M. Night Shyamalan vs. The People in The Theater
posted by Dick Septic on August 6, 2002
I saw Signs last night. I've never left a movie so angry. I wanted to physically hurt the director. I still can't put my hatred into words. I felt insulted that a previously good director (...and i even liked Unbreakable) would ask me for $9.50 so he could preach to me. The supposed plot of the movie is completely ridiculously dispensed with in the most abysmally insulting manner once he's got all the pieces in place for his religious soapbox.
It's like watching Davey and Goliath as a kid and thinking it's pretty good only to find out at the end that it was a church commercial. Except that Davey and Goliath usually had pretty solid plots.
IMDB's review sums it up pretty good.
"'Signs' is really not the movie portrayed in the trailer. The sci-fi story you came to see -- dealing with extraterrestrials and crop circles -- is merely a subplot to the internal, spiritual strife suffered by Hess (Gibson). Sci-fi is simply a colorful wrapper used to conceal the movie's true focus: a ponderous message about human spirituality."
...and there you have the basis for what i think might be the first class-action lawsuit against a movie. I was TRICKED into seeing this movie.
I think you all need to go see this so we can talk about it, please.