Hah love it... great lines:

Trees... really?

Your career's been dead the whole time!! AAAAHHH

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Now THAT is fucking funny.

BTW I want my $8 back from "The Happening"

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Sixth Sense was a very enjoyable movie - as was Unbreakable.

The twist in all his later movies was that they sucked.

The Happening had the least ridiculous premise of all his films yet that is what people hate about it. The wind noises was the ONLY thing wrong with that film! Fuck anyone who thinks otherwise!

Mark Wahlberg is the other thing people hate about it. And in general.
>> ^swedishfriend:

The Happening had the least ridiculous premise of all his films yet that is what people hate about it. The wind noises was the ONLY thing wrong with that film! Fuck anyone who thinks otherwise!

Shyamalan's movies are so consistent in tone and feeling that it boggles my mind how someone can like one and not another. They all feel the same if you just watch them without preconceptions. The Happening deviates with its completely forced wind noises where everything in his films tends to be natural and more subtle than that. I haven't seen Avatar since the series is so good and I couldn't imagine cutting down each season to a single film's length when the series doesn't feel long or padded to begin with. I am looking forward to his next non-avatar movie and I am glad that even the Happening was hugely successful so he can keep making movies.
-Karl

Rosekat:
The premise is what 98% of posts complain about... Plants actually send chemical signals to each other in response to stresses which in turn changes the chemical makeup of plants around them (even in-between different species and for miles around). These signals may make a plant more toxic to a pest or might prepare a plant better for changing environmental stresses. I also really like horror films so that may have made me like it better. The very matter of fact ways that people die is great. I love the teacher character as it reminds me of the kind of personality that many teachers in my experience tend to have. The noises tended to kill the tension in the scenes where something a bit more subtle is called for. Everything in the film is so naturalistic and then they add these sounds that seem to be taken off of the cheapest stock sound sampler they could find.

>> ^dag:

Sixth Sense was a very enjoyable movie - as was Unbreakable.


I agree 100%, but what happened after those two?

Signs? Was very good, until the whole "water" thing.

The Village? Just plain retarded ending.

Lady in the water? UMMMM, I saw it but cant really remember it. (whats that tell ya?) lol

The Happening? i REALLY couldn't make it though 20 minutes of it, i lost all interest.

I think M. Night still has it in him to make a movie that is just as beautiful as his first 2 hits, but I think he needs some help with his writing.

He trapped himself sometime ago and I'm surprised anyone finances his stuff anymore. I saw that Lady in the Water crap on tv recently and it's staggeringly and sometimes bizarrely bad. But I was mostly disappointed that Paul Giamatti wasted time on it. Sixth Sense was good though. But you can't keep pulling that trick again and again.

It was a Good niche. Take classic architypes that creep people out. Stories that have been told for thousands of years around camp fires.

Ghosts & Aliens, Monsters and Demons. Everyone can identity, we're all with you. I can imaging being terrified of a ghost of a little girl in my bedroom.

Did he not realize he was supposed to be the director version of Stephen King?

But he didn't stick with it... Comic book heroes, Environmental lecturing, Mermaids, Early American settler society. Now you're in "who gives a shit" land.

there is one thing doucheyalaman is good at. one. damn. thing: directing. He has a keen knack for directing. he sucks donkey balls at everything else

and stop with the "sixth sense and unbreakable were great, they sucked after that" garbage. sixth sense sucked termite ass. it was a cool premise and a great movie........then the movie started being about bruce willis and it blew chowder. if you didnt figure the plot of the movie halfway through then you enjoy shit-tastic movies.

and unbreakable. again, it started being cool.....then about 30 minutes into the movie the story, characters, and pretty much everything else get thrown into a blender along with m night shit and bam, theres yer second act. then the turd filled second act dropped a steaming deuce and bam, theres your third act.

both crap movies, that just steamrolled into more crap movies.

I had a very similar experience to the beginning of this video. I saw the trailer for Devil for the first time when in a crowded theater just before Scott Pilgrim. The entire crowd was silent during the trailer until "From the mind of M. Night Shyamalan" came across the screen. It was then the ENTIRE crowd groaned loudly, and then started to talk through the rest of the trailer, obviously losing all interest. It was pretty funny.

The ostentatious marketing doesn't help. 'From the Mind of M. Night Shyamalan' should elicite groans.

