Signs (2002) ✦ Reaction & Review ✦ Which group are you in? 

👽🛸🌽🐕‍🦺🥛⚾🏏okay! 1) EXCEPTIONAL editing on this one! 2) I spy with my little eye... A great insulated cup 😊 3) this one of M. Night Shaymalan (sp?) 's movies is pretty great. A fantastic ensemble cast, great script, well paced, good humor & character development. Thrilling, suspenseful, a little creepy, and a lot of fun IMHO. 4) Joaquin in the closet watching the birthday party video is one of my fav gifs of all time 😂

I first saw Signs in the theatre. You could hear a pin drop. The whole audience went in expecting a fun little thriller and in the environment of the big screen it was one of the most tense and terrifying movies I've ever seen - the jump scare of the kids party home video got everyone good, but things like the pure quiet during the early dog growl just kept everyone on edge. This film I feel is still underrated, but to me is a master class in tension and sound design, and I actually appreciate the lampshading of the themes of coincidence and faith. I went in to this film expecting nothing and got one of the most atmospheric experiences I've had. I love this movie.

I'm so glad you enjoyed this! M Night's movies are usually more philosophical than terrifying, which I personally love about them, but I think a lot of people go into Signs expecting an alien invasion movie and are disappointed that it's more about a man regaining his faith. So it's probably a good thing you didn't know what to expect! It's such a gem of a movie and only gets better on every rewatch. The Sixth Sense is another must-see M Night Shyamalan movie. 💧

Loved this reaction! M. Night doesn’t get enough credit for building these insightful emotional scenes, has also gotten some great work from his actors. Others have mentioned, if you’ve able to avoid spoilers for all these years you need to experience Six Sense and Unbreakable.

I remember watching this film in 2004 or so, me being 11 years old, and becoming completely obsessed with it! Even pausing it in the scene where the alien is on the roof to see it properly. What a movie!

The son and daughter are great and very believable as siblings.

One of the taglines for the movie was “Don’t see it alone”. And when I saw it in the theater for the first time, it was in a little 30-40 seat theater in my town and I was the only person at this particular screening one night. It was both fun and scary at the same time, especially the night time scene in the cornfield. The surround sound really made for quite the immersive experience.

It's a twist/homage to War of The Worlds. The book War of The Worlds has a BIG religious theme that's left out in the movies.

The scene with the alien caught on camera was on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments!

I love when Bo says, "Why can't they get girlfriends?" 😆🤣😂

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I always forget that this movie always makes me cry. I usually just remember the scares and the jokes, but in the last few minutes, I'm always sniffling.

I don’t watch horror films, but this movie takes place in my hometown! I never knew that it was the centerpiece of a movie and I never thought it would happen, but I found this out recently and it blew my mind 😅

Thanks for sharing your reaction to this. I like this one and the Village from Shyamalan but I love The Sixth Sense. I consider it one of the masterpieces. I love Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator (another masterpiece) and Abigail Breslin (Bo) in Little Miss Sunshine, for which Alan Arkin (RIP) won his oscar. 🥛🚰

That intro is a great example of musical association. Trust when I say I'm writing a series based on that concept alone!!

27:36 The script mentions he saw many lines cutting trough the cornfield, all fastly heading to the house

This film and The Village are by far my favorite M. Knight Shyamalan movies. I always have to rewatch his films to see what I didn’t catch at first. Loved your reaction. I haven’t seen this since the early 00’s. I watch The Village every October as one of my autumn favorites, it has a beautiful color palette.

Signs was pretty unique when it came out. Haven’t really enjoyed his other work as much but some of it is entertaining. The finale got me emotional.

This movie had a serious psychological impact on my beother and I when dad showed it to us at the time lol. We grew up in a very rural area surrounded by cornfields and deep thick forests. So naturally you didn’t go out at night unless you absolutely had to. Still to this day I don’t go out unless I am armed 🤣. Everyone I have seen react to this comments on the size of the cornfield. Its actually not huge. At least not by midwest comparisons lol. Anyway yeah I love this movie

To answer some of your questions: Yes, Shyamalan does usually play a role in his movies (it varies from just a few seconds to being a major supporting character), I'm more in the second group, and my meal would probably be burritos. Also, recommendations for more of M. Night's movies-- Unbreakable, the Village, and Lady in the Water are underrated in my opinion.

