Dr. DVD

The ad they put on during Frasier had the dates wrong with the years aside from Signs.

Rivero

Simple solution: just go to www.imdb.com and read the story synopsis.

mgbfan

That seems like a stretch, especially after M. Night's character gives the big speech about going to the lake because they don't like it. The implication was pretty clear. I don't think a contaminated well in the middle of Podunk chased them off.

mgbfan

Prove it.

Jackskeleton

crap. You mean to tell me that there isn't

it was something that was borrowing a lot from NIght of the living dead and another drawn out M. Knight film.

shill66

Badger1997, you understood what I was saying. Yay!

Jack's Smirking

To expand a bit on what shill66 said,



Finally, I would like to point out to everyone that this is my first use of the spoiler tags in a post. Let's all mark our calendars accordingly.

LiquidSky

The Sixth Sense: ***/****
Unbreakable: 1/2 a */****
Signs: */****

Qui Gon Jim

Sixth Sense:
Somehow I missed all the hype for this film and saw it for the first time when the DVD came out. Anyone who sayss they saw the ending a mile away is bullshit. This was a fine film despite the cutesy kid factor in HJO. Also to say that MKS owes a debt to Hitch, you are probably right, but EVERYONE has influences. Tarantino, Lucas, Spielberg, Jackson all of them. I am sure that Hitch was a huge influence on MKS.

Unbreakable:
I loved this movie. As others said, I give MKS props for going in a different direction with this film instead of taking the easy road with SS2. There are a lot of subtle notes in this film and as a comic lover in my youth, I though it is a good origin story that should be required viewing for anyone writing a comic-adaptation film.

Signs:
My favorite of the three. THIS is a horror movie. I have never ever jumped in a theater before this movie. It seriously scared the shit out of me when the aliens were revealed on the video telecast. The theme of the man of god who has his faith restored was good and as someone else said, I didn't think it was just water that got the aliens. He pulled a really good performance out of Mel and Joaquin was good as well.

I am excited about the Village and can't wait to see it.

mgbfan

Okay ... so they find out there's an Angel in Podunk and

No offense, but that's a pretty absurd explaination.

DigIt

Posting to give props to, in my opinion, one of the best directors making films these days. There are always going to be people who don't like his films, and that's a valid opinion, but with Signs, he solidified his stature as a masterful director.

I think you've hit the nail on the head. I once asked someone if they liked Signs, and the response was, "I don't like alien movies." Some people just don't get it.

milo bloom

I always thought it was something about her too, and I don't think it's a stretch to say that there might be other

Considering the actual main them of the movie, I think this makes more since. Especially when you mention the

kneijst1

I love all his previous movies and will definitly be seeing this. One of the best parts is that he DOESNT give away the whole movie in the trailors. I love watching trailors, but not to see the WHOLE movie in them, just to give me enough excitement for me to see them, like one of the previous posters said for Unbreakable.

HistoryProf

sixth sense was decent enough...a good solid film.

I've never wanted to demand my money back so much as i did walking out of Unbreakable...the most manipulative piece of trash i've ever paid money to see. I HATE this movie. I even rewatched it a couple of years later after seeing signs to give it another shot....but it still sucked monkey balls.

Signs was in between....an ok movie...but nothing to write home about. All in all he's just an egomaniac with a great PR machine behind. Stupid shit like putting him on the cover of Time doesn't help matters. He's a derivative hack in my opinion.

But despite all of that i'm interested in the Village....if only because I like most anything in an historical setting, and Colonial America just doesn't get enough screen time....however, if, as someone suggested earlier, the baddies turn out to be Indians I will demand my money back and never ever ever watch anything by shamalamadingdong ever again.

MrN

Who's this MKS you keep referring to?

cross

I don't get it. What was his superpower other than the fact that he could bench press a lot?

MrN

He was 'Unbreakable' - nothing could hurt him. So, we have at least Super-Strength and Invulnerability.

Kal-El

Actually, if I'm not mistaken--which I may very well be since I only saw this awful movie once--something *could* hurt him or served as his "weakness" if you will; and it was the stupidest thing too. Let's just say he and the stupid aliens in Signs would've gotten along.

Verbal Gorilla

no.

mgbfan

I do. It's such a stretch that I think I may be pulling muscles just thinking about it.

Qui Gon Jim

M. Knight Shyamalan

cortan

His name is actually Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan.

Night is his nickname, so he goes by M. Night Shyamalan. There is no K.

As far as the topic goes...

Sixth Sense - fantastic, was blown away, I still watch it just for the amazing performances of all the lead actors

Unbreakable - very well done, an M. Night super hero movie id a cool thing indeed

Signs - great suspense, he is a master of using silence to create suspense, and I also believe it was not the water itself but some of the natural contaminants contained therein that don't harm us but proved fatal to the aliens

Overall Shyamalan is one of my very favorite directors as I have loved all 3 of his movies so far. He is the current best director and creating atmosphere/suspense in movies. I find his style very engaging and feel glued to my seat waiting to see where the story takes me. I will see anything he makes.

I hope and fully expect The Village to be as good and supsensefull if not more so than signs and it could end up being his scariest yet.

MrN

spoilers if you haven't seen Unbreakable AND Signs.

Rival11

Well I still feel like an idiot for spelling it wrong but I could have sworn I seen it spelled with a K before. I also remember an issue where there was suppose to be NO period after his first initial??

Oh well, It's not like every word I type is spelled correctly anyway but I am curious about the name thing for some reason.

shill66

Cool. I've loved all 4 of his movies so far.