What a twist!

/robotchicken

But, but, but... It's got Zooey Deschanel in it! I'm so torn...

Just because Romanticism played out its hand over a century ago doesn't mean he should move on, does it?

You didn't like the Sixth Sense?

I felt betrayed by the twist.

Several of my friends malign me for disliking Unbreakable (in their words, his only redeeming film), but to be hones Unbreakable was a genre bending action-drama (draction?) that failed in every aspect save putting me to sleep.

I can only assume by the amount of times Wahlberg stares, half-forlorn and half distracted, off into the distance during the previews to The Happening, that the same thing is about to take place in theaters everywhere.

[edit] re: Lucas: I think most everyone actually recognizes Lucas for the sodden heap of fail that he is, after the Star Wars debacle. If I'm wrong and people other than himself actually think he's a boon to the Star Wars (and Indy) franchise, I stand corrected. =)

I thought Unbreakable was brilliant. It was one of those movies that had texture within apparent idleness - something that is what all pretentious films strive for and fail. When nothing happened, I still wondered what was going through a character's head during the silence.

As far as I am concerned, the more "The Happening" is like "Unbreakable", the better. However if it becomes something akin to Steven Seagal's environmental message movies, all is lost. All is lost !

I actually did like The Sixth Sense, but even in that movie you can see the seeds of the ideas that would ruin all of his later films.

Unbreakable was incredible. I saw Signs in the theater, and as much as I like to ridicule the plot, the pacing of the film was masterful. Every person in the theater was a pawn in Night's hands.

Having said that, I never had any interest in Lady. We'll see how this one fares.

So wait a sec... while you were watching this film, you came up with the idea that it was some "anti-Bush" allegory? That might have come out in the press, but I certainly never got that from simply watching the film. If you're going to knock The Village, knock it for the ridiculous "twist" ending, like everybody else

I also enjoyed UNBREAKABLE... maybe because I'm a comic nerd. It was a slow build, but I thought it was better than most Superhero "origin" movies. Too bad we never got a sequel.

I thought "Village" sucked too much to be any kind of a lesson.

Well, I went and saw the movie. I did this because I am a stupid, stupid person.

No matter how bad you think it could be, it's worse. Between shots of grisly death that cut to signs saying "You deserve this" and a cast that consists entirely of biomechanical androids trying to simulate human emotion, this was bad beyond any possible measurement.

I can't say this movie was an entire abomination, because there were a few redeeming qualities to it, and parts of it were a bit scary. I don't think it should have been rated R, personally. Nothing was that gruesome in it that it should deserve it. It just wasn't well put together. The direction was obviously bad. And Mark Wahlberg was too good for the script. The script was poorly put together, with failed attempts at jokes. The suicide scenes weren't enough to make you look away, but sufficient.

If your looking for a movie to make cracks at, this one works.

And thats all.

M. Night Shymalan movies have four viewer types.

1. Those that read too much into his movies and end up over analyzing them to the point of nausea.
2. Those that don't read enough into his movies and so are lost most of the time and don't like the movie because of it.
3. Those that enjoy the movie for the story it tells and just don't give a sh*t about reading anything into the movie at all because sometimes there really isn't a cosmic reason behind a movie other than the story.
4. Those that do not even watch his movies and yet still talk about them as if they have a clue as to what is going on in the movie from a review or a synopsis.

I for the record watched all of his films that have hit the big screen.
I enjoyed all of his films but to differing degrees.
Only Signs, Sixth Sense and Unbreakable were rated as 5 outta 5 stars from myself but all the rest were at least 3 stars.

I watched The Sixth Sense after having been told the spoiler, so I just thought it was a ramshackle thing. There's a lot of good stuff in it: some excellent acting, and the scenes at the very end in the car, but it never hangs together if the twist isn't there. And there's completely out of place bits like the video of the mother poisoning her child that clearly belongs in some other, more horriffic movie.

Unbreakable was alright though.

But anyway, I read a script review of The Happening a whle ago, and much like the hearing that he cast himself as the christ-like writer whose message would save the world in Lady in the Water, it ensured that you couldn't pay me enough to see this movie.