Nostalgia Critic Real Thoughts On: Signs 

"NOTHING HAS CHANGED EXCEPT YOU'RE DOWN ONE WIFE!!!" -Doug 2015

I wonder how Chris Stuckmann feels about this video.

I'll give Signs 1 thing, it did portray a shattered family quite well, as in I believe Mel was pretty much going on auto-pilot. And that scene when he makes his kids all their meals but he collapses and is comforted by his kids I thought was quite touching, he probably never cried in front of his kids before.

Rob: "Would it kill you to have an emotion?!" Kevin Costner: "Maybe."

There is one thing that bugs me about the water killing the aliens that one talks about. It is that how can they even stand on this planet when there is water vapour in the air constantly? Why isn't eating away at their skin as small drop of liquid does that in an instant?

The first time I watched "Signs", I seriously thought the twist was going to be that everyone had already been body-snatched because of how "not right" they were talking :).

It's true that the none of the characters "talk right" in this movie, but I used to sort of justify it by assuming that the reason the children were so monotone, wooden, and robotic was because they were emotionally numbed by the loss of their mother. I can somewhat excuse the children for talking the way they do, but I think that's a bit of a stretch.

I'll give credit to this movie and Shyamalan for the "Last Supper" scene. The overall execution is brilliant. Mel Gibson did a wonderful job.

Before I saw Signs, I didn't realize that boredom could generate physical pain.

This movie freaked me out as a kid. I slept with a glass of water next to my bed for over a month. And still would have random nights where I would get water, just in case. Until I was 16. Needless to say, I don't do horror. Please someone tell me they were an easily frightened child and were also freaked out by Signs.

i like to think that those aliens were filming a jackass episode or something, stuff like "hey we are invading this planet filled with toxins, completely naked"

TOOKAH!!! = WOOD!!!

I saw Signs in the theater with my mom and dad. We were so excited because everyone had told us it was a good movie. I remember after the movie we were quiet, we all walked out into the parking lot, got into the car, and I said, "...That movie kinda sucked didn't it?!" and my dad said, "How the hell could anyone think that was good?" Then we went to the liquor store. Good times.

I still want to see real thoughts on Garbage Pail Kids. Yes, I know they've talked about it, and already said it's the worst movie ever made but... I just want to see them get REALLY REALLY angry over it again!

The birthday party footage scene terrified me when i first saw it, but I was a bit too young for that film when it came out. I agree that basically everything of that scene except the actual alien is done pretty damn well.

Kevin Smith had better arguments about faith in his movie 'Dogma'. And that movie had a rubber poop monster.....

Why does everybody keep on hiring me..... All of my work is shiiiiiiiiiit.....

Shamalan works in mysterious ways, Rob.

Question: Did anyone see the "If Scary Movies were Real" where Smosh makes fun of Signs and used water but it turns out the aliens's weakness aren't water? It's fucking hilarious!

I'm pumped for the Lady in the Water review. I love Doug's reaction to the movie, that means it's gonna be a good one!

I'm with Rob. 1 st half was such an awesome buildup . Too bad it was building up to frikken garbage!!!!

For me, I thought Signs was okay. Hell even The Village. While both films have some problems, they at the very least had some good things with it INCLUDING some clever things and interesting elements. But I think we can pretty much agree that both Signs and The Village are not as as bad as his latest films.

Wood D:

I honestly love Shamalan (can't think of how to spell his name) his movies are kinda good (minus a few but that's every director) and I have leaned to love his tropes. I'm honesty excited about his new film coming out just to see how he can Shamalan a found footage type film

the colors in his room are beautifully matched

They should totally do a Nostalgia Critic of "God's Not Dead".

You brought up Costner briefly so I'm going to say this: Kevin Costner's best role was in the 1985 Lawrence Kasdan movie "Silverado" and if you haven't seen it you should. Costner is lively, he's energetic, he's riding on a horse, screaming and yelling while firing two Nickel plated revolvers and he is awesome!

