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

I liked six sense, village.

but after I saw Lady in the water and then airbender, I am never watching another of his film again

 

The Sixth Sense was awesome, though I read somewhere that he stole it from a Nickelodeon show?

Anyway, his worse movies are The Last Airbender and The Elevator (or whatever it's called).

 

IMO every filmmaker is born into filmmaking not giving a F what the audience thinks of what they want to make. Then comes a phase where giving a F what the audience thinks = money, so you have to somewhat succumb to it. Most great filmmakers, once they are highly successful, have their eyes on the prize of being given a green light for risky projects. This is the point where your money is in the bank, and you want to have fun and have no limits. Sometimes, these projects turn out great. Other times, these projects end up being works of art that almost no one but the filmmaker appreciates.

In that sense, I don't think he's failed. I think it just turns out that what he personally dreams of making is not necessarily everyone's taste. I think he watched those last few movies and loved them. Maybe more than his earlier work.

I don't think he's tanked. I think he can make a great commercial film that many people would enjoy tremendously. From what you read about him though, you get the sense that he doesn't really want to do that anymore as a priority. Sure, he wants it to sell, but I don't think it's anywhere near as important to him as it used to be.

That's my take anyway.

 

Forced him into retirement? He is still regularly making crappy movies, every year

The happening is legitimately one of the 5 worst movies I've ever seen in my life. The article was written by a moron. M night started off well and then got lazy. The happening is the biggest example of this, one of the laziest, dumbest, and worthless movies ever made.

 

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I used to watch Are You Afraid of the Dark all the time as a kid, as kids shows go this was one of the best. I remember where i was when this episode first aired, for what a kid would watch, this was the most amazing storytelling I had ever seen. Story still holds but the low production value and wicked 90's feel date this show pretty badly.


M Night borrowed extremely heavily from this, borderline plagiarism. Even with that said the Sixth Sense was still a masterpiece. Loved Unbreakable, Signs, and the Village, but then he fell off the face of the Earth. I was so excited for his movies, but he just released one piece of garbage after the other.

 

Unfortunately for him, his busts have been on larger budget projects. The Last Airbender was an enormous hit to his career. The studio signed him up to do three of them, but the first one was so bad that the studio backed out of the other two. The film was miss cast. It was really a children's movie and was fine for that genre. However the studio cast it as a blockbuster and based on the directors prior hits, many movie goers were very disapointed.
The Happening was a mediocre story.. Period.

My understanding is that he will never get a budget or attention like he got for The Last Airbender and The Happening again because of the failure. He has been marginalized and would require a John Trovolta type comeback.

 

I thought the happening did as good of a job as it could to make you fear trees

Signs is one of my favorite movies ever.

Lady in the lake or whatever was terrible.

I didn't think after earth was that bad.

 

Watch this for two hours and you have the Happening

Rocket River

 

Meh, it's like McHale, once people piled on, it was all made to seem worse than it was by the angry mob.

Lady in the water was a big let down. Just silly and boring.

Of course, I took my kid to see AirBender and had the reasonable expectations of what it would be as a remake of a campy cartoon. Sure it could have had more potential, but it was pretty much what I expected and had some good moments.

I didn't particularly love the Happening either, but it wasn't as bad as many make it out to be.... just a swing and a miss on what seemed like a decent idea that just did not translate well.

After Earth is exactly what you'd expect from a Smith father son movie. Bad. That said it was bad enough I only watched about 20 minutes of it so perhaps I missed the best/worst of it. Also didn't know this was an Mnight movie.

I thought Devil was pretty good, even having expected a twist.

Unbreakable was very cool, if a bit silly at times. I enjoyed it.

I thought the Village was very original and well done, though it does drag a bit.

Sixth Sense needs no defense, it is awesome.

Overall, I don't have a problem with the guy, except that the "twist" is so expected that you're looking for it in his films before there is evidence there will be one. Lots of people have made a much worse set of movies. Of course, my expectations of movies being completely good are usually pretty low, so ... there's the twist.

 

Seems like I'm the only who doesn't love the Sixth Sense. I thought it was boring, and I figured out the big twist before it was revealed.

I don't think I've enjoyed any of his movies that I've seen.

 

The Village has some of the best Original Music of All time.

 

Hard to think of anyone else that has been given so many second chances and opportunities, but has squandered them all. After Lady in the Water, I was thinking he just needs to break free of his own conventions, maybe doing something that he didn't write, a different genre perhaps...well then we get Airbender AND After Earth (though he did write the screenplay for that one too). Devil I liked but he only wrote the story.

I still feel there's a good director in there somewhere. But don't know if we'll ever see that again.

 

He is a great director
Horrible story teller

Rocket River
He should have been a cinematographer

 

I though he just changed his pen name to Dinesh D'souza?

 

To everyone that liked Devil.... I have only this to say...


Jelly side down....

 

Interesting, given the excellent cast.

The plot looks like a combo of Twin Peaks, the Village, and Logan's Run. LOL.

 

The guy became totally full of himself. I loved Sixth Sense, I liked Unbreakable until the so-called twist; Signs was good (again, though, not much of an ending); then he seemed to believe his own mythology.

 

It doesn't help that he strips all of his actors of their natural acting ability and reduces them to community theater level awkward, and/or emotionless props that only serve to move the plot along...

I'm amazed there's a post here in this very thread that cites "character development" as not only a Shyamalan positive but as his filmmaking modus operandi...