yea, I get that but . . .THE HAPPENING??? Absolutely NOTHING HAPPENED!!! Rocket River Reminds me of Kevin Smith talking about Lord of the Rings being about nothing but Walking. . . even a movie on walking would have beem more interesting
Well there was that part in the Happening where they were running away from wind.......wish I was making that up.....
Uh, I raise your "The Happening" with I mentioned on another M.Knight Sham-alan thread a while back that I stopped paying for any of his movies after The Village and to be honest I wouldn't watch any at the $1 theaters, I wouldnt even rent one if I got one of Swoly-d's redbox codes. I don't trust that douche's movies anymore.
What I don't get is how there are so many people that detest an M. Knight film for the ridiculousness of the story line and yet they praise James Cameron's Avatar and this was a 500 million dollar story about a human helping a race of people protect there life-giving tree. Aside from the ridiculousness of that story line, there is also hints of politics and mother earth not dissimilar from the final scenes of the Happening . Cameron = good. M. Knight = bad. I just think that people pan Knight films because M. Knight rubs them the wrong way. The fact of the matter is that M. Knight has made at least 2 instant classics in my mind, Six Sense and Signs, and ever film he makes there is interesting ideas in them. M. Knight is panned for the wrong reasons. I think that his two worst films were clearly Lady in the Water and the Village, but for the most part the Happening was a good film in my opinion.
Probably. But while that was obviously an oversight on my part, the main idea of the post remains. Cameron can get away with make a convoluted film, if if M. NIGHT would have had his name attached to Avatar he would have gotten roasted for that film.
If Avatar was Cameron's first film, it probably would have been criticized alot more. You are forgetting that Cameron has a legacy of making several epic movies and his reputation precedes him. Manosh on the other hand, has a legacy of making several epic fail movies.
The Village I think get's a bad rap...people expected a twist, and they got one they could see coming a mile away. If you forget about the twist though, the film actually stands fairly well. Lady in the Water and Happening I haven't seen just because of the horrible reviews. But based on those reviews, the general consensus is that the story and acting was horrible and the directing was lazy and disinterested. General consensus on Avatar is that the story is simple and formulaic, and borrows from other concepts...but it's serviceable and effective as an action/adventure movie. Sam Worthington does a good job in human form but comes off somewhat flat sometimes in his avatar. Zoe Saldana steals the movie (and imo, deserves an Oscar nod). The supporting cast does well with what their given. The directing and effects are top notch though. And no one has ever accused Cameron of lazy and dispassionate directing. They both got huge egos, but the difference is Cameron consistently makes top box office draws, huge action spectacles that push the technology of film and sfx forward. You could easily compare the two if he only made a few hits with Aliens being the one "classic." But when you have a track record that includes Aliens, Terminator, T2, The Abyss, True Lies, Titanic and Avatar... I think you're a little bit better than Shyamalan.
Yeah, I didn't think it was that bad either. The acting was pretty much top notch. I think I'd dislike him less if they didn't say things like "from the mind of M. Knight..." You'd think three consecutive critically-panned films would have humbled him a little bit.
People panning the guy for remaking a pseudo anime cartoon into a movie (airbender) makes me laugh. Did you expect Shakespeare? Have you seen the show? It was good enough for what it was. It's funny how bandwagon hype and anti-hype works. Never as good as the positive hype, never as bad as the negative. This looks pretty good, imo, but doesn't mean it will be. And just because it's from Shamwow doesn't mean it will be terrible in my book. for the record, I liked Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, even The Village to a certain extent, and even enjoyed seeing Airbender with my kid, but again, I wasn't expecting Shakespeare. Didn't think the Happening was very good, but didn't hate it as much as everyone else seems to. It's funny, it's like all the "would not hit" posts regarding actresses that half the "would not hitters" would salivate over if presented with an option to date them in real life. Just seems like everyone loves to pretend their standards are so high.
Movie looks great. I've really enjoyed most of his films, although I didn't like Lady in the Water. I haven't seen his last two films though. I was a big fan of The Village. M Night is one of the greatest filmmakers of our generation. Sometimes his films lacks in the plot and story department, but he makes up for it in terms of atmosphere and mood of the film.
Sixth Sense - Great Unbreakable - Good . . . . Signs - ok . . Everything else crap! Airbender - have not seen it yet but my son and godson did not care for it. so . . .that has me a lil biased. As someone stated his movies have been getting progressively worse and worse I was hoping airbender was going to be a come back film for him He can direct but his writing sucks ass out side of Unbreakable and Sixth Sense Rocket River
The thing that is interesting to me about M. Night Shyamalan 's films is that, outside of Six Sense and Lady in the Water, one being universally loved and the other roundedly hated, there is no consensus as to which films people like and which they don't. I've heard many people praise, for example, The Village and others hate that movie. I am not a big fan of Unbreakable, but many seem to think it is his second best film. Something else I think is a reason people pan Night is that most people don't like to get manipulated and that's what Night tried to do to you, so the people that pan him simply don't go along for the ride. They resist the manipulation that he does and thus his films aren't a good experience because they already detest the manipulation to begin with.
Trust me, it was worse. It was the worst movie I've seen in ... my goodness, can't remember. Maybe since Gigli. Even Gigli was amusing even for the fact that it was so bad. The Airbender wasn't even humorously bad. It was "I regret spending two hours of my life in this theater" bad. It was "OMG I'm never going 500 feet near anything with Shyamalan's name on it" bad. The president should issue an executive order banning Shyamalan from making movies or something.
