Kevin's Watch

Just rented it via Netflix. I must say that it was not as bad as the media/critics made it out to be! It was a little self-indulgent, but there were two fixes (easy ones) that M. Night could have issued that would have made the picture less so.

1) Do not call the Narf "Story"! For pity's sake, to do so guarntees that you are hitting your audience over the head with morality, etc.

2) He should have cast anyone, ANYONE other than himslef as the author whose "story" will sae the world. I have no problem with M. Night's cameos in his other works, a la AH. But this was a little sickening.

All in all, my favorite M Night movies are:

1) Signs
2) Unbreakable
3) 6th sense
4) Village
5) Lady in the Water

I agree with you Slinger. LITW wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. I also agree with your other comments.

My M. Night favorites are:
1) Sixth Sense
2) Signs
3) Unbreakable
4) Village
5) Lady In The Water

I've refused to watch all of M. Night Shalamanamading-dong's movies after Signs.

I accidently saw the ending of Village after my family kept pressuring me to see it, and that was pretty lame too.

So yeah, I doubt I'll ever see Lady in the Water.

To me, he's been all down hill since 6th Sense.

-jay

Unbreakable was awsome, man! What did you think was wrong with Signs?

I really liked the intimacy of the movie. It was like a summer blockbuster in microcasm AND was creepy and believable in its own way.

Spoiler

A bunch of aliens, who can be killed with water, came to a planet that is over 75% covered with water.

Double-you

Tea

Eff

-jay

...Aside from such improbabilities, it was also a pretty crap film. Unbreakable was alright, it was just a little slow.
Lady in the Water looks interesting in the trailers, but I haven't seen it yet. Seeing M Night Shyamalan's name on it kinda puts me off.

kevinswatch wrote:

Spoiler

A bunch of aliens, who can be killed with water, came to a planet that is over 75% covered with water.

Double-you

Tea

Eff

-jay

*crosses arms, lifts nose*

There are risks in ANY miltary operation! Hmph!

*strides icily away*

Spoiler

I thought they wanted to colonize the planet.

Heh, sorry, but I expect a lot more out of my intergalactic traveling space aliens. If they're smart enough to build space ships, they damned better well be smart enough to realize that a planet has water, heh.

And yeah, like Murrin said, I wasn't too impressed with the rest of the film anyway. I remember not liking or caring about Mel Gibson's character at all.-jay

kevinswatch wrote:

Spoiler

I thought they wanted to colonize the planet.

Heh, sorry, but I expect a lot more out of my intergalactic traveling space aliens. If they're smart enough to build space ships, they damned better well be smart enough to realize that a planet has water, heh.

And yeah, like Murrin said, I wasn't too impressed with the rest of the film anyway. I remember not liking or caring about Mel Gibson's character at all.-jay

Actually...

Spoiler

they were here just to grab us and flee...not to colonize

whee!

That said, my second (and third) point still stands. -jay

Yeah, Signs sucked. 6th Sense and Unbreakable were both good. The Village was tolerable. No plans on seeing Lady in the Water.

Syl wrote:Yeah, Signs sucked.

EXCEPT for the tin foil hats!! the freakin tin foils hats are STILL funny.
i'm still laugh when i think of joaquin's face and that tin foil hat.

sorry. i sorta liked Signs, even tho i know it was crap.

Signs looked and felt like a crappy European sci-fi film from the '60s or '70s. It was OK, but I doubt I could sit through it again.

1. Unbreakable
2. Sixth Sense
3. Signs
4. The Village

Haven't see the last.
Signs had a great scene when Joaquin is watching TV news footage from South America and that image of the alien walking past the bushes was really creepy.

Cail wrote:Signs looked and felt like a crappy European sci-fi film from the '60s or '70s.

which can be fun if you're in the mood!


Signs was an X File.

At best, Signs was an X-File.

I actually liked Signs in that it was the private side of a summer blockbuster. The story wasn't about the invasion, bust the effect on one man's faith and family within the context of the invasion.

The one thing I find most formulaic about MNS, is that his main protagonist has a secret, and event or a choice made in their past which plays out in the here and now to help form the "twist" at the end.

All in all, I like his work though.

I'm not sure what I think about Signs. I watched it in the presence of someone who had seen it before and kept tensing every time something was about to happen. Quite irritating.

A Gunslinger wrote:The one thing I find most formulaic about MNS, is that his main protagonist has a secret, and event or a choice made in their past which plays out in the here and now to help form the "twist" at the end.

Agreed. That's his pattern now, and I think it's a hole he's dug for himself. If he'd ditched the 'twist' formula after The Sixth Sense, it could have been a one-off, but by sticking with it he's now lumbered himself with the requirement of always having a twist. People expect it.

I enjoyed certain aspects of Signs, but yeah, I had already seen 6th Sense and Unbreakable, so I knew what was going to happen, and yeah, the plot holes were a bit gaping. I prefered The Village to Signs, and will be watching Lady in the Water tonight as Tom lent it to me. If MNS really wants to put in a twist at the end of his next movie, he should consider the fact that at this point, no twist would be the biggest twist he could come up with! That being said, all his movies have been worth watching to me; for whatever reason, I enjoy the way people act in his movies.

Usivius wrote:Haven't see the last.
Signs had a great scene when Joaquin is watching TV news footage from South America and that image of the alien walking past the bushes was really creepy.

Creepy? More like silly. I burst out laughing.