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M. Night’s got a new movie in the works. It’s called Old https://twitter.com/mnightshyamalan/status/1309885689752936451?s=21
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Sep 26, 2020 17:38
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Hell yeah, I'm glad people keep giving this man chances. He's never made a boring movie.
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Sep 26, 2020 17:54
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married but discreet posted:Hell yeah, I'm glad people keep giving this man chances. He's never made a boring movie. The Last Airbender would like a word with you Although I only saw it once, at a drive in, and it went out of focus halfway through
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Sep 26, 2020 17:55
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Signs was pretty bad as was The Village and The Happening.
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Sep 26, 2020 17:57
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aware of dog posted:M. Night’s got a new movie in the works. It’s called Old Don't doxx me, M. Night.
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Sep 26, 2020 18:01
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married but discreet posted:Hell yeah, I'm glad people keep giving this man chances. He's never made a boring movie. Glass was loving boring and bad.
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Sep 26, 2020 18:26
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Airbender is bad, but not boring. I suppose I haven't seen Glass. Signs is a masterpiece.
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Sep 26, 2020 19:24
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Codependent Poster posted:Glass was loving boring and bad. Glass was good, and The Visit was entertaining
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Sep 26, 2020 19:33
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married but discreet posted:Airbender is bad, but not boring. I suppose I haven't seen Glass. Signs is a masterpiece. The Last Airbender is interesting if for no other reason than just how many things it’s bad at. It’s really baffling
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Sep 26, 2020 19:42
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Lady in the Water was absolutely awful and boring as poo poo and the fact it hasn't even been brought up yet against him is a tragedy.
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Sep 26, 2020 20:54
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Someone please post the earthbending gif.
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Sep 26, 2020 21:02
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Detective No. 27 posted:Someone please post the earthbending gif. 
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Sep 26, 2020 21:11
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Changing all of the Fire Nation characters from Fantasy Japanese to Indian almost feels like trolling the usual dynamic in conversations about race in casting. VV Oh yeah I should have added, on top of already having the usual dynamic about race in casting. mycot fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Sep 26, 2020 |
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Sep 26, 2020 21:23
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mycot posted:Changing all of the Fire Nation characters from Fantasy Japanese to Indian almost feels like trolling the usual dynamic in conversations about race in casting. Well they then cast a bunch of white folks for the other main characters.
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Sep 26, 2020 21:32
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RevKrule posted:Lady in the Water was absolutely awful and boring as poo poo and the fact it hasn't even been brought up yet against him is a tragedy. Yeah that's the only movie of Shyamalan I never watched all the way through. Though I haven't watched Signs, The Village and The Happening at all, the public reaction have kinda ruined those for me though I'm really really itching to watch The Happening.
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Sep 26, 2020 21:38
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Signs is mostly pretty good, there are some fantastic performances and Shyamalan really knows how to play with tension and release, and it's often gorgeous. There are issues, a couple of really bad shots, some really heavy-handed moments that could have been cut, so-so moments in the script, some dodgy CG, and one baffingly bad casting/character decision. Overall it's pretty good though! I think it's the sort of thing you could have probably fixed in an afternoon at the script level and then maybe taken more time to get a couple shots right, maybe an editor that can say "no" to the director.
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Sep 26, 2020 21:44
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To be fair to The happening, if someone straight up asked me if I was planning on killing them in their sleep, my reaction would probably be one of confused incredulity too. I read Wahlberg's reading of the "What? Noooo" line to be more "What the gently caress are you even asking you weirdo?... That's where your head goes?"
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Sep 26, 2020 21:46
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Everybody likes to make fun of Wahlberg talking to the plant but it's clearly played for comedy. Still not a good movie. Split is great.
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Sep 26, 2020 21:49
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Split is great. I like Split a lot. It worked great as a spiritual successor to Unbreakable even before the stinger made it clear that it was actually a sequel of Unbreakable, which is still my favorite Shyamalan movie.
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Sep 26, 2020 21:53
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The Visit is actually legit great, he should do more zero-budget schlock because he loving rules at it. edit one of the reasons it works is because it's found footage he can't do the twist montage where it flashes back to all the things that foreshadowed the twist
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Sep 26, 2020 21:54
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I haven’t seen his first two or last two but my ranking would be: Sixth Sense The Visit Happening ========= The “good” cutoff Signs Unbreakable The Village ========= The “bad” cutoff After Earth Airbender Lady in the Water Airbender is absolutely boring, the script is basically a Wikipedia plot summary of season 1 in dialog form.
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Sep 27, 2020 00:30
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It's Sixth Sense and Unbreakable then a huge gap.
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Sep 27, 2020 00:31
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All I remember about After Earth is that everyone talked really weirdly, and that it was far more boring than it should have been.
