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I hate M. Night Ramalamadingdong! — Page 4

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Originally posted by: Windexed
Am I the only one that doesn't hate M. Night Shamalhamdam? I mean sure he comes of as a sactumoneous prick at times, and his movies can be pretentious and are probably overrated. But I'd still rather watch anything he does over 75% of the shit Hollywood pumps out these days (Stephen Sommers, Paul WS Anderson, Wiseman, Ratner, the Scary Movie creators, ect.).


I always like M.Nights movies, as they are better then most crap out these days. I agree he overdoes it with the twists in EVERY movie, but the one thing I will give him is the story is atleast interesting and all his movies you kinda don't know where they are headed. This is so refreshing in todays age of movies where most movies are lame big budget sequels that the story is the worst aspect of the movie, and M.Night atleast makes a compelling story to hold your attention for 2 hours. Another thing is M.Night always gets great performances out his cast too, and plus he is from the Philly area, and so am I.
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May this thread never die!
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ADigitalMan said:

May this thread never die!

I think someone spoke too soon.

General thoughts about this thread:

I’m coming back 16 years later to say that The Sixth Sense is great. Unbreakable is great. Sure it’s “slow” but a better word is methodical. All of the negative comments here about them are frankly completely misguided. Just because you “guessed” the end of a film shouldn’t take away from the rest of the film if it’s a good film, which I believe both are.

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Shyamalan reminds me a lot of Joel Schumacher. They both can/could make very good films, and also very poor ones.

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I think Disney should give M. Night Shyamalan his own Star Wars trilogy. Of course, Shyamalan’s films always need some crazy twist at the end. So maybe the twist could be that Vader is secretly Luke’s father. Nobody would ever predict that one. Also, Luke was actually a Force ghost the whole time, and it turns out Palpatine’s one true weakness is water.

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Star Wars already had a Sixth Sense moment with Kotor and Revan, I doubt it will ever happen again.

Vader being Luke’s father was lazy, like Leia the sister. Yes Vader being Luke’s father may be novel, but it changed the entire trajectory of the series and not for the better. To being all about Darth Vader. The 6 film Saga of the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker, Lucas didn’t even have any idea for he had barely one movie.

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ricarleite said:

I just don’t understand all this hate against that director. Gotta be something personal.

Yeah, I don’t get it either. If I don’t like a directors work, I just move on, I don’t get this obsession with shitting on him.

Also, to OP, you can criticize the guy without making fun of his name. Seems rather immature.

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DemasteredDonkey said:

Also, to OP, you can criticize the guy without making fun of his name. Seems rather immature.

Racist, too. Hopefully this person’s matured since 2006.

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Just dropping in to say I really enjoyed Trap and thought it was very well made, almost want to call it a modest instant classic.

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I mean I liked the Sixth Sense and I used to like Signs but I don’t now.

But After Earth and The Last Airbender are two of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. And the village was just very, very weird.

I know I hated Unbreakable, but it was when the DVD first came out. I can’t articulate why when i don’t remember the movie it was a very bad comic book movie.

I guess he is an acquired taste as far as filmmakers go, like if you hate a director’s style you aren’t going to like any of their movies.

Or very few you might like one or two out sheer novelty.

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Trap was sensational!