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The Full Trailer For THE SIGNAL Is Being Sounded!
Hey folks, Harry here... As the year is beginning to wrap up and we here at AICN are pulling together our lists, a film that I'm considering seriously putting high in my top ten of 2007 is THE SIGNAL. This is an incredibly intimate, yet grand film about what it's like to go through the end of civilization... as we know it. THE SIGNAL isn't strictly the most original of films - it shares motifs with Matheson, Romero, King and others... but ya know... I'd argue that cinematically... dramatically... this group of very young and under-financed filmmakers not only nailed it, but did so with style, flourish, intelligence emotion and panache that we haven't seen combined this well, perhaps ever.
Quint saw this film in January this year at Sundance, then I saw it at midnight during SXSW - and it has been one of those films that I've been waiting for it to come out so it could get all of you - as well. It's due out towards the end of February 2008, and the full length trailer has just popped up in Glorious Quicktime at Apple. So check it out and get ready for horror like you haven't seen in ages. This is something altogether new in how it is played out and performed. Brilliant work.
THE SIGNAL is sounding, can you keep it under control?
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Sounds like a big rip off of that stephen king book, cell or something. Of course, who knows where king ripped THAT off of...
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of Cell by Stephen King. That's some lazy film making. So it's a "triptych" or whatever the fuck you want to call it. It's a rip off. How super lame can you get? And the poster's horrible, too. Where's the whalemanpiglice to bite the head off the Ambercrombie & Fitch models when you need him?
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Do you own one of those "Joss Whedon Is My Master Now!" t-shirts? I'll bet you do.
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and the trailer has all those quick edits and shaky cam stuff that just means it's gotta be good...FOR ME TO POOP ON!
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I thought this movie died. I remember hearing about it forever ago and seeing a trailer. Then I saw one again recently on a DVD and I was like alright its coming to DVD soon. Now even better its gonna come out in probably 4 theaters, and none of them near me. So I'll have to wait even longer for it to be out on DVD. Pain in the ass.
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What the fuck does Serenity have to do with this? Are you just trolling, because there is 100% nothing further from Firefly than this movie.
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So, which article did they get that pull quote, exactly? Was it one of Quint's?
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"we HEAR at aicn" ? Seriously? Seriously?
I just registered just so I could say jesus f-in christ learn to spell and punctuate sentences. -
The movie was in production when CELL came out. You're speaking out of ignorance SCK.
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No wonder it exists and King allows it to.
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Synonyms.
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I like the folksy charm of Harry's semi-literate writing as much as the next guy, but this sentence is really like nails on a chalkboard to me, as a former english teacher:"As the year is beginning to wrap up and we hear at AICN are pulling together our lists a film that I'm considering seriously putting high in my top ten of 2007 is THE SIGNAL."It's got misplaced words, misspelled words, incorrect grammar, missing punctuation...it's got it all!in fact, it's so poorly written, that it's entertaining in and of itself, and so I think in that sense, it's a success. it's like The Rock!
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Exactly? And please list your source or sources.
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You oughta check out the @$$hole's comic book reviews. Full of entertaining mistakes, fallacies and typos.
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Joss Whedon owns your sorry ass.
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I caught this yesterday and at SXSW and it really is terrffic. Also as far as the whole it being a rip off of The Cell, this movie wrapped production before Cell was released.
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The Signal concept was formed around fall 2005 (http://lindaburnssundance.blogspot.com/2007/01/ive-landed-in-park-cityhot-damn.html) and The Cell by King was published January 06. So, there you go.
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Unless it combines the fun of Evil Dead 2 minus the gore, I'm not there.
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Just sayin'
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horror movies of the past decade. really good. saw this at SXSW and it did not suck. it's not perfect. the ending ruffles a few feathers, but there aren't very many lame "fake" scares, the characters are awesome and are entangled in the action...it's great.
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... I actually want to see this. It looks good. So fuck all you naysaying bastards.
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This reminds me of 28 days late meets that crappy movie starring Christen Bell about monsters in PC's whop cant come threw black tape.
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and 28 days Later.
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Hope the movie is good in a Ringueight days later sort of way.
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Dec 21, 2007 2:12:48 AM CST
HARRY, IF YOU WANT TO SEE A FILM ABOUT THE END OF CIVILIZATION
by bringingsexyback
I highly recommend a documentary called END OF SUBURBIA. I don't know about y'all, but I'm gonna start growing vegetables on the roof for food.
