as long as M. Night Shyamalan is *not* involved, I'm on board.

This movie has the characters from Unbreakable and Split.
When Shyamalan made Unbreakable way back in 2000, he mentioned that it was the beginning of his version of a superhero trilogy.

It's Bryce Dallas Howard. She was in Jurassic World, a few M. Night Shyamalan movies, an episode of Black Mirror, and some other stuff I've never seen. She's also Ron Howard's daughter.

I'm going to be crossing my fingers in hopes that this is good. At least with what we got for this preview, it looks promising and people have been commending how the beginning of GITS did look to be emulated here too.

I just hope that we finally have a decent adaptation on our hands. Hell knows that if we ever need to start identifying bad films, we use "white washing" to start finding them. (Why are there white kids in the Antarctic shyamalan?!)

Call M. Night Shyamalan... We found Unbreakable

M Night Shyamalan is that you?!

plot twists like M. Night Shyamalan on crack

*promote

Dude, that's clearly a 90's video. However, the best production value won't help you if your content stinks, just ask M. Night Shyamalan. Having white children rap about religion is terrible. If you can't see this cheap and lazy attempt at making Jesus PR for children for what it is, you'll probably need the Lord's help more than the kids do.

One of the most disappointing films ever, especially for everyone who was holding tight on board the M. Night bandwagon, before his name became a joke and audiences started to literally audibly guffaw in unison inside movie theaters at a voiceover saying proudly "From the mind of M. Night Shyamalan."

"It's not that we don't understand it, it's just really stupid"

THIS.... for the love of all that is good and holy.... THIS.

The whole "love is a quantifiable force" thing made me want to throw up.

Look, I understand most of the science. Frankly, if the movie is good, I really don't care if the science is accurate. And Interstellar, to it's credit, puts in a lot of good work before it goes "full blown Shyamalan" (the water planet / relativity aspect being the best bit).

But it's just such a mediocre story...

*promote *quality

WOW RUSSEL IS A GENIUS. To think he was planning this for over a year! Truly a visionary. The next M Night Shyamalan???/

I'm not a fan of Shyamalans work anymore, especially after the Happening (and I didn't even bother to see The Last Airbender), but the guy definitely had something special about his work. It's something that would make me a fan of his again if he returned to making films with that certain something.
I really didn't have a problem with The Village, Unbreakable, or even Lady in the Water, even though that last one I really had to try to get through. If you look at his films chronologically, that spark of different imagination slowly dwindles out until he did Airbender (the first film by someone other than himself).
Even The Happening, being the final straw for me, was still based around a topic that was insanely imaginative and interesting if it had been done in the right way. Lady in the Water had a cast of, like, 5 people, and took place entirely in one shitty apartment complex, but it was still insanely weird in that Shyamalan-way.
That aspect of his work is what made his pre-Airbender films truly unique. I guess if you're going to fail, might as well fail by doing something no one else will.

"Good considering it's a Shyamalan" is the definition of 'damned by faint praise.'

Film wasn't that bad. If you view it relative to Shyamalans other works, definitely not as bad as it could have been.

Who keeps giving this guy money?

The latter part of this could easily be attributed to a shitty script. I think the whole film probably could (don't know, avoided it intentionally).
Did Shyamalan write the screenplay? I don't actually know. I do like the first Airbender show though (part of why I avoided the film).
Shyamalan was one of my favorite filmmakers, just for his vision, even when the film itself failed. I could appreciate his intent all the way through The Lady In The Water, but the nosedive of actual quality up to that point put me off of any more of his films. I can only appreciate initial vision to a point.
I've been eager to see After Earth, even if it sucks. I'm mildly interested in this film, but only for morbid reasons. Any time you dismiss source material, it makes you a shithead in my view (fuck you Peter Jackson).