The Happening

[polkablues]

We expressed American... commercial.

[Gamblour.]

We buried the secret of M. Night Shyamalan.

[hedwig]

we prayed with anger for it.

[72teeth]

we made shitty movies at age 8

[MacGuffin]

Teaser Trailer here.

[elpablo]

lollll i was a background extra in this

[ElPandaRoyal]

The premisse is damn good. And Shyamalan is the man, so this can only be great.

[picolas]

And Shyamalan is the man, so this can only be great.

have you been dead for the last half-decade (at least) unbeknownst to yourself? the man is high on jenkum. and by that i mean the fermented remains of his own shit.

[ElPandaRoyal]

And Shyamalan is the man, so this can only be great.

have you been dead for the last half-decade (at least) unbeknownst to yourself? the man is high on jenkum. and by that i mean the fermented remains of his own shit.

Nope, but I've been in love with his movies for some time now. It really puzzles me why people hate The Village and Lady In The Water so much. I really adore them, they strike me as near perfect films that talk about much more than it seems on a first look. Plus, visually, he's getting better and better. People really need to stop looking for the surprise ending and enjoy the ride, because I think he's at the top of his game.

By the way, Picolas, are where are you from? I'm asking this with sincere curiosity because it's been strange, with his last two movies that were killed by the critics in the US and raved in Europe (more The Village and less Lady In The Water). Am I right about this assumpion? It seems like Night is becoming a bit like Brian De Palma that way. What do you guys think?

[john]

...It really puzzles me why people hate The Village and Lady In The Water so much. I really adore them, they strike me as near perfect films that talk about much more than it seems on a first look. Plus, visually, he's getting better and better....

...I'm asking this with sincere curiosity because it's been strange, with his last two movies that were killed by the critics in the US and raved in Europe (more The Village and less Lady In The Water). Am I right about this assumpion? It seems like Night is becoming a bit like Brian De Palma that way. What do you guys think?

Yeah, I love that visually he's becoming more and more daring - finding inspiration from really unexpected sources that catch me off guard in every film. Lady In The Water might not be my favorite of his, but it's certainly the most exciting work he's done, visually.

I'd never thought about relating him to De Palma... but I like that connection. It's like he's tweaking with these very populist cinematic traits and disappearing further into them... I hope audiences keep giving them a chance.

[Pozer]

Lady in thewhowhatandthewherenow is worse than i thought it was when i first saw it in the theater.  and it's the worst movie ive ever had to sit thru in a theater.  

and The Village seems like he wrote it as they were going along.  "yeah um, let's see... we'll go ahead and have the retard discover the monster suit under the floor boards and uh, he'll escape to the forest and pretend he's the monster see.."  

he even fills his holes with crap.

to summarize: he's pretty good.

[ElPandaRoyal]

But, see, The Village strikes me as much more than the guy putting a monster suit and all that stuff. It's about starting over, about being so disenchanted with the world, and scared of it. It's about isolation on a world that's much bigger, and how fear can lead to nervousness, and nervousness can lead to more fear and violence. As a foreigner, that movie seems to me a fascinating portrait of post-9/11 America, with everyone being scared and trying to close themselves to the outside threats. I don't know (and don't care, really, even though I'm sick of every critic saying every american movie now is really about 9/11) if that was intentional, but that's how I see it.

As john said, I'm just happy he keeps making movies, and let's hope audiences will help him do that, 'cause there's a lot more than meets the eye, even if the eye seems to meet a hole full of shit

[picolas]

i'm Canadian. for the record i loved The Sixth Sense, but the success of it really killed him creatively. everything he's made since then has HAD to include some combination of elements from that movie. that's just the half of it, though. he's also a TERRIBLE actor, which i feel means something. i don't want to go over everything i dislike about him as a director again.. i think it's pretty well covered in the director's chair thread. i think.

[MacGuffin]

New Trailer

[Sleepless]

It's gone. I don't get why studios remove trailers from You Tube - you'd think they'd want people to see them.