No Surprise
Felt this way about him when I saw "The village", have avoided anything he's made since
Got a buck to send M Night Shyamalan to film school?
Those of you unfortunate enough to have spent money seeing The Last Airbender will doubtless be only too willing to blow one more dollar to send M Night Shyamalan back to film school. That's the aim of the splendidly-named M Night School campaign, which declares: "Certainly, there must be 150,000 of us film lovers out there …
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Friday 15th April 2011 10:45 GMT Sarah Bee
Re: No Surprise
I recommend The Happening - genuinely hilariously bad (after the quite chilling start which I could take halfway seriously). I laughed and laughed.
The thing is that Shyamalan isn't technically a bad filmmaker at all - he just has terrible scripts, can't get good performances out of actors, and thinks he is a wondrous genius and so injects every scene with essence of PROFOUNDANDICONIC until the poor things collapse in on themselves.
Sadly I doubt this campaign will humble him any, but sooner or later people will stop giving him money to make films.
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Friday 15th April 2011 15:08 GMT jubtastic1
Ahh, the happening...
I almost walked out when Marky Mark, ambitiously cast as a science teacher, asks his class why the bees are disappearing. The students have a few stabs before Marky states "there's some things we'll just never know". EH? WTF! you're the science teacher FFS.
Sadly the wife insisted we stayed till the end.
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Friday 15th April 2011 16:39 GMT Anonymous Coward
@Shyamalan isn't technically a bad filmmaker
' he just has terrible scripts, can't get good performances out of actors, and thinks he is a wondrous genius and so injects every scene with essence of PROFOUNDANDICONIC until the poor things collapse in on themselves'
I'm no expert, but technically, that sounds like bad filmmaking to me.
If you want a good night at the flix, the boys from brazil is the one for me
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Friday 15th April 2011 10:45 GMT HP Cynic
Never!
I paid to see Sixth Sense which was a decent film though the "twist" was 100% obvious to me from the opening scene. In fact I spent the film thinking "well they are desperately trying to convince me he's not dead..."
I paid to see Unbreakable which was average at best.
I paid to see Signs which was just terrible.
I paid to see The Village which was again obvious but had some interesting moments.
The trend has been absolutely going downhill from the start and thankfully I've completely avoided his later films because the ads alone for those were near unwatchable.
No, nobody will get another penny out of me in his name!!!
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Friday 15th April 2011 14:03 GMT Ian Yates
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It only works because of the "clever" cuts between scenes.
From the top of my head, the one that stuck out was every time he goes to the basement door it cuts to him being in the basement until the very last attempt when he realises he's dead.
/shrugs
Maybe it's just hindsight, but the film seemed far less clever the second time around. I think that's probably true with all MNS's "twists", though.
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Friday 15th April 2011 14:22 GMT Thomas 4
At last, I have found my kindred spirits
Other people that agree with me that The Sixth Sense was a dire film. I remember when the wretched thing came out in the cinema and everyone was saying "Oooo, what a clever plot twist". Now, umpteen dire films later, I can cheerfully point my finger and say that you only have yourselves to blame for encouraging him.
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Saturday 16th April 2011 16:02 GMT Cpt Blue Bear
Dunno about the last one but...
.. the plot "twist" was extremely obvious if you pay any attention to what is going on. I know people have been conditioned by Hollywood schlock to sit and watch passively and wait to be spoon fed, but I do wonder how anyone could miss the fact that the only character who reacts to him at all is the "I see dead people" kid? It was an interesting idea tragically overplayed.
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Friday 15th April 2011 10:45 GMT Graham Jordan
Michael Bay
Hmmmm, I'd be more inclined to send Michael Bay. See with Shyamalan, it's obvious you're going to be dissapointed but at least it's his own creation, he's destroying his own work. Michael on the other hand gets good films but destroys them. God how I wanted to stand on his neck having watched Transformers 2. The problem is I knew it would be pants but felled compelled to watch it because there's cars that turn into robots man, ROBOTS!!!
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Friday 15th April 2011 11:00 GMT Cameron Colley
I thik I'm the only person who found The Last Airbender fun to watch.
It sure beat the heck out of the other film named Avatar.
Sixth Sense was OK, and Unbreakable was at least novel and quite fun. The Village was just dull and obvious and The Happening is a potential candidate for worst film ever "OMG IT'S THE TREES!!! THE TREES!!!!!" pretty much sums up that story.
If anyone needs to go to film school I think it's Ridley Scott -- so that he can learn that cutting every half second during an action scene does not make it "fast-paced" it makes it impossible to watch and shit. Gladiator was ruined by the over use of quick cuts and stupid up-close camera angles which made the film claustrophobic and choppy.
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Friday 15th April 2011 11:18 GMT There's a bee in my bot net
Laughing our arses off...
My wife and I got the Last Airbender on Bluray to make up the numbers on a blockbuster rental deal so I didn't mind too much that it was awful. But we did laugh our arses off at various points throughout the film from the imortal "but then we discovered he was a bender" line to the random jump cuts and disjointed dialogue to the WTF just happen and why moments.
Not actually enjoyable as a film but provides plenty of entertainment spotting all the ways it is bad in the same way Doomsday 2012 did (It's probably not the film you think it is, read the reviews http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132130/ )
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Friday 15th April 2011 13:43 GMT Cameron Colley
RE: Ridley Scott?
I think Ridley Scott can only direct in the dark. Alien and Blade Runner were very atmospheric and the close-ups and cutting made them claustrophobic but the situation allowed for it. When you're filming an epic gladiatorial battle in a colosseum you surely want to create a feeling of awe and epic size, not a sense that they're fighting in a phone box against lions emerging from the ground in what has to be the worst piece of CGI since 100 Million BC.
I think he's a one-trick pony -- though a bloody good one-trick pony.
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Friday 15th April 2011 12:31 GMT CaptainHook
hitman
We could, but given our luck, there will be a twist in the plotline and the hitman will turn out to be from the future even though there was not indication of that at all when we hired him and even more shocking the hitman finds out he is direct descendent of Shyamalan and thus can not kill him without killing himself.
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Friday 15th April 2011 22:28 GMT Ammaross Danan
Problem
"considering that grandfather plots are approximately the third most hackneyed cliche in all of science fiction."
And the most misconstrued considering the alternate timeline theory to solve the grandfather paradox. Granted, time travel isn't called such by physicists, but "closed time-like loops"
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Friday 22nd April 2011 15:29 GMT rciafardone
Time travel (to the past) is BS.
The fact that serious scientist have to come with the alternative universes theory to reconcile paradoxes shows it by it self.
Think of it, Even if alternative universes were real, and the time travel was possible from the POV of the people on the original time line nothing had happened, the "time traveler" just disintegrated out of existence. It is a unfalsifiable hypothesis and therefore an invalid theory.
Plus is the lousiest plot devise/deus ex machina ever thought about.
GOD I HATE STAR TREK!!!!
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