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It seems to me that a lot of people do not like his movies, or they just like The Sixth Sense.
I have seen The Village and Signs, and I enjoyed both of those. I thought The Last Airbender was awful, and apparently so did Hollywood because they ripped away his ability to finish the trilogy. :lol:
I was told I should watch his film Unbreakable, and that it was really good. So what do you think?
It seems to me that a lot of people do not like his movies, or they just like The Sixth Sense.
I have seen The Village and Signs, and I enjoyed both of those. I thought The Last Airbender was awful, and apparently so did Hollywood because they ripped away his ability to finish the trilogy. :lol:
I was told I should watch his film Unbreakable, and that it was really good. So what do you think?
Signs and Unbreakable are my favorites. They're a bit goofy in certain respects, but charming in their own way, and highly watchable.
With regards to my feelings on Mr. Shyamalan as a director, I think he had a lot of promise when he first started off. However, he let his over-reliance on the "twist ending" gimmick and over-inflated ego get the better of him later in his career.
While I didn't necessarily mind "Devil," the rest of his recent body of work has skirted the line between bad and utterly unwatchable.
It seems to me that a lot of people do not like his movies, or they just like The Sixth Sense.
I have seen The Village and Signs, and I enjoyed both of those. I thought The Last Airbender was awful, and apparently so did Hollywood because they ripped away his ability to finish the trilogy. :lol:
I was told I should watch his film Unbreakable, and that it was really good. So what do you think?
It seems to me that a lot of people do not like his movies, or they just like The Sixth Sense.
I have seen The Village and Signs, and I enjoyed both of those. I thought The Last Airbender was awful, and apparently so did Hollywood because they ripped away his ability to finish the trilogy. :lol:
I was told I should watch his film Unbreakable, and that it was really good. So what do you think?
Not too keen on Unbreakable, Devil was decent but not great. The Happening... meh. Lady in the Water... ugh.
Now, you can pick his plots apart afterward and find gaping holes, sure... but I'm one that enjoys the emotional atmosphere and creepiness that builds, the suspense and uncertainty... it's just a pity that the payoff is often kind of lacking.
I thought The Sixth Sense, Signs, and Unbreakable were all pretty good. Maybe not Oscar worthy, but decent movies that were at least unique and left an impression.
The Village, I think, was a decent concept but fell flat for me by the end I have to say. The rest I would need to get paid to watch, that one with Marky Mark (edit ah yes The Happening) especially.
It seems to me that a lot of people do not like his movies, or they just like The Sixth Sense.
I have seen The Village and Signs, and I enjoyed both of those. I thought The Last Airbender was awful, and apparently so did Hollywood because they ripped away his ability to finish the trilogy. :lol:
I was told I should watch his film Unbreakable, and that it was really good. So what do you think?
I loved Unbreakable, though it led me to have some concern over whether Shyamalin would turn out to be a “one trick pony” with a trick that could only be used so many times before it became a tired cliché.
Both of the above films, I thought, were brilliant, but they followed a similar plot line.
One character (played by Bruce Willis in both cases) about whom there is a secret that he does not know.
Another character who knows (or at least suspects) that secret, but who himself also has a secret.
Partway through the movie, one secret is revealed. The Bruce Willis character doesn't believe it, at first, but is eventually convinced.
The Sixth Sense:
The other character sees “dead people”.
Unbreakable:
The Bruce Willis Character is really a superhero, just like in the comic books, but he doesn't know it.
The two characters figure out what to do about that secret, leading to what appears to be a rational conclusion to the story.
The Sixth Sense:
The other character learns to help the ghosts, develops a more friendly relationship with them, and is no longer frightened by them.
Unbreakable:
The Bruce Willis character begins to act as the superhero that he is.
The other secret is then revealed, which turns the whole story on its ear.
The Sixth Sense:
The Bruce Willis character has been dead since shortly after the beginning of the film. Only the other character (who sees dead people) ever actually interacts with him, because only the other character even knows he's there.
Unbreakable:
The other character turns out to be the arch villain. He is revealed to have intentionally caused at least three great disasters for the purpose of finding the hero, including the train wreck of which the Bruce Willis character was the only survivor. His purpose was to find the hero that he knew must be out there, and set that hero on the proper path; but in order to accomplish this, he sacrificed hundreds of innocent lives, creating these disasters, which he correctly assumed only the hero that he was seeking would survive.
In both these movies, the Bruce Willis character is having trouble with his marriage.
In The Sixth Sense his wife just seems to be pissed off at him, and will not talk to him, or even acknowledge him.
She's not pissed off at him. She's grieving because he is dead. Unlike the other main character, she doesn't see “dead people”. She's not aware of ghosts, including that of her deceased husband, which is why she doesn't talk to him or acknowledge him.
In Unbreakable, it's not revealed why the marriage is in trouble, just that it is. They are sleeping in separate beds, and there is talk about him moving somewhere else in pursuit of a job, and her not coming with him. There's a brief scene near the beginning of the movie where it is indicated that he no longer feels a need to be faithful to his marriage, and there is a deleted scene which indicates the same about her.
After returning from his first great superhero act, he goes into her bedroom, lifts her out of her bed, and carries her up to his bedroom, puts her in his bed, and climbs in and snuggles with her. It seems to be implied that the marriage is going to be much better after this point.
I thought The Village was rather lame, but my wife liked it. Neither of us particularly cared for Signs. I loved Lady in the Water, but my wife hated it. We both thought The happening was unimaginably lame and pointless, and regret that we will never be able to recover the two hours of our lives that we wasted watching it. We both very much liked Devil.
I thought The Sixth Sense, Signs, and Unbreakable were all pretty good. Maybe not Oscar worthy, but decent movies that were at least unique and left an impression.
The Village, I think, was a decent concept but fell flat for me by the end I have to say. The rest I would need to get paid to watch, that one with Marky Mark (edit ah yes The Happening) especially.
I like sings if only because I fantasize that it was acutely about zombie aliens
why else travel across space to mill about stupidly in the air and land on a planet with a dangerous (possibly more dangerous because your body's dead and less able to respond to agents that would make it decay) substance all over the place
without any protective gear?
and I think one of the critters was unable to figure out how a door handle works for a while
obviously these guys were fleeing a zombie plague on their world or worlds possibly an artificial one but the ships got infected any way, and what ever automated systems they had got them to the nearest slightly habitable planet( if they still had intellect and or normally functioning biology) they could find
sure the creature seem more agile and intelligent then many zombies but that might be do to their different biology or enhancements to it