Aartemys Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Okay, so SuperEeyore and another friend dragged me to go see this...Hmmm...wasn't what I expected, but then again, I had never seen an M. Night Shamalyn (sp?) film, so I shouldn't have expected anything... Might go see it again, maybe it gets better after a second viewing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 Wow, i wasnt expecting to hear such mediocre reviews, from critics & board members both...im still kinda hyped tho. Shamalekamekahilekahideyho isnt known for blood & gore, his stuff's pretty subtle overall i think. Junker's pointed out how he takes the simplest themes for his movies: ghosts, superheroes, aliens, etc. Ill post back after i see it next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperEeyore Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 I fell asleep in the theatre...right on Aart's shoulder.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalHeart Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 I thought it was good. But Shamalottadingdong and Disney may be facing a lawsuit. Or they already are. One or the other: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5654063/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 Yeah, this wasnt the crowd-pleaser that, say, Sixth Sense was, but i really enjoyed it, was a pretty smart movie by its end, you know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deacon Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 I thought it was a fairly alright film. Although I find that with his films since the Sixth Sense you go in expecting a twist so you can never entirely let yourself be engulfed by the film. But the acting on Bryce Howard and William Hurt was top drawer. Nice ending too if only a tad predictable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JunkerSeed Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 Yeah, I thought it was pretty good too. Most people hated it cause it was predictable. And yes, the end twist was blatantly obvious to me from like the second scene of the movie. But I got over that and just tried to pay attention to the characters. The acting was top notch, the period dialogue could have been really boring, but the actors really gave it life. It was just generally a decent flick, had some brilliant scenes. It definatly was Night's worst movie so far though (well, since he made the sixth sense, he had a couple failures before that). The predictability did hurt it, but I dont think it ruined it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 Wow, really? Im slow on the uptake there i guess....i generally try to not pull a Jumbie & decipher it, just see where its going....i suspected the twist, but things kept coming up to have me think otherwise, so i guess i enjoyed it more becaue i was prettty surprised when...dammit, we need spoiler tags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JunkerSeed Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 Yeah, we really do need spoiler tags. Well that's true, basically what kept me interested was that even tho I figured it out really early on, the movie spend a lot of it's duration trying to prove me wrong, and I kept wondering how they'd explain certain things later on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
defgoddess Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 i saw this movie yesterday. i suspected that something was up, as a, uh, cunning linguist, i know that period dialogue is not *that* stilted. very artificial. i've actually read a book with a sort-of-similar-not-really thing... as far as a period town, isolated, but really in modern times. hmm. a bunch of other things piqued my defy-sense, but yeah. i still enjoyed the time it passed, and i really loved the violin. while i'm sort of aurally sensitive and the music was loud, the musical content itself was lovely. his twists have never really 'floored' me, that belongs to 'what lies beneath.' ah i luv that. i just wish they would've said which elder dismembered all the animales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of Snake Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 Can't say I was overly whelmed by this one, bit like Panic Room in it's average-movie-but-shot-very-well way, the stabbing scene was remarkable. I'd like to see Shymalan letting someone else write for him, the dialogue was ropey to say the least, the plot interesting only to a point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ganny McVagflaps Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 I figured it out without even seeing it. So much for your surprise endings M Night you "Stuart Little" writing knob-gobbler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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