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xJbownagex on 05 January 2014
binary solo said:
xJbownagex said:

M.Night has been commonly known this past decade to be one of the worst directors in film, and I agree. But could he potentially redeem himself?

We've seen that he can make great movies. The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, etc. Also, his 2010 film "Devil" isn't too terrible, and it's a step in the right direction. But after two of the worst movies created (The Last Airbender, After Earth) I am scared that this director that had so much potential will countinue to make piles of dogshit.

I'm constanty amazed at how many people think Signs is a good movie. It was mediocre at best IMO. I think Sixth Sense is his only truly great movie, with Unbreakable being excellent in parts, but I recall being rather let down by the ending, though I might be mis-remembering and projecting other of his movies on to it.

Unfortunately it seems most of his movies have ended up being profitable, including the bad one so producers will keep throwing money at him.

And no, I don't think he will make another great movie, he might make some more watchable ones though.

I would give it a 7/10. It's not anything special, but it's alright. I just sorta threw it in because it's one of his better films.



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LemonSlice on 05 January 2014
KingWithNoKrown said:

Yeah...hes is just very inconsistent.

I disagree, I think he has been very consistently regressing.

 

As kitler points out:

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funkateer2 on 05 January 2014

I think he's a good director, but he desperately needs a co-writer.
Even After Earth was decently directed, but the problem there wasn't him but the lead actor, pure nepotism and Smith just taking on too much than he could handle.
M. Night Shyamalan was just a hired gun and he did his job as well as can be expected, but not even Kubrick could have saved that movie.

He just needs someone to keep him in check. The 6th sense was a great movie, but it 'suffered' a lot of studio interference and arguably it was all the better for it.



dsage01 on 05 January 2014
Veknoid_Outcast said:
I don't think I've ever seen anything like Shyamalan's fall from grace. In 1999, he was being compared to Steven Spielberg. Now he's a punchline.

Maybe The Sixth Sense was just a perfect storm, I don't know. It's hard to explain how Shyamalan could make such a drum-tight, intelligent thriller, then follow it up with so many self-serving and unfocused movies.


THIS EXACTLY. I thought in 10 years he would become equal to the likes of Steven Speilberg and James Cameran due to his pheonomenal direction in Sixth Sense. But exactly 10 years later came Avatar, the last airbender..a movie that was so lousy and still managed to make a decent profit at the box office.



Puppyroach on 05 January 2014

Just saw Unbreakable againg for the first time in several years and it is way better than the Sixth sense, even though that is also a great movie. He is inconsistent but his ideas are almost always very interesting.



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DerpSandwich on 05 January 2014

Before The Happening, he was my very favorite filmmaker, no doubt. He was the reason I got into filmmaking, and I pored over his movies like they were religious text. To this day everything between Sixth Sense and even Lady in the Water is amazing, some of my very favorite movies.

But then it Happened, and it Happened all over the place. Now it seems like he's used up every good idea he ever had. It's like he had some magic potion during those early years and it finally ran out. And watching him fall has been one of the saddest things I've ever had to witness. I can only hold on to the idea that maybe his stuff is terrible now because he's making films for the audience now, and not for himself ("I've got to make this scary! I've got to make this epic! I've got to do what I think people want me to do!"), and that someday he'll return to form with something not, er...RETARDED.



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hunter_alien on 05 January 2014

He only had one good movie (Sixth Sense) and for Devil he only helped and produced it

No, his good movie was a fluke, he is a degenerate who should be banned from filming anything, ever again.

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binary solo on 05 January 2014
funkateer2 said:
I think he's a good director, but he desperately needs a co-writer.
Even After Earth was decently directed, but the problem there wasn't him but the lead actor, pure nepotism and Smith just taking on too much than he could handle.
M. Night Shyamalan was just a hired gun and he did his job as well as can be expected, but not even Kubrick could have saved that movie.

He just needs someone to keep him in check. The 6th sense was a great movie, but it 'suffered' a lot of studio interference and arguably it was all the better for it.

He has too much arrogance and mis-placed self confidence to ever take on a co-writer who will actually be critical and improve on his work. I do think he can direct, and TLA could have been a great movie if he writing reigns had been kept in the hands of the original series writers.



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batman1234 on 07 January 2014

i hope he does



oldschoolfool on 10 January 2014

Sixth sense is the only movie of his,that I liked.