Same here. The only M. Night movie that I disliked was Lady in the Water. And that was because I had high expectations.
Lot of hate for this guy , so many threads dedicated to just hate on the guy. If you don't like his movies , dont watch them .... i dont watch them cuz most of his movies are not that good anyways atleast the recent few years. Quit whining like biatches , just don't watch his movies !
You weren't expecting any twists? Thats like watching Steve Slaton last year and not expecting a fumble.
I think the Village is one of those movies that for some reason rode a wave of critical hate and people just decided to jump on. Kind of like Hudson Hawk, Scrooged, or Waterworld. All of which proved to be highly entertaining movies. I mean, what was so bad about the Village? The cinematography was first rate, the suspense was carefully crafted, the actors and performances were all high quality. The twist was not nearly as affecting as his other movies, but my dumb ass actually didn't see it coming. I can understand not liking it, but worst movie you've ever seen? Come on.
He's Tim Burton without the box office success. Both guys made a couple of interesting movies early in their career but now they just make great trailers except the movies suck hard.
I've never contributed to his box office totals. I think the only movie I saw of his all the way through is The Happening. I wasn't impressed. And you read that right, I have not seen The Sixth Sense.
I don't why he puts himself in his own movies. He's an ugly dude who can't act. And it's distracting. In Signs, out of nowhere an Indian guy is making awkward eye contact with Mel Gibson. Give it up!
Tim Burton's had box office and critical success throughout his career...Alice wasn't received very well and I think Charlie and the Chocolate Factory got modest reviews. But around that you got Sweeney Todd, Corpse Bride and Big Fish. And then earlier in his career you got Batman and Batman Returns, Bettlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. More than just a few good movies. M. Knight...he's just a creature all his own right now. There are plenty of directors out there who make bad films, but I can't think of any that continue to be in such disbelief about the quality of their work.
i like his movies. he is a storyteller. and not every story can be LOTR, Silence of the Lambs, or Shawshank Redemption (some of my favorites).
actually all i heard about the village was good things, turned out the movie sucked and the stupid twist at the end just made me want to shoot myself for spending the past 2 hours watching this crap.
There was no twist in the happening except the shock of realizing that you just wasted two hours of your life that you. will. never. get. back. Ever.
I'll come from the opposite angle. Unlike most of you I hadn't seen a single M Night movie. Not my genre particularly, and I'm not Indian so it's not like I have any particular allegiance to him or bias against him (my Indian friends on the other hand have told me their parents watch his movies religiously just bc they want one of their own in Hollywood to be successful). I am, however, a HUGE Avatar fan. What a well-made cartoon series with great dialogue and character development. They didn't even need a plot honestly, the characters were so fun to watch just interacting with each other. And so I went to watch the Last Airbender knowing it would probably fail to meet my expectations...and it was so bad it even failed to meet my expectation that it would fail to meet my expectations. M Night Shyamalan's next movie should be about a little boy carving pumpkins late on Halloween. It's really dark, scary things happen, and then the movie reaches its end and, VOILA, the plot twist is that the boy is really M Night himself. And the pumpkins are his characters in his movies because he has taken them and CARVED ALL THEIR INSIDES OUT. They are just mindless hollow cardboard figures doing the stuff people in movies are supposed to do, like fight bad guys, except they have no souls and you couldn't care if the entire lot of them crashed and died on the flight over from their stupid air buffalo. He is a terrible terrible moviemaker, and for making the Avatar series into a joke of a movie he is a terrible terrible human being.
Dude. No one said ALL his movies sucked. This is about what he said to the reporter. What if he has sucked for the past 10 movies and his next one looks promising? We give people chances. We still read your posts, you know?
I don't think Shyamalan is impressive at all. I liked one film he has done, and that was in the early days, since then very mediocre. Critical reviews over the past years of his films haven't been all that great either.
People watch his movies because he's got a pretty cool name. "Directed by M.... Night SHYAM...ALAN!, starring MAX Power!"
