I hate MNS.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Burrell - Jun 30, 2010 5:24:48 pm PDT #9452 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Strega - Jun 30, 2010 5:28:48 pm PDT #9453 of 30000
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.
Amy - Jun 30, 2010 5:33:31 pm PDT #9454 of 30000
Because books.
It really is. I still wish he would direct a screenplay by someone else, but at this point... it may be too late.
Exactly.
le nubian - Jun 30, 2010 5:42:41 pm PDT #9455 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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.
Strega - Jun 30, 2010 6:16:57 pm PDT #9456 of 30000
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.
Kalshane - Jun 30, 2010 6:52:42 pm PDT #9457 of 30000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
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.)
Sophia Brooks - Jul 01, 2010 1:54:38 am PDT #9458 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I liked Unbreakable better than Sixth Sense, but I think it was mostly visual. The costume design and color really impressed me.
Jessica - Jul 01, 2010 4:07:24 am PDT #9459 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I was so bored during Unbreakable I almost fell asleep in the theatre. The thing that made Sixth Sense work was that it was a good movie even if you knew the twist. It wasn't an HSQ-dependent story.
With Unbreakable, the twist was a thing I'd been assuming was part of the premise, so when the reveal it turned out to be the GOTCHA moment, I was pretty pissed off to have wasted that two hours waiting for something interesting to happen.
le nubian - Jul 01, 2010 4:28:18 am PDT #9460 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Although, I have to say that I just saw 6th Sense again last month, and it wasn't as good as I remembered it being.
I hadn't really seen it again since I watched it in the theater years ago.
§ ita § - Jul 01, 2010 4:39:57 am PDT #9461 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I couldn't get over the level of stupid Bruce Willis's character displayed in Unbreakable. A student athlete who never notices he has no ceiling on how much he can benchpress? Yeah, sure.
Completely unengaging.