My favorite Shyamalan movie. That dinner table scene is just outstanding, and no one can play devastation like Mel Gibson. He's a man absolutely terrified for his family, overwhelmed and he can barely hold it together, but he has to be the strong one for all their sakes. That scene gets me every time.
The great thing about M. Night's movies, is that the role of children in his movies is always equally great as the adults. He really trusts them to do a great job and not just use them as a filler. They always have great lines and are in the foreground, not the background. Check out The Village next!
It's not a popular opinion, but my favorite M.Night movie is The Village. Another one that has Joaquin Phoenix, and very emotionally driven, but also intense. Great actors too!
@@paulineandrushuk8923 heck yeah. It’s actually quite a complex story I think, and I know they will catch on. They are both very clever. It’s a fantastic fantasy film!
some people took issue with this movie because of the entire water thing, water being the alien's weakness, however it never bothered me. If these beings have never encountered water then they may not have known that water was a weakness for them or maybe they were desperate enough to risk it.
One of my all time favourite films. So much so that my dad woke me up and said "come down for some breakfast and that Canadian mum and son reaction channel you like watched Signs" 😂
Great reaction. Please react to The Village by M.Night. most people hated it. It was marketed as a horror picture, and people were so mad when it turned out to be a love story. Great cast, Joaquin Phoenix, William hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Brendan Gleeson, Bryce Dallas Howard and a few more big names.
This is true of every M Night Shyamalan film: the genre is all surface to the real story underneath. "The Sixth Sense" is not a horror story. "Signs" is not an alien invasion movie. "The Village" is not a Gothic costume film. "Unbreakable" is not a superhero/supervillain tale. "The Happening" is not an environmental disaster film. The genre is costuming, superficial. The REAL story is below the surface and far more intriguing.
Another really fun reaction. This is such a terrific film. I also recommend Shyamalan's "The Village," the last remaining one from his "great period." After that, it's pretty slim pickings until "Split."
"The Sixth Sense" was Shyamalan's breakout film, buoyed up by full major studio support. Except Shyamalan had no control over marketing, where the studio did him unintentional dirty. They didn't understand the film, so they marketed it as a 'horror' film, as a scary ghost story. It's not. This is the source of his 'reputation' of utilizing 'the Twist'. Because it was so built up to the public that this was a scary movie, but it resolves in an unexpected way. I love "The Sixth Sense" for its detail, its intelligence, its film/storytelling craftmanship, and its humanity. I hate that this gets lost by the studio promising through marketing something cheaper than the depth of what was delivered.
One of my all-time faves for more reasons than I can list.😊 This is the question lately that has me boggled...are they aliens or demons? I have heard/read great arguments for both. For years I believed they were to be aliens...but recently the idea of it having a more theological tone is fascinating. Also, the actress who plays the wife doesn't get the credit she deserves, she isn't on screen long but SELLS her dying breaths, undying love and prophecies. Thanks again you two. Very fun reaction☺️💚
So glad you 2 watched this film, and I can always tell when Jen is totally enthralled because she lets the "F" word slip out. Gotta love alien movies, thanks.
There's not a lot of explanation, as there usually is in scifi films, especially alien invasion movies. But this isn't exactly an 'alien invasion' movie. The aliens aren't on Earth very long, basically only a 'fly-by'. The aliens are just a plot device, part of the 'costuming' to give AN explanation for the emotional issues that are the real underlying story playing out. As speculation (for those who need it), the aliens are a nomadic species that travel through the great expanses of space stopping to harvest as necessary what they as need and/or opportunity presents itself. Water (specifically LIQUID water) is not present in the universe as abundantly as it is on Earth; we are finding this out as astrophysicists search the cosmos for Earthlike planets. The water we have on Earth appears to be the generous bounty provided us by chance meteor, asteroid, and comet strikes. Many planets can't keep their water, innate or cosmically-dispensed, for a myriad of reasons (radiation, low atmospheric pressure, heat, cold, etc). These aliens seem able to tolerate much of Earth conditions except for water. One good rainstorm and they could get wiped out. We don't know the range of their tolerations. They might handle frozen ammonia pretty well or various atmospheric gasses or even ice/snow; we don't know. All we know is that terran animal life (including human life) is a desirable resource for them. We don't know if they chanced harvesting Earth because their stores were low or if they overlooked the water issue. All we know is they stayed less than a week; for us, it was a one-off. And this tells me that the aliens were not a major component to the story; they provided an excuse for moving the story along, for the friction necessary to force resolution to the real problem this family faced. The aliens in this story make or break the family; they survive by coming together or they die. Lack of faith was their fatal vulnerability, but they met the challenge and survived.
