well i loved signs so....

I hope it's not rushed, as this was one of my most anticipated movies, but I always worried that it might be the result after the late shooting start and the deadline to have it done for 4th of July. If everybody recalls, they jumped into that spot very late, and not a frame of film had been shot yet.

Whew. Guess I'm the only one who didn't intensely hate the ending to Signs.
Still I am going to prepare myself with the fact that ending may be somewhat lacking.

Oh come on!! A movie that is close to being Great and an ending which turns the movie from great to a monumental disaster?? How about it's close to being great and the ending reduces it to merely good cause I don't buy that a movie can go from nearly great to a monumental disaster.. I don't buy that..

Well, no, I really loved Signs, but a lot of people hated the ending with a passion - yet it was still a really big hit.

I think I actually liked the film a lot more than you did, Box. The money shots are awesome and I liked the characters. But the film drags down once Tim Robbins is introduced, and the ending is so god-awful it invalidates the whole thing.

I heard they changed alot of stuff from the book so it wouldnt of help if he read the HG novel

That makes me happy,i love those endings.
\:D/

Does it turn out to be that Tom Cruise is wacko and it's all in his head? oh wait, we're talking about the movie right?

Kinda like a movie getting a 9.5/10 grade one week and being shit all over the following week. :razz:

Mav, how can a movie be classified as quote 'Nearly Great" and all of a sudden an ending causes it to go from great to a monumental disaster??? Wouldn't it make more sense to say that it went from great to just good cause the ending didn't jive with the moviegoer?? Again, I think this sounds more like an overreaction than anything..

Would the movie of been better if it had been 20 mins longer or more? Like you said Box, some questions were left unanswered

I don't trust box. Not in that I don't believe he truly he is disappointed, but his taste is wacky and he hates films that are loved by the rest, so really I take this as a good sign. I never expected box to actually like this film. Meanwhile, some reviewers are gushing over this film, so I'm fine.

PEACE, Mike

Kind of like you like everyne else didn't ####### read what I had said in that I gave BATMAN BEGINS A Goddamn 9.5 out of 10 when comparing it to the last 2 BATMAN Movies which were horrible.. Why is that so damn hard to accept??? Why??? You can give a movie a good grade and still have flaws in it Guy..

You know what, I'm going to flat-out say the ending so everyone knows where we're coming from. Read it if you want to or wait till Wednesday, but 90% of you will agree with us.

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Still here?

Okay. The aliens' giant mech weapons suddenly stop working. Tom Cruise makes it to Boston and finds one has just crashed into a building without being attacked. He also finds the shields on one have stopped working, the military is able to destroy it, etc. He makes it home with his daughter, finds out his son is alright (despite the fact the valley where he left him was incinerated three seconds after he turned away). Yippee. We get a wide shot of every single alien vehicle down, and all the invaders dead.

Then Morgan Freeman gives a us a nice voiceover that explains that the aliens couldn't survive for long on our planet due to atmospheric conditions. The end.










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BKB, calm down, huh? I was clearly teasing you and mocking those that have given you a hard time over that.

Not much diffrent from the book.

Dark Shape, I think your opinion might be closer to that of the general public than mine might be. I felt that there were some awkward moments from the very beginning, but the ending, oh man. This is one of those things that is simply preposterous. It simply doesn't make sense. If one is to look back and reassess everything, it just doesn't add up.

With Signs, the emotional core of the film was so strong that the end didn't really matter; the film was about Gibson and his family all along, and it came across convingly. WOTW tries to do the exact same thing, but there is no resolution of the kind that Signs had.

Ok.. Deep breath.. :wink:

No. The whole script needs reworking. If someone doesn't actually see that there are flaws from the very beginning, then I'm positive they are being selective, concentrating on the action, and ignoring much else.

Spoilers...


OMG...that is a terrible ending. I hope you're joking. That's worse than Signs. These intergalactic explorers who are much more advanced than we are didn't gauge the atmosphere before they decided to make this their new home? It like the Signs aliens who didn't realize that water was harmful to them before they invaded a planet that has 75% water and moisture in the air that sometimes causes water to pour from the sky.

Alright.. So what was so bad about this??? I think it's certainly more plausible than the ending to SIGNS where the Aliens come to our planet knowing that most of our planet consists of water which there afraid of.. Sounds like this movie is pretty spot on with the 1957 H.G Wells classic of the same title.. It sounds like this movie is being more sold on the action portion of it than logic, in which case, we could make this same argument about the ALIENS in AVP which came to our planet for a Rite of passage and both species survived at the end when they came out of that chasm on the ice..

I'm still waiting for the super ridiculous part of the ending where it would cause me to loathe the film, because the one that The Dark Shape posted, isn't doing it for me.

I find the Computer Virus and Crop Duster ending to ID4 more laughable than this one. But then again I found nothing universally wrong with the ending to Signs or Contact, so I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority with that one.

It's like the ending to a few episodes of ST: Voyager, or The Outer Limits. C'mon Wednesday.

The Dark Shape! You bastard!

I'm so tempted to read your spoiler. :razz:

Oh yes, oh yes.

Spoiler

They've been planning this bloody thing for 1 million years, and not once did these aliens, who are technologically superior in every way, consider the possibility that the bacteria might do them harm. Not once? How can these aliens be so hyper-intelligent and so stupid at the same time?



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