I’d move toward the Shyalaman theatre, then abruptly choose Boll instead.
What a twist!
But Bryan, we knew you were going to do that. You do that every time. It ceased being a surprise long ago. I’m going to have to ask the ushers to remove you from the theater. 
Shamylan every single time. Every one of his films I’ve enjoyed to some degree, Boll’s movies have such bad reputations I’ve never even seen one (however I have watched them be ripped to pieces numerous times on That Guy with the Glasses, so I feel like I have some idea of what I’m missing).
I have to agree. The Happening wasn’t a very good movie but Marky Mark talking to the plastic plant made that movie totally worth watching. Everything else he has done has actually been pretty good though. I have never watched one of his movies expecting a twist at the end and just approach them the same way I would any other movie which might help. I can see where if I was watching for the crazy twist at the end I might be disappointed but even Sixth Sense wasn’t a big twist for me. I figured it out (and accidentally ruined it for my friend) the moment Bruce Willis was shot and I quite enjoyed the movie as nothing more than the story of the kid and the guy who doesn’t know he is dead.
His most recent film was Devil and I really liked it. I was actually expecting a little less from a movie where 1/3 of it happens in a 6 x 6 elevator. It was a fun twist on a classic story and I am looking forward to owning it on DVD.
Dammit, I wish I’d thought of that.
Shyamalan has created at least one good movie (Unbreakable). I don’t think Boll has managed that.
If you don’t know, you’re better off not knowing. Trust us.
Yes, his films are so bad they are even devoid of the pleasure one gets watching bad movies and making fun of them. Somehow they’re even too bad for that.
I misread the title as “Who’s worse: Shyalaman or a boil”?
What **Anaamika **said. I have all of Shyamalan on DVD except for The Village, which I just didn’t like.
I did not know who Uwe Boll was when I went to see *House of the Dead *in the movie theatre that unfortunate evening. I have no words to describe it. It is the only Boll directed movie I’ve seen. It is worse than The Happening. It probably edges The Lady in the Water for the worst movie I’ve ever seen.
I agree that Shyamalan is marginally better, but I’d pick Boll. Why? Because I’d probably think Boll’s movie was hilariously bad, whereas M. Night is just tedious in his mediocrity.
I’d have to go with Boll, because I really enjoy bad movies. Shamalayawhatever tries to make good movies and mostly fails, Uwe Boll has no such aspirations. Postal was one of the most hilariously bad movies I’ve seen, up there with Ed Wood, IMHO.
Shamalamadingdong is far worse. Boll’s movies are exactly what you expect.
Even though it never happened and I ultimately gave up before The Crapening, I always went to MNS’ movies expecting them to get good at some point. I never learned what the appeal was. He’s a halfway decent cinematographer, but his stories are stupid, he can’t get good performances out of actors and I never once failed to see his all-important twists coming from a mile away.
When my girlfriend at the time and I left the movie I was actually stunned that she, and apparently the rest of the theater didn’t get that Willis was dead pretty much from the jump.
Alternate hypothetical. What is worse:
Going to see the best Shyamalan movie and your glasses slip off and break; or…
Going to see the worst Boll movie and your glasses don’t slip off and break.
Because if so, I’d be in real trouble. It’s the trifecta of crap.
by negative default, Shyamalan
I’m starting to feel the same on Burton. His name used to be a draw for me, now it’s starting to make me think “pass thanks”.
Shyamalan has made a good movie: The Sixth Sense. Unbreakable was also a good movie, though I expect some of you disagree. Boll’s filmography…damn. I wouldn’t pay $1 for the whole set. I could at least sit through The Village and Signs, though it was a tough ride both times. Boll’s by far the worse guy.
Then again, FallenAngel has a point. It’s kind of like comparing the local bar band to Britney Spears and whoever she had playing with her. Brit and her crew are almost certainly better, but they oughta be for the money they get, and you hate them with a clear conscience. The local bar band may be a bunch of rank amateurs, but you put up with them because, hey, what did you expect?
I’d watch the Shyalaman flick. The guy has his own artistic vision. Sometimes it just doesn’t work, it really doesn’t. But I still have more respect for the guy who tries to bring that vision to life because when it does work, it’s really quite good. He can be a great storyteller.
Boll is just… Ack, there are no words.
In any case, I’ll be playing video games in the lobby. Come get me when the movie’s over.
Seriously, this is like asking if you’d rather eat a turkey sandwich or a shit taco.
Sure, the turkey sandwich is a bit dry and tasteless, and you’ve had a turkey sandwich for the last six meals, but the shit taco is still a shit taco.
Shyamalan has some good work associated with his name. Boll has nothing that is not absolute dreck.