If M. Night Shyamalan had made other famous films.

See a trend here? He's not too clever, is he?

Oh and I liked the Sixth Sense, which is the only film I've seen of his. Don't think the twist added anything to it though. It wouldn't have changed the film that much if he just admitted Bruce Willis was dead from the start. I think most cinemagoers and video watchers worked this out quickly anyway.

this is from Shyamalan's Philip K Dick period.

If Meyer had made "Unbreakable": I'm not sure, but it probably would've been awesome.

Wiseblood remade by Russ Meyer: forms the Church Of Truth Without Boobies. Realises that his whole life has actually been a struggle with boobies. Goes mad thinking about boobies and burns his eyes out. Spends rest of his life quoting from Playboy (it's the booby bible).

Un Chien Andalou remade by Russ Meyer: BOOBIES!

xpost it was the pet name for his mistress's hoochie coochie.

(sorry, I am drunk and should be doing an essay on Functionalist and Marxist theories of religion and deviance... so actually I think this post is actually quite relevant, no apologies at all, haha)

(hardly...)

actually, he tumbles down the stairs of the philadelphia museum of art, sustains a concussion & imagines the whole fight w/ apollo creed.

(moreover rocky imgines he loses the creed fight, sinks deep into depression, falls into poverty, finds god through a chance encounter with a departed loved one, reawakens, climbs the stairs successfully, and with the help of his faith beats apollo).

i hate to spoil a perfectly good urban legend but what i always wondered was how the hell would welles (or herman mankiewicz) have KNOWN that?

Jeepers Creepers as directed by Shyamalamalamalam - the nasty thing in the leather coat with the hat is actually Rivers Cuomo.

The Passion Of The Christ directed by Shyamalamalamalam - Monica Belucci is actually Jesus and the guy from The Thin Red Line is actually Jehovah and Mel Gibson is actually Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken in the video for "Weapon Of Choice" is actually Joseph, Jesus' adoptive dad.

"My name is M. Night Shyamalan millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C76QBg2p78

Happy 40th Shyama my man!

saw the trailer for Devil last night. Usually trailers are 3 minute hypefests that make people wanna see your movie. But ffs this was an awful trailer, and somehow i don't think the movie will be any better

"I don't know what's going on with me and the critics in the United States. They've never got me and it's getting worse! I've always had a European sensibility to my movies, so the pacing is always a little bit off for (Americans). It feels a little stilted, they need more electricity ... I'm very used to getting on a plane from the U.S. having been savaged by them and going to — in this case — Japan next, and then they're like 'genius!'" —M. Night Shyamalan

M Night's Inception -- it's the same exact film, except the critical reaction says it is a sci-fi disaster of the magnitude of Quintet or Zardoz.

I'd be cool with M.Night re-making Quintet or Popeye but Zardoz is perfect.

m night should remake a night at the museum

M Night's Inception -- it's the same exact film, except the critical reaction says it is a sci-fi disaster of the magnitude of Quintet or Zardoz.

― litel, Monday, 16 August 2010 19:43 (11 minutes ago)

so very OTM :D

What would "Bring it On" be like if it was remade by M Night Shamalyan

Kirsten Dunst wakes up at end to realize she was never cheerleader and was really L0u1s Jagg3r all along

this thread http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1940892

lol lol lol lol xp

so i guess they didn't screen "devil" for critics? rotten tomatoes only has one review up, and it doesn't tell me if the devil is in fact the elevator or not. :(

unbreakable was the worst film i've ever seen, so i can't imagine what shayalaman's "bad" moves are supposed to be like.

ha i've always preferred 'unbreakable' to his others!

Yeah Unbreakable was ok for po-faced nonsense.

there are now 4 Devil reviews up, and not a damn one is positive. but none of them are major critics either.

people don't even seem to realize he didn't even direct this one, lol

Thing is directing is what he's best at! He might make a decent film if he sucked in his ego and had a crack at someone else's script.

I think Last Airbender probably proved he's not capable of doing much more than putting his long name on poster marquees

If he'd made Plan 9 from Outer Space, it would have probably ended up a lot like The Village or The Happening. (I did like Signs.)

Signs was irredeemably ruined by the God shit at the end. Was fairly enjoyable up to then. It's the most recent of his films I've seen actually.

The first footage of the alien walking on the news report in Signs is the best thing he's ever done. Rest of that movies is balls. 'swing away'. fuck off.

M. Night Shalamayan should just spend the rest of his career shooting commercials. He can throw his little plot twists into Rice Krispies ads.

The ending of Signs was silly, yeah. But there was other good stuff, especially the image of the three of them sitting there in those insanely ridiculous tinfoil hats. And it had a reasonably coherent...what's that called again? "Narrative." The Village and The Happening kind of came up short there.

The first footage of the alien walking on the news report in Signs is the best thing he's ever done.

yeah this is still one of my favorite monster reveals in any movie

Devil looks like shit, but I sort of want to see it because the lead is Chris Messina, one of my favorite character actors of late.

http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/m-night-shyamalan-ghostwrote-shes-all-that.html?mid=twitter_thecutblog

Not the same, in the way that people who use "groovy" now aren't the same as the ones who said it in 1969. That's why it's funny that skater/valley-speak evolved into this other thing.

Thinking about it more "full of awesome" and "face-melting" are non-descriptive descriptors I hear about:
-plays
-fundraisers for theater companies
-apps that tech people are designing on the side from their regular job

Oops, wrong thread.

great twist

Cabin in the Woods -- it's a crashed aircraft cabin
"Lost" -- Jack is a woman

Split is apparently getting early positive press this time? not that it makes me want to see it (esp after seeing the trailer) but maybe they think praising him will make him quit or something

who figured on a sequel to Unbreakable 19 years later?

James McAvoy striking gold w/ the X-Men stuff and now playing a buff maniac for MNS is ... well, tragic.

my son is obsessed with the movie Stuart Little....guess who wrote the screenplay?

btw the only M Night films i've ever seen are his first two hits

I assume that Stuart Little is revealed in the end to actually not be little at all.

Now I find myself imagining Shamalan's overly-dramatic rendition of other children's stories and their ironic reveals. Just think what he could do with the Ugly Duckling.

Split (the initial McAvoy/Shyamalan venture) was kind of the first Unbreakable sequel but only in the sense that there was a bonus SURPRISE TWIST at the end. On top of the normal, incredibly telegraphed twist.

are there any characters in films he's directed where he hasn't insisted on overly wrought performances from actors while giving them incredibly portentous dialogue?

so truly the inventor of the modern comic-book movie

my son is obsessed with the movie Stuart Little....guess who wrote the screenplay?

― frogbs, Wednesday, January 16, 2019 3:31 PM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Never knew that! He also did an uncredited rewrite on She's All That.

I am about to watch Unbreakable for the first time in 19 years.

so truly the inventor of the modern comic-book movie

http://sonyclassics.com/thediaryofateenagegirl/img/boxart.png

twist!!!

the third act was worse than i'd remembered

Glass is basically shrink talky talky

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - it was with a camera
Bicycle Thieves - they were stealing the bicycles

If there is ever a "critical reappraisal" of this jackass, I'll shit in me hat

the hat turns out to be a shoe; the owner -- werner herzog.

midge is elster

Scarface ends with the aforementioned character falling down in the water, then inexplicably getting back up and laughing. other actors laugh and come up and hug Pacino, as it turns out this is a movie within a movie and everybody was just actors all along