There’s a theory circulating online that Signs is actually a demon story disguised as an alien invasion film. The main character, a priest who lost his faith after a family tragedy, faces what appear to be demons. As the story unfolds, he engages in battles that ultimately lead to victory and the restoration of his faith. The “signs” are all around him-from his wife’s prophetic words to his daughter, Abigail (a name meaning “angel”), who leaves a trail of “holy” water throughout the house. Even the moment when his son stops breathing ends up saving his life. Viewed as a faith-based film, everything aligns: the symbolism and events make more sense than the alien invasion plot, especially considering the question of why advanced aliens would invade a planet primarily covered in water, a substance that harms them.
This was such a great film in so many ways, but yeah, that one plot hole brought it down a little for me, still good though. The only MNS film I'd say don't watch, was The Happening, but everything else I didn't really think the hate was warranted. I really liked 'The Village' and 'Lady In The Water' was cool, but the brilliance of 'Split' and 'Glass' can't be denied and with 'Unbreakable' make up one of the great trilogies, imo of course. This was fun guys, thank you.✌❤
I love this movie, but I also like Lady in the water (not a popular opinion) with Paul Giamatti, a little bit more of the fantasy side to it. But its great. If you want another horror, another M night is the Visit, it is also underrated and scary as all get out!
Morgan's loss of faith in his father mirrors his father's loss of faith in the Heavenly Father; parents model behavior to their children and teach them how to interpret their world. You see this vividly in Morgan telling his dad "I hate you!" and his dad trying to manage Morgan's potentially deadly asthma with the very same words directed at God. Some interesting facts: -Family is very important to Shyamalan; you can tell in his storytelling. It's important enough to him that he makes all his films within the boundaries of the state of Pennsylvania, where he lives, just so he can go home to his family every night. -The first day of shooting this film was September 11, 2001: 9/11. Shooting was disrupted by the news of the planes hitting the Twin Towers in NYC and further disrupted by the crash of Flight 93 in a field in Pennsylvania as the hijacked plane was forced down by its passengers while enroute to Washington, DC. These events lent an unexpected sense of global terror that must have soaked into the cast and its filming. -The scene with Ray Ready evacuating in his car was filmed shortly after the death of Shyamalan's very beloved grandfather, which had to have colored his performance and possibly Mel Gibson's as well. Personally, I think M Night Shyamalan is more of a genius than most people give him credit for. How he tells stories, more of inner landscapes of the mind/heart/spirit than exterior ones, makes him a twin of Rod Serling. The difference is that Serling never caught crap for how he presented his tales, but instead was celebrated for it. Both costumed their stories in familiar genres yet took the stories in unexpected directions to make their profound points. Serling was considered deep and creative; Shyamalan is considered a 'one-trick pony'. You can't tell me Serling didn't regularly use a 'twist' in his "Twilight Zone' series.
Love this film, never gets old, very underrated in my opinion. Please consider reacting to The Village, another great M.Night film. Loved your guys' reaction, you're awesome 😊.
Maybe the aliens had run out of resources and came to invade Earth because they were in a desperate situation. Apparently, they breathe oxygen. Perhaps ours was the first planet with a lot of oxygen in its atmosphere that they encountered as they were flying around in their spaceship, and so they came here despite the water because they really had no choice. Wether one buys that hypothesis or not, it is a great movie. And I should mention James Newton Howard's score. It is fantastic :)
32:28 My issue is not that a race that is susceptible to water comes to a planet covered in water to hunt for food as need overrides risk, it is more how can a race evolve that isn't water based. They breathe oxygen since they have no masks so appear to be breathing oxygen (I guess they could be breathing some other part of our atmosphere composition like nitrogen) & hydrogen is the most abundant element in the known universe so water should naturally be present on their home world so there is no logic in them being vulnerable to it water. However great reaction as walways & dying to see your reaction to Deadpool and Wolverine & see what you think of it. Heads up 2 credit scenes,1 midway & second at the end.
