Caught an a.m. showing of this for only $6... glad it wasn't anymore...

After seeing the movie... I releated it to the laker game last night (from laker fan perspective)...

I was on the edge of my seat interested until the end where i was let down...

somehow I knew this would happen... so much for M. Knight Shitylan

My local paper gave it 1.5 stars out of 5. And my paper gives a min. of 3 stars to EVERY movie, it's the softest movie reviews I've ever seen. So if my paper gave it 1.5, it must be truly awful. How many more movies are they going to let this guy make before they pull the plug?

Maybe it's just too heady for the country rubes out there.

it was almost like a cheesy horror film... its like he put gore in it just to make a point... when the point he tries to make shouldn't go with the gore...

I think this movie just made me ramble right there...

a guy I work with said he thought it was worse than Howard the duck.

Tom.

yeah... i'm glad i only payed $6

Imagine how everyone else in the forum feels knowing they paid $0, and gained ~2 hours

it was like 90 mins... and i hope no one else sees it so this guy will not get anymore money to make another movie...

I would seriously love to know how his movies keep getting green lighted. How can he still be living off the success of 6th Sense? Does he have some blackmail on movie studio heads or something? once you make one successful movie, you can keep getting horrible movies made until the end of time? I really don't get it.

just found out his dad is a physician... maybe he puts up some money... probably not but eh...

edit: actually both parents are physicians...

It is because he made two good movies. 6th Sense was very good, made money, and got good critical acclaim. So did Unbreakable. (Signs stunk but made a ton of money....thanks to Mel I am sure.)

If you just make one good movie and then suck you are called a fluke. If you make two (two and a half) good movies, people just have a hard time believing you could just start sucking and never get better.

Those people though are wrong....this guy had a couple good ideas and now he sucks and he isnt going to get better.

where's he from?


oh yeah...

Haven't seen this but might rent it.

You guys are being pretty hard on him, he obviously hasn't lived up to the 6th sense, but all his other movies have at least been entertaining. I even enjoyed Lady in the Water.

you'd prolly enjoy this one to... until the end... thats when you go WTF?

Um. Signs was one of the stupiest movies I've ever seen, the the village was much worse. Your entertainment threshold must be lower than mine..

Signs... for me at least was pretty awesome in the theater, but stupid on tv. Especially when it was dark and they are running in the fields, then you hear the clicking sound of the alien, the climax at the end was pretty good too. The only thing that annoyed me is how easily the aliens died... a bunch of aliens come and all you have to do is spray a hose at them and they are gone.
I liked the village, but wasn't a huge fan of the ending. I was really hoping those monsters were going to be real, and when they weren't it was kind of a let down.Other than that I haven't had any complaints about his other movies.

I will say this about signs.. it did the old school horror thing decently well, about building scariness and what not. But the aliens were retarded. Invading a planent that's surface is covered 70 in a deadly poison, and that poison also falls from the sky, is just too stupid not to jerk me out of the moment. And the whole "Swing away" thing was painfully, painfully stupid, and the biggest plot twist let down I've ever seen. They should have just edited that whole part out, and just have him bat the aliens.

If God made the aliens go away in Signs, can true love hold back the toxic winds? More to the point, can anyone find out without laughing?'

I would say that I agree with Ebert probably 65-75 % of the time... so I might still see it.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.d...VIEWS/545929629

Please please please please USE SPOILERS ASSHOLES!!!!!!!

So much for ever renting signs or the Village....

You guys obviously didnt "get" the movie

my bad, forgot about making spoilers for older movies. i edited post.

but seriously you weren't going to rent them anyways.

Someone else might.

If a movie has been available for more than a year, "spoilers" should no longer apply.

Did you know that Abraham was going to sacrifice his son, Isaac, but then an angel stopped him so a ram was sacrificed instead.

We landed on the moon.

Verbal Kent is Keyser Souse.


Kevin Costner is the Yuri.

Agreed








Old Yeller gets shot

hey remember when bigd made this joke? that was funny.

Who?

bigd

Hmmmm..... hang on a sec

A_SSHOLE!!!!!!!

Probably the same way the makers of the Scary Movies, White Chicks, etc. come out with a new crapfest every year.

not with movies that are completely based on twists. This guy's movies in particular require that people really not give away the ending since the ending is always the "big reveal".

whatever I dont really care that much....but I kinda wanted to see the village some day. not a big deal....but we should train ourselves to try and use the spoiler function....it takes an extra 3 seconds.

If you guys are going to bitch about how a shitty director keeps making movies you need to look no further than this guy.

I think the director has an interesting take on what filmmaking can be, but I don't think his delivery is very effective.

I dub this film: "The Crappening"

nice.

I couldn't decide between Happening and Incredible Hulk. I like Walberg's choices for movies in general and even thought that sniper movie he did (Shooter?) was ok. Ended up watching the Hulk instead tho.

call it a sixth sense.

i see what you did there

I knew someone would say that.

Call it a...

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I never got the fascination with 6th Sense either. Obvious, trite and the usual cardboard cutout acting from Bruce Willis. HJO was good, but precocious kid actors aren't anything new.

What a gay ass movie... I'm so glad that I watched it online and didn't spend any money on this.

I just saw this. I usually like Wahlberg, but was his acting in this movie supposed to be a joke? I mean this was beyond Keanu Reeves unintentional comedy. I laughed more in this than the third Matrix.

So, sooooooooooooooooo bad.

it shows how hard it is to get respect when your first movie was brilliant. The happening was horrible! If he would have made the movies in reverse order, I believe he would be considered one of the greatest of all time. The order of Happening, lady in the water, village, signs, unbreakbale and then sixth sense woud have been an incredible run.

I enjoyed all of his movies except the happening. The order in making them has dented his reputation.

Interesting thought, but I think you're passing over one factor here: by now with all of his movies, the audience knows there's going to be a big surprise or shocker. When Sixth Sense came out, nobody was really looking for that yet. We didn't know much about this guy so the surprise was a much bigger novelty. But we expect it now.

If the films had been released in opposite order, by the time we got to Sixth Sense everyone would have been trying to figure it out throughout the entire movie and many more people probably would have seen it coming.

My point is if Sixth Sense were the last (latest) in his catalog, I think it would have been appreciated less since we would know his 'formula' by then.

Assuming that it was his first release, which one of his movies has the "best" ending?

After watching this movie twice and reading some notes on what he was trying to do, I think the movie was fine.

The overacting was intentional. It was meant to be a 1950's style B movie and I think if you go in knowing this and not that it is some modern day cgi blood gut horror movie like people though it was or would be, then yes, the movie is going to suck.

I really liked the feel of the movie, the tone, the music. It was so reminiscent of movies like the Blob and Invasion of the body Snatchers. As with most of his movies, they get marketed wrong and thus people go in with an idea that they are going to be seeing something not even close to what it would be. Samething happened with the Village.

6th Sense (with The Village a distant second). But yeah, if it came out last people would have been expecting it.