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Should've gone before we left.
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no oneder said:
Could it be that you're just Comic-Book-Guy-ing the movie instead?
I never read one Spidey comic in my life.

I did love the animated series though.
 

elbowlick

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enriel said:
I can't think of anyone who enjoyed the Last Airbender. Whether or not they watched the show...it was just that fucking awful.

And The Happening for that matter.

But, while on the topic of Mr. Shyamalan, I actually really enjoyed Lady In The Water which seems to get as much shit as the other two mentioned.
I don't know, I thought the Happening was hilarious. "What? No." Best line delivery ever.
 

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The most recent M. Night Shyamalan film I've seen is The Village (which I really liked, by the way), so I'm not really qualified to say that all of his films are good, but I do get the impression that most people don't give them a fair chance. It seems like people see his name and think "twist at the end..." without really actually wondering if maybe the film itself is good (whether there actually is a twist or not).

I liked The Phantom Menacé too. I was, like, 9 at the time. I probably just wasn't paying attention to much of it. If I had it on DVD or something I'd definitely check, though.

On the popular-things-I-dislike side...
There were some bits I didn't like in Avatar. I've only seen it once, and that was almost a year ago so I don't remember it clearly enough to really say whether or not I like it overall (I definitely liked it at the time, though). What I didn't like was all the montages of the guy learning how to do stuff. "And then, this happened!" is not good film-storytelling in my opinion. I get that, in the story, it was necessary for him to learn those things, and that if the film included the entire learning process it would probably be quite a bit longer, but it just kind of feels... jumpy. I don't know why, but I feel like that sort of thing works better in books. Maybe it's because books uncontrollably have narration, narration that is (usually) neither a character from the story nor has any personal involvement with it. When there's a narrator in a movie, it's usually one of those things, and I feel like it doesn't work as well when we have someone telling us what they did, rather than kind of matter-of-fact type statements. I don't really know for sure. I don't completely understand this dislike.
I can't think of a popular film that I actually full-on disliked. There might've been some...