Talk about The Temple of Doom.

If the aliens were demons instead it could`ve been that Mel Gibson blessed the glasses of water.

I remember seeing a trailer for The Village, I had no previous knowledge of Shamalan at the time, and I called the twist right then and there!

To be fair, the twist of bacteria in War of the Worlds was amazing when it was first written, when the whole idea of bacteria was still rather new and unknown. Nowadays we know that if anything has the technology to travel to other planets, it will know about bacteria and know how to protect itself from these things. We've seen what can happen when just travelling to another continent, one would have to be a complete moron to travel to another planet stark naked! xD There's also a theory that the secret twist of Signs is that they're not aliens, they're demons, and the little girl who always wanted a new glass of water every night, only took one sip from each and left the rest standing around the house was actually blessed and so what burnt the alien/demon was not just water but holy water, though if that makes the film any better or worse... eh... not sure.

Master and Commander is one of the few Russell Crowe movies I've seen, and I think he's a good actor. At least whenever he's handed a good script

Honestly a movie made by Shylaman and the Wachowskis sounds like something I would watch just to see how confused I get and how many times I would facepalm from it. I know it's never going to happen, though, unfortunately.

I think I'm the only person who was actually excited to watch him tear into a movie I loved as a kid. (That movie being Sharkboy and Lavagirl.)

"Fuck those mysterious ways, the final result makes no goddamn sense!" lol

I want to like Signs and The Village so much. Build up and concept seemed so awesome, but those payoffs just kill it.

AAHH MY NIPPLES HURT, THEY HURT WHEN I TWIST THEM!!

my film theory teacher said they were looking for a cure for the water, i dont think so and i agree that the first half is suspenseful and yes the twist ruins it

Making pokemon symbolic of the holocaust? That's.... not that hard. It's call IV breeding. The pure and best above the rest, the others get released? Training to perfection on perfect stats until it's flawless? I can see some similarities there....

Thank GOD he didn't do that Pokemon thing...

Slumdog Millionaire has such a beautiful message. If you're poor, live in the slums and you're down on your luck, don't read a book. Don't educate yourself, you don't even have to know who the 3rd Musketier is. You just have to be lucky, you just have to wait so faith can lend you everything you'll ever need and you will never have to work for anything. That movie truly helped millions of unfortunate people and it's so moving. :.) Like you know how genious it was how the guy, dispite already having enough money to hire an investigator to find the girl, or just money to buy himslef screentime, he just kept playing risking to lose all his money knowing he knows shit. :) Genious.

I would love to hear both of your detailed thoughts on either Food Fight or Master of Disguise, those are both in my top five reviews of the NC

I liked Signs- loved parts... though I will say my favorite part was him coming in to find his brother and kids all sitting with tinfoil on their heads... I have fun with it if I see it- though it isn't that rewatchable- that part makes me laugh EVERY time... :)

If aliens invade I know what to do: get some pantry doors and glasses of water. 😂 And a baseball bat of course! 🤣

I really liked this movie when I first saw it but then Phil Plait's review ruined it for me since I didn't realize the whole "invading a planet covered in water while being dissolved by water thing" at first. I think part of it was that I liked to fantasize that aliens invaded but were defeated by water so that I could defend Earth as a kid with water guns, and here was that idea on the big screen.

I've been waiting for you to talk about your real thoughts on Good Burger.

I think it'd be fascinating to make a movie with the intention of making it a bad one to see how it comes out. to see what the end result will be.

you know that trailer for his halloween movie, is it called "the visit"? can't remember. it did look intriguing at first. and then the old lady said "can you please climb in the oven and clean it?" and i spat my food out

4:22 i haven't even seen signs before but i feel like rob's face here sums it all up

I love when their umms sync up. So cute

Since there's the religious symbolism of water and wood killing non-human beings... this movie might have worked better if this whole thing was in their heads and everyone else in the town thought they were crazy or something. That way the closure in the end would've made sense. But... then again we wouldn't have had NC's epic Door Meltdown. I'm torn.