This movie scared the crap out of me in the theater when I was in college! The hand in the basement freaked me out! 🤣

Got me over here from your collab with Cassie. Enjoying the few reactions I’ve seen so far from this channel. It’s refreshing to see a reactor who doesn’t need every detail spoon-fed to them in order to “get” the movie.

Ray is actually M Knight Shamylan... My last meal would be chopped brisket, ribs, jalapeno sausage, with firies, baked beans, corn on the cob, and fried okra with all the meat soaked in bbq sauce...ohhh and cornbread. And........wash it down with a huge ice cold Dr Pepper

Nice reaction to a pretty rare film to see reactions to. Decently creepy vibe to the movie. I'm kinda surprised the birthday party scene didn't get you. It scared the crap out of me the first time. As far as M Night films go, I would recommend Sixth Sense and Unbreakable 🥤

As someone who grew up in the middle of a bunch of sugar cane fields, i can tell you: the neckhair factor on this film hits quite a bit different 😬 Plenty of nights hearing strange rustling sounds in the fields never knowing what it was. Great movie

Great reaction! Love this movie

I've always loved this movie. Yes, it has aliens, but they're just a device to move the story along, which I've always thought was the journey of Gibson's character from a religious man whose had his faith shattered, but through the series of events finds it again. And the young actors (now grown) are really fun to watch. You really believe they're siblings.

It has been a while since I last saw this movie and it never was on blu ray, but indeed I was surprised to see the outline of the alien so well on the roof here.

Your nerves are insane. You didnt get jumpscared at all!

There's one big flaw in this movie: to the aliens, water is very dangerous. So why then come to a planet which has oceans, which has much moisture in the air, where it regularly rains and where the dominant lifeforms consist of mainly water??

There are several M. Night movies you need to watch: The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Split and maybe The Village and Knock at the Cabin. If you want to see a Joaquin Phoenix movie, "Her" is okay but if you really want to see him at his peak, watch "Joker".

I saw this movie in theaters as a kid, so of course it was quite creepy for me at the time. My brother and I were young enough that we shared a room, and that night my brother just HAD to mess with me by saying he saw someone standing on our neighbor's rooftop. XD Fast forward to rewatching the film as an adult, I love this film. I love that it's a film about family, that just happens to be about aliens.

This movie makes me cry so much! Omg 😭

Joaquin Phoenix was AMAZING in the epic Gladiator, with Kurt Russell.

My favorite M Night Shyamalan movie is Unbreakable.

That intro lol.❤

🥛🌊 Thank you for the watch. So, this is your first M. Night movie? Cool. I will not spoil any of the others. I will simply say that if you enjoy Joaquin Phoenix, The Village is a fun M. Night movie. Of course, there's the Sixth Sense. I think Unbreakable is my favorite of M. Night's movies. He does a good job of building suspense. His later movies haven't been quite as epic as his first. I'm in the first group of folks. Always have been (despite some challenging circumstances.) Thanks again for the watch! I'll look forward to the next one. (I wonder if heavy duty foil works better than the regular...)

37:18 When I was a kid and me and my family were watching this movie, I asked my dad the same thing. What did they do with the body? And my dad just said "They skinned it and hanged it's skin on the wall as a trophy.", and I was terrified that while the camera pans from the window to the house, we would see an alien skin hanging from the wall. XDDDD

💦 That was a fun intro, I didn’t expect you start this off singing. I think the movie did a good job ratcheting up the tension then cutting it, then tensing us up again. Your reaction (and editing) represented this perfectly as we follow up an encounter with the alien in Ray’s pantry with Graham returning home to find his brother also now wearing a tin foil hat.

I love all of M. Night Shyamalan's movies, always a unexpected twist at the end.

507 feet…. Right to an alien rib cage.

Signs and Sixth Sense are, by far, M Night Shyamalan's best movies. ((((and you are gonna love "Her" with joaquin phoenix))).......always fun to watch your posts, Kaiielle.....keep up good work

I’d get a large cheese pizza with extra cheese from my favorite pizzeria, and my dads homemade eggplant parm.

M. Night Shyamalan is in all his own movies, usually briefly. In this movie he portrayed Ray, the guy who killed Mel's wife.

