cryptosicko seconded, because I can’t be bothered to watch all this nonsense
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 04:38 (four years ago) link
Might have to vote "THOSE AREN'T YOUR GRANDPARENTS" because that's what convinced a few people he had returned to form.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 04:40 (four years ago) link
That being said, has any director who had one fluke success ever had so many "returns to form"?
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 04:41 (four years ago) link
Signs made me so mad I've never seen any of his other movies and I feel incredibly lucky.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 04:54 (four years ago) link
which one of these is The Last Airbender
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
The twist for that one is that he'd never seen Avatar: The Last Airbender
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
Signs is mostly a fine movie but it def has the worst twist.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:30 (four years ago) link
yeah signs is tight as hell except the twist tbh
― boobie, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
I guessed The Sixth Sense from the trailer and have never put myself through most of his shit but the plants one is fucking stupid and not even really a twist
― Only Blob Can Judge Me (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:36 (four years ago) link
sad that After Earth didn't have a twist, cos DJP mighta nailed it
Jaden is the father
― whelping at his sandpapery best (DJP), Monday, April 4, 2011 4:19 PM bookmarkflaglink
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
I just realized that, prior to this poll, I haven't heard/read a single post-release utterance re: Glass. Must've been a helluva film.
I saw The Sixth Sense in the theater before there was even hubbub about a twist (and before Shyamalan became known colloquially as Mr. Twister, natch) and...yeah, I think I figured it out like half an hour in?
― I'm scared my but won't fit in it. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
Glass was like a 2 hour bottle episode
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
having the Regal Unlimited plan makes me feel less guilty of seeing shit I know will suck
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
I still liked it cos 50s-esque sci-fi/horror is my wheelhouse
the "lol you had asthma and my wife died to save us from the aliens" though was pretty hilarious as a twist
The Lord works in mysterious ways - he's just a HUGE DICKHEAD
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
Shyamalan's style always seems like he's come from some different planet where narrative conventions are different but he's injected a bunch of pathos on top as a disguise
And by different, I might just mean incredibly basic and dumb
― mh, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
You gotta treat yourself to The Happening. Stock up on drinks and take plenty of breaks.― El Tomboto, Tuesday, November 5, 2019 4:54 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Such a great premise, and then ruined by Mark Wahlberg delivering dialogue in what seems to be a 5 year-old's cadence, full of wonder.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
....great premise..?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 7 November 2019 01:14 (four years ago) link
Signs is the most frustrating bc the shitty twist(s) ruin what was preciously a pretty enjoyable scary movie, making it the worst viewing experience of the M Nights I’ve seen. But going strictly by the terms of the poll gotta vote Village because it truly is The Worst Twist. Just so... incredibly... DUMB.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Thursday, 7 November 2019 02:47 (four years ago) link
The Happening is def the apex of this moron’s career and it is v v funny
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 7 November 2019 03:27 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 14 November 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Wait, which one is “bruce willis is a government operative?”
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 14 November 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link
Glass
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 November 2019 01:13 (four years ago) link
Which retroactively ruins Unbreakable
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 November 2019 01:14 (four years ago) link
I kind of liked Unbreakable, but Glass is total trash.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Thursday, 14 November 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link
oic. So you have Glass up there twice.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 14 November 2019 02:51 (four years ago) link
Multiple twists
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 November 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
None of which land
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 November 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link
ok I keep seeing the trailer for his new movie, about a beach that makes people age really fast. in one scene there's a boy who's 6, then in the next he's like 15. my question is, do the clothes and shoes grow with him? no I will not watch the movie to find out
― frogbs, Monday, 12 July 2021 03:40 (two years ago) link
Glass was great if you like three mutants bitching for an hour
I'm gonna assume you meant to post this in a thread about This American Life
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 12 July 2021 03:49 (two years ago) link
Lotsa teens visiting that beach so they can appear old enough to drink
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 July 2021 11:56 (two years ago) link
What's the plot twist in Old gonna be?
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 23:45 (two years ago) link
“IT’S ACTUALLY A GOOD MOVIE WITH A COMPELLING, WELL CONSIDERED PLOT!”
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 00:16 (two years ago) link
I predict they get old and die but then are reborn again, repeating, in essence eternal life, but ... only on that magic beach?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 00:17 (two years ago) link
When you go to this beach, your body gets older but your clothes just get bigger, meanwhile you have to trim your nails like crazy.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 01:35 (two years ago) link
ending cuts to Don in the Mad Men finale, contemplating a bottle of sunscreen
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 04:00 (two years ago) link
I'm not going to see this, just as I haven't seen his last .. six movies? Seven? But I looked up the ending and ... nah.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 July 2021 12:57 (two years ago) link
same, I was curious how this one ended and...yeah, movies like this maybe shouldn't try to explain things
― frogbs, Friday, 23 July 2021 13:39 (two years ago) link
spoilers for the graphic novel (and by extension the movie)
syntactically frustrating ending summary from an AV Club comment: "In the comic everyone dies of old age and the comic ends with the toddler pregnant and in the body of a 20-year old alone on the beach who will also inevitably die." Not exactly shocking they didn't go with that for their PG-13 genre movie but the real ending sounds a lot sillier
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Friday, 23 July 2021 13:48 (two years ago) link
Plot summary of Old seems to echo Death Stranding a fair bit.
