Sign Up in Hollywood!

Advantages: You get to see the sign up close without obstructions
Disadvantages: None that I can think of

...Hollywood Sign Tour When I was in Hollywood I searched everywhere to get a tour which took me up close to the Hollywood sign and we came across Hollywood Fantasy Tours. **Hollywood Fantasy Tours Company** This tour company is on the Hollywood Blvd beside the historical Pantages Theatre (which is also worth while checking out). The actual office of this tour company is small and tacky with memorabilia everywhere. Even so the staff are quirky and very friendly. It was the only tour company which we could find that took you up into the hills so you could get up close to see the sign, something I found worthwhile as you really be disappointed seeing it from Hollywood Blvd. The directions for the office are to take the freeway to Hollywood Blvd then go west for ¼ mile. Look for the Pantages Theatre on the right just before Vine...

DeniseKelly40 24.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Hollywood Fantasy Tour (Sign Tour)

No Sign of Letting Up Yet

Advantages: Masterful direction and story telling, Jump out of your seats moments, The chilling score, Humour
Disadvantages: The ending may not appeal to everyone, Slow Pace (again)

...sitting through such an engrossing movie only to be let down by the simple emotional ending. Signs is a film that will divide audiences and for once, you really do have to make up your own minds and ignore all reviews including this one. If you liked Sixth Sense and Unbreakable then this is for you, if you couldn?t hack the pace or the intelligence of the aforementioned films, then this wont do anything to make you like Shyamalan?s work. It's flawed and really doesnt answer any questions really about Crop Circles and aliens but it still has enough going for it to be considered as a good movie experience. Thanks for reading. Regards, Ray How to spot a Shyamalan Movie 1)Small cast 2)Set the movie in or near Philadelphia 3)Have 1 or more children making some ridiculous allegations (I see dead people...

rayliu 17.09.2002 · Read review
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Review of Signs (DVD)

edited WHAT NUMBER DO THE SIGNS ADD UP TO

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...signs), and strange lights in the night sky in some Countries around the World. Naturally this makes these People even more afraid than they were before. The Aliens we see are not ’’little green or gray’’ but images that shows bushes shaking, Children screaming, a wall that has a lighter color than the rest of the wall the sign is a cross, and a blurred creature walking up a drive way. You see people begin to face up to their fears. For example Graham going out at night with his flash light and walking through his fields. I’m not going to tell you any more because that would the only thing left would be to tell you the ending and that ruin it for the People who haven’t seen the Movie yet. As we left the Theater my Husband told me that all the ads he saw on T.V. gave him a lot of clues about the ending. The only good points...

MRS.CANADA 14.09.2002 (19.09.2002) · Read review
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Review of Signs (DVD)

Sign Of The Times

Advantages: Suspense, Acting, Direction, Visuals - Terrific entertainment.
Disadvantages: None

...of an olympic athlete and the kids baby monitor tuning into a strange frequency where weird noises can be heard. Graham at first refuses to believe anything is going on and scalds his kids and brother Merrill who seem to be swept along with the 'goings-on' as seemingly does the whole town but gradually he realises through the 'Signs' that something is at work, something is going to happen, something is coming !! The thing that this film does particulary well is that it homes in on this family and this family alone thus creating a great relationship between audience and characters. Graham is a man suffering at the recent loss of his wife, killed in a road accident, we see his grief, we see his doubts and we see his broken heart. A particulary touching scene is when he is asked by his young daughter why he speaks to his late wife and her mother...

WormThatTurned 11.10.2002 · Read review
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Review of Signs (DVD)

The Sign of a Good Book

Advantages: Gripping Read, Twists and Turns galore!
Disadvantages: Nothing at all, seriously great book

..., as opposed to Dan Brown, who could spend a page rambling about some random fact, showing off the fact that he spend a week researching something, rather than, like Kuzneski, slotting it gently into the plot, making it seem an intrinsic part of the story. The ?Sign of the Cross? was an intensely gripping read, while I don?t think it was quite as good as ?The Lost Throne?, it was definitely better than ?Sword of God?, and smashed Dan Brown?s books into the ground. The twists and turns the plot takes are brilliant, turning the page brings an excitement, the end of chapters leave you either flabbergasted at what you have just learned, or eager to find out what is about to happen ? but Kuzneski teases by flicking to another part of the story, which ends up being just as gripping as the last. The reader is constantly running from story to...

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Review of Sign of The Cross - Chris Kuzneski

Have you Seen the Signs?