Respect, for the volumes of Flight in the background. 👍

I was in this movie and M. Night's next movie

Hey, will you guys ever do Lady in the Water?

9:40 What is the metaphore about criticism that they use in the movie?

I absolutely despise this movie. It's probably in my top 10 least favourite movies of all-time. The acting is atrocious, the script is awful, the twists are beyond cretinous, it's pretentious, annoying and unoriginal tripe.

2:54 my reaction when I watched the "Flubber" review. I was like "You CAAAANNNN'T talk about 'Flubber'!"

The whole Pokemon/Holocaust thing made me laugh and honestly... there is NO WAY that could be anything more hilariously wrong than that.

Lol Are You Guys Ready For "The Visit" ? The Trailer Makes It Look So Promising But Shyamalan Has Let Me Down Way Too Many Times.

i'd like an honest nostalgia thought on neverending story 3. Or even better a re-review of neverending story 3, seeing as Doug and Rob have said that they had a lot of jokes they wanted to make

So Doug and Rob enjoyed Pacific Rim? That's an automatic 1+ of affection from me.

I just wanted to be the 400th commenter. But fun fact; Shamalyan got the idea for the "Sixth Sense" from an episode of "Are you Afraid of the Dark?"

a movie directed by the Wachowskis and Shyamalan, what could be worse? A movie directed by the Wachowskies and Shaymalan is starring Adam Sandler! The internet would just go insane!

I'd like to see the critic review The Village for some reason. I just think it would be entertaining.

I hate to say this, because I've always loved that story since I was a kid, but. . . the twist in War of the Worlds doesn't make much sense either guys. And for the same reason it doesn't work in Signs. Just like you can't logically have aliens who are so technologically advanced that they have mastered interstellar space travel also being confounded by wooden doors, you can't have technologically advanced aliens that have mastered interstellar space travel not understand or comprehend that microscopic organisms like bacteria and viruses exist, and that they need to protect themselves from foreign pathogens. How can an alien species be so advanced in physics and engineering that they can travel between the stars, while simultaneously having such a poor understanding of biology? It just doesn't work.

Has Critic ever reviewed The Sixth Sense? Would be interesting to pick out the Shyamalan-isms in his only universally praised movie.

I can't believe Aliens capable of interstellar travel don't know what water is and they don't even wear suits or have weapons.

Make it about demons waiting in the fields to kill the family and then they are killed by the water because it is in the house of a priest. Makes waaay more sense right? On top of that instead of the "gray" alien design make some creepy as hell humanoids, like The Babadook or something.

For me Shyamalan is in the same group as David Cage videogames. They have good concepts byt they need to stop writing, especially when it comes to dialogue writing.

My personal biggest gripe with "swing away" is how stupid that message itself is. Why do you need divine intervention to understand "beat the thing that's attacking my kid with nearby blunt object"? If an alien - or ANYONE - is about to MURDER YOUR CHILD, you grab the nearest object and kick their ass. God doesn't need to kill any wives to make that clear.

I'm loving your Real Thoughts videos :) Hope you guys are able to sort out your problems with RU-vid soon :(

It really annoys me how shamalan thinks that god would have to specifically tell the dude to beat the shit out of the alien with a bat

I still love this movie, dammit!

Speaking of Pokemon I want your real thoughts on the Pokemon movie

I liked Chris Stuckmann's analysis of the film and it made some things make a bit more sense due to things needing to be picked up. Signs are probably also mentioning that we should not expect things to the told right to us, and to instead look for clues in what they show and the subtle hints. Shyamalan expected to have us pay attention a lot. According the Stuckmann, one of the main things that we had to remember was that the aliens weren't after the planet, but the humans inhabiting it (they were harvesting us). They had no interest in Earth itself, and knew of the danger. Thus, their mission was to get in there, take what they needed, and get the eff out, and they had to leave the injured behind. The pantry alien was among the injured. Also, we're only seeing the invasion through the eyes of the family, and not through other perspectives. I recommend his video of this as it gives a lot of interesting theories and points.

