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I'm going to talk about 2 moments in Signs that made me sigh (in my head, not out loud). The first one is when Graham tells his family that he heard "a theory that, uh, they don't like places near water" (NOTE: "they" refers to the aliens) and Morgan responds that said theory "sounds made up." This is stupid because Morgan gets most if not all of Morgan's information on aliens from a book that Morgan purchased whose veracity is, at the moment of Morgan saying that the theory that Graham heard "sounds made up," dubious. At one point, Morgan wears a tinfoil hat so that the aliens can't read Morgan's mind, even though Morgan has no proof that the aliens can read Morgan's mind if Morgan's not wearing a tinfoil hat. Morgan's comment that the theory that Graham heard "sounds made up" is highly hypocritical. The second moment in Signs that made me sigh is in the climax, in which there's an alien. During part of the climax, the camera angle switches from third-person, where we can actually see the alien, to first-person, through the viewpoint of the alien. I don't know why the camera angle switched this way, but my guess is that the filmmakers stopped showing the alien so that the filmmakers didn't have to spend as much money on CGI. Come on, filmmakers, don't be lazy!

I give Signs a 3.1/10.

Everyone has already talked about how terrible the jokes in this movie are. And they're right - but there's nothing new that I can say about that aspect of the film. If you want to know why the jokes are not funny, read another review. Because of that, I'm going to talk about the film's other really big problem: the last half hour of the film. (For reference, the film is approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes long.) The first hour is about a bee named Barry B. Benson who, upon finding out that humans eat honey, decides to sue the human race. The main conflict in the first hour is Barry vs. the human race. Then, about an hour into the movie, the trial comes to a conclusion, and we have the resolution of the first hour of the film. Then, for the final half hour... the story keeps going. Right after the trial ends, we get another exposition, then another rising action, then another climax, etc. That's not how you write a proper story. A proper story has an exposition, rising action, a climax, falling action, and a resolution; that's it. A proper story does not keep going after the resolution. My guess is that the writers of this film thought, If we end this movie with the conclusion of the trial, this movie will only be an hour long. We better add another plot so that it will be an hour and a half long. Please don't waste your time and money watching Bee Movie.

This episode is not amazing because of its plot. That's not to say that its plot is bad, but it's not why I'm reviewing this so positively. It's amazing primarily because of 1 thing: the characters. To be more specific, the writers made Marshall the main character in this episode. In most other HIMYM episodes, Ted is the main character. Don't get me wrong, HIMYM is a great show, but making Ted the main character was a mistake. He's lame and pretentious. He's constantly correcting people, yet he gets stuff wrong (e.g. mispronouncing "chameleon" and falsely stating that "love thy neighbor" is not the Golden Rule). With Marshall in the spotlight, we have a story that doesn't suffer from being centered on a pretentious snob. Marshall is a genuinely nice guy who doesn't constantly correct people. He makes the audience genuinely care about him when they see him try to stand up to his boss. When Ted's in the spotlight, sorry, but I don't really care about his romantic pursuits, because I don't care about him.