M. Night Shayamalan

[karamazov80]

I think it is the typical story of the original, creative artist who gets satisfied for whatever reason (money, acclaim, etc.), and then just gets flat or worse. Trying later, in some way, to capture what originally made his movies worth watching, but failing. His first two movies were good (6th Sense was damn good, IMO), I thought Signs was overly-gimmicky and ultimately a silly movie, though he could create suspenseful moments at that time. And I haven't liked anything else since then that I've seen.

Same thing happened with Metallica.

 

[Darth Waller]

...because apparently the US is the center of the Universe.

Hey Waller, how's life?

Life is good. Just too damn hot down here. How've you been?

 

[daikkenaurora]

Whatta Twist.

 

[Darth Cruel]

True. You know what I meant. You bastard.

I consider Canadian films foreign. We perceive it the way you guys do because apparently the US is the center of the Universe.

Hey Waller, how's life?

I can give you another reason to consider American films to be your country's.

A hell of a lot of American films are filmed in Canada.

As for M. Night, I won't be giving up on him yet. He has three films...not one, not two...but three films that I personaly believe that film students can learn from. Of course they are "Unbreakable", "The Sixth Sense", and "Signs".

Edit - Airbender sucked? I haven't heard that one yet. But I have not seen the movie. The worst I heard about it was the ethnicities of the actors was pretty heavily criticized.

 

[Maglor]

Edit - Airbender sucked? I haven't heard that one yet. But I have not seen the movie. The worst I heard about it was the ethnicities of the actors was pretty heavily criticized.

It's at 8% at Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/last_airbender/

I think that's the lowest I've ever seen, so it seems that it does in fact suck.


...haven't seen it myself though.

 

[BadMoon]

I will say this. I loved the sixth sense and signs. Both are fantastic! The Village I knew what was up after the first ten minutes. I called it all out to my ex.

Shamalamadingdong is a one trick pony. IMO he needs to stop the whole slam dunk ending. It's killing him IMO. Airbender I never saw nor will I. It's anime based and I could care less. I would like to see him come up with something original again. For him I mean. He needs to understand a good movie doesn't necessarily need a huge twist.

 

[plasmid303]

Did Lady In The Water have a twist ending? I couldn't actually finish that one.

 

[karamazov80]

I'll take my foreign films over Hollywood's any day of the week! Only Hollywood's best can compete, and they are far and few between.

Honestly, after the Coens, I think the best filmmaker out there is a Canadian.

(edit: not Clive Barker ) Chris Nolan and Ridley Scott are from the UK, and James Cameron is from Canada as well. So even though the "Hollywood machine" pumps them out, some of the greatest filmmakers around are not Americans.

 

[BadMoon]

Did Lady In The Water have a twist ending? I couldn't actually finish that one.

Of course! That's his trademark. And goes back to my point.

 

[karamazov80]

I saw Lady in the Water, and honestly don't remember. All I remember was how painful it was to watch. Shyamalan played himself as the misunderstood genius writer or some bull____.

 

[Darth Caedus]

Even though he didn't write or direct it, DEVIL does look interesting. Like a mixture of Phone Booth and Quarantine

 

[plasmid303]

I thought The Happening was thoroughly entertaining. I laughed out loud at parts.

 

[uscmhicks]

I thought The Happening was thoroughly entertaining. I laughed out loud at parts.

His best movie imo. He does well with comedy.

 

[CelticPredator]

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[Devil_666]

"Hey Tree, how ya' doin? Alright? Yeah.. sounds good. Ok.. well.. I gotta go Tree. Say Hi to your mother for me!"

 

[creature4000]

he should stick to writing and not directing.

 

[CelticPredator]

I feel the opposite. The guy is a great director... but a godawful writer.

 

[Skiman]

So Airbender sucked I assume? The trailers looked cool but the hype went away in the blink of an eye. 6th Sense, Unbreakable and Signs are all pretty good movies.

Tarantino>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>MNS

It was terrible Flosi

 

[Skiman]

I still like MNS. Maybe it's because the guy is Indian and so am I...

Not crazy about his last few though. Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs and The Village are still all fantastic though.

those are the ones I like as well.

 

[risingstar]

I loved Unbreakable
Great comic film.