New Night Shyamalan movie [trailer]

I like his style. If anybody else made it, I would probably say that the trailer to the movie looks boring. Because it's M. Night, it's probably going to be a good movie.

I really liked Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. Signs was ok, but I was disappointed with The Village.

 

Once again, a dumbass reply. Anyways, come at me when you can make a real argument for supporting unmoral, racist and disgusting values. Sorry but I am not going to watch a show if I don't like it...I've flipped on it several times and it's the same $hit everytime. I grew up in Africa, and I saw first hand infants with bloated stomachs, skinny arms and legs b/c of the lack of nutritious food. When I see silly cartoons poking fun at less fortunate people and making racists jokes, it's disgusting!!! It can be "the smartest show" EVER made but it is still disrespectful and promotes horrible values. SOrry but I won't support it.

**Newslfash*** I am not the only one who liked the Village...read others posts.

 

Hilarious thread...movie snobs, M. Knight Shyamalan sympathizers, guys who rationally explain why a movie sucked, another guy preaching about "values"...all the recipe for a good ol' uppity "Why I culturally rock more then your typical Cro-Magnon BBS member so let me explain in my best highfalutin hoity-toity talk out of my @ss voice vs. You're just a flaming loudmouth whose opinion is like your manhood-it's really smaller then you think it is" type of argument....

 

I am one of those who loved The Village. I even have the dvd. Call me stupid or whatever, but I did not see the twist coming.

 

I have the DVD as well. But that's mostly because I'm a Night fan and I did enjoy the love story subplot in the film. The twist(which I only figured out half of) was a joke though. I get what Night was trying to say, but it still nearly ruined the movie.

 

At the risk of you getting more angry, I'll try and explain what exactly it is about South Park that some people find interesting. Some people might not care about/see social satire or commentary, true, but it all depends on the viewer.

The episode you are talking about, I believe, is the one called "Starvin' Marvin". It is, ironically enough, the Thanksgiving episode.

In it, the Ethiopian kid comes to town because the boys sign up for one of those Sally Struthers type food drives - not because they care - but because they believe they can get a free digital watch out of it. Instead, 'Marvin' is sent to live with the kids. They have no concept of what his life is like. I think they even take him to an all you can eat buffet. There's also a side story of the town being invaded by a ton of genetically mutated turkeys, during a food drive. Somehow Cartman gets sent back instead of 'Marvin', comes to realize that he has it easy back home - and even comes across an Aid station only to find that he can't get sent home because their funding was cut. He also comes across Struthers, who has horded all the donations for herself.

So, essentially the show was, among other things:

1. Criticizing society's general dismissal of the plight of the less fortunate
2. Criticizing our ability to take for granted what is plentiful for us but extremely valuable for others (killing tons of turkeys during the 'food drive')
3. Criticizing the idea that perhaps not all the aid money donated is getting used as it should.

(Hell, there might even be a jab at genetically altered food in there)

In fact, the show thrives even further off the fact that people - like you did - will see a glimpse of it, get disgusted and think they understand they're simply seeing 'low brow' humor and dismiss it. That kind of proves the point.

Anyway, a show is a show. Some are not for others. But to think that it's simply a cartoon teaching kids how to be racist and disrespectful or that it's whole reason for existing is to drive the decline in 'moral values', well that's just flat out incorrect.

 

As stated it was not the twist
IT was everything else
The only twist was WHO the villian was . .but even that was not all that surprising

I did not like the social commentary
and
I think the biggest flaws started coming in that the
Suspension of disbeleif started to fail.

Same thing with Signs

In both of those movies . . .the suspension of disbelief started to
unravel with pure common sense.

I like the taking of 1 Sci Fi element and building on it
It is his strength . .but he can sometimes stretch it too far.

Sixth Sense - suspend ya beleif about speaking to the dead and the movie is great
Unbreakable. . .bruce didn't do anything EXTRAORDINARY in that film except maybe the subway scene

Signs - the whole aliens being afraid of water . . .the alien finding Gibson after Gibson cut off his fingers.. . and so many other things just made it crumble to me

The Village - too many folx of various ages . . and the on and off accents
and the love story IMO was trite

Rocket River

 

I loved Signs. I figured out sixth sense early, it is also a good one. I never saw unbreakable and I didn't like the village because it was boring and I was upset that some freakish monster wasn't really living in the woods. I wanted so see a monster come out and tear someone up.

 

Rivaldo...you seem to have some issues. Sorry about that.

As for me, I didn't hate the Village. I would actually rank it as his second best just because it didn't anger me like the others. Sure, I figured it out (both aspects - monsters and time) and the "social commentary" bit was overly simplistic, but there was a silly love story and a "special" kid and that was enough to distract me.

Signs, by far, was the worst for me. It was beyond painful to watch because I felt as if I was being bludgeoned with a hammer of obviousness and there were so many stupid parts/plot elements. Only good part for me was the basement when the light goes out. Well done scene.

Sixth Sense...it was decent. I saw it once and would never go out of my way to watch it again. But I guess it was his best.

 

i dont' want to sound like a movie snob. but if this is what you think the movie is about...what the twist is about...then you missed the entire point.

 

If you think I'm simple enough to miss the point of the twist
then obviously you are underestimating my intelligence
and
the hammer of obviousness that M Night was using.

NOW
when elements of the movie distract from the theme and the story
then those are call BAD. If the distractions become overwhelming
then those are call bad parts of a bad movie.

Rocket River