'i see dead people' was good (or whatever it was called, lol).
Both the village (and signs) were okay up until both of their REALLY LAME-ASS INCREDIBLY LAME-ASS, TOTALLY UNCONVINCING, endings. In a way 'the village' and "signs" were harbingers of things to come -- they showed that he can *execute* a movie (he knows how to *film* suspense) -- but -- he does not know how to *write* a story without straining the audience's sense of disbelief. And thats saying a lot - american audiences will eat up pretty much anything.
Give him a good story and he can execute it well, but he cant write for ****. Therefore I believe he got lucky with 'i see white people'.
movies like the one about the underwater tart showed that too; he thinks he has an imagination but really he doesnt.
I really think he needs to stop writing his own stuff, thats what will save his career. But then airbender was written by others and he still blew it. (tho it did make over 100 million, just goes to show, he needs to stick with other peoples stories).
Sign's was the stupidest sci-fi movie ever made, and that's saying something, with more plot holes and stupidity
yet everyone hated Battlefield Earth which had more quality and less plot holes than those two. lol
Sign's was the stupidest sci-fi movie ever made, and that's saying something
Nearly invincible aliens who happen to be vulnerable to common H20 invade a planet that's 70% water! I wanted to swallow bathroom cleaner after having to witness the end of the movie.
The ending would have been better had people started spitting on the aliens and killing them with toxic saliva. It'd be a twist on the fire breathing monster... beware of the spit lobbing humans.
In total agreement... and what made it even worse was how badly it was over hyped. It came on the heels of the Sixth Sense so everyone was expecting the world and the pre-release publicity did nothing to temper expectations so expectations spun out of control.
Maybe the real reason why Mel Gibson went kooks was out of regret for being in such a bad movie.
Nearly invincible aliens who happen to be vulnerable to common H20 invade a planet that's 70% water! I wanted to swallow bathroom cleaner after having to witness the end of the movie.
The ending would have been better had people started spitting on the aliens and killing them with toxic saliva. It'd be a twist on the fire breathing monster... beware of the spit lobbing humans.
It's worse than that. There's fricken water always in the air, that's the humidity rate. One good rainstorm, invasion over.
maybe it was just me that saw the complete idiocy of it, or that M. Night, had intended this and somehow was trying to say something, or making fun of other sci-fi movies, or war of the worlds or something...but I finally came to the conclusion it was just bad and stupid! lol
The loss of faith subplot was also a real kick in the nuts. What kind of minister is that ****ing weakass?
I've had hours long discussions with a friend of mine about how bad Signs sucked...
The at the time nonsensical but later revealed as divine foreshadowing statement of his dying pinned between the car and the tree wife. Ouch.
The news broadcast celebrating that a weakness had been found blah blah blah details to come later blah blah blah simple solution blah blah blah. How hard is it to just scream "WATER! SPRAY THEM WITH WATER!"? The reporter can have the clues as to what it might be, but not the actual answer? WHAT?
The loss of faith subplot was also a real kick in the nuts. What kind of minister is that ****ing weakass? Yeah, it sucks, your wife died in a freak accident, but dude part of your job is comforting people who have gone through the same thing with their own family members / friends / etc. and convincing them that it's all ok and part of the plan. If you can't walk the walk.........
I could have out-written shalamanayamanakan at fourteen years old and pumped full of sedatives.
The Sixth Sense was no better. I knew he was dead from the time the New Kid on the Block shot him. If you're going to make a movie with a plot twist, and you realize that people will be saying, "oh it's a great movie but it's got this crazy twist but I won't ruin it for you!" then by George make a movie where the twist isn't so evident that only watching the first 5 minutes of the movie makes the rest of it irrelevant.
I suggest he officially change his name to I. Might Suckalongdong. It would be the most mature and interesting creative decision he ever made, even if I suggested it to him first.
What "underwater tart" are you talking about?
I liked Signs. But perhaps for reasons having nothing to do with its quality as a movie.
Battlefield Earth was painful. Awful. Ghastly. And boring.
Unbreakable however, the second it ended I wanted to watch immediately all over again. RIGHT THEN. I think it even says that in the review quip on the dvd cover in almost those same words. An unusually brilliant movie that I often forget about for some reason until someone mentions it again. But easily on of my favorites of all time.
Unbreakable is the ONLY shamalayahanmanagahanamannanaanaaanaahabbahabbabayan I can say I didn't hate. To be honest I generally dislike movies with Samuel L. Jackson (with some notable exceptions where the movie and/or director overpowered his tendency toward hyperbole, or used it appropriately). I also knew M. Knight Boogieban was horrible, so I watched it with zero expectations, and prepared to hate it.
