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Seriously, though, I think Shyamalan is a damn good filmmaker. I still think The Sixth Sense (despite the revisionist history of some who hate it now) and Unbreakable are fantastic movies... Signs left a bit to be desired, while I thought The Village was sly and completely misunderstood, and unfairly mocked -- especially around here. I give the dude credit for even trying to tell that Twilight Zone-esque story.
Nonetheless, I'm getting increasingly irritated by M. Night's ever-growing sense of self importance. I dig any artist (especially one who writes his own material) who has a healthy, bordering-on-unreal, self-confidence, but M. Night's is crossing (or is at least appearing to cross) that line into Arrogantville, where no one wants to live. He's the Kobe Bryant of filmmakers in that regard (and I'm a Kobe fan, so there you go)...
I'm also seriously irritated by the marketing of his films, which he has a heavy hand in. Once Sixth Sense hit, every one of his subsequent films has been advertised as "including a SHOCKING TWIST ENDING that you WON'T SEE COMING!," which not only is irritating and disingenuous, but also needlessly heightens audience expectations for a BIG SHOCKING MAJOR SURPRISE TWIST ENDING that, once it happens, more often than not leaves the audience underwhelmed and angry.
And don't get me started on the lame *whispering* commercials for Lady in the Water...
But again, I like M. Night, but it's only natural to expect that there will be people who feel the need to take him down a peg or two, and deservedly so... ______________________________________________________________________ "Both teams played hard, my man." -Rasheed Wallace, providing my new stock response to any future OKP "board beef" starters
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