>>RE: The Happening was probably his weakest movie
>>it was still entertainig. he still had the knack for filming
>>ridiculously creepy 'phenomenon' and creating a great
>>atmosphere
>>but it just lacked a bit of cleverness i think. i don't know
>>if the visual pun of 'killing ourselves' was good enough by
>>itself. and some of the acting was well dodgy.
>
>I'll give him credit for creating an atmosphere, great
>visuals... hell, his whole directing style is cool. But lately
>his plots/stories have been terrible.
>
>
>>Lady in the Water was excellent. Most critics failed to
>engage
>>with it
>
>No. Just no. I wanted to like that movie, I really did. Up
>until that point, M. Night was my dude and I loved his joints.
>
>
>But it was dogshit. It is literally one of the worst movies
>I've seen in years. And it's mostly the plot. What a pile of
>shit. Narfs and scrunts and tree monkeys and what the fuck
>man.
>
>

he wasn't trying a conventional plot
it was more a meditation on the nature of storytelling
and to do that he framed it like a bed-time story. it's ingenius imo

>>The Village was excellent. Maybe as good as Sixth Sense.
>
>It's probably my second favorite, but let's not get crazy.
>

it has more substance

>
>>Signs was great, i don't see how it's 'deeply flawed'
>
>The ending?!
>Water? (and yes, I hated War of the Worlds too)
>Swing away?
>

i don't know what everyone was expecting. Mel Gibson fly up to the mothership and upload a virus from his iBook?
we were never given enough information about the aliens for their to be a plot contradiction
we don't know why the came, if they got what they wanted, why they left, or that the aliens we saw were the 'intelligent' ones
regardless, it wasn't supposed to be a sci-fi epic, it was more like a short story about a family

i think it's absurd to think Shyamalan was like 'OK, so what might these super-intelligent invaders not have counted on... nukes? nah... computer viruses? nah... i know, WATER! they'd never have expected of that!'



>Man, the ending ruined what could have been a very good movie.
>
>(The alien stuck in the pantry bugged me too, but otherwise it
>was pretty good until near the end).
>
>
>>Unbreakable is pretty good, probably my least favourite
>>outside The HAppening
>
>Hmmm. I just saw it again, that movie is dope as shit.
>
>
>>so, i don't see a downward slope. he's still young, MANY
>films
>>left in him
>
>I agree that he's still young and has many films left in him.
>I sure hope he starts making good shit again. I don't know if
>he has another Sixth Sense in him, but I hope he at least gets
>back to Unbreakable / Village quality of films.
>
>Maybe that other poster is right and he should do some
>directing for films he didn't write. Maybe he's just tapped
>out of good ideas at the moment (and that doesn't mean he's
>done for good, either).

i think there's enough good directors going about.
writer-directors are more interesting