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Title: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Zapranoth on June 13, 2008, 09:14:40 AM
So, anyone seen the Happening?

Does it suck?

I read its review on the Onion, and the scathing cascade of comments that followed that review, and the consensus seems to be that yea, verily, it sucketh.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: indianasmith on June 13, 2008, 09:20:25 AM
I've enjoyed all his movies at some level, and look forward to this one.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: ghouck on June 13, 2008, 11:38:48 AM
I'm curious about this one also, , ,might go see it. Funny thing is, when I was talking to some guys at work about it, I, BEFORE reading this post, also referred to him as M Night Shamalamadingdong. . .


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Raffine on June 13, 2008, 11:40:05 AM
The ads seem really odd to me. Here's what I posted on another thread:
 
Does anyone else think the TV spots for "The Latest Film by the Director of THE SIXTH SENSE and SIGNS" are really strange, and seem to have been over PR'd to the point of absurdity?  The ads never mention his name, pointedly do not mention UNBREAKABLE, THE VILLAGE, and THE LADY IN THE WATER, and make a big deal about the fact this is a R rated film.  I don't think I remember any film ever touting it's MPAA rating - unless it was a XXX or maybe that PG "NOW! BJ-FREE!" version of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Ash on June 13, 2008, 12:02:12 PM
So far it has received generally negative reviews.  Most of them complaining about how boring it is.

Roger Ebert liked it and gave it 3 out of 4 stars.
Read his review HERE (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080612/REVIEWS/545929629).


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Mr. DS on June 13, 2008, 12:07:04 PM
I personally never understood Shamalamandingdong's popularity.  I never found his films scary and Signs was one of the most ridiculous movies I've ever viewed.  In other words, I wouldn't be surprised if this film sucks. 

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Does anyone else think the TV spots for "The Latest Film by the Director of THE SIXTH SENSE and SIGNS" are really strange

I'm thinking this is because announcers/sound engineers everywhere are sick of mispronouncing his name. 


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: ulthar on June 13, 2008, 01:41:16 PM

Funny thing is, when I was talking to some guys at work about it, I, BEFORE reading this post, also referred to him as M Night Shamalamadingdong. . .


I call him that as well.   :teddyr:

My wife asked me last night when I said that, "so, is that what all your buddies on BadMovies call him?"

Personally, i cannot stand him.  He hit it good with SIXTH SENSE and since then, formulaic.  He's VERY stuck on himself - DVD commentary and 'making of' full of crew comments like "Night did this, Night came up with that" blah blah BLAH.  It's a M. Night worship fest.

I spend money on a rental of SIGNS.  Other than that and SIXTH SENSE, I've not given him a dime.  I don't see that changing for this one, either.

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Does anyone else think the TV spots for "The Latest Film by the Director of THE SIXTH SENSE and SIGNS" are really strange


I'm thinking this is because announcers/sound engineers everywhere are sick of mispronouncing his name.


That, and his stinking ego.  At best, neither was THAT GREAT a movie - okay, mildly entertaining, but not film-making-changing.  Yet the wording in the trailer suggests he invented motion pictures or something.

I think I'd rather Ewe Boll keep making movies than M. Night Shamalama-ding-dong.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: AndyC on June 13, 2008, 01:51:04 PM
I liked The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, but haven't enjoyed any of the others. Don't get me started on everything that was wrong with Signs, but The Village was, by far, the most disappointing pile of crap yet. I don't know about you, but when I go to a monster movie with a surprise, I don't want the surprise to involve a lack of actual monsters. The cheesy Twilight Zone twist ending (that I guessed the first time someone was discouraged from going to town) was equally disappointing.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Raffine on June 13, 2008, 01:52:30 PM
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At best, neither was THAT GREAT a movie - okay, mildly entertaining, but not film-making-changing.  


I accidentally caught most of THE SIXTH SENSE again about a week ago.

Yes, it's an interestingly constructed film but I found, for me, at least, it was only good for exactly two viewings: the first time for the uniqueness and the SURPRISE!, and the second time to notice all the little hints leading up to the SURPRISE!

