07-15-2010, 08:15 PM
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few things annoyed me more than the ending to "The Village" and the second half of "The Happening". But I liked his earlier stuff enough to give him a chance regardless. I won't see "The Last Airbender" because it doesn't appeal to me, but if "The Devil" or whatever this one is gets decent reviews, I'd love to see it.
For the record I loved "Signs" much more than anyone I know.
So there's that.
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I've liked all of his movies, though I can't really tell you why. I actually understand why people don't like his stuff and i agree, but for whatever reason, I like his stuff. My family does too. We believe we're the only people in the world that have liked every one of his movies, and that includes his own family.
BT, I know we've discussed this in the past, but I forget what bothered you about the ending of "The Village." To me it was fine, except that I saw it coming a million miles away.
And I won't be watching his latest movie because it's just not my cup o tea. There seems to be a similar movie coming out every week.
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I thought the movie cheated (SPOILERS).
First of all, I guessed the ending before I saw the movie, but Shyam cheated. One of the first scenes shows them burying a kid, and the date on the tombstone say 1870 or something like that. Since they were carrying on this charade for the kids, the kids would have absolutely no concept of what 1870 or 2005 meant, so there is no reason to keep up the pretense that they are really living in the 1800's.
Secondly, it became embarrassing. When Ron Howard's daughter is talking to the park ranger, using her old timey English, she came off as an annoying Civil War enthusiast.
Lastly, I know the exact moment I started to hate the movie. When William hurt opens his closet door to show (I think) River Phoenix something, I was literally on the edge of my seat. When that something turned out to be a monster costume that basically invalidated everything that had already happened, I started getting very pissed.
The thing I loved about Signs was that he actually followed through on his premise. For the whole movie you are led to believe that aliens are invading, and instead of having Mel Gibson end up collaring one of the Pritchard boys (and telling them to suck his cock because he deserves it) and finding out the kid has been making the crop circles to fuck with them, Shyamalan actually ended up doing an alien invasion movie. Yes, the idea that an alien culture that is allergic to water is stupid coming to a planet covered in water is dumb, BUT I was able to overlook it because I loved the rest of the movie. "The Village" didn't earn that from me.
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See, I agree with all of that, especially the about the date on the grave. I agree with everybody that doesn't like him. For whatever reason, I'm able to get past all of that.
There's just something about his movies that I like.
As for "The Lady in the Water", my whole family liked it. We all knew it was kind of dumb, but we liked it anyway.
few things annoyed me more than the ending to "The Village" and the second half of "The Happening". But I liked his earlier stuff enough to give him a chance regardless. I won't see "The Last Airbender" because it doesn't appeal to me, but if "The Devil" or whatever this one is gets decent reviews, I'd love to see it.
For the record I loved "Signs" much more than anyone I know.
So there's that.
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I've liked all of his movies, though I can't really tell you why. I actually understand why people don't like his stuff and i agree, but for whatever reason, I like his stuff. My family does too. We believe we're the only people in the world that have liked every one of his movies, and that includes his own family.
BT, I know we've discussed this in the past, but I forget what bothered you about the ending of "The Village." To me it was fine, except that I saw it coming a million miles away.
And I won't be watching his latest movie because it's just not my cup o tea. There seems to be a similar movie coming out every week.
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I thought the movie cheated (SPOILERS).
First of all, I guessed the ending before I saw the movie, but Shyam cheated. One of the first scenes shows them burying a kid, and the date on the tombstone say 1870 or something like that. Since they were carrying on this charade for the kids, the kids would have absolutely no concept of what 1870 or 2005 meant, so there is no reason to keep up the pretense that they are really living in the 1800's.
Secondly, it became embarrassing. When Ron Howard's daughter is talking to the park ranger, using her old timey English, she came off as an annoying Civil War enthusiast.
Lastly, I know the exact moment I started to hate the movie. When William hurt opens his closet door to show (I think) River Phoenix something, I was literally on the edge of my seat. When that something turned out to be a monster costume that basically invalidated everything that had already happened, I started getting very pissed.
The thing I loved about Signs was that he actually followed through on his premise. For the whole movie you are led to believe that aliens are invading, and instead of having Mel Gibson end up collaring one of the Pritchard boys (and telling them to suck his cock because he deserves it) and finding out the kid has been making the crop circles to fuck with them, Shyamalan actually ended up doing an alien invasion movie. Yes, the idea that an alien culture that is allergic to water is stupid coming to a planet covered in water is dumb, BUT I was able to overlook it because I loved the rest of the movie. "The Village" didn't earn that from me.
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See, I agree with all of that, especially the about the date on the grave. I agree with everybody that doesn't like him. For whatever reason, I'm able to get past all of that.
There's just something about his movies that I like.
As for "The Lady in the Water", my whole family liked it. We all knew it was kind of dumb, but we liked it anyway.
Wang.