'Shindig'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
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.)
I liked Unbreakable better than Sixth Sense, but I think it was mostly visual. The costume design and color really impressed me.
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.
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.
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.
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The DH loved Unbreakable. Me, not. I did love Sixth Sense, which I found on rewatch to be a totally different film, one about a scared kid very kindly helping a poor deluded dead guy move on.
io9 reviews The Last Airbender: M. Night Shyamalan Finally Made A Comedy
And The Last Airbender is a lavish parody of big-budget fantasy epics. It's got everything: the personality-free hero, the nonsensical plot twists, the CG clutter, the bland romance, the new-age pablum. No expense is spared — Shyamalan even makes sure to make fun of distractingly shitty 3-D, by featuring it in his movie.