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[andrewducker]

Personally, I can't believe that more people liked Signs than Unbreakable. I loathed Signs with a burning passion.

[gravityslave.livejournal.com]

Signs was flat-out stupid, while Unbreakable was okay if you suspended your disbelief pretty damned high. I went into it wanting to love it, though, so that may be why I preferred it.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I thought that Unbreakable was at least an interesting tak on the superhero genre. Signs was fine, and spooky, for the first 2/3, and then took a left turn for the end that had me ranting about the sheer stupidity.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I think that you had to watch Unbreakable knowing *nothing* about the plot, and in that case it started fairly slowly, got intriguing, and then the ending was a bit WTF, and if you were a comics fan, a definite "wow" ... if you know the plot first, then I can see people not enjoying it.

Signs I just couldn't stand the concept of, so I avoided it to start with, and then the reviews (both public and from my friends) convinced me I'd made the right choice.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

That graph is spot on. Every film director makes a few poor films over the course of a career, but I've never seen a career go downhill as consistently Shyamalan.

His first three films were OK. The plot twists in 6th Sense were clever. Unbreakable and to some extent Signs were mostly interesting. The Village was a case of clearly trying too hard. Unfortunately squeezing about 30 plot twists to The Village didn't make the film 30 times better, it made it terrible.

The less said about Lady in the Water the better. Admittedly I've not seen his last couple of movies, but from the reviews I have read it seems nothing has improved.

[vereybowring.livejournal.com]

I have no feelings about any of his films, they just are as far as I am concerned.
I don't like or dislike them as they are just neutral.
I can watch them but find them lacking in some way I can't describe.
All I know is when he wants a twist, cues to it are shouted at from the first frame up until they happen.
The quality may be going down but I haven't watched The Last Airbender yet, and the quality wasn't really all that high in the first place as far as I'm concerned.
He has very few really good ideas in his films and just keeps using the same ones since he can't seem to come up with new ones readily.

[joexnz.livejournal.com]

i had no idea what the plot was when i saw unbreakable, and thought it was ace!

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Do all his films rely on the same kind of gimmicks as The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, which are the only two I have bothered to see. If so then there could at least be the he's a consistent auteur with a singular vision defence applied. Or has he tried to do something different and proven that he doesn't work well outside of a limited comfort zone?

[andrewducker]

I believe The Village has a twist, don't think Lady In The Water does, I think The Happening kinda has a twist. Last Airbender is based on a TV series, and has no twist that I'm aware of.

[broin.livejournal.com]

What a twist!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cw990NCy7Q&feature=related

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

The Village does, but it fails because instead of having one or two plot twists, it turns it up to 11 and has one roughly every five minutes, which is just annoying, not least because the majority are extremely obvious.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

I knew nothing whatsoever about Unbreakable going into it, not the foggiest idea it was connected to comics, and I thought it was amazing. I can definitely see how if you knew the plot it would've been much less interesting though.

[andrewducker]

That was pretty cool. The martial arts contest that followed was even more awesome though.