M. Knight Shamalamadingdong - The Village really that bad?

[wizardneedsfood]

Thing is, I DIDN'T go in trying to metagame the movie. I don't do that. I'm terrible at figuring out twists in movies, normally. And on the rare occasion when I have figured things out before the movie explains it, I generaly am thrilled: in addition to entertaining me, the movie has made me feel all smart and stuff .

My reaction to this movie wasn't like that, for the reasons I gave above.

I'm glad you enjoyed it; I really wanted to enjoy it, and have enjoyed all his other movies. And I liked a lot of features of the movie. Disliking it gave me no pleasure at all.

Daniel

See, that's exactly what Im saying. I like the way Peilorinho here thinks. And he's from my town which is cool too, so that makes him better than me. Or something.

 

[EricNoah]

M. Knight Shamalamadingdong

Bwa ha ha, that's exactly what Mrs. Noah and I call him!!

(Sorry, no comment on The Village, haven't seen it.)

 

[Shadowdancer]

I say go see it and make up your own mind.

Overall, I liked it, but agree there were some problems. A good, but not great, movie.

 

[Dirigible]

I wish I had seen Unbreakable in the theatre.

You and I, my dear Mark, are perhaps the only ones to undertand the greatness of this movie. Tell me you liked DareDevil too, and we can be bestest friends.

 

[Klaus]

Hey, I just looooved Unbreakable (and also thought it was very poorly/wrongly marketed) and enjoyed Daredevil a lot (specially in the 2 times I watched it during the flight to Indy last year).

Can I join?

 

[Pielorinho]

I thought of a metaphor for the movie last night, having far too little a life:

Shyamalan prepared a spinach lasagne for us. He made delectable homemade lasagne noodles. The sauce was lovingly and slowly cooked down from garden tomatoes, richly seasoned. The cheeses were from an artisanal dairy down the road. And the spinach was rotten.

Something so good, spoiled by having one awful ingredient. Really a shame.

wizard, are you in Asheville? Maybe I'll see you at Sword and Grail sometime!
Daniel

 

[wizardneedsfood]

wizard, are you in Asheville? Maybe I'll see you at Sword and Grail sometime!
Daniel

Ah, I don't go to downtown much. Mainly spend way way way too much time at Best Buy and the malls.

 

[Storminator]

Eh. Clearly a lot of people like his movies. Yes, there are those that don't, but instead of those people trying to change his movies and want something they like, by suggesting he "Fire his writer", why don't they just not go to see his movies? And allow those that do enjoy his movies, to enjoy his movies.

I mean, you can easily find lots of movies not written by him. But there are only 4 or so that are. If you don't like him as a writer, don't see his movies. Simple as that.

SNIP

The reason people don't do that is this:

My feelings about it:
* Beautiful cinematography.
* Excellent mood creation.
* Great acting.
* Interesting subtext.
* A handful of stellar scenes.
* A couple of plot twists so dopesmackingly obvious and trite, and plot holes so stupid and implausible, that they just about manage to negate all that good stuff.


SNIP
Daniel

It's not that people either like or don't like his movies, it's that they love parts of them, and hate other parts. So they wish he would change the parts they hate, so they could appreciate the parts they love.

It's much worse than a hit or miss director.

PS

 

[Banshee16]

I saw Sixth Sense. It was pretty good, but I figured out the big twist early on so it was no big surpise. Saw Signs and I thought it was a piece of crap. All bulid up, whenever anything exciting happend, you could not see it except for the end, it also had a big plot hole that I could not get over:

Spoiler

Water to the aliens is corrosive acid, so why the heck are they coming to a planet that the surface is 75% acid to them?

They also promoted the movie to be something that it was not. Never say Unbreakable.
M. Night is not on my reccomended list.

Why did man go to the moon, where the environment is 100% toxic to humans?

Banshee

 

[Frostmarrow]

Thinking about it - even Earth is 100% lethal to man.