This film, along with The Strangers, is the scariest movie of all time IMO. Still have a hard time sleeping after I get done watching it every time.

No spoilers from me, as always. I originally binge watched M. Night Shyamalan's first four movies from my dad's DVD collection all in one day for my first viewings. "The Sixth Sense" was the first, and then "Unbreakable," "Signs," and "The Village." I, personally, was very impressed with all of them. Then there were several that I wasn't as impressed with, and I stopped watching his movies. I haven't seen "Split" or "Glass," but I have heard they are both worth watching. It's just been me and my dad for most of my life, and he forced me into loving his favorite foods. They're my favorite too. My last meal would be medium rare steak with onions and mushrooms and a baked potato stuffed with cheese on the side. I could die happy after that. I am the non-miracle type, since you asked. I was kept as sheltered as possible from religion until I was 10... my parents wanted me to learn about all the religions with no preconceptions, at an age where I could think critically. I learned about all of the major religions, and I had issues with believing or agreeing with all of them. I've been a steadfast Atheist ever since. To me, what happened with those ships would come down to pure luck. But not 50/50. Let's be real, given that the US has been a dumpster fire since I was 13, I just assume all our luck will be bad luck. That's my life experience, so that's what I expect. In this movie, when it gets to the scene when Merril knocks over the alien and the glass of water spills on its arm, the movie pans around to all the glasses of water sitting around and the humans, and I feel like we're supposed to feel the family's sense of wonder at their good fortune. But for some reason, my brain always jumps to the alien's point of view as it wets itself: "Oh, f**k me... I walked into a death trap!" ✌🤓

Last meal: buckets of shrimp tempura

Hi Kaielle ;) I love this movie... Very much underrated. I always thought of it as "War of the Worlds" in reverse... in that movie almost everything was big and flashy and world-scale. This one is very much one location, very personal, we don't know what's happening anywhere else except through the tv news reports. Making it personal shows that it might happen to us. One small nit: if the aliens don't know how doors work, how did they survive the trip to Earth?

My last meal probably be simple but comforting, mashed potatoes, mac & cheese and warm fresh baked bread lol 🤤 . This movie was always one i could rewatch over and over, the acting and the story really get me hooked

love this movie

No Shamalayan films? You'd love The Sixth Sense... :)

I feel like a 'last meal' is supposed to be grand, opulent and grandiose, but honestly, I would just like a big ol' fatty grilled steak, loaded baked potato, corn on the cob, green beans, a toasted roll with a lot of butter. Just a classic dinner. Oh, and a slice of cheesecake. Love me some cheesecake.

Shrimp Cocktail and a New York Style Pizza Pie. And I loved this movie. One of my favs from Shyamalan alongside Unbreakable. And when I saw this when I was young I always thought of using supersoakers to fight the aliens, haha.

One of Shyamalan's best. My personal favourite of his is The Village, again with Joaquin Phoenix.

And this boy's and girl's, is one of the various reasons to have at least one firearm and some training.

When you mentioned how the intro credits reminded you of ghost, I thought the font and music actually reminded me of the first men in black! 🤷🏻‍♂️

The intro tho hahaha.. but also... song reaction playlist? 🤣

42:00 the real question is, will Bo even have the water glass problem after this? If you're group 1, it has served it's purpose and has no need to continue.

I do like that Shyamalan likes putting interesting twists in his movies, but after Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, the twist in this movie (that circumstances were all a setup for them to survive an alien invasion) was a miss for me. It doesn't take much to move me in a way that's meaningful, but I think this movie was too literal with it.

This is a wonderful film.

The Village and Sixth Sense are two favorites by M. Night as well that you should check out. 😄

I like M. Night Shyamalan's movies, all of them, this is in the top 3 for me. I hope you do watch 'Her' and also Joker, 2 great Joaquin Phoenix movies. Btw Shyamalan normally makes a cameo in his movies, "pulling a Stan Lee" I guess lol

Faith was core to the film. It’s called Signs for that reason.

You mentioned the movie Her. HIGHLY recommended.

Can’t wait! 2nd best M. Night movie (after Unbreakable).

