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How Signs is Both Awesome and Misunderstood
I turned on the TV on Saturday night to see that Signs was about ten minutes from being over on TNT. I was so disappointed at having missed the thing that I threw the DVD on, utterly spur-of-the-moment. I LOVE Signs.
And yet, many people are frustrated with or critical of this movie. I remember when it came out, people in my college dorms were complaining about it and people in the breakroom at the department store where I worked were complaining about it. It suffered from comparisons to The Sixth Sense, the movie its writer/director, M. Night Shyamalan, made first, although I think it’s at least as accomplished as that one. Here, then, is my answer to the common criticisms of Signs.
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Epic Wednesday: Ancient Rome
Due to last month's move, and the attendant difficulties, I've not been making the progress on my movie list that I should have by this point in the summer.
So, starting yesterday, I established Epic Wednesday to knock off two to four movies in one day, preferably those which are "epic" in nature (i.e. insanely long) or those which are part of a series. Though I got a bit of a late start, I made it through Spartacus (3 hours, 18 minutes) and Ben-Hur (3 hours, 34 minutes). Spartacus is about the uprising of slaves, trained as gladiators, in ancient Rome. Ben-Hur is about the conflict between Jews and Romans in the Roman-ruled Jewish-inhabited historical land of Judea.
How did the films compare?