Concerning the whole 'oxygen/hydrogen' thoughts, I am reminded of a comedic science-based poem of my elementary school days: Johnny was a chemist Johnny is no more For what he thought was H2O water] Was H2SO4 [sulfuric acid] You can breathe hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur individually, but in the right mix it will dissolve you.
Even if they were desperate and it was the only option they could avoid water a lot easier than they avoided the vacuum of space. Like even weaponizing water against them would be 20x harder than just using guns lol. So many theories try to make this silly movie make sense. I guess the demon theory kind of makes sense because the "aliens" weren't smart.
My favorite Shyamalan movie. That dinner table scene is just outstanding, and no one can play devastation like Mel Gibson. He's a man absolutely terrified for his family, overwhelmed and he can barely hold it together, but he has to be the strong one for all their sakes. That scene gets me every time.
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The great thing about M. Night's movies, is that the role of children in his movies is always equally great as the adults. He really trusts them to do a great job and not just use them as a filler. They always have great lines and are in the foreground, not the background. Check out The Village next!
You have to watch The Village, another 'good one'. My favorite scene is the discussion on the sofa, 'there is no one watching out for us . . . '
I love The Village!
Yes the Village is definitely a decent movie.
Love Joaquin in this and I'm glad you included my fav lines of his such as "Move children, VAMANOS!"
I’m not even kidding when I say I had the exact same face as you guys in the thumbnail when I saw this upload . So excited to watch this one!
It's not a popular opinion, but my favorite M.Night movie is The Village. Another one that has Joaquin Phoenix, and very emotionally driven, but also intense. Great actors too!
I love The Village as well, and no TH-camrs ever react to it! Hoping these two will give it a shot.
Cinematography by Roger Deakins, too. And the incredible score by James Howard
I just wanna throw this out there! Lady in the Water is FANTASTIC! DONT care what anyone says! 😅
I'm with you 😊
@@juliestasha2919 Thank you JULIE! I want them to watch it so badly! Heck, I want ANYONE to watch it!
Yes, totally underrated, loved that movie, it would be great to watch it with Mom and Son.
@@paulineandrushuk8923 heck yeah. It’s actually quite a complex story I think, and I know they will catch on. They are both very clever. It’s a fantastic fantasy film!
I agree. I love that movie.
some people took issue with this movie because of the entire water thing, water being the alien's weakness, however it never bothered me. If these beings have never encountered water then they may not have known that water was a weakness for them or maybe they were desperate enough to risk it.
Goated movie. Best of Shyamalan.
One of my all time favourite films. So much so that my dad woke me up and said "come down for some breakfast and that Canadian mum and son reaction channel you like watched Signs" 😂
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The whole fiasco nearly bankrupted the largest manufacturer of food dehydrators on the alien homeworld.
Great reaction. Please react to The Village by M.Night. most people hated it. It was marketed as a horror picture, and people were so mad when it turned out to be a love story. Great cast, Joaquin Phoenix, William hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Brendan Gleeson, Bryce Dallas Howard and a few more big names.
Not just a love story, but some brilliant social commentary.
Love that movie!
This is true of every M Night Shyamalan film: the genre is all surface to the real story underneath.
"The Sixth Sense" is not a horror story.
"Signs" is not an alien invasion movie.
"The Village" is not a Gothic costume film.
"Unbreakable" is not a superhero/supervillain tale.
"The Happening" is not an environmental disaster film.
The genre is costuming, superficial. The REAL story is below the surface and far more intriguing.
Nick”Build It And He Will Come!” Oh Nick you don’t want these “things” to come!!
The Village as many others have said, I find it to be really under looked.
I feel this movie is underrated.
Another really fun reaction. This is such a terrific film. I also recommend Shyamalan's "The Village," the last remaining one from his "great period." After that, it's pretty slim pickings until "Split."
One of his best movies and one of my favorites ❤
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My favorite of his is still “The Sixth Sense “!!!
"The Sixth Sense" was Shyamalan's breakout film, buoyed up by full major studio support.
Except Shyamalan had no control over marketing, where the studio did him unintentional dirty.
They didn't understand the film, so they marketed it as a 'horror' film, as a scary ghost story. It's not.
This is the source of his 'reputation' of utilizing 'the Twist'.
Because it was so built up to the public that this was a scary movie, but it resolves in an unexpected way.
I love "The Sixth Sense" for its detail, its intelligence, its film/storytelling craftmanship, and its humanity. I hate that this gets lost by the studio promising through marketing something cheaper than the depth of what was delivered.