"Oh, he has sought fit to share another brilliant tale with us, the unwashed masses. Please accept $20 as offering from my girlfriend and I and provide us respite from our weary lives."

He's quite an inconsistent actor but when I see him nail roles like in The Departed, it makes me wonder if he's just terrible at picking scripts and in this case directors.>> ^rosekat:

Mark Wahlberg is the other thing people hate about it. And in general.
>> ^swedishfriend:
The Happening had the least ridiculous premise of all his films yet that is what people hate about it. The wind noises was the ONLY thing wrong with that film! Fuck anyone who thinks otherwise!

>> ^swedishfriend:

Shyamalan's movies are so consistent in tone and feeling that it boggles my mind how someone can like one and not another. They all feel the same if you just watch them without preconceptions.
-Karl


Story. You missed the story. A similar tone and feeling don't make the story good.

wtf is she talking about with the trees thing

Anyone seen the Last Airbender? Shamalammadingdong's latest movie.

I haven't just wondering if it's the shit, or just shit.

edit: nevermind, just visited the Rotten Tomatoes site...

I'm just waiting for M. Night to lose funding so he can make some decent low budget horror/suspense flicks.

Personally, he needs to stop grabbing you by the scruff of the neck and saying "THIS! AND THIS! SEE THIS?!?! LOOK AT THIS TOO!!! HERE SEE WHAT THAT BACK THERE MEANT?!?!" People are smarter than he treats them. Say what you will about Inception's different problems, but at least Nolan doesn't treat you like a complete moron.

>> ^Payback:

Personally, he needs to stop grabbing you by the scruff of the neck and saying "THIS! AND THIS! SEE THIS?!?! LOOK AT THIS TOO!!! HERE SEE WHAT THAT BACK THERE MEANT?!?!" People are smarter than he treats them. Say what you will about Inception's different problems, but at least Nolan doesn't treat you like a complete moron.


...Inception was 1:45 of The Architect scene from the Matrix: Reloaded! It was all The Explainer, except occasionally when guys were shooting other guys.

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Inception was not that good a movie IMO - too contrived, too simple a concept trying to be deep. I'll take an M. Night hook over Inception any day.

I forgot to mention that I actually thought The Village was a good flick too. I can't helpt but think that if Hitchcock was alive today- some of you would be railing against his repetitive schtick. Always seeking the new new you are. M. Nnight is soooo 2003.

>> ^direpickle:

>> ^Payback:
Personally, he needs to stop grabbing you by the scruff of the neck and saying "THIS! AND THIS! SEE THIS?!?! LOOK AT THIS TOO!!! HERE SEE WHAT THAT BACK THERE MEANT?!?!" People are smarter than he treats them. Say what you will about Inception's different problems, but at least Nolan doesn't treat you like a complete moron.

...Inception was 1:45 of The Architect scene from the Matrix: Reloaded! It was all The Explainer, except occasionally when guys were shooting other guys.

The Happening is the most unintentionally hilarious movie ever. It's a bunch of people running from the wind because the trees are releasing a toxin that makes people kill themselves. Oh, and Marky Mark is supposed to be a smart guy.

If you try to take it seriously, it's impossible to like, but if you look at it as the most ridiculous B movie about the environment ever... it can be slightly enjoyable.>> ^deathcow:

wtf is she talking about with the trees thing

WATER. WATER. WATER. WATER. WATER. WATER.

>> ^swedishfriend:

The Happening had the least ridiculous premise of all his films yet that is what people hate about it. The wind noises was the ONLY thing wrong with that film! Fuck anyone who thinks otherwise!


My friend pointed out that the problem with "The Happening" was that it showed too much, i.e.: the scene with the guy getting his arm torn off by lions. Or the guy getting shredded by the lawnmower. Knowing that it happened is suspenseful but the scenes actually wind up looking really cheesy in the end. If you watch it with that in mind, they become laughable.

On another note: I'm convinced that I liked "Signs" for the simple reason that people boarding up their house reminds me of "Night of the Living Dead".

