I swear he’s going to ruin his own career by only directing his own material. Too bad, because he really is an excellent director.
I can’t remember a gosh darned thing about Unbreakable, but I have liked his other films more or less. I didn’t think LitW was horrible. Silly at times, yes, but not egregious.
I am willing to see the new flick.
I think the premise of The Happening sounds very interesting. I thought that was a brilliant concept for The Ruins that was done very badly and I look forward to Shaymalan’s take on the plants-as-enemy plot.
If anyone can do the plot of The Happening right it is Shaymalan. Of course, he can very easily go the other way and screw it up horribly but I have yet to see a movie of his that I didn’t like on some level or another and I think that if he scales back a bit on the ego this has the potential to be one of his best films ever.
Huh. Not sure if the spoiler is better or worse than my first guess, which was: “It’s aliens (again)!”
But then, I had seen the trailers and misinterpreted a key scene as the Rapture.
See, this is what confuses me about the movie. I heard what you said in the spoiler box months ago as the premise for the movie, as in “M Night’s next movie is about a group of people have to deal with [insert info from Rachael’s spoiler box].”. Not a “surprising” twist, but the actual plot. Seeing the trailers now make it seem as though it is supposed to be a surprise. Which also seems idiotic.
It would be less stupid if the twist was actually:
the posters aren’t misleading, and it’s really a movie about the Rapture, just gone about in a strange way but I doubt it.
I looked at the official website (too lazy to look it up again - go Google if you care) and it comes close to providing the “spoiler” outright in the synopsis. So, as I suspected, it seems that keeping the premise - or the plot - shrouded in mystery is more of a marketing gimmick than a creative decision.
It is entirely possible that there is some sort of “twist” that hasn’t been revealed yet. But, yeah, I kinda doubt it too.
I saw a trailer on Jonathon Ross a couple of weeks ago, and when I saw all those people in the street fall down, I wondered if they were basing it on a lake inversion CO[sub]2[/sub] release (we didn’t see any suicides). That could make for a cool movie. When the budgie stops singing, run. But it is just some stupid eco-morality-gore-flick with a stupid premise. <sigh>.
Off my queue of movies to watch.
Si
Oh, and the killer CO[sub]2[/sub] cloud is a Si[sup]TM[/sup] script.
divemaster, that’s just about what I meant re: Signs being a parable, and in contemporary interviews MNS and Gibson said much the same. But the movie’s not just about redemption. I’d say it’s also about regaining faith, through the transformative and illuminating effects of adversity. The Gibson character was an ex-priest at the beginning of the movie - but by the end, he’s got his Roman collar back on and is ready to resume God’s work.