Oh I Loved The Looks On Your Faces When You First Saw Them On That Clip From The Birthday Party!!!🫣
18:11 yh its M. Night Shyamalan lol director/screenplay/actor and who knows what else lol
another one of his i liked on 1st watch was The Village 2004
One of my favorite movies. Thanks for watching 👍❤️.
One of my favorite movies. Thanks.
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One of my all-time faves for more reasons than I can list.😊
This is the question lately that has me boggled...are they aliens or demons? I have heard/read great arguments for both. For years I believed they were to be aliens...but recently the idea of it having a more theological tone is fascinating.
Also, the actress who plays the wife doesn't get the credit she deserves, she isn't on screen long but SELLS her dying breaths, undying love and prophecies.
Thanks again you two. Very fun reaction☺️💚
Yes! I love Patricia Kalember! 😊
I love this movie! It was so much fun seeing it in the theater. I love the way it was filmed, and pretty much everything about it.
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I am old enough to remember when tv went off for the night. We had to find something else to do lol.
Loved watching with you guys. Cheers!🍻
So glad you 2 watched this film, and I can always tell when Jen is totally enthralled because she lets the "F" word slip out. Gotta love alien movies, thanks.
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I’m so glad you guys reacted to this! This movie terrified me as a kid, but I love it!
This terrified us as adults!
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We know of no other life. Water is their weakness. I think we're their only choice. I do not see that as a shortcoming of the movie.
There's not a lot of explanation, as there usually is in scifi films, especially alien invasion movies. But this isn't exactly an 'alien invasion' movie. The aliens aren't on Earth very long, basically only a 'fly-by'. The aliens are just a plot device, part of the 'costuming' to give AN explanation for the emotional issues that are the real underlying story playing out.
As speculation (for those who need it), the aliens are a nomadic species that travel through the great expanses of space stopping to harvest as necessary what they as need and/or opportunity presents itself.
Water (specifically LIQUID water) is not present in the universe as abundantly as it is on Earth; we are finding this out as astrophysicists search the cosmos for Earthlike planets. The water we have on Earth appears to be the generous bounty provided us by chance meteor, asteroid, and comet strikes. Many planets can't keep their water, innate or cosmically-dispensed, for a myriad of reasons (radiation, low atmospheric pressure, heat, cold, etc).
These aliens seem able to tolerate much of Earth conditions except for water. One good rainstorm and they could get wiped out. We don't know the range of their tolerations. They might handle frozen ammonia pretty well or various atmospheric gasses or even ice/snow; we don't know. All we know is that terran animal life (including human life) is a desirable resource for them. We don't know if they chanced harvesting Earth because their stores were low or if they overlooked the water issue. All we know is they stayed less than a week; for us, it was a one-off. And this tells me that the aliens were not a major component to the story; they provided an excuse for moving the story along, for the friction necessary to force resolution to the real problem this family faced. The aliens in this story make or break the family; they survive by coming together or they die. Lack of faith was their fatal vulnerability, but they met the challenge and survived.
I always wonder what happened to the sheriff. She never came back to follow up 😂..
Yeah! 😁
There’s a theory circulating online that Signs is actually a demon story disguised as an alien invasion film. The main character, a priest who lost his faith after a family tragedy, faces what appear to be demons. As the story unfolds, he engages in battles that ultimately lead to victory and the restoration of his faith. The “signs” are all around him-from his wife’s prophetic words to his daughter, Abigail (a name meaning “angel”), who leaves a trail of “holy” water throughout the house. Even the moment when his son stops breathing ends up saving his life. Viewed as a faith-based film, everything aligns: the symbolism and events make more sense than the alien invasion plot, especially considering the question of why advanced aliens would invade a planet primarily covered in water, a substance that harms them.
This was such a great film in so many ways, but yeah, that one plot hole brought it down a little for me, still good though. The only MNS film I'd say don't watch, was The Happening, but everything else I didn't really think the hate was warranted. I really liked 'The Village' and 'Lady In The Water' was cool, but the brilliance of 'Split' and 'Glass' can't be denied and with 'Unbreakable' make up one of the great trilogies, imo of course. This was fun guys, thank you.✌❤
I love this movie, but I also like Lady in the water (not a popular opinion) with Paul Giamatti, a little bit more of the fantasy side to it. But its great. If you want another horror, another M night is the Visit, it is also underrated and scary as all get out!