You guys sound so similar it sounds like critic is arguing with himself lol

That reminds me, please do real thoughts on Pokémon: The First Movie! Oh, and AI too.

You guys should make a podcast out of these.

I had this movie recorded on an unlabeled VHS tape with a much better movie after it (I can't remember which one at the moment). So most my memories of Signs are me fast-forwarding through it, then hitting Play and wondering if it's actually progressing since every scene of this movie is identical to the next. I would always know I was getting closer to the end when they would be in the same identical scene, but with tin hats on.

Did Rob go to Michigan state, I just noticed he's wearing a Michigan state shirt. Or is a fan of the sports team.

4:06 That can actually be done. No joke.

While it is true that the Lord works in mysterious ways and we weren't meant to understand it all, it is true that, as Rob said, people just assume that God has a hand in everything that happens which I don't believe he always does. I believe many times things just happen by accident or by just people themselves.

Signs was a great movie, I remember when it first came out everyone loved it. But now that Shammy Lammy has developed this shitty reputation everyone shits on it.

YES! He is going to do Lady in the Water!

Oh my gosh I am looking so forward to your review of Lady in the Water... if I could make a suggestion, the next Shyamalan film comes out on September 11th, so maybe you could review LitW then... just a suggestion.

See Life of Pi everyone! It is a way better movie to represent faith without it actually being the focus of the movie... it is a FANTASTIC movie

hey can you do the movie hugo as a review

I still love this movie, damn it! It doesn't have to make sense!

Honestly, I've never had a problem with the way anyone talked in a Shamaylan film. There's nothing wrong with speaking in a thoughtful, methodical manner.

I've got to take Doug's side on this one. Unbreakable > Signs.

Honestly, the biggest problem with Shyamalan is that he started with The Sixth Sense. It was a huge hit, it was critically accailmed like mad, he got nominated for several Oscars. And like a giant dummy, he let the fame get to his head and started to think he was The Next Spielberg or Hitchcock and that he was the Master Of Twists {even though, nobody called or deemed him the Master Of Twists} and starting with Lady In The Water and still to this day {even with The Visit}, his head is WAY too big.

Character to character moving shot: uuuuuUUUUUU!

How about Real Thoughts on THE ROOM?!

are you guys gonna do a spoiler corner for Inside Out?

This is that one film I like to a certain extent. Now for me here are some Pros and Cons. Pros: - The suspense and horror was done masterfully! When the Mel see's the Alien on the roof, When we see the Aliens appearance on the TV! - (special point: The dinner scene where Mel's character has broken down and the Aliens are coming in and they realize that attic is still an entrance so they have to hide. I thought that scene was masterful) - Characters - Cinematography - The comedy! Cons: - The Twist - The Symbolism - M.Night Shayamalam's role in the film - The Little girl who puts whatever everywhere - It's overly long - The End! ( not the fact that it ended just the fact it was garbage).

God...Rob with that Kate Capshaw squeel...

real thoughts on tv shows i would love to here you thoughts on cheers, fraiser, king of queens, my name is earl. Fraiser is the one that surprised me more than anything i want to see if i come close to your thoughts what i see that everything and every time that you think something wont happen or shouldnt happen it does embarrassent, awquard situations and always the edgy unexpeted thing happens and i love it.

Can you imagine what would happen if Shyamalan and Michael Bay teamed up, or at the very least Shyamalan took over the Transformers movies?

can u review the village plz

As a Christian, I do totally buy that there are things that we are not meant to understand and that some stuff that doesn't make sense is part of a grand plan and sometimes something bad needs to happen But I also believe that human beings by having free will cause things to happen that have no purpose in God's grand plan. Good Omens bizarrely is one of the best examples I've seen of this concept. To assume that you can understand what the plan is, even if you've been told this is part of the plan, is hubris.