Am I really alone? I liked Lady in the Water... a lot!

[Mupepe]

Am I?

[TVC15]

Dumped!

[Mupepe]

Dumped!

You've been saying that a lot, but you know you can't live without me.

I was really drunk when I watched it and I haven't watched it since.  But fuck, I was entertained.

[Phoenix Dark]

WTF

HORRIBLE acting, poor writing (as usual with M Night), and a million cliches - many of which are made so blatant it's like he's laughing at you.

"There are no original works of fiction left in the world. This is a sad fact I've come to realize." INDEED

[Mupepe]

I love Smallville, so disregard all that when you think about my taste, PD.

[Mupepe]

PD, did you like Unbreakable?

[Phoenix Dark]

I love Unbreakable. For a long time I was a DIEHARD M Night fanboy. When Signs came out and disappointed me I figured meh, every director has a bad movie every now and then. So when I heard about The Village I became OBSESSED. I remember watching the ABC report in M Night that featured like 5min of the movie. Then I remember watching that fake Sci Fi show/scam he did.

But when I finally saw the movie I was severely disappointed. The writing in that movie is utterly horrible. I get the impression that M Night just can't write a full screenplay anymore, but he's too proud to work on another person's. There were some great parts in the movie but the "twist" was so anti-climatic that I felt cheated. At that point I lost a lot of faith in his work

Shortly after that I read a report somewhere that said his next movie would be about a janitor who found a mermaid in an apartment pool; didn't sound interesting. When I saw the very first teaser of Lady in the Water I got a interested. THEN when the full trailer came out I thought it looked pretty stupid. A couple years ago I would have loved the trailer, but after seeing his previous movies shit on my face I learned a lesson.

Now apparently he's working on the Avatar movie, so I won't be seeing it unless someone forces me to watch it on DVD

[Mupepe]

I never knew Unbreakable was by him when I first saw it.  I watched it at a friends house and it was amazing.  Saw all of The Village a few months ago and I was actually entertained a lot, mainly because I was expecting it to be a lot worse.  lolz.  I had only seen the first half prior to that and it felt like it was going nowhere.  Then when I finally had the patience to watch the whole thing, I liked it more.  Lady in the Water was just entertaining.

I wouldn't call me a fanboy of his, BECAUSE I FUCKING HATED SIGNS.  GAH  GAH GAKJLFAL;JDF

I will crusade against that movie for the rest of my life.  SO.FUCKING.BORING.  I walked out halfway through with a friend and we started walking around the mall and another friend runs up to us and says "HE BEATS THE SHIT OUT OF ONE OF THE ALIENS WITH A BAT!"  So I thought, it has to get better!  So we went back in and saw it again (my friend worked there, free movies).  Yeah, the end was awful.  "Swing away"  I want to punch that bitch in the cunt.

But anyways, there was nothing that really hit home with me about the movie or made it omgiloveit awesome.  It was just entertaining and different.  Maybe '06 really did suck that bad.  But I got tired of seeing the same crap and I could spot the horrible acting and cliches, but it made it worth it to see something different than the crap that I had seen earlier in the year.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I hated sixth sense, liked unbreakable, thought signs was okay, hated village, didn't see lady in the water because all the reviews were so loltastic.

I dunno, casting yourself as writer Jesus is sort of ballsy esp. when you have a reputation for being full of yourself already.

[TVC15]

I hated sixth sense, liked unbreakable, thought signs was okay, hated village, didn't see lady in the water because all the reviews were so loltastic.

I dunno, casting yourself as writer Jesus is sort of ballsy esp. when you have a reputation for being full of yourself already.

So is Lady in the Water hilariously awful?  The clips I've seen of Night in it are hilarious.

As for me:

Sixth Sense - Hated.
Unbreakable - Good, but lol blue balls.  It ends right when it should be starting.
Signs - Mild dislike.  This was when I really started wondering why the fuck people kept letting him direct his own scripts.

Everything else I've skipped.  I'm guessing the guy is an aggressive self-promoter or something, because I really don't think any of his previous work merits allowing him to direct his own scripts.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Well, Sixth Sense made like a BILLION dollars worldwide or something just sick, I think it may be in the top 10 grossing movies worldwide of all time. So he got to write his own ticket for a while. Unfortunately his ticket STINKS!

It's funny, for a while he was slated to direct Life of Pi, which I hate for much the same reason I hate most of his movies. It's preachy, nonsensical, has a dumb twist, is supposed to be "life affirming" but is really just confusing. Sad he's not making it. They deserve each other.

[TVC15]

Hah, I feel the same way about Life of Pi.  I worked in a bookstore when it came out and I ended up reading it because of the hype and sales.  That book was godawful.  For whatever reason it reminded me of Milan Kundera operating his worst tendencies in extreme excess.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I have this big long rant stored up about Life of Pi I should get around to writing one day. Glad to hear there are other people out there who hate it. The "but wouldn't it be nice" argument for God is so fucking asinine. The book was also just kind of distinguished mentally-challenged. Like, he's a Christian, Jew, AND Muslim. WOW! I guess he really covered 100% of humanity, there. Because there's no other possible belief system. Buh.

[TVC15]

Actually, that book may be the reason I gave up on following popular contemporary literary trends.

Nowadays, I may end up reading last years book and be late to the party, but gettings recs from friends sure beats out being on the vanguard of SHIT.  I personally blame Oprah's book club for dumbing down books.  I know she tried to do some penance, but it seems like her original wave of petty, hollow, humanistic shit is what stuck to the wall.