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cosmolinguistI read the news these days, so I know everything. For instance, M. Night Shyamalan has a new movie. Figures--it's been a couple years since the last one, so it's now time to brace myself for hearing about the new one.
I have never liked this guy. I watched The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable without realizing they were both written and directed by him, though I should've guessed because he has a very distinctive style. Those movies share the same annoying trait I just read about in a review of his new film, The Village: 'The expected Shyamalan twist is actually a cinch to intuit; but most viewers will, as I did, reject that intuition as both too obvious and too far-fetched.'
This was especially annoying with The Sixth Sense because so many people seemed to love that movie. I was all right with it the first time I saw it, becaus Bruce WIllis was forbidden to act too much and Haley Joel Osment really is good (I can't think of anyone else I like as much who's been in so many spectacularly bad movies--Forrest Gump, The Sixth Sense, A.I., Pay It Forward ... and don't ask me why I've seen all those). But once I knew the Surprise Twist Ending was something I'd already taken for granted throughout the movie, it wasn't fun any more. I've watched a few minutes of it on TV since then, and it just bored me. I'd given Shyamalan his chance to entertain me, and he'd blown it.
The same was true of Unbreakable, though that was a bit better because no one else liked it either, so I didn't hear anyone exclaiming, 'And did you notice Bruce Willis never touches anything? Yeah, that's because he can't.'
I was not fooled by the trailer for Signs, which tried to make it look like a horror movie, but even I wasn't expecting anything a movie featuring Mel Gibson crying and the dumbest aliens in the universe. (Water kills them, so they invade a planet whose surface is three-quarters water?)
I don't have a point to make here, I just want to tell M. Might Shyamalan to go away.
I have never liked this guy. I watched The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable without realizing they were both written and directed by him, though I should've guessed because he has a very distinctive style. Those movies share the same annoying trait I just read about in a review of his new film, The Village: 'The expected Shyamalan twist is actually a cinch to intuit; but most viewers will, as I did, reject that intuition as both too obvious and too far-fetched.'
This was especially annoying with The Sixth Sense because so many people seemed to love that movie. I was all right with it the first time I saw it, becaus Bruce WIllis was forbidden to act too much and Haley Joel Osment really is good (I can't think of anyone else I like as much who's been in so many spectacularly bad movies--Forrest Gump, The Sixth Sense, A.I., Pay It Forward ... and don't ask me why I've seen all those). But once I knew the Surprise Twist Ending was something I'd already taken for granted throughout the movie, it wasn't fun any more. I've watched a few minutes of it on TV since then, and it just bored me. I'd given Shyamalan his chance to entertain me, and he'd blown it.
The same was true of Unbreakable, though that was a bit better because no one else liked it either, so I didn't hear anyone exclaiming, 'And did you notice Bruce Willis never touches anything? Yeah, that's because he can't.'
I was not fooled by the trailer for Signs, which tried to make it look like a horror movie, but even I wasn't expecting anything a movie featuring Mel Gibson crying and the dumbest aliens in the universe. (Water kills them, so they invade a planet whose surface is three-quarters water?)
I don't have a point to make here, I just want to tell M. Might Shyamalan to go away.