Watching it for the third time seemed a bit pointless - sort of like multiple viewings of that backwards Guy Pearce movie from a few years back, whatever the heck it was called . . .  

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Don't get me started on everything that was wrong with Signs

The idea that God would rely on a Rube Goldberg-like collections of vague clues and puzzles to save mankind struck me as particularly funny.  What's wrong with a good ol' fashioned lightening bolt (or cloud burst)? :teddyr:

And if you're going to try to conquer a planet, it's a good job to not pick one that is mostly covered with a substance that can fry your ET asses like boiling sulphuric acid.  :thumbdown:


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: The Burgomaster on June 13, 2008, 03:58:25 PM
Here are some statistics and (sometimes hilarious) quotes from rottentomatoes.com:

60 out of 76 contributors gave this movie a “rotten tomato” rating.  Overall, it scored 21 on a scale of 100.

 

 

“You feel like you're not watching the end of the world but the end of a career.”

 

“There's a long tradition of receiving messages from burning bushes, but jiggling bushes are not to be trusted, and neither are filmmakers who ask us to shiver in their leafy midst.”

 

“It's downright stupid.”

 

“No one will watch any of Shyamalan's recent films twice. A movie that features Wahlberg suggesting everyone try to outrun the wind can barely be watched once.”

 

“Wahlberg turns in one of his worst performances ever, but then he's saddled with preposterous scenes (like one where he tries to placate a ficus) and such lame lines as "Could this really be happening?" Funny, I was wondering the same thing myself.”

 

“...bad in more than just an everyday, sure-does-suck kind of way.”

 

“The greatest excuse yet to get that anti-M. Night petition started. The last thing we want is a future of Shyamalan films with the knowledge that we all could have done something sooner.”

 

“The Happening quickly deteriorates into the worst movie of M. Night Shyamalan's career... and that's saying something.”

 

“one of the worst attempts at end-of-the-world ominousness since the Robot Holocaust battled the Ninja Apocalypse”

 

“The true disaster on display in The Happening is Shyamalan's career hitting rock bottom.”

 


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: ulthar on June 13, 2008, 04:30:02 PM

Here are some statistics and (sometimes hilarious) quotes from rottentomatoes.com:


Thanks, Burgo.  Those ARE hilarious.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: ghouck on June 13, 2008, 04:53:33 PM
Signs was one of the most ridiculous movies I've ever viewed. 

I'm surprized at the amount of hate that 'Signs' gets here. I liked the film, and it kinda creeped me out, much more than just about any other horror flick I've seen (Except maybe Children of the Corn, which totally had me when I was younger). The only think I didn't like about Signs was the whole water thing, , but that's coming fro mthe assumption that every form of life is similar to our own, and that every habitable planet is also similar.

Many of the supposed ultra-scarey movies fail to move me at all, , Sign just seemed to hit a nerve so to speak.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Torgo on June 13, 2008, 06:04:24 PM
I thought that both The Sixth Sense & Unbreakable were front to back excellent movies.

Signs was really good up until the last 15 minutes when it completely fell apart IMO.

The Village was terrible and Lady in the Water was even worse.

I really have no interest in seeing The Happening unless it's to see if it's as bad as all of the reviews are saying it is.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: AndyC on June 13, 2008, 06:16:36 PM
I'm kind of torn because the advertising makes it look really cool, and the R rating suggests we might see something. But then, I remember that it's Shamalamalamon (got the name from Dale Gribble), and that The Village looked extremely cool in previews too.

Just have to keep in mind that M. Night's last few movies all have the same surprise:
"Surprise! You were duped into seeing a movie that really sucked!"