Signs is such a good movie. I don't know if I can nail down one thing in particular that makes it great, it certainly isn't the ending. Idk... the pacing and dialogue writing is just top notch

I'm not really a religious person, but I'm not completely athiest either, so I can definitely relate to thinking that sometimes things happen for a reason. This is has always felt like one the more unique M. Night movies to me, Unbreakable is pretty interesting too. I'm not a fan or most of his other movies (except Sixth Sense, which remains to be a great watch). This is probably Mel Gibson's best movie (that I've seen, anyway), and I think the first film I saw Joaquin Phoenix in, very memorable film.

This movie is in my top 5 of all time... So damn good!!

A little Little Rock!

pleaseeeeeeee do more M Night movies reaction! i cant wait to see how you react another

I was going to go with a steak or something for my last meal until you said curry. So now my last meal is lamb jalfrezi with naan (plain or garlic) don't mind which.

This is a really good movie

i don't know if others do this but both M night shaymalan and stan lee try to do little parts in there movies o i nearly forgot but Q Tarantino does too .

love how M Night puts himself in his movies (the guy who killed Mel's wife)

Other movie directors who liked putting themselves in cameo appearances in their own movies include Stephen King and Alfred Hitchcock. Another great Mel Gibson movie to watch is The Patriot.

last meal? just give me a 3 lb lobster!! or some king crab legs... or both? Signs is a good movie and the reaction is a good one too.

Should look into the why files crop circles

The movie makes sense as a religion movie. Morgan tells his father he hates him and later Graham echoes saying he hates god. Aliens are demons. Demons are confused by mazes, door locks etc. When Bo's water baptizes the alien it defeats the alien just like baptism drives away demons. Are there coincidences? Or was it all arranged to save Graham and his family from the apocalypse if only he would trust his god?

Alfred Hitchcock (the original M. Night) always put himself in his movies in a weird where's waldo way.

🚰 I'm more "meh" on the movie but it's growing on me a little. You were very predictive at times (the fate of the dog, the last jump-scare) but the final reveal didn't really seem to knock your socks off. I was waiting to see a light bulb go off, but you did come through in your final analysis, demonstrating that you grokked the the subsurface level but possibly not giving it its due primacy. The more you watch this flick the more you see it's not really about aliens at all... In fact the alien plot line doesn't even really make sense. It's just there for visual appeal and to service the themes surrounding the other kinds of signs. 🤔

The only problem I really had with this movie was that their weakness was water the requirement of all remotely complex life forms 🤦‍♂️

ray reddy the guy who accidentally kill the kids mother is m night shyamalan

🥛I saw this movie in a theater when I was 20, and it was the scariest movie experience in my life! It still terrifies me. I have a visceral reaction to the scene where the alien is caught on camera.

Swing away...

The movie is a great tense movie about an alien invasion, but from the perspective of a small family living on a farm in small town America, and captures the confusion, fear, and uncertainty of such a world-changing event from their isolated point of view. There is a bit of a plot hole though, as it doesn't make a lot of sense for an alien race whose weakness is water to invade a planet where the majority of the surface is covered with water and where water falls from the atmoshere as rain. It seems incredibly foolish of beings who are advanced enough to have achieved interstellar travel to go to a planet with a surface that is so deadly to them.

Please watch and react to another movie from director M Night Shyamalan movie with Joaquin Phoenix again called "The Village"

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The Man without a Face is good,Mel plays an English tutor I think

Hahaha! Yeah, there were NEVER any “blank tapes” waiting around at ur house. Like honesty-we used to tape tv shows bc there was no streaming/on demand anything. If u wanted to watch like…Friends on Thursday nights & couldn’t watch live…if u didn’t tape it, u couldn’t see it until the summer, when they’d rerun only a few episodes before the new season. It was like that with EVERY show…so no. We had no blank tapes. Ever. U had to tape over other stuff & u never knew how much space u had on the tapes. So most of the time…u grabbed whatever u could & fought with family members over “quick! What tape can I use?!” And “u ahole - u taped over MY show for the new Britney Spears video on MTV?!” Lol. Constant.

