers, instead, a highly portentous
B movie.
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