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Shadow on June 13, 2008, 06:30:38 PM
Today on the radio, someone who saw the sneak preview the other night revealed what the twist was in this film (the reason people start killing themselves) and I have to say, it sounds like one of the most asinine things ever. The mere idea seems like something out of some cheesy old 50's or 60's film. I cannot imagine how the idea can be executed without coming off as...well, as flat out stupid.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: akiratubo on June 13, 2008, 06:36:36 PM
I won't be seeing it, nor any other Shayamalan movie.  Perhaps I shouldn't blame him for how much I didn't like The Sixth Sense, seeing as how it was billed as a horror movie when it was absolutely NOT.

I remember sitting there thinking, "What the hell?  There's not even anything to be afraid of here.  Aww, the poor widdle ghosties just want a friend."

But Unbreakable was incredibly crappy while The Village was just good enough at the beginning to make me hate it all the more when the monsters turned out to be fake.

Yes, yes, we're supposed to dig beneath the surface to see his movies' true Messages because he's just that brilliant.  Feh, I say to that.

Three strikes, yer out.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: ghouck on June 13, 2008, 07:12:07 PM
Today on the radio, someone who saw the sneak preview the other night revealed what the twist was in this film (the reason people start killing themselves) and I have to say, it sounds like one of the most asinine things ever. The mere idea seems like something out of some cheesy old 50's or 60's film. I cannot imagine how the idea can be executed without coming off as...well, as flat out stupid.

Can you spoil it for me?


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: indianasmith on June 13, 2008, 07:23:56 PM
Now it sounds so bad I want to see it!!!

BTW, I actually liked THE VILLAGE.

I guess there's no hope for me.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: CheezeFlixz on June 13, 2008, 08:27:07 PM
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M. Night Shamalamadingdong

You get karma just for the title of this thread .. it caught me off guard and I busted up ... thanks! I almost spit my drink all over my screen.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Torgo on June 13, 2008, 08:28:06 PM
Now it sounds so bad I want to see it!!!

BTW, I actually liked THE VILLAGE.

I guess there's no hope for me.

Did you have the twist for the Village figured out prior to seeing the movie?

I just took a wild guess on what the twist was going to be and ended up being right. I always hate when that happens.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: AnubisVonMojo on June 13, 2008, 08:43:38 PM
Now it sounds so bad I want to see it!!!

BTW, I actually liked THE VILLAGE.

I guess there's no hope for me.

Did you have the twist for the Village figured out prior to seeing the movie?

I just took a wild guess on what the twist was going to be and ended up being right. I always hate when that happens.

The same thing happened to me. Some friends of mine had a bootleg the night it was released and invited me over to watch it. Not even 20 minutes in I said, "I bet they're actually living in seclusion in modern times and that's gonna be the whole twist". Everybody looked at me like I was full of crap, but by the time it was over they were positive I'd been reading spoilers beforehand. What a pile.  :lookingup:


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Torgo on June 13, 2008, 09:01:47 PM
The same thing happened to me. Some friends of mine had a bootleg the night it was released and invited me over to watch it. Not even 20 minutes in I said, "I bet they're actually living in seclusion in modern times and that's gonna be the whole twist". Everybody looked at me like I was full of crap, but by the time it was over they were positive I'd been reading spoilers beforehand. What a pile.  :lookingup:

Yeah, people accused me of reading about the twist on the internet prior to making up my opinion on my own, but the way that 1st big trailer for it was done, I told my friends that that was the only twist I could think of that would work with a story like that.

Of course, M. Night pigeonholed himself as a twist type storyteller and it really bit him hard on that one.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: AndyC on June 13, 2008, 09:38:46 PM
When the village elders were so quick to discourage any curiosity about what was beyond the forest, there could be no doubt for me as to the twist ending. M. Night was a little heavy handed with the clues on that one. But it was the fake monsters that really disappointed me.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Shadow on June 13, 2008, 09:59:15 PM
Can you spoil it for me?

Sure. PM sent.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: ulthar on June 13, 2008, 10:45:37 PM
Can you spoil it for me?

Sure. PM sent.

Hey, Shadow...if you don't mind, would you PM the spoilage also? 

