How come M. Night Shyamalan started making terrible movies?

I liked The Happening. Suck it.

Lady in the Water was also really good.

The Last Airbender was an indulgence. He and his kids enjoyed a cartoon, so he said “Hey, I’ll totally do the movie”. I think it’s a natural case of putting an anime into live-action. See the utterly fucking awful DragonBall Z movie. Better yet, don’t.

Avatar was not directed by Shyamalan; that was James Cameron.

@janbb
Not that Avatar.
Q: Remember when /b/ was good?
A: /b/ was never good.

He started out making terrible movies. Most overrated director ever.

@Rarebear
Do not forget Lucas and Abrams.

@ragingloli I have a friend of mine who is an animator at ILM. When Star Wars Episode 3 came out they sat in the screening room holding their breath. After the movie there was a collective sigh of relief because the movie didn’t entirely suck like Episode 1 and 2.

Well, I was never a fan of his. I keep trying though. I just don’t really like his movies. Sixth Sense was OK, I guess, mostly because I like Bruce Willis, and I had the thing figured out right away. The next one that was OK for me, was Signs, for the humor, I just didn’t like the rest of ‘em.

Because they keep paying him.

Anyway, his style is pretty much the same throughout. I think my problem with him is that I start thinking though his movies and end up disappointed.

Perhaps he always made and would make terrible movies, “Sixth Sense” was simply an anomaly. It had all the right elements: good script and acting, intriguing story, and of course a very clever twist. But like many others in show business, I think Shyamalan and the people close to him fell too hard for the hype it generated and though I’m sure they tried, they weren’t able to work magic again.

That movie worked for me only twice, the first time when I didn’t know the twist, and the second time when I knew it was coming and enjoyed picking out the clues that led up to it. After that, it bored me. Really great movies like “Casablanca” and “Citizen Kane” lure me back again and again because they’re about fine scripting and acting rather than plot tricks.

The Sixth Sense was a remarkable film that was rightly praised for its remarkable twist and direction. Once Shyamalan received all that adulation, he of course tried to repeat it. Unbreakable was terrific, but weaker than S.S. The Villiage was okay, but predictable, and Signs showed that Shyamalan seemed to be caught in this genre/twist trap. Lady in the Water was boring, and the Happening suffered mostly from casting Marky-Mark, mostly. Once a favorite director, his work is now highly suspicious.

I like most of his movies, including Life of Pi. Sometimes we want a movie that makes us think instead of mindless drivel and he almost always provides that.

life of pi was produced and directed by ang lee. ramalamadingdong had nothing to do with that movie.

@ragingloli Dang it, you’re right, my bad. How can you not like Signs though, seriously?

Here’s a few interesting movie facts about ‘tricks’ he uses:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796117/bio

@KNOWITALL
I liked the suspense in the beginning with the aliens crawling around the house, but the fact remains that the movie was stupid.
Aliens smart enough to develop technology to traverse thousands of light years, and to whom water is like acid, decide to invade a planet that is covered to 70% in water, whose atmosphere is full of gaseous water, and whose entire ecosystem is exclusively comprised of plants and animals that are largely made out of water, and then do not even have the common sense to wear protective suits or weapons? It is fucking retarded.
Even the Stargate Series made fun of that.

Ha ha, @ragingloli How had I never thought of that before? Shame on me. I’m usually better at picking up such obvious plot holes.

@ragingloli Well maybe you shouldn’t analyze everything to death, I do that a lot and in the last decade finally learned to stop. It makes a lot of movies wayyyy better. Stargate was just all right for me, I’m a Trekkie girl- lol

@KNOWITALL Hey, I’m a serious Trekkie, and my husband got mad at me last night because we were watching an old TOS episode, and they were all “the sensors are down!” but they were looking at something out the viewscreen. And I had to complain that the viewscreen is fed by the sensors. It’s not a fucking window.

@Seek_Kolinahr LOL, I got ya, my husband tells me to ‘just hush and watch the flippin’ movie.’ To me, it’s like a book with a misspelling, just an obvious mistake they should catch and super annoying. :)

@Seek_Kolinahr See the utterly fucking awful DragonBall Z movie. Better yet, don’t.

I’ll never forgive myself for watching that. I’m glad Vegita wasn’t in it…don’t want to imagine how much they would have made him suck.

Haven’t seen all that many Shyamalan movies. I probably like The Village best. Kind of a cheap and traitorous way to grab your attention; I thought it was gonna be some Sleepy Hollow ripoff when I saw the previews, but it’s something else entirely…so even if I went in with a certain expectation and got something else, I thought it was pretty cool. The movie sure did a good job with the suspense and the atmosphere. I also saw The Lady in the Water and The Happening. Don’t got much to say about Lady in the Water. Was interesting, but I didn’t trip anymore than that. The Happening was cool though, I liked that. Reminded me of at least two Stephen King stories.

I guess ’‘started making terrible movies’’ is an opinion, rather than a fact. Can’t quite comment as I’ve not seen all his stuff, but from what I’ve seen, he has interesting ideas, although for as flashy and stylist as he can be, I personally believe he needs to work on his presentation some, and stop dragging around the bush so much. I like the suspense yes, but it can only work for a while, not three quarters of the damn movie. XD

Sixth Sense was okay, hated that fucking kid though, I wanted to dress in a ghost suit & sneak in his bedroom when he was sleeping to frighten the shite outta the little bastard for real…“no cameras here ya soft shit!”
Unbreakable was a fine, fine movie, largely down to Samuel L, another annoying boy though, i’d have shot the fucker if he’d pointed that gun at me.
The rest of “Mowgli’s” movies are best ignored, lost his touch.

I am right there with you Rags. When I saw the movie I was like, “Water? Seriously? That’s all you got?”

I enjoyed Signs the most of all his films for the characters and humor; I like Joaquin Phoenix. I like Shayamalan’s other movies well enough, but don’t think they’re great. I think The Happening is the last one I saw, though.

I like The Sixth Sense, but I think it was a fluke. Everything else has sucked.

@janbb but the show it was based off of was titled Avatar: the Last Airbender, so us true Last Airbender fans always refer to it was Avatar (I personally was pissed that “avatar” was a movie about blue people).

As for the question, I’m not entirely sure. Many, including myself, don’t trust him after he butchered the ATLA movie…..but “After Earth” looks good so we’ll see what happens. I plan to watch it.

@cutiepi92 WHOA WHAT AFTER EARTH IS HIS? Holy crap how did I miss that?

lol @ScottyMcGeester they kinda hide his name and keep it a low profile on the trailer. They don’t introduce it as his probably because everyone hates him lmao