The Signal -- Sci-Fi Indie Film

A member of my LinkedIn science fiction filmmakers group told me about this film and I checked it out. It had a good budget for an Indie film with great production values and Lawrence Fishburne in the cast. It starts out slow and almost seemed to be going in the direction of The Blair Witch Project. But, then it got better and better and has a great surprise ending.

Check it out, if you haven't seen it yet.
 
I agree, it went in a totally different direction than I had expected, not once but twice!!! In the beginning and at the end. Great flick!
 
Thanks, Rayw - the wiki entry says it was poorly received. But I'm wondering if I should watch it to see how they do sfx on a budget.
I wouldn't pay money for watching it.
SFX looks very proof-of-conceptish.
The Fishburn SFX at the end is deplorable.
I honestly couldn't recommend it for any reason.
Even my 11yo thought it was boring and sucked.
In fact, it was so boring and lame I allowed my 11yo to watch the last 45min this PG-13 film, and I'm pretty strict about what my kids can watch for entertainment.

Tell me this...
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yiHLnAN-9...el9M1Ug9-s/s1600/robot+laurence+fishburne.jpg
...isn't a cheap rip off of this expositional image from 2001's 'A.I.'
http://whysoblu.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/A.I.-The-Nanny-www.whysoblu.com_1.jpg


You might fine some more "informational candidates" here: http://www.movieweb.com/movies/2014/sci-fi?s=date
I heard 'Young Ones' was visually good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Ones_(film)
 
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I personally loved it. I'm not a sci-fi fan. So my vote probably doesn't count. Normally in most sci-fis I get lost in all the alien/technical mumbo jumbo that doesn't make any sense. I mean how come the Alien ship that has force fields and all kinds of space age protections, always has the reactor/core/super-duper plasma turbo ion thermal fusion engine unprotected, which can be detonated with a swiss army knife? It's the theme in so many sci-fis. At least this one was different.
And the alien limb concept was just awesome.

I can't believe they made it for 4 million.
 
liked it, my 12 year old son and 14 year old daughters jaws dropped at the ending.. they kept saying.. what.. WHAT! oh man my mind blown.. etc.
 
I thought it was predictable and a little amateurish but only a little. Overall it was good. I watched this as a double feature with "skyline" right afterward, and it was definitely better than skyline.
 
Loved it. Ending was very
DARK CITY-ish.

Rayw, I seem to have the polar opposite reaction that you have to movies. I love LET ME IN (even more than slower LET THE RIGHT ONE IN). I really liked EUROPA REPORT, etc.

Currently, one of my favorite low-budget movies is DARK PHASES. Blind guy vs. werewolves. Btw, EX MACHINA is kind of considered like an indie, even though it was about 15 million to make. This is my favorite "off the beaten path" movie, at the moment.
 
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Loved it. Ending was very -------ish.
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yeah i just didn't want to spoil it.
but i guess we have pictures of morpheus here and everything so why not.

Yes anyone that has seen ____ should see this ending coming from a mile away
 
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yeah i just didn't want to spoil it.

Okay, I edited the Spoiler tags into my post.

I feel the ending is a copy of the movie I mentioned, but it works just as effectively. On one hand, it's very contrived, on the other it just really works. Since I live near the area it supposedly happens, it made a little more impact on me. All of a sudden, everything about the area that felt "off," in THE SIGNAL, made sense at the end.
 
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