I’ll agree, and I love that film, but I don’t think it was a brilliant idea. It was the first third of a potentially brilliant trilogy, using some well-worn ideas. I think if he’d been given the go-ahead to make “Mr. Glass” and the third installment, his career would have taken a much different course.
Hell, I could watch “The Sixth Sense” right now, for the third or fourth time, and probably not see the twist coming!
I go to the movies to relax and enjoy the movie as it happens, not to try to figure out every “gotcha” moment before it occurs.
(Oh, and just have to mention, MNS’s The Last Airbender may be the worst movie I’ve EVER seen.)
As an Avatar fan I liked the movie well enough but changing Aang to “Ahng” was unforgivable. Everytime they pronounced it that way, even though MNS says it’s the correct way, took me out of the movie. Also there should have been more Momo.
Wrong both ways–neither good looking nor exciting. I guess that the twist is that the script is straight out of Screenwriting 101 and you find yourself saying, “they couldn’t be setting up something that obvious” and then find out they were. If you like movies with extended shots of a whinny, petulant teenager running through wilderness, this one is for you.
Re: Avatar. In both Film and Cartoon they have to rescue the Earth Bender masters.
In the anime, they are kept prisoner in the middle of an ocean upon a rig made of refined metals that they can’t touch. As part of the escapt attempt several small bags of earth are smuggled aboard. There is a fight scene where the earth benders overpower their fire bender guards using only the small amount of dirt available and their incredible skills. It is awesome.
In the movie version they’re being held prisoner in a quarry.:smack:
See, my problem with The Six Sense wasn’t that I “figured it out”, it’s that I knew it was a “scary movie”, and after Bruce Willis got shot in the beginning when he appeared again to a kid “who sees dead people” I just already assumed he was dead.
I enjoyed spending the rest of the movie seeing him haunt people, and based on what everyone had been saying, I was looking forward to the big twist. Then at the end there’s all this drama around “AAAAAND… HE’S DEAD!!”. I was like ah crap, that’s it? But I thought we all already knew that?
Guess I wished the movie had worked harder in the first 10 minutes to make you think “Okay, so, despite the fact that he was shot, here’s this totally healed, very much alive guy.”
I didn’t see the end twist in The Sixth Sense coming but then I wasn’t trying that hard to spot it. In Unbreakable Bruce Willis spends ages standing around looking vaguely constipated as a means of expressing emotional turmoil, so him doing so in TSS didn’t immediately lead me to suspect he was dead. I just assumed MNS was a weird filmmaker.
On the other hand, The Village might as well have had a giant blinking neon sign saying “THIS WAY TO THE PLOT TWIST”. Seriously dumb.
So did anybody go see After Earth?