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because no one saw it in the theatre!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB3Hxve3RH0
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the kind of film that would have a home in an ass-ylum. looks like another 28 Days Later clone to me.
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sorry, always wanted to say that.
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Hey, I wanna blurb too!
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There was a screening of this movie where i work at, we're actually giving (forcing) passes on people to watch this movie.. don't know no one ever heard of this movie 'till today.
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courtesy, aicn.
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The movie you're thinking of is PULSE. And the premise of this flick does sound very, VERY similar.
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is similar to something else. There's very very little original material around and just because something is original doesn't make it good or more worthy than something archetypal. If the film has good acting, scary bits and is visually dynamic that's really all that should matter.
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VIETNAMESE airport officials discovered a cargo of 700 live snakes on a Thai Airways flight from Indonesia but destroyed them after no one claimed them.
"The snakes were alive when they were found in the cargo," a quarantine officer at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport said. "Seven hundred snakes were later destroyed when no one claimed ownership."
The reptiles were found on December 19 in a container that arrived on flight TG 682 from Indonesia.
Accompanying paperwork identified the content as "live fish", the state-run Vietnam News Agency said.
Sorry, just wanted to share that.
But see, truth can be stranger than fiction, maybe one day our mobile phones *could* try to kill us. -
Dec 21, 2007 6:19:24 AM CST
If this movie's all cool and stuff, then, like, where's the CGI?
by creasybear
For reals.
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Don't forget the fractions test later today, and clean your desks before you leave for Christmas Break.
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Good story, with plenty of gore and humor. I remember some pretty cool overhead shots of chaos in city streets below (which is a pretty amazing feat for a film of this budget).
I liked it quite a bit, but one criticism may be that the film is uneven. There are 3 sub-sections to the movie, each done by a different director. The sections are separate; they do not overlap at all. They use the same actors in each, but the style and tone of each section is different: 1) the first part develops the "signal" and what it does to people (basically makes them uninhibited and very violent/pissed-off). This part is a traditional zombie/disaster story, 2) the second section occurs completely in an apartment. Humorous tone, as a yuppie couple are in complete denial about the disaster going on outside. Despite all the weird shit happening they continue to put on their New Year's party. This part was more Shaun of the Dead, I thought, and 3) The last section was a more serious/bleak part; don't want to give away any spoilers but it was more 28 days later in feel.
So basically it was a zombie/ disaster film in three parts, each fairly different from the others. If people are ok with the potpourri style, it does have some great part, but the three sections do not add up to a coherent/synergistic whole. No doubt folks will have a favorite/least favorite section depending on their taste in movies. -
That's what I was thinking when I watched the trailer.
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. . . so you tools can discuss grammar and spelling while we discuss cool shit?
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King began The Cell on December 30, 2004. He finished it on October 17, 2005.
Golly, the concept for Signal began in Fall of 2005! Holy Coincidence, Batman!
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and in my opinion, one of the most effective and unsettling trailers I've ever seen, is this one:
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this movie is not a rip off. I know the people that worked on it and the filmmakers came up with the idea well before Cell came out or was even started on.
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...really. Looks terribly original.
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i'll give it a shot when it hits DVD...my theatre PROBABLY isn't going to get it.
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in case you people forgot
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The trailer looks awesome. I can't wait to see it. This is going to be huge for sci fi fans for sure!
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Saw this a week and a half ago at a premiere. The storyline sucks, the bits of comedy are awkward and misplaced and the ending leaves you completely clueless. A lame ripoff of 28 days later (which I liked a lot)- especially the bleak grainy action scenes and the music choices. See it if you want, but I really thought it sucked and I'm a huge fan of zombie/horror movies.
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I also thought the trailer is intriguing. I am looking forward to seeing it when it is released!
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i actually think this looks amazing! i've heard only good things about it. can't wait!!!
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I heard alot of good things about this project as well. I don't know why everyone is so hyped up on whether or not the concept was done before. There aren't any new concepts anymore just different ways of presenting them. with that said I can't wait to see it.
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What's with the lack of subject lines, you 3? Never seen your screen-names here before either Plants? Umm- yeah. These postings didn't help the cause, but best of luck with the release, you guys (and girl)-
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