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blackknightgargiemoviephile · 4 years ago

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M Night Shyamalan's World

Always been a huge fan of M. Night Shyamalan's work ever since I watched his first big screen movie and I've been following his work ever since. Here's my two cents of his works (WARNING: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS, SO PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK):

The Sixth Sense

This was my first movie from M. Night Shyamalan, and the movie that made Haley Joel Osment (even though technically his first role was as Forrest Gump Jr. in Forrest Gump). The movie was obviously very cool in a sense that it doesn't have too much of the "OMFGWTF" scare-the-bejeesus-out-of-you moments, but when they do have it, it still scares the bejeesus out of you anyway. Bruce Willis delivers, as always, and Haley Joel Osment was just soooooo cute~! This movie spawned the pop culture quote "I See Dead People" and sometimes it's kind of fun saying it. LOL! And M. Night also does what he does best: twist endings! LOL! I was so shocked when I found out that all this while, Bruce had been dead all along and that nobody is really seeing or talking to him except Haley! Woah!

Rating: 8/10

Unbreakable

This will probably be the number one in the list of I-Love-M. Night's works. The story is slow in build-up, actually and it's mostly silent in the works, with a rather dark theme to the setting. Character build-up and development was crucial in this movie, so you have to bear with the slow pace, but near towards the end when Bruce Willis accepted Samuel's theory and accepted the fact that he was a modern-day superhero, he set off for that first crime he had to solve as a real superhero, and I kinda like the way he dressed himself in that security guard raincoat that gave him a very mysterious caped maskman hero kind of feeling and the way he managed to kill the bad guy without even needing to use flashy superpowers, reminding me that like Batman, a true hero is not measured by the superpowers, but what the heart does. And holy shit mama, the twist was also shocking in which Samuel is the one who created all those accidents that had happened during flashbacks of the movie, all for the sake of finding someone like Bruce.

Rating: 9/10

The Village

This movie is pretty alright. It's also a bit slow-paced in context, and it showed the old medieval 19th Century life of villagers and their constant fear over the monster that resides in the forests and that no one dares to brave it through to get to the city without the risk of getting killed. Then someone got hurt by the monster and they were all debating whether to go to the city to get the medication he needed, and slowly the ruse was out, though only known to the village founder's blind daughter, in that the monster was fake, that it was made up to keep the villagers within the village and not leave, and the reason for that was again, a plot twist in which they were actually living within the confines of a wildlife preserve that was bought over by the founders back in the 70s after years of grief-counselling due to the cruelty of the harsh modern society life. It was a real shock to me to think that this entire village was a huge conspiracy theory cover-up in which even the government was involved to make that area a no-fly zone. All that to create the perfect utopian world! Now is that twisted or what?

Rating: 7/10

Signs

This is the worst work ever done by M. Night, in my opinion. The story was alright, the slow pace as usual, but it's not that that I was upset about. The really big beef I had about this movie is that throughout the whole movie, there were only hints, sounds, faraway sightings and more sounds of probably doors banging and stuff and nothing more to show for. It had its gags and fun and stuff, but the horror and thriller that was supposed to be there was not satisfying or delivering enough. Ugh! After all that, towards the end, the alien only made its appearance once and then died by something so simple and anti-climatic as water. Oi vey...

Rating: 4.5/10

Lady in the Water

This is voted my second best movie of M. Night's work. I don't understand why everyone said that it was M. Night's worst work, but to me, this is his second best. It feels like one of those moments where you have to relive your childhood and bring out the trust in fairytales that you had when you were a kid to life. An age-old folklore in a modern day life. It's also nice to feel that you could do things you never knew you had it in you. Almost like Unbreakable, in a sense, and it felt rather intriguing to watch a simple little clumsy Narf who was supposed to do a simple job soon found out that she was actually groomed to be a big figure in life that would change the world. If anyone actually noticed, she started off with red hair then slowly her hair turned into platinum blonde. And the ending where she gets taken away by the Great Eatlon, it was just wonderful. The scene was just...enigmatic. I could just watch it over and over again

Rating: 9/10

The Happening

This is probably an OK movie with an interesting concept: Mother Nature is pissed at you, and she is biting back. It definitely sparks a new way of originality, in which you are getting killed by plants as they let out a sort of chemical into your bloodstream that makes you commit suicide. Mark Wahlberg did a pretty good performance, though sometimes they tend to elude the simplest of solutions, just as my friend who watched this with me had mentioned: If the plants are killing you by releasing suicide chemicals into the air, why have they never considered wearing breathing masks? LOL! The ending was also a little anti-climatic in which the attacks just stopped out of the blue, then started all over again at the ending in France, though that was more or less a nice touch since it shows that the nightmare has only just begun.

