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I feel like, instead of the other way around, MNS has gotten worse with each film he's made. The Sixth Sense was really good, Unbreakable was interesting, Signs sort of grew on me after a while (and it was also filmed largely in Bucks County, PA, where we lived at the time -- I knew all those small-town locations), and the rest are just completely ridiculous.
He hasn't been offensive till now, though.
I thought The Sixth Sense was okay, and I hated Unbreakable, so I stopped seeing his movies. Those were supposed to be the good ones, after all. I was curious about Airbender until the casting nonsense. I already don't like his work, so it wasn't a hard call.
I know he has one earlier movie, pre- Sixth Sense, that I never saw. I wonder what that was like.
The Village and The Lady in the Water were absurd. I never bothered with The Happening.
It's odd to see someone with so much promise go farther off the rails every time.
And yet, when will studios quit giving him money?
I hate MNS.
And yet, when will studios quit giving him money?
When his movies stops being profitable.
It's odd to see someone with so much promise go farther off the rails every time.
It really is. I still wish he would direct a screenplay by someone else , but at this point... it may be too late.
It really is. I still wish he would direct a screenplay by someone else, but at this point... it may be too late.
Exactly.
He is too isolated, that's been part of his problem. He needs to collaborate more.
I didn't think "The Village" was that bad, but I saw the twist coming a MILE away.
I liked "Unbreakable" better than Beau did, but it isn't an especially good movie. I think I could watch Samuel Jackson in almost anything. I say almost because I refuse to see "Amos & Andrew." Under any conditions. Or that crazy movie where he hates interracial couples.
I like Unbreakable, but a good 70% of my enjoyment is the comic-book visuals. And I thought The Village would have been so much better if he could have freed himself of that damned twist. But given both of those, and what came after, it seems like he decided he was good at storytelling and... he's really, really not.
I was thinking about going to see The Last Airbender, expecting it to bad, but hoping to be pleasantly surprised, but after reading all the reviews, yeah, I think I may wait until I can Netflix it.
On the positive note, Amazon had the DVDs on sale in honor of the movie coming out. I may take advantage of the long weekend and have an Avatar viewing marathon. (Hopefully I can get the gf to sit down and watch with me. She finally sat down to watch it seriously with me somewhere late in season 2 when I was watching my ahemed copies and really enjoyed it, but I haven't been able to convince her to put in the time commitment to watch it from the beginning.)