BrianFinifter wrote:How the fuck did Shyamalan make one awesome movie and one pretty good one?
Because in Sixth Sense he had
a) One competent actor that could do his job
b) All other actors were _supposed_ to behave like dazed zombies
c) The whole "everyone behaves like dazed zombies" (I dunno what shamalama does to suck all soul out of his actors, he may be some dark side entity using this filmmaking schtick as an excuse to soulsuck) works great in that movie
d) It had "teh twist ending": Which he then FORCE-GLUED and DUCT-TAPED onto every other movie, with the problems of d1) They were crappy "twists"* and d2) every now EXPECTS the twists so they aren't twists any more and lose ALL value
Basically, Shamalama's original success was a fluke. The only other SHamalama film I actually kind of like is The Village (many will hate me for this) coz in that film, even though the first twist can be seen a mile away (there are no monsters, duh) the second twist (..and it's not 1880) then may surprise at least SOME, to deliver an actual surprise to those people. Maybe. Does it make much sense? Not really, but still, it appeals to me on some level, I don't know why.
But poor Shama keeps doing what he thinks works for absolutely all the wrong reasons. And when he's handed actors that actually needs to be *directed* .... it all just implodes into nihilistic dazed zombie hell.
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