Shyamalan

[coalescent]

It has been brought to my attention that some of my friends are wrongheads on the matter of M. Night Shyamalan's films. Hence:

Poll

EDIT: Martin has the summary poll.

Comments

[secritcrush]

And let's not forget that the plot of the village was ripped off from a YA book.

[rachelmanija]

I think the YA book was ripped off from some earlier short stories. I don't think the premise has been an original idea since at least 1930.

[penmage]

Maybe it's generally similar to short stories, but the plot of The Village is disturbingly similar to Margaret Peterson Haddix's excellent Running Out of Time. Definitly worth reading--make your own decision about how similar it is.

[ajr]

Also: entirely predictable to anyone in the entire world after five seconds. Honestly.

[veggiesu]

Signs and The Village were both first half GOOD, second half BAD (using usual GOOD/BAD voting criteria).

[iainjclark]

I'm ambivalent about the "twist" in The Village (which, yes, I did see coming) but I do love all the playing with fairy tale motifs that the story does, and in particular the fact that the blind woman sets off on a heroic quest to save the handsome young bloke, and not the other way around. Also all the stuff about how we create our own monsters.

[veggiesu]

I agree with all of this; but I thought the "surprise" ending (which I saw coming but DH did not) was a bit "ta-daa!", you know? It felt like a deliberate reveal, which fell apart the moment you gave it too much thought.

Wait, does this mean you're back? Or still away but not internetally challenged?

[iainjclark]

Wait, does this mean you're back?

Could be!

/Hong Kong Phooey

[lil_shepherd]

I protest!

There should be a third option for Signs - bleeding awful.

Though I have said 'Good' to Sixth Sense both inamac and I knew within fifteen minutes that Bruce Willis was... you know. We've seen too much good TV not to recognise that particular plot.

[oracne]

How about, I still haven't seen any of those. But I did trip over filming for 3 of them.

[keilexandra]

Well, I've only seen THE VILLAGE, but I liked it.