(Of note, I think Bruce Willis picks excellent scripts considering the way he's been pigeonholed as a specific "type" of actor. This fact alone gave me the motivation to watch Unbreakable).
It was definitely the most engaging shamalaggin' film for me. I'm not even a big comic book / superhero movie guy. I just thought it was a nice dark slant on the super hero vs. super villain plot.
hahahahaha nice anti-signs rant; i too had discussions right along these lines with my friends after we saw it ;) Yea you gotta wonder why, at some point during the writing process, one of his friends or co-workers didnt just say to him, "Um, Night? Water, bro? Water!!?"
I didnt mind sixth sense (probably again because its plot holes, while huge, were slightly better than the plot holes in all his other movies. The execution was good.
He has a film about the last airbender? I don't know what an airbender is and wasn't aware they were extinct. How do you bend air, it's normally kind of gaseous? Again, I don't care about the explanation, I'm just annoyed at his attempt to pique my interest with a mysterious film name. You can't manipulate me that way. I'm too old and grumpy, I'm immune to your nonsense!
The last airbender is based on a Nickelodeon cartoon, Avatar: The last airbender.
Avatar was just a wet fart on film.
You can't manipulate me that way. I'm too old and grumpy, I'm immune to your nonsense!
Well, airbenders aren't Shamylanylamamandntrololololol's invention.
My favourite movie is "Ivanhoe" the 1952 version.Show Image(http://www.goatdog.com/images/moviepics/664.jpg)
Damn that was a good movie, I loved the ending battle scene: probably the best battle scene ever produced in a movie.
this might be the least controversial thread on gh ever ;)
Because nobody intelligent enough to be able to fill in the registration page likes Shamalamadingdong.
I didn't even know this guy existed. Although, I'll use this information to avoid future endeavors. I liked The Sixth Sense and I liked Unbreakable.
I didn't mind The Village or Signs, but I barely remember them. I wish I hadn't watched The Happening. I thought The Village & The Happening were crap remakes of other movies, rather than his original thing, though?
Hopefully I won't forget what this thread has taught me - I need to avoid Stuart Little & The Lady in the Water, because I might have watched those movies some day without warning.
I didn't even know this guy existed. Although, I'll use this information to avoid future endeavors. I liked The Sixth Sense and I liked Unbreakable.
I didn't mind The Village or Signs, but I barely remember them. I wish I hadn't watched The Happening. I thought The Village & The Happening were crap remakes of other movies, rather than his original thing, though?
Hopefully I won't forget what this thread has taught me - I need to avoid Stuart Little & The Lady in the Water, because I might have watched those movies some day without warning.
The Happening? Isn't that the one where there's all the fog and those aliens or monsters or whatever... and the people start offing themselves, and the fog clears a few moments later and the creatures have been defeated?
The Happening? Isn't that the one where there's all the fog and those aliens or monsters or whatever... and the people start offing themselves, and the fog clears a few moments later and the creatures have been defeated?
The one you're thinking of was The Mist by Stephen King, where they start killing each other in a supermarket, and at the end the main characters off each other in a car when they're lost, and it turns out that they were safe and all the aliens were dead.
I liked that film apart from the stupid suicide ending. Must be an American thing: "Oh no, we've run out of [strike]petrol[/strike] gas. Better kill ourselves."
P.S. Just caught The Mothman Prophecies on TV. That surely belongs in this thread, even though it wasn't completely awful.
I liked The Sixth Sense and I liked Unbreakable.
I didn't mind The Village or Signs, but I barely remember them.
Same here, though I barely remember anything about Signs, I sure do remember the main character was a beautiful woman, daughter of Ron Howard IIRC.
Huhu, looks like I forgot the "of the Village", which is much better-looking.Show Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=11884&stc=1&d=1280319358)
I'll let you have the "beautiful woman" comment because everyone's tastes are different, but I'm having a hard time believing that Mel Gibson is Ron Howard's daughter!
I'm having a hard time believing that Mel Gibson is Ron Howard's daughter!
I liked that film apart from the stupid suicide ending. Must be an American thing: "Oh no, we've run out of [strike]petrol[/strike] gas. Better kill ourselves."
P.S. Just caught The Mothman Prophecies on TV. That surely belongs in this thread, even though it wasn't completely awful.
my brother in law said the same thing about that Supermarket-Fog-with-Twist-Ending movie (ie, silly but watchable)
It was silly if you watched it for the special effects, not so much if you watched it for the (decidedly lord-of-the-flies-esque/social experiment type) story/themes and acting (casting in this film was great). Also, it's funny that the ending was Darabont's creation, as it is very true to King's style, and something I have found lacking from King adaptations on film (ala Cujo: book v. film). I won't elaborate for fear of further "SPOIL"ing.
Of course, forget all of that if we aren't talking about the same flick.