Since Sports Are Now On - What Are You Watching?
Jul 27, 2021 16:43:16 GMT
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jul 27, 2021 16:43:16 GMT
The Unbreakable connection overshadowed one of the darkest twists in cinema history. The audience watches her survive an encounter with this superhuman monster, only to find out she's still living with her sex predator uncle at the end. Brilliant setup, weaving in those flashback throughout the film, making it look like she eventually got away from him. Then at the end the cop says, "Your guardian is here to pick you up." She doesn't move. "Your uncle is here to pick you up." The hopeless look on her face. So depressing, such a chilling twist.
Shyamalan has maybe three good movies. The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Split. I guess Signs is fun if you watch it as a comedy. Everything else is terrible.
2, maybe 3 years ago, I re-watched Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. I think the Sixth Sense is a quality movie, but I don't get the unabashed adulation it gets. It's good and has some truly impactful sequences, but overall I find it to be overlong and somewhat tedious. Unbreakable, on the other hand, that movie was really something. It's brilliantly shot, everyone has great chemistry in it, the music is terrific, everything about it clicked for me.
It's weird that you watch something like that, and then you watch dogshit like The Village, The Happening, Lady in the Water and so on, and you wonder where his sense of filmmaking went. He clearly has talent and a unique ability, but it's like he becomes so enamored of twists that he builds the entire movie around them and everything feels shoehorned in. Plus, his lesser entries are so devoid of tension and the performances are largely awful.
I have always said that Shyamalan is a very good director but not nearly as good a screenwriter as he thinks he is.