I have to say, I really liked The Visit and I hate most of his films I've seen.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
The beach is also visited by rapper Mid-Size Sedan
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:06 (two years ago) link
xpost GODDAMMIT
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:08 (two years ago) link
lol
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:10 (two years ago) link
as someone who’s actually seen it, I’m just gonna state that yes, the ending is a bit silly but is a bit better when seen?
Also found a lot of it surprisingly moving which says a lot considering the dialogue in this, attribute that to pandemic mindshare if you want
Also Shyamalan really knows his way around a camera, so yeah he just needs to be around more human beings so he knows how hu-mahns talk
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:20 (two years ago) link
Just imagine what Shyamalan and Christopher Nolan might achieve if they ever deigned to let someone with actual writing acumen write their movies.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
if Shyamalan had directed Adaptation with same script / actors, would that have been good? not convinced.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
easier to make fun of the wiki summary
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
does Mid-Size Sedan become a Full-Size Sedan
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
I've always liked him as a director. He has a good eye. Just as a writer he's pretty uneven and silly and awkward. That's really what kneecaps a lot of his stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 July 2021 14:48 (two years ago) link
NOVELTY T-SHIRT: Life's a Beach and Then You DieM. NIGHT SHYAMALAN: hmm— Sen. Lemon Gogurt (R - MS) (@Ugarles) July 25, 2021
― frogbs, Monday, 26 July 2021 02:56 (two years ago) link
old is perhaps among the stupidest films I've ever seen. basically a low-budget 50's chiller-diller b film with delusions of grandeur.
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 26 September 2021 04:12 (two years ago) link
having read the original comic, i can also say that every single thing that shyamalan added made it far stupider from "mid-size sedan" to the TWIST and everything else in between
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 26 September 2021 04:20 (two years ago) link
Truly awful, below and beyond his reputation.
― clemenza, Sunday, 26 September 2021 13:00 (two years ago) link
oh Mid-Size Sedan was HIS creation?
i was giving it a pass cos I thought he took it from the comic
what a dim bulb
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Sunday, 26 September 2021 14:04 (two years ago) link
basically a low-budget 50's chiller-diller b film with delusions of grandeur
i do like that this summarizes his whole thing
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 26 September 2021 14:04 (two years ago) link
Why do they not all immediately die of starvation
― frogbs, Sunday, 26 September 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link
plus idngaf how much your body ages on the beach, if you were twelve when you arrived and someone has sex w/ you after your body ages to like, 21, your driver's license still sez you're 12 and the other person is a pedophile
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Sunday, 26 September 2021 14:38 (two years ago) link
"dumber than a box of rocks, overambitious, and visually astonishing" is kinda my wheelhouse lately so i feel like i'm the verge of a shyamalan-athon. really enjoying old lol
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 23 January 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
*third eye blind voice* wish you would step back from that beach my friend (beach that makes you old!)
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 23 January 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
I listened to the How Did This Get Made ep on "Old" (I haven't seen it yet), and everyone was perplexed, because no one hated it and they all recommended it, and yet they were confounded by the sheer amount of risible bullshit in it.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 January 2022 19:54 (two years ago) link
i actually loved that movie lol
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:36 (two years ago) link
it just looked so beautiful, the camera movements were incredible
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:37 (two years ago) link
and the body horror was all extremely fucked up :)
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:45 (two years ago) link
I liked it too
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link
*Barney Sumner Voice* I thought I told you to leave meWhile I walked down to the beachTell me, how does it feelDid this beach make me grow old?
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 23 January 2022 23:21 (two years ago) link
To expand upon the seven words I managed to put together upthread, thought this was Plan 9, historically, stupifyingly bad.
― clemenza, Sunday, 23 January 2022 23:29 (two years ago) link
Mid-Size Sedan
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Monday, 24 January 2022 00:35 (two years ago) link
knock at the cabin was so good. several great performances, groff and bautista the most impressive among them
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 22:11 (one year ago) link
great single location thrillers have a level of tension so oppressive it feels like the single location is about to collapse around you and open onto a world of horrors and imo shyamalan gets that as right here as he did in signs
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link
I just learned about this! I don’t enjoy Paul tremblay’s writing on a prose or character level but I do really like the ambiguous story constructions, I come away going “someone should do this but make it good” maybe m is the guy
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link
This was much better than I was expecting! It doesn't mess about either! Bam, it gets straight into it. I loved Bautista as the gentle giant.
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 12:03 (one year ago) link
this was the first M Night movie I liked since Signs. probably because it was someone else's story he adapted.
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 14:07 (one year ago) link
like people talked up Split as his return to form and I outright hated that movie lol
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 14:08 (one year ago) link
the "M" stands for "Midsize Sedan"
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 9 February 2023 16:31 (one year ago) link
Hated this. Bautista is admittedly great in it, though
― latebloomer, Saturday, 11 February 2023 00:37 (one year ago) link
realizing the ending of the book is a lot more nihilistic than the movie
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 February 2023 00:39 (one year ago) link
yeah i'm in favor of every change he made
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 February 2023 00:42 (one year ago) link
"IT'S REALLY PRESENT DAY!" 10
man fuck y'all
(just watched the village for the first time already knowing the "twist" and uh, it's good?)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 19 February 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
i mean the movie is astonishingly beautiful and the twist isn't really a twist so much as like a photograph gradually developing details from the center outward
i also finally saw the visit which is the first found footage film since idk cloverfield that i've found to be legit scary
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 19 February 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link