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This movie terrified 6 year old me

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Oh yeah and it’s pronounced “Sha-mah-lon”

I definitely don't see the universe behaving in a way that foreshadows what is about to come, like with the bat and the "swing away". That being said I don't think the universe is totally and completely random, that is, that the proceeding event has no correlation to that which preceded it. I think the universe is half random and half deterministic. To boil it down, the universe is in a superposition of all possible paths. Objects seem to follow deterministic evolutions only because we are not privy to every random event that inexorably caused a deterministic course. When it comes to us, it is no difference. I can walk to work, I can take the bus, I can drive, I can ride a bike. We can't do all of these things simultaneously, despite the fact that the universe really exists in a state where all these are happening. We are not allowed to see all that is happening, the full state of things, simply because the laws of the universe prohibit such observation. Thus emerged free will, or choice, so that the universe could uphold its prohibitive nature now that beings that have multiple avenues of interaction with the universe exist. So as far as I see it, nothing exists as some divine sign. We make choices, and one of those is choosing to attach meaning to some things, and not to others. As Dr Manhattan says in Watchmen, "Only what can happen does happen." Sometimes the universe evolves in such a way as to give you a heads up on what's to come, but not as far into the past as it occurs in the film. I wholeheartedly believe the past is still as real as the present, as all of spacetime exists simultaneously. Not just all of space, but all of time, coexisting in an ever evolving mesh of possibilities. Only in a completely deterministic world, one where free choice does not exist, would such an unrelated event in the past be a sign for something unrelated in the future. There could only be such a connection if the future event was inevitable, which would mean no action between the two could have caused it to change. Obviously we on earth cant really do anything to change aliens deciding to come here, but therein lies the acknowledgement that the aliens did indeed *decide* to come here. So to us, the aliens showing up seems inevitable even in a random, non-deterministic universe, but only because we are not privy to the observation of their existence, and all the both deterministic and random happenings that occurred for them to embark to earth. So seeing something as a sign is a choice, regardless of whether or not the happenstance which lead to the event that proceeds that "sign" was more random than deterministic or vice versa. I dont think it means we should look for signs all the time, because that just leads to conspiracy brain rot and seeing stuff that actually isnt there. However, i do think it's meaningful to look at some events in our lives that were, or are impactful, and looking at them through the lens that they were supposed to happen, or at least, supposed to happen the way they did, so that you could then benefit from the other choices given to you in this future that is different than what would have been. Like for example, meeting someone you used to love 20 years later. It might have been the result of primarily the choices of you and them, and other people around that made choices of their own that caused the circumstances that lead you two to make the choices you did. It could also primarily be the result of determinsitic events that neither of you or anyone around you could have changed. Either way i dont think it means that for instance, "life brought you together again for a reason," or that, "them being here with you now means you were meant to be together." All that it really means is that you now have new choices, that can make your future different than what it would have been without those choices. As the universe is eternally churning in superposition of all possible paths, our choices create new paths to manifest, and cause others to become impossible and disappear. I know all that was probably super convoluted. I have trouble getting my thoughts out in a cohesive, non-repetitive way, but nevertheless, it is always fun to talk about.

As a sci-fi fan, I cringed at the moment when the aliens hate water. Really? It rains on this "rock" and let alone this "rock" is 80% water. Not very bright aliens. Will never watch this again. That's my opinion and I respect everyone elses. Just.....really?

Faith is the excuse people give when they don't have a good reason. If they had a good reason, they wouldn't need faith. Never believe something without good evidence. Demonstrable evidence.

i am not a fan of m. night and this movie was the tipping point. 6th sense was great and unbreakable was decent (and that was better than most superhero movies at that time). this one has great tension build up, but the foundations are shaky. the scenes in the moment are suspenseful. but if you think twice about the scenes, they fall apart real fast. especially the climax reeked of mediocre writing. the plot feels stuck together with tape just enough so the suspense scenes had a chance.

I hated Signs. Silly and stupid and one of his worst.

I hate this movie so much, that I'm not sure any language has the words for it. It's cheap and simple-minded "philosophy" and the sheer stupidity of the plot, coupled with ONE good acting performance in the entire movie (Joaquin Phoenix), make it pretty much unwatchable to me. The Matrix was equally stupid in its concept and plot, and equally bad in most of its acting, but at least it was fun and pretty to look at. Most of the rest of Shyamalan's movies are mediocre or bad, with The Sixth Sense being pretty good. But Signs is just...awful. But it's not actually his worst movie... That, would be The Last Airbender. By a wide margin.