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Sep 27, 2020 01:41
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RevKrule posted:Lady in the Water was absolutely awful and boring as poo poo and the fact it hasn't even been brought up yet against him is a tragedy. People who rag on Shyamalan for the twist meme tend to miss that cynical undercurrent in all his films that isn’t carefully explained - like the scene in Unbreakable where Willis’ crime-detection superpower doesn’t work, and comes across as more like a racial profiling. Lady in the Water is good because they straight-up tell you the mythology is bullshit, so it demands to be read in tandem with The Village, where the same “power of storytelling” is used for ill. In any case, it’s not tough to guess why Shyamalan’s only truly bad film was the big-name franchise adaptation. After Earth is actually his best, anyways.
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Sep 27, 2020 02:39
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I really liked after earth although it did feel a little janky. having gone in with no foreknowledge of its reception, I was really surprised to learn it was almost universally hated. sixth sense and unbreakable are really good. split was okay but I really hated the twist. airbender was atrocious. haven't seen the rest
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Sep 27, 2020 05:12
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Shyamalan is a very very talented director who unfortunately constantly pairs himself with one of the most shithouse writers to ever live.
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Sep 27, 2020 05:23
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Joe Bogan posted:Shyamalan is a very very talented director who unfortunately constantly pairs himself with one of the most shithouse writers to ever live. Himself?
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Sep 27, 2020 05:38
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mycot posted:Changing all of the Fire Nation characters from Fantasy Japanese to Indian almost feels like trolling the usual dynamic in conversations about race in casting. I mean I'm not opposed to the Fire Nation being more Indian themed just because it could be a cool style (and weird thing is the show has exactly one Indian-coded guy show up but no clue where he came from, though he is supposedly over a century old) and the nations in Avatar are already cultural blends. (The Fire Nation is themed after Imperial Japan in particular, but has aspects of Thailand, China and their predecessor culture has a bit of Mesoamerican) But yeah, execution seemed like making a whole bunch of changes for no reason other than a sense of 'I know better than the original writers' which may have gone over better if it also completely missed the point of why people actually like the show, too.
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Sep 27, 2020 05:40
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CelticPredator posted:Himself? Yah
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Sep 27, 2020 05:51
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I'll give Shyamalan credit, I certainly remember what happened in all of his films, which is more than I can say for some directors. Not always for the reasons he intended mind you, but still.
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Sep 27, 2020 06:41
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A friend of ours was an extra for the infamous rock throwing scene in the Last Airbender (most of his screen time is laying face-first dead on the ground) and he said the most baffling thing was listening to Shyamalan describe all the action that was going to be CGed in later and how breathtaking it would be and then seeing the film when it came out a year later.
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Sep 27, 2020 13:37
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There seems to be a lot of renewed interest in ATLA and I hope that series one day does get a proper film adaptation, or sequel, or anything really. The creators were really done dirty by Shyamalan and later Nickelodeon for Legend of Korra.
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Sep 27, 2020 14:11
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exquisite tea posted:There seems to be a lot of renewed interest in ATLA and I hope that series one day does get a proper film adaptation, or sequel, or anything really. The creators were really done dirty by Shyamalan and later Nickelodeon for Legend of Korra. It's on Netflix again for the first time in like a decade so a bunch of people who haven't seen it are finally getting to watch it
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Sep 27, 2020 14:14
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exquisite tea posted:There seems to be a lot of renewed interest in ATLA and I hope that series one day does get a proper film adaptation, or sequel, or anything really. The creators were really done dirty by Shyamalan and later Nickelodeon for Legend of Korra. Netflix was supposed to be working on a live action series with the original creators but they quit over creative differences so it's not looking good.
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Sep 27, 2020 14:16
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At least the Airbender movie was bad in a memorable, nay legendary way. Nobody, and I mean nobody remembers the Dragonball movie. What Dragonball movie?
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Sep 27, 2020 15:05
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Grendels Dad posted:At least the Airbender movie was bad in a memorable, nay legendary way. That one that started those two people from the US Shameless
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Sep 27, 2020 15:06
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Len posted:That one that started those two people from the US Shameless Also that fat guy.
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Sep 27, 2020 15:07
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The Dragon Ball movie ultimately ended up being a good thing because it pissed off Akira Toriyama so much that he decided to start doing more Dragon Ball Z and then Super.
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Sep 27, 2020 15:27
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Meanwhile the Netflix Death Note movie did nothing but piss people off, me included. Lakeith Stanfield as L was great though. Make a movie about him, not loving Nat Wolff.
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Sep 27, 2020 15:34
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It was a good idea they had to let Willem Dafoe take off his makeup to play Ryuk.
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