Sunday, November 24, 2024

M. Night Shymalan

He made a bunch of really brilliant scary movies: the Sixth Sense, Signs, the Village. And then, he started making movies that were disappointingly stupid: lady in the Water and just watched Split.  This was so dumb that it was hard to care enough to follow it closely.   What a sad ending to a filmmaker who seemed so promising 20 years ago.  The same might be said for me, I suppose. 

2 comments:

  1. Sixth Sense was wonderful. Signs would have been 10 minutes if anyone had a pump-action shotgun. And the "twist" was less than engaging. Plus I don't think Mel Gibson was too invested in that role.

    I will say that Unbreakable is an interesting take on the superhero origin, and the twist in that film worked. But it was far from perfect.

    I didn't see Split or Glass

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  2. Hey, Clayton you are still pitching heat I can’t wait to see how you work the cost of weapons into another crudgel to bash anti gun regs.
    Stuff like ban ghost guns is a fail since folks can always make zip guns to .gov spec <\sarc
    see TM 31-210 pg 96 for details
    snicker, snicker
    or quote a friend “…sten gun recievers on sale, aisle 9 Home Depot…”

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