You're gonna miss me when I'm gone - m night shyamalan

I like these 3 movies.

Sixth Sense
Unbreakable
Signs


Devil and The Village were entertaining, though just mediocre, imo.

The Happening
Lady In The Water
The Last Airbender
After Earth

All sucked the D.

 

The Happening gave me cancer.

 

The Last Airbender could not have been worse.

 

I really liked the Sixth Sense.

Unbreakable wasn't horrible.

After that, I grew to hate anything he touched. Him, Adam Sandler and Progressive Flo have proven that there is no justice in the world.

[Plot twist]

I am actually a vegetable that lives underwater and knows how to post to Clutchfans.......and I love Adam Sandler movies and Flo!

 

Interesting. I didn't realise there were so many M Night haters. I always thought he was revered as one of the most innovative filmmakers of the past few decades along with Aronofsky.

 

If you read this and apply it to Signs the movie is much more interesting.
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"When I first saw this film, I didn't realize that it wasn't about aliens at all. It's about the return of demons. Notice it's all about a priest's resurgence of belief, and a preordained moment of redemption-if-dared-and-attempted. There is no alien technology or weaponry or clothing of any kind, only a clawed, naked beast creature and lights in the sky.

Furthermore: The running joke throughout the movie is that people see these "invaders" in a way that's related to their particular frame of mind: The cop sees them as prankster kids, the bookstore owners see them as "a hoax to sell commercials," the Army recruitment officer sees them as invading military, the kids see them as UFOs... and the Priest sees them as test of faith. This understanding of the film removed my hatred of the "You've got to be kidding me; they were killed by WATER!" concept. In fact, the priest's daughter had been referred to as "holy" (as revealed during Mel's key monologue)–recognized by all who saw her at her birth as "an Angel;" and her quite particular relationship to water is shown to be very special and spiritual: In other words, she has placed vials of what are, essentially, HOLY WATER all around the house. (And the creature's reaction when coming in contact with this blessed liquid is EXACTLY like monsters/vampires being splashed by spiritual "acid.")

This view of the movie also explains the creature's actions: They act like superior tricksters, are not able to break in through closed doors, can be trapped behind simple wooden latches –all mythological elements of demons and vampire-like creatures of lore. It also explains the news over the radio at the end of the movie that an ancient method of killing the creatures has been found "in three small cities in the Middle East" - one would suspect the religious "hubs" of the three main Abrahamic traditions, each discovering the "mystic methods" of protection-and-dispatch that I’ve noted earlier.

Note also: All the Christian iconography throughout the movie, the references to "Signs and Wonders" (the true meaning of the title), the crucifix shapes hinted-at everywhere (check out the overhead shot, looking down on the street driving into town) and the ultimate fact that the entire movie is built around a Priest rediscovering he is not abandoned to a random, Godless, scientifically-oriented Universe but, rather, is part of a predicted and dreamed-of plan.

Now –these creatures may for all intents and purposes be some sort of extraterrestrial or inter-dimensional "aliens" –but the point of the movie seems to be that they are, in the ACTUALITY OF THE FILM WORLD, the dark stuff from which all the character’s tales of devils and night-creatures were born."

 

I'm a fan of M. Night. I actually felt that The Village was one of the better films I have seen up to that point.

 

Sixth Sense - his Citizen Kane.. there was never going to be any topping of that movie, period. GREAT film.

Unbreakable - Didn't like it. It was a great movie up until the non-payoff. Ruined the whole experience for me.

Signs - I liked it. And while I have never thought of it in terms of the aliens being 'demons' as the article suggested, I always understood the divine touches threading all through the film.

The Village - it was good, but a little too obvious, once you realize the monsters were not real.

Lady in the Water - again, atmospheric and well put together, but just not a very good story, and just came off as more random and silly than anything else. Tried too hard to be clever.

Never saw The Happening, Devil, or Last Airbender, but I have heard nothing but bad things.

After Earth was not bad as such, but it was a kids movie. If people look at it like some kind of high-budget Disney-channel kids movie, then it's ok.

Maybe one of these days I'll see the Happening, it's probably not as bad as people say, but the little snippets I saw of Airbender, oh man, was that total trash..

 

I don't think we'll miss him when he's gone, because once it happens, we'll all discover he was never here to begin with, or some sort of twist like that.

 

I liked his first few movies, but then it all went down hill fast. He's been making dog poop for awhile. Not sure how he's still drawing a paycheck.

 

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I think he's taken risk. Good for him. Some hits. Many misses. But a good effort. His movies are all going to rely on character development because the payoff won't be until the end. He could take O'Henry stories and run with them the rest of his career if he wanted. but will always come down to whether or not the characters can deliver. So think what he needs to focus on is powerful dialogue and relationships so that he can deliver his endings. I think he'll hit another home run eventually if he makes a few more movies, and that's worth it so long as hollywood can seaw a dollar on him. But honest truth is his movies could be done blair witch style. So budgets could be kept low.

 

The Sixth Sense is an all-timer, and I even somewhat enjoyed The Village, but the dude jumped the shark. The Happening is one of the most laughable movies I can remember.

 

Retirement? He's made 3 movies since then (2 if you don't count "Devil" since he didn't direct). And he's currently making 2 move films, one coming out this year one in 2015. That's not much of a retirement.

 

Thank you for this.

I knew it had something to do with "BIG HIT" at first, then "meh" film... then losing all desire to become better than that, but I couldn't have articulated it as well as this here dude whose video you posted. Well done.

 

I slept midway through the Crappening.

There's not enough to miss from M Night, though I'll give him credit like the Wachowski brothers for introducing something different in that era.

 

Unlikely

 

I actually thought The Village was borderline good. Didn't see the twist coming.