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M Night Shyamalan
Yes, a complete diversion but as I’m watching “Unbreakable” while waiting for some tennis I was so struck by how great this film is, and what a complete obscenity “Glass” was that I felt like sharing.
MNS seems to be a complete fluke. Someone once said he was the only Director in history to make his first 7 films with every one a step down in the last and it’s not a bad call at least from 1999
Sixth Sense (a great)
Unbreakable (a super film)
Signs (very good)
The Village (disappointing)
Lady in the Water (poor)
The Happening (rubbish)
The Last Airbender (is anyone still watching?)
He later recovered himself with “Split” and decided to pass off that this was the protagonist he’d toyed with to contend David Dunn in Unbreakable (complete lie) and then cashed in by screwing these characters over in the absurd “Glass”. I mean, I know it’s fantasy and he can do what he likes but to build a beloved hero like Dunn and drown him ignominiously in a puddle of water was just nasty.
Side point; Mrs Bogbrush once half-watched this movie with me and because the closing scenes include freeze frames with text about how Elijah Price (Sam L Jackson) was arrested and is in an institution for the criminally insane, and she wasn’t fully concentrated, she asked me if that meant this was a true story. I love that ladies are able to to blurt our stuff like that. I have a theory why they do, and guys don’t, and it’s nothing to do with intelligence.
Now, is the tennis on yet?
MNS seems to be a complete fluke. Someone once said he was the only Director in history to make his first 7 films with every one a step down in the last and it’s not a bad call at least from 1999
Sixth Sense (a great)
Unbreakable (a super film)
Signs (very good)
The Village (disappointing)
Lady in the Water (poor)
The Happening (rubbish)
The Last Airbender (is anyone still watching?)
He later recovered himself with “Split” and decided to pass off that this was the protagonist he’d toyed with to contend David Dunn in Unbreakable (complete lie) and then cashed in by screwing these characters over in the absurd “Glass”. I mean, I know it’s fantasy and he can do what he likes but to build a beloved hero like Dunn and drown him ignominiously in a puddle of water was just nasty.
Side point; Mrs Bogbrush once half-watched this movie with me and because the closing scenes include freeze frames with text about how Elijah Price (Sam L Jackson) was arrested and is in an institution for the criminally insane, and she wasn’t fully concentrated, she asked me if that meant this was a true story. I love that ladies are able to to blurt our stuff like that. I have a theory why they do, and guys don’t, and it’s nothing to do with intelligence.
Now, is the tennis on yet?
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bogbrush- Posts : 3052
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Re: M Night Shyamalan
Weird post BB, guess with you nearing your retirement into some Florida luxury gated community and Fed nearing his end of career and no replacement of him anywhere to be seen, you got time to analize movie directors and other intelegent collateral non-tennis elements surrounding you
I'm sure Tenez being busy chopping wood and composting his organic farmland would like to be in same position some day
I'm sure Tenez being busy chopping wood and composting his organic farmland would like to be in same position some day
Jahu- Posts : 4103
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I will never be allowed to retire, I am too essential to my industry.
bogbrush- Posts : 3052
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Like the Wachowskis, had a couple of good films in them and should’ve left it like that. Some ideas should never leave the garage and all too often like in any industry you have one person with one good idea and that’s their peak and like a one hit wonder try to prove otherwise and basically a slurry of shit follows.
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Jahu wrote:Weird post BB, guess with you nearing your retirement into some Florida luxury gated community and Fed nearing his end of career and no replacement of him anywhere to be seen, you got time to analize movie directors and other intelegent collateral non-tennis elements surrounding you
I'm sure Tenez being busy chopping wood and composting his organic farmland would like to be in same position some day
I won't change my life for anything else. I have what I want. I just wish the world was just a better place. That's my only worry but that is not my hands.
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Tenez wrote:Jahu wrote:Weird post BB, guess with you nearing your retirement into some Florida luxury gated community and Fed nearing his end of career and no replacement of him anywhere to be seen, you got time to analize movie directors and other intelegent collateral non-tennis elements surrounding you
I'm sure Tenez being busy chopping wood and composting his organic farmland would like to be in same position some day
I won't change my life for anything else. I have what I want. I just wish the world was just a better place. That's my only worry but that is not my hands.
I have to say I share your optimistic romanticism about the world, though the daily grind tends to shatter it.
All I have seen lately is racism thrown out left right and centre to the extent it has more or less discredited its principle which is disappointing to view. Same with sexism really. Does nothing but inflame the fear and hate already rife.
Throw climate change in there. Where the drive for change is being led by dickheads. I don’t deny the existence of climate change, it’s very real. But those who understand it and work on it for years on end, on the ground quietly doing the groundwork. The gobshites? They glue themselves to trains. Not sure how they can expect anyone to take them seriously with such stupidity.
The world is such an unrecognisable place to the one I was born into. Far more complicated and people far more disconnected and removed from each other than they used to be
legendkillar- Posts : 3266
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I’m now watching “2001: A Space Odyssey”. It really is a load of pompous guff but you’re not allowed to say that.
bogbrush- Posts : 3052
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Re: M Night Shyamalan
Sixth Sense (ok but overrated)
Unbreakable (ok)
Signs (loved it)
The Village (liked it)
Lady in the Water (didnt like it)
The Happening (poor)
The Last Airbender (didint see it)
Unbreakable (ok)
Signs (loved it)
The Village (liked it)
Lady in the Water (didnt like it)
The Happening (poor)
The Last Airbender (didint see it)
naxroy- Posts : 1220
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Re: M Night Shyamalan
bogbrush wrote:I’m now watching “2001: A Space Odyssey”. It really is a load of pompous guff but you’re not allowed to say that.
Oh God yes - classic emperor's new clothes that. So boring and the 'cognoscenti' who fear being accused of not 'getting it' never have the balls to call it.
Sometimes slowing the pace of a film down is genius, others it's like padding out a book to get it beyond 200 pages to be take seriously.
If we are on the subject of randomly great films (are we?), one I'd unhesitatingly recommend to any who have not seen it is The Lives of Others.
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I recommend Ad Astra. Nails the psychological sci fi brief that so many have failed with. My only gripe is the one “oh come on” scene where something completely impossible happens. Other than that, it’s a great watch. Having watched Solaris, Moon, Gravity and The Martian, Ad Astra does deliver on the portrayal of the characters and the perception of them and their emotions and feelings.
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