This thread is more entertaining than I think the movie will be.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Shadow on June 13, 2008, 10:49:49 PM
Sent.  :teddyr:

I actually found a review of the script from about a year back which confirmed the basic premise.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Inferno on June 13, 2008, 10:54:41 PM
Without giving too much away, it's basically a psychological thing nature throws out.

When you find out the rest, you will either laugh or go WTF?!

Also, is it just me or does anyone else find the trailer kind of funny? Especially the shot where the guys are falling from the construction site. That reminded me of Monty Python when, in one episode, they tosses mannequins from windows and acted like they were actual people.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Zapranoth on June 14, 2008, 12:55:11 AM
I can't take credit for the thread name -- a guy I knew in school called him that once, and I laughed hard and the memory stuck.
But -- I've seen that perversion of his name re-created independently by multiple sources, and I don't think internet-meme accounts for it.  I think the name just begs for the treatment.  =)  Or the man does.

I liked the Village.  I think there were some truly quality performances in it, and as such I can't relegate it to the crap pile.  The twist was somewhat annoying, yeah.

Didn't watch the woman in the water movie, did watch Unbreakable (it was pretty forgettable to me), didn't watch Signs.

Won't be watching the Happening.  Though I hope everyone who knows the director keeps asking him, "hey... wus' happening?"  ;)


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: SynapticBoomstick on June 14, 2008, 02:21:43 AM
I thought the scares were pretty good and the violence was cool- what can I say, I like violence in movies :lookingup:- but the overall effect was a bit odd. I don't think there was even a twist to this one, it was just something that happened with no real explanation other than what the characters could guess. Not his best film, but certainly not the worst. It was an enjoyable theater experience but I missed the "out of place" feeling that the other films had; this one just felt like a survival movie. There's nothing wrong with that, there's just not anything extra special about it. Still, I'm a fan of his work so that might have rambled without any solid opinion ^^;


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: quabrot on June 14, 2008, 04:50:38 AM
All I can say is that I preferred Day of the Animals.  Replace suicides with animal attacks, remove the post 9-11 paranoia, and throw in Leslie Nelsen fighting a bear, and you have a much more fun movie.

The main problem with The Happening is that it takes itself too seriously.  The movie has a great setup for a B-grade disaster movie, but it attempts to show us what would realistically happen if, for some reason, the entire northeast was compelled to kill themselves.  The first conclusion, of course, is that it's a terrorist attack.  People try to flee, not really knowing where to go, or if anywhere is safe.  Some people lock themselves up and point shotguns at anyone who comes near their home.  We are supposed to be horrified by the mass suicides, but then we have little bits of dark humor (that I'm sure is purely coincidental), such as the landscapers who have hung themselves using garden hoses.  Many of the suicides are to complex to be taken seriously. The commercials have already shown the guy who lays down in front front of the mower. There is also a "terrifying" scene where a zookeeper gets himself torn apart by lions.  Actually, I think I wasn't the only one in the audience laughing at that one.

I think Shyamalan should have help writing his next movie.  The Happening seemed very simple in it's story and dialogue. I'll let somebody else rip on the painful dialogue, but  I swear I was starting to cringe every time I heard the word "happening".

As for twists, there really isn't one.  No big revelation that the suicide victims were all actually Martian invaders posing as humans reacting to Earth's bacteria.  Just the standard for its kind of movie.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Zapranoth on June 14, 2008, 12:31:25 PM
Is it really martian invaders or is it just that the plants release a toxin that makes people kill themselves?



Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: quabrot on June 14, 2008, 03:05:52 PM
The plant toxin thing is what they talk about.  But in the beginning of the movie, Mark Wahlberg lectures his class about how mysterious things happen in nature that we may try to explain, but never truly get beyond "theories".  I say it was CFCs depleting the ozone layer.

The alien thing was a joke about the kind of Shyamalan twist people would expect.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: The Burgomaster on June 14, 2008, 05:30:12 PM
I saw this today (even though I had read all the lousy reviews).  First of all, the fire alarm went off and they evacuated the theater before the movie started.  Not a good omen . . .

