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Post by Mulder and Scully on May 27, 2021 17:52:09 GMT
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Post by Fetzer Zinfandel on May 31, 2021 16:57:19 GMT
Is Old streaming anywhere?
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Post by spooner5020 on Jun 1, 2021 22:48:26 GMT
Is Old streaming anywhere? No. |
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Post by Fetzer Zinfandel on Jun 2, 2021 1:35:29 GMT
Is Old streaming anywhere? No. Darn. I'm not quite ready for a theater. Soon. Thanks!
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Post by spooner5020 on Jun 2, 2021 1:54:01 GMT
Darn. I'm not quite ready for a theater. Soon. Thanks! You’re welcome. |
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Post by politicidal on Jun 3, 2021 13:51:06 GMT
I'm cautious about M. Night Shyamalan after Glass.
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Post by spooner5020 on Jun 3, 2021 14:36:45 GMT
I'm cautious about M. Night Shyamalan after Glass.Yep. Split was really good. Shame he blew it with Glass. |
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Post by Nora on Jul 23, 2021 19:18:38 GMT
trailer is better than the movie bur the movie is ok... not great but ok, I enjoyed watching it. |
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Jul 24, 2021 9:15:42 GMT
trailer is better than the movie bur the movie is ok... not great but ok, I enjoyed watching it. I haven't seen Old yet but one thing I like about Shyamalan is that he mostly does original work. In an era where there's a dearth of originality, Shyamalan is one of the few who stands out from the pack and just sticks to his guns. I'll say that's impressive and his movies make enough money for him to continue with his creative process. |
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Post by Nora on Jul 24, 2021 13:41:51 GMT
trailer is better than the movie bur the movie is ok... not great but ok, I enjoyed watching it. I haven't seen Old yet but one thing I like about Shyamalan is that he mostly does original work. In an era where there's a dearth of originality, Shyamalan is one of the few who stands out from the pack and just sticks to his guns. I'll say that's impressive and his movies make enough money for him to continue with his creative process. i agree! (even though old is based on a comic) he cerrtainly does bring unique ideas and vision, thats also a big part of why i like amd support his movies too. |
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Post by Downey on Jul 24, 2021 13:42:41 GMT
trailer is better than the movie bur the movie is ok... not great but ok, I enjoyed watching it. I haven't seen Old yet but one thing I like about Shyamalan is that he mostly does original work. In an era where there's a dearth of originality, Shyamalan is one of the few who stands out from the pack and just sticks to his guns. I'll say that's impressive and his movies make enough money for him to continue with his creative process. Suspenseful films aren't original. |
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Jul 24, 2021 15:58:50 GMT
I haven't seen Old yet but one thing I like about Shyamalan is that he mostly does original work. In an era where there's a dearth of originality, Shyamalan is one of the few who stands out from the pack and just sticks to his guns. I'll say that's impressive and his movies make enough money for him to continue with his creative process. Suspenseful films aren't original. 
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Post by ShadowSouL: Padawan of Yoda on Aug 9, 2021 23:27:49 GMT
This is kind of a return to form for M. Night Shyamalan after about a decade of pandering to formulaic cliches.
The conceit of the trailer hooked me, making this one I wanted to see, which I haven't felt about a Shyamalan film for a long, long time.
The movie lives up to its craziness in terms of what I expected and is even crazier than that, and I was drawn in by the mystery and on the edge of my seat waiting for the big reveal.
The expected "twist" at the end is not on the level of The Sixth Sense. It's more like The Village, but even less subdued and more pedestrian than that.
The mystery of the nature of that place still remains, I don't know if it's based on actual fact or theory, but the more grounded explanation for what was going on is both interesting and somewhat puzzling.
I'll say this about the ending -- it's actually an interesting statement that kind of ties in to everything that's been going on for the last year and a half and especially now with the all the heated debates, whether deliberate or not. I find it hard to believe it was deliberate because I'm sure this was filmed at least a year or more ago.
Overall, a very well-produced film with a beautiful scenic location that's easy on the eyes and a story that's both entertainingly crazy and sentimental and bittersweet.
Also, the movie has a "happy" ending if you can call it that. At the very least, it does have somewhat of a definite conclusion.
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Post by Vits on Nov 1, 2021 9:21:34 GMT
OLD is the rare M. Night Shyamalan movie where there isn't a single character that stands out (positively or negatively). It's based on the graphic novel SANDCASTLE and they both make the same mistake: Just because your story is about a beach where time mysteriously moves faster, doesn't mean that you have to rush through every possible scenario. Every time an important event happens to a character, it feels as if they've already moved on from the previous event. This becomes more obvious in the movie which, unlike the novel, uses the traditional "The members of this big group will die one at a time until only 1 or 2 are left" structure. Not only are these individuals really good at dealing with tragedies (all within just a couple of hours), but one of them (a doctor named Charles) is suffering from mental deterioration and displaying violent tendencies yet the others do the bare minimum with him. Don't tell me that no one brought anything to this trip that could be used to tie him up. At least make sure he's not alone at any point! With a premise like this, it's impossible not to address what happens when a toddler is suddenly in the body of a pre-teen, a pre-teen in the body of a teen, and a teen in the body of an adult. I think this could work with the right approach. It doesn't have to be exploitative nor prudish. It can be smart and mature. Unfortunately, the novel goes too far. The specific things the characters say and do comes off as erotic. Also, early on, the adults point out that their sons and daughters should start covering up, but at some point, they stop caring about nudity for no reason. This is one of the improvements in the film adaptation: No one is ever naked. Even though 2 of the kids (Trent Cappa and Kara) do end up having sex, they talk about it innocently. The dialogue isn't unnecessarily graphic and no one fondles anyone on screen. That being said, the movie does something worse than the novel: Sometimes, the kids' personalities are the same as before arriving at the beach, but other times, they act older. By the way, it's very hard for even the most experienced actor to play a person of a different age group trapped in the wrong body and not make it seem comedic, so I don't want to be too harsh on the cast. The novel ends with the whole group accepting their fate. Some of them go to sleep knowing they won't wake up, while others choose to kill themselves as soon as possible. The only survivor is a baby (now middle-aged) who will most likely die too. The movie ends with Trent and his sister Maddox (now middle-aged) as the only survivors, but they find a way to escape. It turns out that the resort they were staying at is behind all of this. They've done it to other groups before. It's all research so they can develop drugs that can cure certain diseases. This plot twist has been used so many times in the last 10-15 years to the point where the reveal itself and the social commentary attached to it have no impact anymore. And the epilogue is very happy, even though Trent & Maddox should be traumatized. I'm torn. On the one hand, it's a bad idea for an adaptation to substitute an ambiguous and sad conclusion for something more clichéd and crowd-pleasing. On the other hand, the novel was very straightforward. The characterization was basic and the dark moments were presented with humor. The existential and nihilistic ending didn't match the rest, while the movie is more consistent in that regard. Hmmm... Should we declare this as a tie? 5/10 ------------------------------------- You can read comments of other movies in my blog. |
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