Like everyone, I was taken in by The Sixth Sense several years ago. Yes, I remember jumping out of my seat several times in the theater. And countless dumbasses played off variations of "I see dead people..." for way past its prime and we had a pop culture phenomenon on our hands. Then Signs was a decent movie with several good scares and it was before most people realized how much of a mega douche Mel Gibson is. But then it started to go downhill fast. I believe I saw Unbreakable (yes, I'm being smart...) and then it started to seem like maybe M. Night had just gotten lucky. The Village was just bad and I for one started to wonder if the director / "actor" / writer / producer really thought moviegoers would let him get away with over-wrought movies based on a twist.
Then came The Lady In the Water. That was just about THE WORST movie I have EVER seen and that is saying something...I was also just recently made to watch Xanadu. The dialogue was horrible. The story was cheesy as hell. And the acting was marginal at best. I feel obligated to mention at this point that D made me rent this. (Speaking of which...I am now blogging so as to not have to pay attention to D's current selection Alvin & The Chipmunks.) The last straw came just the other night with The Happening. Another completely stupid premise and the trademark heavy-handed attempt at social and/or environmental commentary. I found myself laughing at scenes that I'm sure were mean to be horrifying. For example, I was laughing out loud when the construction workers were throwing themselves off of buildings and crashing to the ground all around their mortified friends.
I probably wouldn't be so hard on M. Night were it not for the fact that he seems to be SO full of himself. He takes himself and his movies way too seriously. And appearing in your own movies? I'm sorry, but you are NO Alfred Hitchcock.
So please figure out how to give me back that lost 201 minutes. Hey, that's a bargain...I'm not charging you for The Village or Unbreakable.
3 comments:
The Village was SO disappointing too. I was really looking forward to it. It was a dud.
Alvin and the Chipmunk are one of D's childhood favorites. I am still singing those stupid songs he used to play over and over on his fisher price tape palyer...ugh
I won't even mention his fetish with the Cabbage Patch kids and their awful music...oops I just did >:)
I, for one, did not think Alvin & the Chipmunks was horrible. Sure, it was a kids' movie, but it was realtively cute. Especially since they made them do chipmunk things (like scratch themselves and poop). All the recent M. Night Shyamalan movies are crap. I can't argue with that.
And as far as the Cabbage Patch Kids go... I still have those songs running through my head. "Cabbages, cabbages, yum yum yum... cabbages, cabbages GIMME SOME!"
Um, Steve, you sing those songs, too. "...Cabbages ALLLLLLLLLLLL THE TIME for Cab-bage jack!"
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