I just looked him up on Wikipedia now. I only saw The Sixth Sense and Signs. Hated both. Haven't heard of the Happening before. I heard nothing but bad things about The Village and Lady in the Water from everybody I know who saw them, even Shyamalan fans, along the lines of "we get it, you had a neat twist in that one movie, now shut up and finish a story without insulting your viewers and wasting 90 minutes of their time before the secret is revealed," except I hear he's getting worse and his twists are super obvious now. I heard Unbreakable was actually really good (but had a really bad ending), but I already gave up on him.
@stof, yeah, but I think that was one of the points of Contact. It shows the people who riot, the people who party, the people who think it's God, the people who think it's Hitler's magic ghost or whatever, and the intellectual turds who want to constantly have amateur philosophical discussions about it. But I can see how too much dialogue can kill the pacing.