@@catherinetait6331 I really like Lady in the water too!☺️
Morgan's loss of faith in his father mirrors his father's loss of faith in the Heavenly Father; parents model behavior to their children and teach them how to interpret their world. You see this vividly in Morgan telling his dad "I hate you!" and his dad trying to manage Morgan's potentially deadly asthma with the very same words directed at God.
Some interesting facts:
-Family is very important to Shyamalan; you can tell in his storytelling. It's important enough to him that he makes all his films within the boundaries of the state of Pennsylvania, where he lives, just so he can go home to his family every night.
-The first day of shooting this film was September 11, 2001: 9/11. Shooting was disrupted by the news of the planes hitting the Twin Towers in NYC and further disrupted by the crash of Flight 93 in a field in Pennsylvania as the hijacked plane was forced down by its passengers while enroute to Washington, DC. These events lent an unexpected sense of global terror that must have soaked into the cast and its filming.
-The scene with Ray Ready evacuating in his car was filmed shortly after the death of Shyamalan's very beloved grandfather, which had to have colored his performance and possibly Mel Gibson's as well.
Personally, I think M Night Shyamalan is more of a genius than most people give him credit for. How he tells stories, more of inner landscapes of the mind/heart/spirit than exterior ones, makes him a twin of Rod Serling. The difference is that Serling never caught crap for how he presented his tales, but instead was celebrated for it. Both costumed their stories in familiar genres yet took the stories in unexpected directions to make their profound points. Serling was considered deep and creative; Shyamalan is considered a 'one-trick pony'. You can't tell me Serling didn't regularly use a 'twist' in his "Twilight Zone' series.
Split and The Village are also great movies by Shyamalan.
Yay! One heckuva good movie ❤ the acting is superb.
Love this film, never gets old, very underrated in my opinion. Please consider reacting to The Village, another great M.Night film. Loved your guys' reaction, you're awesome 😊.
Maybe the aliens had run out of resources and came to invade Earth because they were in a desperate situation. Apparently, they breathe oxygen. Perhaps ours was the first planet with a lot of oxygen in its atmosphere that they encountered as they were flying around in their spaceship, and so they came here despite the water because they really had no choice. Wether one buys that hypothesis or not, it is a great movie. And I should mention James Newton Howard's score. It is fantastic :)
Just think, this whole thing could have been avoided with a sprinkler system. 😂
This is my favourite movie!
i love your reactions but i cant stop thinking how you only hear it on one ear the whole time, kinda kills the vibe, no? love your videos tho, so fun
32:28 My issue is not that a race that is susceptible to water comes to a planet covered in water to hunt for food as need overrides risk, it is more how can a race evolve that isn't water based. They breathe oxygen since they have no masks so appear to be breathing oxygen (I guess they could be breathing some other part of our atmosphere composition like nitrogen) & hydrogen is the most abundant element in the known universe so water should naturally be present on their home world so there is no logic in them being vulnerable to it water.
However great reaction as walways & dying to see your reaction to Deadpool and Wolverine & see what you think of it. Heads up 2 credit scenes,1 midway & second at the end.
Thanks! We will be doing X Men reactions eventually. Just not sure when. And those mid-credits scenes were THE BEST!!!
Concerning the whole 'oxygen/hydrogen' thoughts, I am reminded of a comedic science-based poem of my elementary school days:
Johnny was a chemist
Johnny is no more
For what he thought was H2O water]
Was H2SO4 [sulfuric acid]
You can breathe hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur individually, but in the right mix it will dissolve you.
pleaase watch scary movie 2, 3 and 4. This movie inspired Scary movie 3 heavily, you will LOVE IT HAHA
Aliens that hate water come to a water planet? ok. Not a stupid premise for a movie at all.
Look up the Demon theory.
@@seanmonahan That would be a waste of time. Both demons and aliens don't exist.
Even if they were desperate and it was the only option they could avoid water a lot easier than they avoided the vacuum of space. Like even weaponizing water against them would be 20x harder than just using guns lol. So many theories try to make this silly movie make sense. I guess the demon theory kind of makes sense because the "aliens" weren't smart.
@@CuddleCakez Mixing religious fiction with science fiction makes it sillier.
Theyre demons, not aliens