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Signs / The Village

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This is a great 2 pack if you like Night and Phoenix. It's got all the extras on the DVD too. It's a good value for the money, and compact, I have one case instead of two. I just wish they were both widescreen.

2-Movie Collection DVD: Signs/The Village

SIGNS: I love M. Night Shyamalan movies for the simple reason that he always leads the viewer on an adventure and you never know which way he will take you. I've seen Signs about seven times and never get tired of it, so I had to buy the DVD. It's a mystery; suspenseful; a thriller, and funny in parts, thanks to Joaquin Phoenix who plays Mel Gibson's younger brother. Mel Gibson is a reverend who has lost his faith due to the death of his wife. When mysterious crop circles show up in his corn field, his disbelief soon turns into fear for his family. I get goose bumps every time I watch this. M. Night Shyamalan makes an appearance as the local vet. Don't want to spoil anything, so I won't say anymore except buy this DVD!

THE VILLAGE: This is another M. Night Shyamalan movie that I've seen several times. A tight knit community lives in fear of what's in the forest just outside of their village. It's so evil that no one will venture into the woods and the villagers post sentries in towers at night to make sure all is safe. The elders are very secretive about what this evil thing is. Joaquin Phoenix and Bryce Dallas Howard (Ron Howard's daughter) play a young couple in love. Bryce's character is blind. When Joaquin's character is injured, she must save him by venturing into the woods and going to the nearest town for medical supplies. She alone has the courage to face what's in the forest. A spine tingler and surprise ending of a movie! William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Brendan Gleeson and Adrian Brody are also in it.

both signs and the village are great movies, so why not get both at one price!? love the movies just bought them no regrets.

I was very happy with the very fast manner in which I got the movies. Great service... I will shop there first from now on.

Neither of these are Shyamalan's absolute best work IMO, but they're pretty good, and it's a well-balanced set. Didn't check the extras, if any, but they're the basic theatrical releases on DVD. I'd recommend it for any of his fans, or fans of The Sixth Sense, who don't have these movies already. Good price, too!

I love these movies so I really love having them paired together in one package. Very satisfied.

Arrived quickly and package perfect. I love these two movies, as they kept me on the edge of my seat. Signs is scary in parts, its a fingernail biter. The village is a great story of escaping the problems of today and going to a simpler time. Some people hate this movie, because I feel they just don't get it. I actually appreciate the story line and the choice of actors in it. Great movies for a dark, dreary day or Halloween night.

SPOILER ALERT

Many reviewers here complained about the ridiculous plot holes and I agree. It's full of holes.

I see a lot of movies and I will walk if it looks lousy. There's 20+ movies to choose from, why waste time on a lousy one? If I hear lame dialog, a trite or cliche script, if I roll my eyes more than twice, I'm outta there. If the writer and director are lousy, they're not going to get any better. An exception to this is when they hire another writer or director after firing the lame one. An example of this is "The Muppets Take Manhattan," where the first half is lousy, but the second half is good and even great in some parts.

I walked on "Signs" after about 40 minutes and didn't look back. However, a family member insisted that it was good and all came together in the end, so I went back and watched the entire movie, start to end. Boy was I sorry, I should have stayed away.

The movie is ridiculous on various levels, but besides that, it has nothing worthwhile to offer.

As soon as the aliens came into the story, I was able to accurately predict the entire story: Aliens may or may not be here. As the movie progresses, the evidence of the aliens becomes more pronounced until we begin to see glimpses of them. From there we will go into the climax where we have a showdown with the aliens and win. That's a synopsis of the plot and who, I mean who, is going to say there is anything at all original about that? No one over the age of 13.

The movie plays out just as I predicted. But there's some quasi-religious mumbo-jumbo thrown in there that's really the point of the story. Fine, the only problem is that the mumbo-jumbo is so utterly ridiculous that it's laughable.

Unless I'm missing something (unlikely), the plot is this: God causes Gibson's wife to get horribly injured in an accident where she suffers in agony until Gibson can get there, whereupon she delivers a coded message from God to Gibson, without Gibson realizing it, and then she dies. This accident causes Gibson to lose his faith in God. Meanwhile, God has caused another family member that is a budding baseball star to suffer an injury and his career and life are ruined. Then, God causes the kid to have asthma and an irrational preoccupation with water, resulting in half glasses of water being left all over the house. Then, God causes all these circumstances to work together during an alien invasion of earth such that the coded message, the asthma, the water, and the sports career work together to defeat the aliens in the house and save lives. Gibson sees how God has wrought all of this and regains his faith. If that's it, that's the most utterly ridiculous, blasphemous, lame, contrived, etc story I've ever heard of.

So I'm wondering two things: 1: Is my understanding of the story complete and my laughter is justified, or did I miss something? And 2: How on earth did the guy that wrote the brilliant "The 6th Sense" write this load of tripe? It would seem that his contract with the movie studio includes a "right of subcontract" and he subcontracted his swimming pool cleaning guy to write this.