On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:19:38 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Sense was IMO the best of them.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
>> Unbreakable wasn't bad, but it wasn't overly good
> 
> Way, *way* too long. If they'd chopped out 40 minutes or so, it would
> have been excellent.

Agreed, now that you mention it - that was the problem with it for me the 
second time I watched it; I couldn't remember enough from the first time, 
and it's because the story was too drawn out.

Drawing a story out can be done well (think LOTR books), but it's 
something that takes a great degree of skill.  For me the LOTR books 
demonstrated that because I just kept reading and didn't realize how much 
I was reading.

>> Signs was just a confusing mess IMO.
> 
> It wasn't too confusing to me. It was trying to be scary or something,
> or suspenseful, but it failed that too.  The only good bit of acting was
> when the brother or whoever it was was watching the TV and saw the
> creature and jumped back. *That* was convincing acting.

Yeah, that's what I meant - it was confusing not in plot or story, but in 
what it was trying to be.  But you're right, that jump was very 
convincing.

Jim

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