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This totally snuck under my radar, but Shyamalan is currently shooting a "microbudget" movie named "Sundowning": http://www.slashfilm.com/m-night-shyamalan-filming-microbudget-film-sundowning/ I've got a lot of time for Shyamalan. Reckon making a smaller scale film will get him back on track? |
Sundowning: new film by M. Night Shyamalan
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nickthegun 87,712 posts
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Registered 16 years agocraigy wrote:
No. By this point he I think he is incapable of making another decent movie.
Reckon making a smaller scale film will get him back on track?
The Happening wasnt exactly a huge budget movie (by hollywood standards) and that was absolutely laughable. -
CosmicFuzz 32,632 posts
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Registered 15 years agoYeah, this'll be shit. -
captbirdseye 11,190 posts
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Edited by captbirdseye at 11:12:42 26-03-2014 -
imamazed 6,709 posts
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Registered 15 years agonickthegun wrote:
The Happening was a very rare example of a film I simply had to stop watching. It was so bad I simply couldn't cope.
craigy wrote:
No. By this point he I think he is incapable of making another decent movie.
Reckon making a smaller scale film will get him back on track?
The Happening wasnt exactly a huge budget movie (by hollywood standards) and that was absolutely laughable. -
"new film by M. Night Shyamalan"
/goes for a poo -
neilka 24,026 posts
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Registered 16 years agoTHE SUN WAS DOWN ALL ALONG -
Kami 2,711 posts
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Registered 19 years agoimamazed wrote:
I did manage to get to the end but I was in fits of hysterical laughter. That scene near the end where the group splits up? The fate of that other group? Should have been a gut-punch, but I was laughing so hard that the shock just blew right past me.
The Happening was a very rare example of a film I simply had to stop watching. It was so bad I simply couldn't cope.
It's a freaking HILARIOUSLY bad film. Certainly not what he was going for though, I suspect...
edit; And at least it's better than Knowing. Although that said, flesh-eating bugs gnawing my what remains of my lower body would be better than Knowing...
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captbirdseye 11,190 posts
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Registered 16 years agoKami wrote:
Mark Wahlberg - "The Happening with M. Night Shyamalan. It is was it is. F*cking trees, man, the plants. F*ck it. You can’t blame me for wanting to try to play a science teacher. You know? I wasn’t playing a cop or a crook."
imamazed wrote:
I did manage to get to the end but I was in fits of hysterical laughter. That scene near the end where the group splits up? The fate of that other group? Should have been a gut-punch, but I was laughing so hard that the shock just blew right past me.
The Happening was a very rare example of a film I simply had to stop watching. It was so bad I simply couldn't cope.
It's a freaking HILARIOUSLY bad film. Certainly not what he was going for though, I suspect...
edit; And at least it's better than Knowing. Although that said, flesh-eating bugs gnawing my what remains of my lower body would be better than Knowing...
Edited by captbirdseye at 11:22:36 26-03-2014 -
twelveways 7,131 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI thought the happening was a comedy the first time I saw it. Fucking hilarious. -
Triangulate 158 posts
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Registered 8 years agoIt'll be shite. Man hasn't made a good movie since well, forever.
God only knows who keeps giving him funding! -
killersrquiet 3,192 posts
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Registered 9 years agoThe world can't take another M Night Shittyman film.
Have we not suffered enough already? -
nickthegun 87,712 posts
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Registered 16 years agoSo, in answer to craigys original question, thats a pretty firm 'no' -
CharlieStCloud 5,812 posts
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Registered 11 years agoneilka wrote:
You still make me laugh.
THE SUN WAS DOWN ALL ALONG
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Given he's almost a one hit wonder (although I like Unbreakable) I'm not sure getting "back on track" is really possible. His track has been relentelessly average.
That said, there's something to his films, even when they're terrible. -
M83J01P97 7,607 posts
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Registered 14 years agoIt's nothing to do with money, Shyamalan is just a bad film maker who got lucky with an early hit and then struggled to do anything interesting after as a result. The Sixth Sense was a film he had been writing and re-writing for years before it got made, maybe he should take another 20 or so years to write something else... Or give up. One of the two, preferably the later. -
twelveways 7,131 posts
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Registered 15 years agoWas Unbreakable him? I liked that. Also liked the one with the Aliens as well as 6th Sense. The Village was poo though. -
twelveways 7,131 posts
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Registered 15 years agoWas Unbreakable him? I liked that. Also liked the one with the Aliens as well as 6th Sense. The Village was poo though. -
Actually I thought the Village was ok. It's a bit too desperate to have twist and is extremely contrived because of it, but I found it pretty entertaining. -
DFawkes 32,791 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI enjoyed most of his films, to be honest. Unbreakable is easily my favourite, and I hated The Happening first time but watching it second time as a comedy it was watchable enough. I'm not watching the Airbender one because it was unfortunately never released due to quality control.
So this one might be good, okay, or terrible. I'd prefer good. -
I liked Sixth Sense and Unbreakable was ok in my book, although both are focused far too much on "the twist" and don't have all that much else going for them IMO.
I've watched 15 minutes of Signs and avoided M Night Shyamalan films since.
I wouldn't rate him down there next to, say, Uwe Boll (whose "art" I could only bear for about 5 minutes total) but my expectations of a new flick with his name attached to it aren't exactly positive. -
WrongShui 6,858 posts
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Registered 16 years agokalel wrote:
I spent most of the film thinking of what the twist could be. I settled on them being colonists on an alien planet, in that shed she she would have been given a ray gun to shoot her way out to a spaceport for a medic.
Actually I thought the Village was ok. It's a bit too desperate to have twist and is extremely contrived because of it, but I found it pretty entertaining.
I was disappointed.
I really liked his first three films. Wasn't keen on the Village and lady in the water where he cast himself as Jesus was terrible. -
nickthegun 87,712 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI think the last 20 minutes of Signs are the precise moment he shat himself and ended his career. -
DFawkes 32,791 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI quite liked the end of Signs. Sure, I appreciate it might've changed it from an alien takeover film to the hilarious capers of the mentally challenged invaders and their ill-advised attempt that could've been thwarted with a Super Soaker, but I did feel it at least tied it all together nicely. -
Is the ending to War of the Worlds stupid, too? It's basically the same thing. -
Signs is more stupid, I'd say. If you're an alien race advancing menacingly through space towards Earth, just look out a window. See all that blue stuff? Water. It's probably worth adding to the "do not invade" list. Or maybe get your priorities right and invent clothing before spaceships.
At least viruses and stuff are invisible.
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