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Post by masterofallgoons on Jul 27, 2021 16:47:00 GMT
I've never been a fan of his but I agree mostly. I think Split is kinda fine, James McAvoy and Anya-Taylor Joy are both fantastic in it, but the movie underneath those two performances is pretty stupid. 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.
I entirely agree. Even his worst movies are filled visual tension and well composed images. He even casts really well and gets terrific performances out of some of the silliest material. I say this having never seen The Last Airbender though. And come to think if it, none of that applies to After Earth.
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