Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[CleverNickName]

Look, everything that came after the Best Roleplaying Game is the World is superfluous! It's effort wasted, because the Best Game has already been made! Of everybody would just work on stuff for that one, think how much stuff we would have for it!

And that game is, if course, Hero System 6th edition!

You misspelled "Rules Cyclopedia," but yep... completely agree!

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Oh my God.

The Sixth Sense is not a horror movie. It's a supernatural thriller. Please stop putting it at or near the top of every horror movie list.

Actually, it is a horror movie.
-M. Night Shyamalan's Career.

 

[Guest 85555]

The line between horror and thrillers always seemed pretty vague to me. I tend to consider the 6th Sense a Horror Movie but YMMV

 

[Guest 85555]

Actually, it is a horror movie.
-M. Night Shyamalan's Career.

The village is where it went off the rails for me. So not sure why I was surprised when The Happening wasn't good

 

[Thomas Shey]

The village is where it went off the rails for me. So not sure why I was surprised when The Happening wasn't good

He's actually had some awfully good movies since then. He's just erratic as heck.

 

[Guest 85555]

He's actually had some awfully good movies since then. He's just erratic as heck.

In fairness I checked out after Lady in the Water and the Happening, so I may have missed something good he has done since then

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

The village is where it went off the rails for me. So not sure why I was surprised when The Happening wasn't good

...I mean, I would argue that The Happening is actually so atrocious that it somehow circles around to being, unintentionally, a great comedy.

I think that The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable were really good films. But unfortunately, "when all you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail." Instead of just working on being a good director, he decided that he would be the biggest twist guy since Chubby Checker.

By Signs it was obvious that it just wasn't going to work. That film wasn't good, and foreshadowed the rest. I am not going to say that every film since then has been The Happening terrible, but we're at the point (IMO) that every time he releases a decent movie, people say that he's back. Which is a low bar.

As for ever being a top-tier director?

 

[Ryujin]

...I mean, I would argue that The Happening is actually so atrocious that it somehow circles around to being, unintentionally, a great comedy.

I think that The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable were really good films. But unfortunately, "when all you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail." Instead of just working on being a good director, he decided that he would be the biggest twist guy since Chubby Checker.

By Signs it was obvious that it just wasn't going to work. That film wasn't good, and foreshadowed the rest. I am not going to say that every film since then has been The Happening terrible, but we're at the point (IMO) that every time he releases a decent movie, people say that he's back. Which is a low bar.

As for ever being a top-tier director?

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At this point him making a movie without some sort of twist ending would be the ultimate twist ending.

 

[Guest 85555]

...I mean, I would argue that The Happening is actually so atrocious that it somehow circles around to being, unintentionally, a great comedy.

I think that The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable were really good films. But unfortunately, "when all you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail." Instead of just working on being a good director, he decided that he would be the biggest twist guy since Chubby Checker.

By Signs it was obvious that it just wasn't going to work. That film wasn't good, and foreshadowed the rest. I am not going to say that every film since then has been The Happening terrible, but we're at the point (IMO) that every time he releases a decent movie, people say that he's back. Which is a low bar.

As for ever being a top-tier director?

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It certainly reaches a whole other level of bad. The Lady in the Water was probably the one that I enjoyed the least. But the happening takes all of Mark Wahlberg's and M. Night Shyamalan's flaws and combines them into one composite disaster. I've heard from people who liked Lady in the Water, I have never met a single person who liked The Happening.

 

[Guest 85555]

At this point him making a movie without some sort of twist ending would be the ultimate twist ending.

And it is unfortunate because I like twist endings. Give me films like Carnival of Souls, Sixth Sense, Shutter Island, The Usual Suspects, etc. They only work though if you aren't doing them 100% of the time. And they have to be good films even with the twist removed. And if the twist is to be good on rewatches, there needs to be enough clues that you can see the evidence when you view the film a second time, and the twist has a sense of not coming out of left field