“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