Shyamalan a ding-dong

A defense for Shyamalan and his crap movies:

http://www.slate.com/id/2146169/

Published today.

 

Ah, you beat me to posting that by 20 minutes!

 

Every cop buddy film and TV show.
This helps a little:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_cop_film

 

It's very well done. I think his movies are still garbage but he makes some points.

 

I love this passage from the Slate story.

I didn't know mass-market tastes were defined as watching a dripping-wet Paul Giamatti hang out with a waif and discuss fairy tales in an alleged apartment building that looks more like the Holiday Inn I stayed in last month, except the Holiday Inn wasn't surrounded by a freakin' jungle.

Elite sensibilities, I'll give him that. But any time MNS wants to mix in some entertainment in his craptastic films, it's fine by me. I'm still waiting for that.

I also think that casting himself as the writer whose book will save mankind is pretty fucking pretentious.

 

That's a good piece.

 

I think Lethal Weapon hit on a dynamic I had not seen before.

 

He should remake Narc.... just make it a soft "c"

 

I have enjoyed seeing his movies, even if I can't exactly say I have enjoyed all of his movies.

The Village was better than I expected, for all the beating he took from reviewers. And I keep being drsawn back to Signs ... he does get some interesting performances from actors (Willis and Gibson, for instance) that have more depth than some of the two-dimensional characters they sometimes play.

 

Holy shit, that's funny. That pool and house DO look like straight out of a Holiday Inn!!!!

 

Well, so much of the press and reviews for sixth sense said there was some huge twist, it was simple enough to see Mr. Willis sitting there and say, "Okay, he's dead then." Wasn't a bad movie by any stretch. Just liked UNbreakable better.

And if you didn't see Unbreakable a mile away, that just means you weren't a comic geek. It was amusing how Mr. Jackson had to scream about who the arch-villain is, to make sure the slow ones in the audience got it.

 

I love 'Unbreakable.'
And I admit I was one of the last people in the theater to actually understand what was going on in 'Sixth Sense.'
I think I figured it out about 10 seconds before Bruce Willis' character did.