Anyway, my opinion is, like most of M. Night's efforts, this was a pretty good idea for a movie that went horribly wrong.  Some of the dialogue is SO bad, and some of the acting (including Wahlberg's) is SO corny that you can't help chuckling from time to time.  I thought the first half hour or so was pretty good, but M. Night got himself to the edge of a slippery slope and started a rapid plunge down hill from which he could never recover.  In the tradition of UNBREAKABLE and THE VILLAGE, the ending is totally flat and unsatisfying.  My suggestion is wait for the DVD release, THEN wait for someone else to buy or rent it and invite yourself over.  When you get there, don't watch it.  Watch MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL for the 100th time instead.  It's a much more rewarding experience and you'll thank yourself in the morning.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Mr. DS on June 14, 2008, 08:11:34 PM
Yeah Shamalamadingdong's "twists" never seem to pan up to much  My brother called the twist in the first 10 minutes of The Sixth Sense.  I recall watching Signs and having the laugh of my life after it.  The fact a huge alien threat can be thwarted with the means Mr. Shamalamadingdong implies is pure idiocy.   The best laugh I had was when my wife mentioned the alien home video reminded her of the classic bigfoot one.  She was most definitely spot on. :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: AndyC on June 14, 2008, 09:23:18 PM
Yeah, after seeing Signs, I had to wonder, as many others did. If humans went to invade a planet with oceans of sulfuric acid, where all life was full of sulfuric acid, sulfuric acid vapour was nearly always present in the air, and sulfuric acid periodically rained down from the sky, would we go without any kind of protective suit?

I don't see that as nitpicking. It's just common sense.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Inferno on June 15, 2008, 12:33:49 AM
I still say M Night stole the Signs movie ending from an Invader Zim episode.
Seriously. Go look up "the wettening", If he didn't see that; I would be totally suprised.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: akiratubo on June 15, 2008, 01:52:14 AM
would we go without any kind of protective suit?

Not only that, would we try to attack the sulfuric acid filled life forms with our hands and teeth?


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Trevor on June 16, 2008, 07:10:49 AM
Here are some statistics and (sometimes hilarious) quotes from rottentomatoes.com:

60 out of 76 contributors gave this movie a “rotten tomato” rating.  Overall, it scored 21 on a scale of 100.

 

 

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You feel like you're not watching the end of the world but the end of a career.”

 :bouncegiggle:

 

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“There's a long tradition of receiving messages from burning bushes, but jiggling bushes are not to be trusted, and neither are filmmakers who ask us to shiver in their leafy midst.”

 :teddyr:
 

“It's downright stupid.”

 

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“No one will watch any of Shyamalan's recent films twice. A movie that features Wahlberg suggesting everyone try to outrun the wind can barely be watched once.”

 :teddyr:

 

“Wahlberg turns in one of his worst performances ever, but then he's saddled with preposterous scenes (like one where he tries to placate a ficus) and such lame lines as "Could this really be happening?" Funny, I was wondering the same thing myself.”

 

“...bad in more than just an everyday, sure-does-suck kind of way.”

 

“The greatest excuse yet to get that anti-M. Night petition started. The last thing we want is a future of Shyamalan films with the knowledge that we all could have done something sooner.”

 

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“The Happening quickly deteriorates into the worst movie of M. Night Shyamalan's career... and that's saying something
.”

 :teddyr:

 

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“one of the worst attempts at end-of-the-world ominousness since the Robot Holocaust battled the Ninja Apocalypse”

 :teddyr:

 

“The true disaster on display in The Happening is Shyamalan's career hitting rock bottom.”

 


 :teddyr: :bouncegiggle: Karma for those, Burgomaster.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: asimpson2006 on June 16, 2008, 11:25:55 AM
Anyway, my opinion is, like most of M. Night's efforts, this was a pretty good idea for a movie that went horribly wrong.  Some of the dialogue is SO bad, and some of the acting (including Wahlberg's) is SO corny that you can't help chuckling from time to time. 

