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Like Tom, I didn't really find Signs scary. The aliens didn't seem all that frightening to me (the one that couldn't get past the locked door amused me...they can make amazing leaps, so they have some physical strength, but it doesn't occur to the one to kick down the door? eh)...I was willing to accept the non-scary aliens, though, until the ending.
Signs SPOILERS below. . . . . Why would aliens allergic to water come to a planet that is 75% water(or is it 80%? I forget)? What would they do when it rained? It just bothered me beyond all belief. I realize that that wasn't the main point of the movie, and that's fine, but there are some MAJOR issues with the whole water thing. Why not have them be allergic to, I don't know, grape juice or something? That would've made more sense to me. I know it's a minor point, but it really really bugged me and left me with a bad opinion of the movie overall.
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The aliens were killed by the toxins in the water, not by the water itself. That is why the daughter was constantly pointing out the contamination in water. Notice the TV report talk about the defeat happening in third world countries where the water is most polluted.
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Hmmm. I did not notice that when I saw the movie (and didn't enjoy the movie enough to watch it a second time). Perhaps when it starts being played on TNT, TBS, etc., I'll catch it and see. But, to be honest, though M. Night Shyamalan is often touted as a great film-maker, I have yet to enjoy any of his movies to the extent that people (and movie critics) seem to. *Confession forthcoming*--I fell asleep during Sixth Sense, and wasn't interested enough in the part that I saw to see the rest of it. Heh. Maybe I just have a Shyamalan block or something.
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Hah - I couldn't sleep for months after watching Sixth Sense. I really want to see it again because I was so shocked by the end (obviously I was too petrified to pick up on the foreshadowing) but I'm afraid that afterwards I won't be able to sleep again. Yes, I'm a major weenie.
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I saw The Sixth Sense six times in the theatre, and I got nightmares EVERY FREQUIN' TIME. I kept thinking that I wouldn't get nightmares again because, obviously, I'd had them and it was over, and...nope. No good. Still with the nightmares. That movie scared the snot out of me and was responsible for a frantic drive across town to my old roommates' apartment where I discovered that was so rushed to get out of my empty, ghost-ridden apartment that I had neglected to insert my contacts.
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If I'd gone to my brother's, I would have seen wed people.
Good thing I didn't hit anyone - we would have needed med people.
The theatre clapped so loudly at the end, they might have voted Shamalyan to show them the way to Horror Shangra-Lai, where we would have been a led people.
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I really really really hate it when people get hammered, decide to go to a first showing of a new movie, sneak in beer, and continue to be loud, obnoxious, rude, and laugh at everything.
Completely ruined the mood of the film and cut the tension.
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