The worst part of The Happening was the acting and dialogue. Yeah, the script was hilariously awful, but it doesn't top:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhmEo-46vUQ
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2r_qjEHf7c

Well he can play a support once in a blue moon, but he CAN NOT carry a film on his own. I still get pretty twisted up when I recall of Planet of the Apes. Yes I blame Burton as well for his casting an actual ape to play lead, alongside greats like Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Roth. Bottom line Mark Walberg Ruins Films more often than not. Someone dispute this!
>> ^RedSky:

He's quite an inconsistent actor but when I see him nail roles like in The Departed, it makes me wonder if he's just terrible at picking scripts and in this case directors.>> ^rosekat:
Mark Wahlberg is the other thing people hate about it. And in general.
>> ^swedishfriend:
The Happening had the least ridiculous premise of all his films yet that is what people hate about it. The wind noises was the ONLY thing wrong with that film! Fuck anyone who thinks otherwise!

You're a credit to your kind.
>> ^smooman:

[...] sucked termite ass. [...] blew chowder. [...] shit-tastic movies.
[...] with m night shit [...] turd filled [...] dropped a steaming deuce [...]
[...] crap movies, [...] more crap movies.

I haven't seen that new Will Ferrel movie with Mark Wahlberg where they're cops, but it looked possibly funny from the trailers. I think Wahlberg is a better actor than most people give him credit for...agree with whoever said he's probably bad at picking scripts/directors. I thought his character was great in The Departed, no matter what you think of the movie.

As for Shymalan, big WTF to the water thing in Signs. I can't think of a bigger disappointment and letdown in a movie, though I'm sure there are worse...it'd be tough to come up with a list that tops it IMO. Also, I liked The Village even though the twist ending was questionable, I enjoyed the rest.

The rest of his movies have been mostly terrible, IMO...I'm one of the people groaning in the theater. His name attached to a movie has obviously ceased to be a reason to see something for the vast majority of people...and Devil looks like a massive shitpile.

Found a good example of how funny The Happening really is... so I submitted it here.

http://videosift.com/video/The-Happening-Rifftrax-Sample

What oh no?!?

>> ^thinker247:

You're a credit to your kind.
>> ^smooman:
[...] sucked termite ass. [...] blew chowder. [...] shit-tastic movies.
[...] with m night shit [...] turd filled [...] dropped a steaming deuce [...]
[...] crap movies, [...] more crap movies.



the "pretentious, potty-mouthed, amateur movie critic" kind? you caught me!

Most people love The Sixth Sense, including me.

Unbreakable is my favorite movie. I love the dialog, the cinematography, the cues and foreshadowing, the characters, the score...

I thought Signs was a good story that didn't translate well to movie. He should not have that much screen time, either.

I do enjoy The Village but the 'twist' seemed forced. It could have all been tied together better, somehow.

Lady in the Water was entertaining. No twist and a bit odd, but still enjoyable.

I haven't seen The Happening because it doesn't interest me but I'm amazed at how many people complain that it was a cheesy b-movie. That was the whole point. It was marketed as a corny horror flick right from the get-go.

I also haven't seen Avatar because I don't give a shit. If anything, I was disappointed to see M working on such a film.

Carried by Bruce Willis tbh.

The Happening was the worse movie I've seen for a long time, no exhaggeration. You know what the "twist" for that film was? Nothing. There was none, it never happened, nothing was ever explained.
Me- "Omg the tree are killing everybody for somehow for some reason."
Shamamylylanlaylymum- "Yup, pretty much."
THE END.

The only good thing about that movie is that I can look back on the whole experience and laugh about it now, not unlike the time I had food poisoning and was emptying my guts from every orafice simultaneously. Hahaha, silly me eating food from that scummy street vendor, oh and that time I accidently watched The Happening. hoho.

I still think Signs is great. FTR I don't think God was talking to Mel Gibson's character at all. That shit was in his head. I also think the aliens we saw were the equivalent of fox-hounds, and if there was ever a Signs 2 it'd be the most depressing movie ever because everyone would be dead, probably for alien food, and the planet strip-mined of resources.

It was great to see an alien invasion from a single perspective. One of the reasons I also love the 2005 War of the Worlds.

Not that I think an alien invasion would resemble either of those scenarios in real life.

I think y'all take yer movies way too seriously. They're movies, lighten up a little. And Lady in the Water was a bedtime story he made up for his kids. It wasn't some big 'social commentary' film, it was a fantasy movie. Most of the comments above seem like they came from these people.

I still thought this video was funny, btw...

> I also haven't seen Avatar because I don't give a shit.

Avatar sucked

avatar; m nights bastardized manga or james camerons Pocahontas2.0?

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