Split - M. Night Shyamalan Movie

I'm a bit of an apologist for M. Night loved everything he put out from Sixth Sense to The Lady in the Water. I also think people completely missed the point of The Happening and how it was poking fun at movies such as Birds (M.Night is a huge Hitchcock fan). The Last Airbender was terrible and After Earth was a stupid Smith family promotion. I have to watch The Visit.
 
Teren_Kanan said:
Looks good.
But it is an M.Night movie, so I will pass on this unless it somehow gets amazing RT score.

It's been more than 10 years since he made something worth watching I think?
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I actually kinda liked the Visit and the Village. But neither were near what The Sixth Sense and Signs were.

I should note that I had almost expectations for The Visit as it looked likena very boring premise and only went because my sister wanted to see it. Sometimes that leads to a favorable opinion
 
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mattjames2010 said:
I'm a bit of an apologist for M. Night loved everything he put out from Sixth Sense to The Lady in the Water. I also think people completely missed the point of The Happening and how it was poking fun at movies such as Birds (M.Night is a huge Hitchcock fan). The Last Airbender was terrible and After Earth was a stupid Smith family promotion. I have to watch The Visit.
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I loved Exodus and Kingdom of Heaven. Two panned Ridley Scott epics. So if I ever call you out and Shyamalan fanboyism you have that on me :thumbup:
 
mattjames2010 said:
I'm a bit of an apologist for M. Night loved everything he put out from Sixth Sense to The Lady in the Water. I also think people completely missed the point of The Happening and how it was poking fun at movies such as Birds (M.Night is a huge Hitchcock fan). The Last Airbender was terrible and After Earth was a stupid Smith family promotion. I have to watch The Visit.
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My favorite is actually Signs. He did so much with that film based on not showing the audience what was happening. I thought it was brilliant and suspenseful. I still do.
 
mattjames2010 said:
I'm a bit of an apologist for M. Night loved everything he put out from Sixth Sense to The Lady in the Water. I also think people completely missed the point of The Happening and how it was poking fun at movies such as Birds (M.Night is a huge Hitchcock fan). The Last Airbender was terrible and After Earth was a stupid Smith family promotion. I have to watch The Visit.
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A big Last Airbender fan are ya?
 
I always watch his stuff. More often than not you'll enjoy it.

Signs
Unbreakable
The Village
The Sixth Sense

All very very good.
 
REDVOLUTION said:
He gets a bad wrap.
Undeservingly.

His movies are in the spirit of the twilight zone.
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Honestly, he'd do much better on TV than in movies. I think he's got a lot of interesting ideas, but some of them are not worthy of 2 hour films.
 
65fastback2plus2 said:
I always watch his stuff. More often than not you'll enjoy it.

Signs
Unbreakable
The Village
The Sixth Sense

All very very good.
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You just named 4 movies. He's directed 11 (if we're not counting Split, since it's not out yet).

That is not a good percentage.

He's had some terrible movies, but The Visit and now Split seem to be a sign that he's getting his groove back.

I'm actually partial to the types of movies he makes. Slow burn thrillers with twists and interesting characters, but The Happening was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
 
CalPolyTechnique said:
A big Last Airbender fan are ya?
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Yep, and as much as M. Night gets crapped on for the movie, people forget that he actually worked closely with the creators of the show. I think that hurt the film, it's tough to bring cartoons to live-action. You can get away with the cheese factor in cartoons, not so much in live action.

The most I can say about that movie is, as always, M. Night does fantastic camerawork.
 
mattjames2010 said:
Yep, and as much as M. Night gets crapped on for the movie, people forget that he actually worked closely with the creators of the show. I think that hurt the film, it's tough to bring cartoons to live-action. You can get away with the cheese factor in cartoons, not so much in live action.

The most I can say about that movie is, as always, M. Night does fantastic camerawork.
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I was mainly referencing the movie. Sounds like you appreciate his work and I can't argue with that.
 
mattjames2010 said:
The most I can say about that movie is, as always, M. Night does fantastic camerawork.
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You can probably thank Andrew Lesnie for that. He was the cinematographer, you may also remember his work from a low budget series of films called The Lord of The Rings.

He passed away last year.
 
stasheroo said:
My favorite is actually Signs. He did so much with that film based on not showing the audience what was happening. I thought it was brilliant and suspenseful. I still do.
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Completely agree. That movie is a masterpiece.
 
stasheroo said:
My favorite is actually Signs. He did so much with that film based on not showing the audience what was happening. I thought it was brilliant and suspenseful. I still do.
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I agree in that he did a great job in building the tension w/o showing similar to older thrillers. I was so let down by the way to fight the Aliens that it soured my enjoyment. Why would aliens come to a planet that's covered by 71% of your enemy (water) and not have that knowledge while surpassing us in every other technological sense? I still like Sixth Sense as his best; I thought the idea was too cool not to get give it the top nod if had to. I know there are plot holes in every movie, I just hold a grudge against Signs bc loved the first 95% of the movie. :D
 
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