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TRY SIGNS YOU'LL BECOME A SCI FI GEEK AFTER THIS AMAZING THRILLER

Advantages: Amazing storyline
Disadvantages: none to mention

Signs is a science fiction/thriller movie. Directed by the amazing M. Night shyamalan who has done many of my favorite movies. . e.g. 'The Happening' 'Lady in the water' 'The Sixth Sense'. It was released in the UK september 13 2002, by Touchstone Home Video. The Storyline: Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his family had been living in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. After a night of a confusing event they are told it was a possibility of an attempted burglary, ...
...are told extra-terrestrials are responsible. Signs is about a family who come together more than ever and forget their losses to try to survive through this wordly phenomenom. The mains actors/actresses: Mel Gibson (Rev. Graham Hess), Joaquin Phoenix (Merrill Hess), Rory Culkin (Morgan Hess) and Abigail Breslin (Bo Hess), The director himself also plays a small part like he does in all his films. Signs has won 2 awards and been nominated 15 times. ...

Emilyy 03.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Signs (DVD)

Shyamalan's next supernatural fairy tale tails off before it's do

Advantages: Great start, two leads
Disadvantages: Second half just disappoints

...Sense. I would place Lady In The Water somewhere in the middle. If anything, it edges closer to The Village, but only because Bryce Dallas Howard is once again a powerful character in the film. She plays Story, the Lady of the title, while the water in the title is that of an appartment block swimming pool. Paul Giamatti plays Cleveland, the super of the building who is saved by Story one night after he bumps his head on the side of the pool. As ...
...huge twist at the end. Lady In The Water does have a couple of surprises up its sleeve, but nothing major that would shock as in some of his other films. The DVD is currently available to buy from amazon.co.uk for a reasonably low price at the moment, but it's not the sort of film I would bother getting on DVD. It passes the time and has flashes of brilliance, but the disappointing later parts of the film kind of spoil it in a way. ...

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Review of Lady In The Water (DVD)

Lady in The Water

Advantages: A different story to the norm
Disadvantages: Starts to drag about midway through the movie

When this film was first advertised I really looked foward to it as M Night Shylaman has had some really good movies Signs being one of my favorites and this looked to be going back on track after the disappointment with The Village. The film centres around the caretaker Cleveland Heep played by Paul Giamatti of an ordinary apartment block who just goes about his daily business until one day he finds a girl called Story in the water played by Bryce ...
...has to return to her world once her mission is accomplished and this is being hampered by otherwordly wolves that have been sent to destroy her. A group of the residents,rallied together by Cleveland, then have to work out how to get Story back to her own world and in the process they realise that they aren't all just living in the same apartment block by chance but have special quailites that were meant for just this time. Although the film starts ...

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Review of Lady In The Water (HD-DVD)

Meet the lady in the water

Advantages: A good interesting story
Disadvantages: A lot of underused characters

After finding a mysterious young woman lurking in the pool at the apartment block that he caretakes, lonely apartment block manager Cleveland Heep rescues her from drowning. Unbeknown to him, she is an otherworldy being called Story who exists within the confounds of a famous bedtime story. Her motives are revealed in the form of a message for humanity. Surrounded by people who act as some kind of canvas for the story, Cleveland discovers that each ...
...key to unlocking the secrets and assisting her safely home. And as danger looms over the habitants of the apartment complex and the wide-eyed Story, everybody congregates to protect her from an evil beast that lurks in the grass and can be seen only in mans reflection. Director and writer M Night Shyamalan has become reknowned for his fantastical story's of other worldly existences. The ultimate pay off in his films are their tremedously believable ...

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Review of Lady In The Water (Sell Through) (DVD) (DVD)

Terminator Salvation- An action flick that worked for me!

Advantages: Christian bale.Nice action.Camerawork.
Disadvantages: Sort of cliche.Story is thin

Terminator Salvation is the continuation of the terminator series which gained much popularity in the 90's. Following the trend of recently succesful sequels, this one comes with a newer look at the man v/s enemy battle;the latest addition being a futuristic concept,new technology and advatnced graphics. The story doesn't need to be elaborated,its a plain man v/s machine battle,set in 2018. I am not a fan of Wham wham thank you ma'm kind of films,i ...
...if the genre has to fall under action.Blame it on the technology or the craze of futuristic concepts,the order of the day seems to be robots and machines fighting it out with humans.I guess that makes the concept very novel,saving mankind and similar attributes. The director also emphasizes on human emotion and some time is spent giving both the principal characters some emotional backdrop which works for the film.Behind all the action bonanza and ...

aadnan613 06.11.2009 · Read full review
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