THE SIGNAL (1 Viewer)

Very good low budget SCI-FI movie starring Larry Fishburne and Brenton Thwaites. Brenton, his girl friend and a male friend take an unexpected departure from their cross-country trip when they look for a mysterious hacker who breaks into the MIT Network. Suspenseful, very good story like "Under The Skin" leaves a lot to your imagination. There are no great special affects most of the movie takes place in what looks like an isolation ward.

The video and are excellent.

I did a blind purchase on this title based on the genre, the premise and Laurence Fishburne's participation. Happy to hear that you enjoyed the film and I look forward to experiencing it soon myself.

- Walter.

Saw this. Thought it was pretty incredible.

Would love to discuss it and find out what the hell happened in this film.

Anyone have answers?

Ron I did want to say much more in my review but I was worried about giving out an spoilers.

I would love to discuss this with you via spoilers if you want...

...because quite frankly, an amazing movie but it didn't make sense at some points
including the end.

You have the answers?

Ron I am not sure what your questions are but here are my thoughts. Even though life on another planet has not yet been discovered we are pretty confident it does exist. If they are able to travel to earth then they are more advanced than us in a scientific way. But how do you overcome disease if you have never been faced with the type of disease we have on earth? After all it was disease that conquered the Incas, Aztec and Maya. (Because humans live in proximity with animals and insects we probably have more types of disease than any other planet)

Okay so the aliens abduct 3 humans by drawing them to a remote location posing as an anonymous hacker. One of the humans is a female and the other two males while one has some challenges he walks with the aid of crutches. The humans are drugged and awake inside the alien space craft. They don't know this they believe they are in a isolation ward of a medical facility.

This is where the story drifts. We know the aliens are experimenting on all three we can see the changes to the males. Not certain what they were examining with the female it would have to be her reproductive organs. The question is why are the aliens here what is their purpose? What is their goal?

Here is what we know. 1. The aliens are part human, part machine. 2. The aliens are deathly afraid of infectious disease. 3. They have made themselves to look like humans so as not to create a distraction. They are very aware of our computer systems showing their ability to hack into MIT's Network Computer.

Ron what are your thoughts?

I watched it and didn't care for it too much. It was ambitious and had an interesting narrative approach, but I don't think they quite pulled it off.

Mikey1969 said:

I watched it and didn't care for it too much. It was ambitious and had an interesting narrative approach, but I don't think they quite pulled it off.

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I liked it, even though it was almost a low-budget remake of DARK CITY. By the time Jonah was uttering "It's all the same", (echoing the spiral/circular of DC), I wondered how it might end. Turnes out it had the same surprise revelation at the end. Of course with DARK CITY, they pretty much explained everything.

Ernest,

Been a few months since I watched this so I am going to be generalizing.

Okay, here we go....

The story is fantastic. This is what I gathered...


Now here is where things get confusing...



And what about this?



Just not very clear about what happened in this film. And it's not just me -- I did a Google search
for answers and found others just as confused.

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Ernest,

Appreciate these answers.

I'm going to jump in here because I'm putting a review of this movie up this weekend, and I spent some time trying to deal with it. I was not a fan of this movie, to be honest. There's an interesting idea in there somewhere but wow, did it not work out.



In the end, I really did not see the point of having spent the time to watch the movie.

Excellent response Kevin you are more correct than I was. I just saw the movie differently always believing and still do if an alien race came to earth there biggest conquest would be infectious disease. To me there always was a lot more to "War of the Worlds" than just a neat Sci-Fi story.

I just saw this recently and enjoyed reading everyone's takes on it. Ernest, I think we had a completely different interpretation of the movie. But I'm not saying you're wrong or anything, I just didn't see those elements in the same way. I'd be curious to hear the filmmakers' thoughts on what their intentions were.Edit: I mean to say, I think it's pretty cool to have read Ernest's thoughts on the movie. I never would have thought to have gone there and I've been thinking about it all night and replaying the movie in my head.