Signs

The best thing about it was that it didn't leave everything with a cut and dried ending. Leaves you to wonder why

Spoiler:
the aliens were taking people and would they return...and if they did would we even know that they're there.

Dim:

Yeah, but:

Spoiler:
Remember Mel Gibson's little son was reading that alien book, he said that if they were bad aliens, and if a war was fought and the humans won, they aliens would probably go back home and come back in maybe 100 or 10,000 years.
The book was right about everything elese, so we can pretty much assume that those mean aliens would come back.

But because it's soo easy to kill them(water) it wouldn't be a problem beating them.

About not knowing if the aliens we're among us:

Spoiler:
I'm sure the government would come up with some high-tech baby monitors to monitor the aliens

night was thinkin about writing indy 4..but turned it down because he didnt want to work with lucas and spielberg..because he felt it wouldnt allow him to write freely...

Well good for him
Personally, I think he's too good for Lucas and SB

Well if everyone says that it's a good movie i guess i'll see it too!
Hope i don't get too scared and be unable to write u my impressions about it!

I thought this was a really good film. Much better than Unbreakable, but not as good as The Sixth Sense.

I thought the movie was wise, well crafted, and constantly keeping you on the edge of your seat. I wouldn't go so far as to calling it a "Masterpiece" like Texas, but it was very, very good.

What I liked best was the fact that it never crossed the line of the original idea of the film, that being faith and questioning that faith.

(*** out of four)

Heya.

I was thinking...is the film more scary if you show the monster/alien/creature or if you let you imagination work. I guess most of the older films that showed said monster/creature didn't have enough expertise to make it believable so it wasn't shown often. However as many horrors are now big-budget computers are being used to show monsters...is this taking the scaryness of the unknown away.

See Signs for recent aalien depiction and Alien (1) for good use of minimal viewing...at least initially.

no matter what you do with this movie, even the Teletubbies is more scarier than Signs

this movie was not any scary! end of story!...but it was a good movie!!

sucked as a movie, cant complain about the acting though

I thought it was brilliant! But the ending was crap because the alien just looked like pure CGI- it has no life to it.

I think showing the alien was a good thing, but it should have looked better and not be such a happy ending as it was.

it depends what kinda horror movie we're talking about, a psychological horror movie usually is better if it doesnt show everything. for example, some movies will show the beginning of a death, but then cut away before its finished, and force the viewer to think about what happened, or it will show the aftermath, like in se7en. on the other hand, if the horror movie is an exploitation, then the more gruesome images you show, the better.

Signs was brilliant.
Although Shamaylan did borrow a little from Night of the Living Dead.

I think the imagination is far more horrid than any hollywood makeup job. That's why I think "The Blair Witch Project" was so effective. The scariest thing was what you couldn't see.

yes the movie was sorta ruined when they showed the aliens. imagination should do the job

I saw signs and freaked out. i had nightmares for days. so, i think it was a scary movie

It wasnt scary, but I really liked it.

Some people found it scary, some didnt. It all depends on what your version of scary is. Some scenes freaked me out, but overall i wasnt scared. My girlfriend on the other hand was scared shitless because she had a child fear of invading aliens (10 year old kid watching Unsolved Mysteries does that sometimes). So she found it scary.

I feel if the movie is trying to scare the crap out of you, showing the monster or etc. early in the film is less scary than not showing it.

That movie wasnt at all scary but it was still good

Signs is one of those movies that you think is crap after you've seen it but when you watch it again you realize how amazing it is (like titanic), considering it was a crap film. But i get your point, I think its good to show the monster and to show it through different parts of the film, coz alot of films only introduce the monster at the end and then it sucks for some reason.