He might be a competent director, but it's his inability to write an engaging script I find amusing.
The Visit - Who Keeps Giving Money to M. Night Shyamalan?
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Let's revisit Unbreakable for a second. I remember watching it and I remember liking it, but I don't remember it, which is no surprise since I was pretty young. So, I went to wikipedia to read up on it again.
Here's my challenge: go to wikipedia and read the entire plot. Try not to laugh after you read the very last line.
Even with his greatest movie, M. Night shows what a hack he is. He took his perfect game and shit all over it by deciding to bean the last batter of the last inning in the head because why not?
Here's my challenge: go to wikipedia and read the entire plot. Try not to laugh after you read the very last line.
That ending is such a curve ball and not in a good way. The movie spends its entire time showing the protagonist struggling to break away from the lie of normalcy he lives in and eventually it breaks through. Eventually he gets it. They spend the entire movie carefully building up this rivalry between the protagonist and antagonist. And then the movie ends on the crescendo of that rivalry being established. Fade to black. Amazing movie. Wait, what's this?
Captions at the end saying the protagonist reported the antagonist to the police and the antagonist gets jailed. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! WHY!? What was the purpose of this? It was not only completely unnecessary, but completely undercut the entire fucking film! That end, especially being tacked on at the end like that in fucking captions, wouldn't be acceptable even in a movie that didn't include all this super hero build up and was about completely normal people. Rocks falls, everyone dies. Fuck you, M. Night.
Captions at the end saying the protagonist reported the antagonist to the police and the antagonist gets jailed. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! WHY!? What was the purpose of this? It was not only completely unnecessary, but completely undercut the entire fucking film! That end, especially being tacked on at the end like that in fucking captions, wouldn't be acceptable even in a movie that didn't include all this super hero build up and was about completely normal people. Rocks falls, everyone dies. Fuck you, M. Night.
Even with his greatest movie, M. Night shows what a hack he is. He took his perfect game and shit all over it by deciding to bean the last batter of the last inning in the head because why not?
I don't envy M. for his position, tbh. I don't think he knows how he ended up as a director himself. He got lucky once and now he tries to dissect what exactly he actually did.
And really, twists are only twists if you don't see them coming, but then wonder WHY you didn't see them coming. Sixth Sense was a normal, albeit slightly supernatural, movie until the twist, but then it revisits all the scenes and it clicks. It works because you don't expect it.
But if you go into a movie and expect a twist, then the movie has already failed on the most basic level. Get a setting, and tell people there's a twist, chances are they can guess it withing 5 minutes.
So, a movie maker known for his twists is an oxymoron. Like a famous smuggler. It basically defeats itself.
And really, twists are only twists if you don't see them coming, but then wonder WHY you didn't see them coming. Sixth Sense was a normal, albeit slightly supernatural, movie until the twist, but then it revisits all the scenes and it clicks. It works because you don't expect it.
But if you go into a movie and expect a twist, then the movie has already failed on the most basic level. Get a setting, and tell people there's a twist, chances are they can guess it withing 5 minutes.
So, a movie maker known for his twists is an oxymoron. Like a famous smuggler. It basically defeats itself.
The trailer for this was eye-rolling at best, comedically desperate at worst. I mean, at first it seems like they ran out of ideas for what other things to be scared of that contains innocence, then out of nowhere, one of them jumps up and exclaims; "The OLD people! By jove...nobody suspects the old people! Watson?...are you getting this down? We must fear the old people."
And the found footage thing is an artistic cop-out. Can't be arsed to get creative with your scenes? Well knock yourself out on the found footage genre! Also, how in hell's name did it cost 5million for this? Is that the twist? That even a low budget pictofart can still inefficiantly waste 5million dollars of hard earned (subjectively) cash. Then again, marketing is an always hungry, financial black hole.
And the found footage thing is an artistic cop-out. Can't be arsed to get creative with your scenes? Well knock yourself out on the found footage genre! Also, how in hell's name did it cost 5million for this? Is that the twist? That even a low budget pictofart can still inefficiantly waste 5million dollars of hard earned (subjectively) cash. Then again, marketing is an always hungry, financial black hole.
Let's be fair. As bad as many of his outings have been, Shyamalan is at least pursuing his muse, coming up with ideas and (making an attempt at) executing them. He doesn't have Boll's smug cynicism or utter disdain for his audience.0takuMetalhead said:
So Matthew gives a bad review, that means the movie has elements that makes it a bad movie, but other critics have given this movie good reviews including someone I respect and like Devin Faraci. So I dont know what to make of this movie, I think I have to check it out by myself to see how this movie turns out.
Now I have to wait the release in my country
Now I have to wait the release in my country
To put this review in perspective...Qui-mono995 said:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/art...iews/cinemarter/14611-Mistress-America-Review
Yeah, that trailer was so cringe-worthy I couldn't even stand an entire two and a half minutes. So you're entirely justified in taking the negative review of The Visit with a grain of salt, or even an entire box.
OTOH: Moviebob's review seems to agree. So there is that.
His movies make a lot of money, no wonder he keeps making them. Besides, I do not really understand why ppl. refer to him as one of the worst directors ever. If you think that, you must not have seen a lot of movies.
M.Night is an OK director with very profitable movies, ppl. should know by now whether his films are for them, or not.
M.Night is an OK director with very profitable movies, ppl. should know by now whether his films are for them, or not.
Actually Uwe Boll made bad films on purpose as a tax scam I believe. I think Shyamalan is trying to make good films, but isn't.0takuMetalhead said:
Uwe Boll actually didn't do that badly. His films were bad but many were hilariously bad. PlusUwe Boll's career was based around making shoddy movies as a tax shelter due to a loophole in German Law. In short he basically made money off the tax rebatess.0takuMetalhead said:
I see Shyamalan's name on things and I just think to myself "I know what you did to The Last Air bender"... and then I dont watch his movies...