Fight Club #1
So I one of my reasons for wanting a blog like this was to build up some different discussions about movies or music or other junk and stuff, lolcats, banana hands, etc. But what I really mean by discussions is arguments. I want some balls out geek fighting on this blog damn it! So this is going to be the first of many short posts where I leave a simple argument point based on my own personal opinions and where I would like you, the reader, to give your angry two-sense.
Topic 1: M.Night Shyamalan is a total hack!
...discuss
posted by GiaBug @ 12:04 PM
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Ok, before I weigh in on this, a bit of back story. The year that "The 6th Sense" came out I was working at Dunkin Doughnuts and I was rather excited to see the aforementioned movie. I stated such enthusiasm to my fellow employees, to which one of them responded, "Oh is that the one where Bruce Willis turns out to be a ghost?" My horror must have been readable as they followed the statement with, "What?". To which I replied, "I don't know is it?"
So I saw the movie later that night because that was my plan and I wasn't going to deviate due to douche-baggery. The whole time enjoying and hating the movie as I couldn't stop thinking, "You know if Willis is a ghost, that is a very well played twist.... A twist that has been ruined for me." Of course we all know that to be the case and I was furious yet somehow contented ad I wasted 8.00$ and two hours of my life on what should have been a good movie with an unsuspected ending. But at the same time I got the experience of watching a movie again and analyzing all of the finer points of the revelation after the first viewing. I have no idea why I am trying to rationalize this...
Either way I wanted to like it, but in the end I hate Dunkin Doughnuts. then came Unbreakable, which I genuinely liked and consider it my favorite Shyamalan flic. It had just the right amount of unexplained weirdness in it and BAM it turns out to be a super hero movie! That is how I think hero movies should be done, no need for over the top costuming and a convoluted back story, just a person coming to grips with that they are, and that something is extraordinary.
As for the rest of his stuff, I enjoyed it, granted I have only watched Unbreakable more than once. Although I did enjoys the Village's Twist/Not so Twist/Twist ending. Though it felt a little forced I cant deny the chill that ran up my spine when I saw the reveal of the red cloaked monster only to have it be the pathetic crazy guy.
And I don't know why people give lady in the water such shit! Granted it didnt knock my socks off, I enjoyed it thoroughly, but then again I have a soft spot for modern stories that suddenly get thrust into myth, a totally fabricated myth, but myth none the less. And I thought it was great up until the last 15 minutes, bad incorporation of CG should be punishable by law, I'M LOOKING AT YOU GEORGE LUCAS!!!
Signs was just crap.
The Happening was a bit of a let down, but I still consider it genuinely disturbing. Casual suicide on a mass scale strikes me that way. But it couldnt achive greatness in my eyes due to Jon Leguizamo's (sp?) Bi-Polar acting. He was nice and attempting to assuage a tense situation in a way only high school math teachers can then shifting gears into an oddly aggressive asshole for no reason. Apparently the director left out some important scene that would explain why Leguizamo and Zooey Deschanel acting so awkward? Did they hook up after a one night stand or something? Which is actually what I thought for a while until I realized that Zooey Deschanel's character had a different creepy stalker that was only briefly mentioned earlier for no reason.
In any case, I enjoy his work. But the last of his that I actually paid to see was signs, D'oh! Although , if you are looking for a bit of an insight to the director, on his DVDs he usually puts in a horror short that he made as a child. I think it was on Unbreakable where he made a film in which the monster was a halloween mask on an RC car, brilliant! And it might explain some of his films too.
June 21, 2008 9:08 PM
If your using a blog on arguments you should have the option of raising one yourself and not be limited to the argument that you posted. Fair?
So my argument would be why do people assume when you’re a little excited about someone and express interest in them and give them attention they automatically think or assume stalkerish! LOL…
That same person when the attention dwindles or becomes more sedated then they think something is wrong…..you can never win!
Dude, seriously, just think for two seconds about what you just proposed. This is a blog about geekiness and discussion of said geekiness in pop culture, in this instance a director's body of work. Not discussing your sexual hangups as a result of being a geek, the title of the blog isn't Emocult. If you want to talk about something different, make your own blog, dude. And for the record, that comment is just fucking creepy.
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