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06-14-2008, 03:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: tulsa oklahoma | | | anyone else think that M. Night Shyamalan is overrated?
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ive been dragged to a couple of his movies and they were lame at best IMO. am i alone in not liking his stuff?
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06-14-2008, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by jonathan_matos5 
ive been dragged to a couple of his movies and they were lame at best IMO. am i alone in not liking his stuff? | You are not alone, good sir.  |
06-14-2008, 03:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Chicago | | | all his movies look good and then totally disapoint me. |
06-14-2008, 04:07 PM
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I like him
Signs was crap.
I liked Lady in the Water. |
06-14-2008, 04:07 PM
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06-14-2008, 05:05 PM
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To quote my favorite jab from Robot Chicken,
"What a twist!"
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06-14-2008, 05:07 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | I don't think he's over-rated, because that would mean that the majority of people think he's great.
They don't.  |
06-14-2008, 05:07 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central Southern Massachusetts | | lolz!!! golly gee it's hip and cool to rag on M Night lately, I wanna too!
didja miss the other thread??? or were you busy basking in yer fabulosity? 
IMO, he's only overrated directly proportionate to his love of taking chances and going AGAINST HOLLYWOOD'S NORMS. Heaven forbid.
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06-14-2008, 05:24 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Nope, I kinda liked the few that I saw. |
06-14-2008, 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Mon Rominee lolz!!! golly gee it's hip and cool to rag on M Night lately, I wanna too!
didja miss the other thread??? or were you busy basking in yer fabulosity?
IMO, he's only overrated directly proportionate to his love of taking chances and going AGAINST HOLLYWOOD'S NORMS. Heaven forbid. | To clarify: I'm not ragging on him. I'm saying that, if anything, he's the underdog here. Surely one look at the other thread proves that.
But if you really think he's the one taking chances and ignoring the Hollywood model, you're misinformed. There are many great filmmakers who work outside the Hollywood system. M Night Shamalyan isn't one of them. |
06-14-2008, 06:41 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: berkeley, ca | | | i forgot which movie it was, but during the trailer for "the happening," the audience burst into laughter when it went, "by m. night shyamalan." not good when the mere mention of your name results in laughter when thrillers are your thing and not comedies. |
06-15-2008, 01:57 AM
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6th sense = great
Signs = not bad at all
lady in the water = HILARIOUS
The village = weakest of them all
Batting over .500 from where I sit because the good ones were pretty damn good. He creates great atmosphere, I just think he needs co-writers to flesh out his generally very clever premises.
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06-15-2008, 02:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Michigan | | | Nope I don't think he is overrated at all. He has some great ideas for movies and I have enjoyed them all. A wonderful director IMO. |
06-15-2008, 08:11 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Palo Alto, CA | | Signs is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I get scared quite easily by movies, and I *laughed* the whole way through that movie. (OK, is it just me, or did the aliens in Signs look like the Protoss race in StarCraft? That certainly didn't help ;-)) It seems to me like Mr. Shyamalan can actually come up with decent premises for his movies, but they all turn to utter crap (I don't know about the Sixth Sense, haven't seen it myself but that's the only movie of his that I'll believe could be decent).
Now I see in the T.V. ads for his new movie, the best thing they can come up with to say about it is how it's his "first R-rated feature".
Come on. Terrible director. 
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06-15-2008, 08:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Leeds, UK | | | I have no idea who he is, but I think that Oreos and the Mona Lisa are overrated.
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06-15-2008, 10:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: København | | | Watching Unbreakable at the movies had me swearing out loud during a movie for the first time ever. That ending is just such a cop-out "They called me Mr. Glass!" Well, have a lollipop ya angsty tosser - get over it, you old man! I wouldn't swear out loud again until I saw Kingdom of The Crystal Skull a few weeks ago...but that was more to signal embarrassment.
I don't think he's overrated, as he's often ridiculed. I enjoyed 6th Sense though and I'm going to give this new one a shot too.
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06-15-2008, 10:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Brad Barker i forgot which movie it was, but during the trailer for "the happening," the audience burst into laughter when it went, "by m. night shyamalan." not good when the mere mention of your name results in laughter when thrillers are your thing and not comedies. | his name always makes me laugh in film trailers- because of the way it sounds when spoken by the usual over-the-top gruff voiceover guys.
Chow Yun Fat is another. |
06-15-2008, 10:25 AM
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Originally Posted by bigfatbass ... He creates great atmosphere, I just think he needs co-writers to flesh out his generally very clever premises. | Bingo.
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06-15-2008, 10:45 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Columbia, SC | | | The only two movies he has made that I've liked so far were Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. Signs and The Village were way too predictable for me to stand them, and I just couldn't get into Lady In The Water. Unbreakable was pretty predictable too, but I still liked it. Sixth Sense I actually went back and watched again to see what I had missed the first time. There's something about The Happening that makes me kind of want to see it though, especially since it's the first movie out of the last 5 he's made that wasn't originally written for Disney. |
06-15-2008, 10:48 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | | A bit. The Sixth Sense was incredible, and I've yet to see Unbreakable.
Signs was decent and I haven't seen a Shyamalan film in 6 years. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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