Advantages: Very absorbing, suspenseful, Good performances
Disadvantages: The ending (somewhat anti-climactic and the visuals of the aliens), a bit too 'Hollywood' perhaps

...- Introduction - I spotted that this was going to be shown on TV yesterday and having seen other movies by the director (M. Night Shyamalan) but not this one yet (just never got around to watching it), I knew I wanted to make the effort to see it. I've always been pretty keen on his works and I knew roughly what to expect. I'm not sure that I'd say it was his best movie but I did enjoy it enough to be able to recommend it. - Main Credits (non-actors, which are mentioned further on in the review) - Source:- IMDB (see:- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286106/fullcredits) Director - M. Night Shyamalan Writer - M. Night Shyamalan Producers - Frank Marshall, Sam Mercer and M. Night Shyamalan Executive Producer - Kathleen Kennedy Cinematography - Tak Fujimoto - Story (incl. main acting cast) - Signs is all about the Hess...

IzzyS 15.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Signs (DVD)

Signs

Advantages: Great acting, gripping storyline, superb direction
Disadvantages: Some may find the conclusion disappointing

...to the last detail. Like the Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, Signs looks terrific. Thankfully his story provides the perfect excuse for him to exercise his trademark use of sound and lighting to crank up the necessary tension. Whether it’s a spooky sound in the dark or a flashlight flickering through crops, events unfold with an atmosphere as creepy as it is captivating. The mastery lies in giving the audience glimpses of potential other worldly existence before pulling the camera away, all in the blink of an eye. If you thought seeing dead people was enough to scare you witless, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Yet for all the technical bravado on show, Signs central story takes a radically different direction. This...

Crib79 04.02.2004 · Read review
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Review of Signs (DVD)

¤¤¤ I saw the SIGN, and it opened up my eyes ¤¤¤

Advantages: ***
Disadvantages: ***

...'Last Sign', in my mind, is not really a movie, I rather see it as a kind of joke. Nothing more than a bad parody of a thriller, parody we owe to a guy called Douglas Law. It's the first work of the man for cinema. No need to precise he'll have to activate his neuron seriously to hope go on making other movies after that one. For, Last Sign is just a predictable, dull and boring movie, intensely full of cliches. A real waste of time and money. On the French poster announcing the movie at the time, we could clearly read, in big letters, several references to blockbusters and cinema successes such as The Sixth Sense and stuffs of that kind. The aim was to convince our brains that the movie was another big deal upon Signs (again? sigh), but this time more something like a? how to say? Stir of Echoes of the Last Signs of the Sixth Sense...

salombo33 23.11.2005 · Read review
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Review of The Last Sign (DVD)

Time of the Signs

Advantages: Nice performances, good sense of humour, genuinely creepy vibe
Disadvantages: May be a bit slow for some tastes, and THAT ending

...M. Night Shayamalan is carving himself a nice little niche as the world's finest purveyor of understated, Hitchcockian suspense. First reaching prominence with the mega-successful The Sixth Sense and following it up with the underrated superhero origin fable Unbreakable, Shayamalan's tales of ordinary folk caught up in extraordinary situations has seen the writer/director/actor's stock rise considerably in recent years. It has also, somewhat unfairly, seen him labelled as something of a "king of twist endings", but hopefully Signs will help peel that particular label off. Where The Sixth Sense dealt with the idea of ghosts walking amongst us, and Unbreakable with the birth of a superhero, Shayamalan here turns his attention to another modern myth - Ray Davies's favourite enigma - crop circles. Playing against type, Mel Gibson...

neo1138 02.10.2002 · Read review
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Review of Signs (DVD)

Signs and Wonders

Advantages: Relatively intelligent, thought-provoking movie.
Disadvantages: It is nothing spectacular, acting isn't particularly breath-taking.

...Now who can forget the Sixth Sense? It's one of those movies that will forever stay etched in my memory, that's for sure, and I can remember the anticipation I felt when Signs was first released. Signs features Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix and Rory Culkin (younger brother of Macauley, and don't pretend you can't remember Home Alone!) as the most notable cast members, and is about the story of the Hess family when earth is invaded by aliens. M. Night Shyamalan refrains from making this film into a replica of previous alien movies, and instead gives the whole piece a deeper meaning. Gibson plays the father of two small children (Graham). He used to be a reverend but lost his faith after the tragic death of his wife, and his brother (played by Phoenix) moved in with him to help him take care of the kids. Strange crop circles...

Guru-On-A-Mountain 23.09.2004 · Read review
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