Rating: 5/10

Devil

It's actually pretty decent movie, considering that he only wrote the story but not direct it. I kinda sorta guessed from the trailer where the plot was going and all, but I defo did not expect who the devil was until the very end. And it was a pretty good comeback after that disaster of his adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender

Rating: 7.5/10

The Visit

Now this one I definitely enjoyed, as it had the old M. Night feel to it. It's not so much of a supernatural horror as it is a psychological horror, and as usual, the twist at the end was defo unexpected. And it's a collab between him and the guys who produced Paranormal Activity and Insidious, and they made a pretty good combo to deliver a very powerful thriller/horror.

Rating: 7.5/10

Split

Absolutely amazing, suspenseful and your mind reeling as to which personality out of the 23 will pop up next, and whether or not The Beast will actually show up and wondering how he will look like (though I was expecting him to look like how the drawings we're portrayed of him).

Once I've looked it up, these are the names of all the personalities of this guy, whom he nicknamed them all as The Horde:

Kevin (the original personality)

Dennis

Patricia

Hedwig

Barry

Jade

Orwell

Heinrich

Norma

Goddard

Bernice

Polly

Luke

Rakel

Felicia

Ansel

Jelin

Kat

B.T

Samuel

Mary Reynolds

Ian

Mr. Pritchard

The Beast

And the ending!! OMFG the ending!! A lot of people talk about the shocking twist, and rumours about the next sequel called Glass, but seeing Dunn and hearing the familiar Unbreakable music at the end was an absolute OMFG moment!!

Now I can't wait to see the upcoming movie Glass and the face-off between Dunn and The Horde!!

M. Night Shyamalan had definitely made a comeback with this amazing movie, after his moderate success in returning to his roots with his horror movie The Visit, and the King of Plot Twists has delivered his best twist yet! Highly recommended to watch, but for those who didn't watch Unbreakable, check that out first so that you will understand the significance of the twist ending.

Rating: 9/10

Glass

An exciting and enticing movie in the beginning, but then a bit of a disappointment in the end. A missed opportunity, but still it was a good run. Sadly M. Night showed that his weakness is doing adaptation and sequels.

Rating: 6.5/10

These are my two-cents so far on all of M. Night Shyamalan's works. I have always loved M. Night's movies ever since the first time I watched Sixth Sense, and I have been an avid follower since. I noticed that in certain movies, M. Night tends to have favourites. Like for this movie and Unbreakable, he has Bruce Willis, then in The Village and in Signs, Joaquin Phoenix was in his payroll, and in The Village and Lady in the Water, he had Bryce Dallas Howard. It was almost like his pattern or something. And M. Night always makes cameos in his movies, no matter how small the role. The only time he had probably not cameoed was in The Happening (I think), and the time he not only cameoed but played an acting role in it was in Lady in the Water.

There was, at one point, where I was fooled by a mockumentary into thinking that M. Night actually has supernatural powers, which caused him to be able to gain inspiration for his movies, that he so-called drowned and had a near-death experience for almost half an hour before he was brought back to life by the paramedics. It was so real that I almost believed it, until Wiki showed me to be a mockumentary. So yeah, I felt really stupid that day.

But still, M. Night is one of the best directors I've seen so far, and even though there had been setbacks, like his live-action of Avatar: The Last Airbender, his first movie that required special effects when he usually doesn't do so, which unfortunately didn't do the cartoon justice, sadly, but after that pretty good success in the movie 'Devil', he got back on his feet from there. And I defo look forward to his new movie "Old", in which I will add into this post once I watched it.

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