{"id":43211,"date":"2026-11-07T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43211"},"modified":"2026-11-06T21:40:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T02:40:53","slug":"signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43211","title":{"rendered":"Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z110726zview_signs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"736\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Signs <\/i>(2002)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>M. Night Shyamalan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>M. Night Shyamalan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix <\/strong>and<strong> M. Night Shyamalan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The first sign you can&#8217;t explain. The second sign you can&#8217;t ignore. The third sign you won&#8217;t believe..<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Graham Hess, a former Episcopal Priest, is a single father with two young children.\u00a0 They live on Graham&#8217;s farm outside a small town in rural Pennsylvania. Six months ago, Graham&#8217;s wife was killed when a car struck her as she was out for a walk.\u00a0 After his wife&#8217;s death, Graham lost his faith in God and quit the church. Graham&#8217;s younger brother Merrill, a high school baseball star who washed out of the minor leagues, moved in to help with the kids.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a large crop circle suddenly appears in his cornfield, Graham blames teenage vandals.\u00a0 Then get creepy when Graham sees shadows that appear to be people in his cornfield and even his roof.\u00a0 Next crop circles on other farms start appearing.\u00a0 This is followed by multiple reports of UFOs over major cities around the world.\u00a0 Rumors of an alien invasion spread\u00a0 like wildfire.<\/p>\n<p>And then it happens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">M. Night Shyamalan said that <em>The Birds<\/em>, <em>Night of the Living Dead<\/em>, and <em>Invasion of the Body Snatchers<\/em>\u00a0were his main influences for <em>Signs<\/em>.\u00a0 He had the cast watch <em>The Birds<\/em> prior to filming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">M. Night Shyamalan said <em>Sign<\/em>&#8216;s title has two meanings. <em>&#8220;One is the crop signs, but it is also about faith and the existence of signs from above.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Signs<\/em> is a fun popcorn movie.\u00a0 It&#8217;s funny, suspenseful, frightening and reaffirming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">***SPOILER*** Some critics of the film point out it was stupid of the aliens to invade Earth since water creates a big problem for them. (And Earth is mostly covered by water.)\u00a0 This is easily discounted if we assume that Earth, despite it&#8217;s issues for the aliens, is the best planet they can get to for their survival.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Signs <\/i>(2002)<\/strong> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z110726zview_signs2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signs (2002) Director:\u00a0 M. Night Shyamalan Screenplay: \u00a0M. Night Shyamalan Stars:\u00a0 Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix and M. Night Shyamalan. 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