I just happen to see The Happening yesterday.  Didn't like it that much.  I agree with you Burgo about the dialogue, it was pretty stupid.  The worst parts for dialouge were IMO:

Most of the stuff the National guard dude said.
When Wahlberg was talking to the tree (The theater laughed at that)

The part that I hated the most of the whole film was ending.  I won't spoil it for anyone, unless they want to know I can PM them about it.  I told my date that the ending was so predictable I knew it would happen.

Another thing that I think was stupid was that the cause of why the plants did what they did.  It's never explained and it's never really given a proper ending to it.  Too many loose ends.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: GLKnight on June 17, 2008, 02:03:08 AM
And to think, his NEXT movie is a live-action version of Avatar: the Last Airbender...

Well, at least he didn't write it. And thank god he doesn't do choreography. And the twist better be all female characters actually have big breasts to disprove you need sleek bodies to do athletics... and make sure the older men and teenage boys who go to see it actually stick around till the ending.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: HarlotBug3 on June 17, 2008, 02:50:17 PM
MNS is the greatest filmmaker of all time!

...just ask him :lookingup:

I liked Unbreakable, but I also love comics and still think 6th sense is one of the most overrated movies of all time, so take that context for what its worth.

I still say M Night stole the Signs movie ending from an Invader Zim episode.
Seriously. Go look up "the wettening", If he didn't see that; I would be totally suprised.

 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: I'm not sure which came out first, but I AM sure that one was influenced by the other...and that the more you think about it the less sense it makes.

Anyone feel free to PM the twist (and what the hell the 'M' stands for while you're at it) as I'm getting this wretched teenager urge to run into the theatre, yell it, and run out. Lady in the Water confirmed my fears that MNS is exactly what you get when you tell a second rate indie movie man that they're a first rate blockbuster movie man.



Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: akiratubo on June 17, 2008, 04:19:27 PM
And the twist better be all female characters actually have big breasts

Dude, they're like 12 and 13 years old.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: AndyC on June 17, 2008, 05:47:41 PM
Somebody PM the twist to me too. I get the impression it has something to do with plants turning against us by evolving some kind of psychoactive substance. If that's the case, then there is really nothing to spoil. Another cool trailer for a lame movie by M. Night.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: CheezeFlixz on June 18, 2008, 12:35:22 AM
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Anyone feel free to PM the twist (and what the hell the 'M' stands for while you're at it)

According to IMDB his real name is Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan

I think if you run that through bablefish.com you'll find Manoj Nelliyattu is Hindu for mediocre filmmaker.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: AndyC on June 18, 2008, 04:40:32 AM
Hmmmm, I think I'll be calling him M. Nelly Shyamalan from now on  :teddyr:


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Inferno on June 18, 2008, 06:26:09 AM
Somebody PM the twist to me too. I get the impression it has something to do with plants turning against us by evolving some kind of psychoactive substance. If that's the case, then there is really nothing to spoil. Another cool trailer for a lame movie by M. Night.
You win. :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Jack on June 18, 2008, 07:29:52 AM
I watched about ten minutes of Signs and that was more than enough of dingdong to last me a lifetime.  On the other hand, I've seen at least 5 Ewe Boll movies. 


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: BeyondTheGrave on June 18, 2008, 10:40:37 PM
I was really interested in seeing "The Happening". I talk to my friend who also a hardcore B-movie guy himself and I value his opinion on movies and when he said to me after he saw it, "They should only hire him to just do movie traliers" I knew I should avoid it.

I noticed with all of with M. Nights movie they have zero replay value. Once you get the ending thats either what everyone talks about(For better or worse) and its almost like the whole movie is built on we have a ending screw the rest of the flim.


Title: Re: M. Night Shamalamadingdong
Post by: Underbelly on June 20, 2008, 10:18:41 AM
Personally, I have yet to find one of his movies that I really like.  There all ok the first time but once you know the "surprise ending" it gets a little boring. It's like knowing the punch line to a joke. Once you know it, it ain't that funny anymore