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Not in this case, however, now is when we're actually gonna talk about the movie. I've written this 'essay' on Shyamalan and, by this point in the review, I'd almost be done with it. The jokes and memes throughout the years have been plenty.
Robot Chicken even did a sketch parodying this.
Because now that Shyamalan was on the winning side again, it inspired a fear in me that he'd give in to the tendencies that led to him, basically, becoming a joke with his insistence on nonsensical twists. This is the part that worried me, however. $98 million gross on a $5 million budget.
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And, of course, given the fact that it was Shyamalan's return to his roots, you could say, the movie was massively successful, making almost TWENTY times its budget. The twist itself is also, again and this is something that Shyamalan should stick with, was very simple and made complete and utter sense given everything that you had seen play out. No, he made a simple movies about two siblings spending sometime with their grandparents, who start to show some really strange and creepy behavior. Shyamalan didn't try to craft a complex horror movie with a bunch of clues, red herrings and subtext before, ultimately, utilizing a twist that made no sense given everything you saw. You know why it was effective? Because of its simplicity. Which is why The Visit was such a refreshing change of pace. The harder he tried, the more his subsequent movies sucked. Despite how bad his movies got, he just kept trying harder and harder. Signs didn't work, for me, and The Village was even worse. And, sadly, Signs was successful, so now he had a formula he could work with. Because, while Signs wasn't a copy of The Sixth Sense, it was more along the lines of what people wanted from him. I think this is when his self-imposed pressure manifested itself. The problems come in when Unbreakable's disappointing box office performance. Shyamalan made the movie that he wanted to make and, again, it worked out in the end because, as I already said, a lot of people believe Unbreakable to be his best movie. You could see that Unbreakable, despite being his follow-up to the Sixth Sense, didn't have that self-imposed pressure to live up to some sort of hype. The problem with a lot of Shyamalan's movies post-Sixth Sense was that he was always trying to find a way to top himself with what he accomplished in the movie that made him famous. But, much to my surprise, I really did like The Visit. I don't wanna say I was worried, but I wasn't gonna allow myself to get excited about it just because it had received fairly positive reviews from critics and audiences. I believe I even mentioned this in my review of The Visit, but I was really hesitant going into that movie because of the low expectations Shyamalan's own previous offerings had instilled in me. I haven't seen The Happening, The Last Airbender or After Earth and I doubt I'll ever watch them because, quite frankly, they offer nothing of interest to me.
The Village was so bad that, for a while, I actually refused to watch any of his movies. The Village, however, was positively awful, lacking in suspense and its nonsensical twist insulted the audience's intelligence. Every filmmaker has a weak movie, no one has a perfect filmography, so there's nothing to worry about. I wasn't a big fan of that movie, but you could have said that it's just a weak movie. Though I would make the argument that Signs was the first well, umm, sign that the quality of his movies might dip a little. Shyamalan's reputation took a nosedive, at least in my opinion with The Village. Having said that, given Shyamalan's career trajectory until 2015, you can't blame people for gravitating more to those first two movies as opposed to his output post-Unbreakable but pre-The Visit. I remember very little about Unbreakable, but I do want to see it again. And others would say Unbreakable, which I did see in theaters, is his best film. To this day, some people still consider The Sixth Sense to be his best film. After that movie's massive success, you could make the argument that he was (probably) the most sought-after filmmaker for a while. Night Shyamalan's journey since 1999 when The Sixth Sense was released on theaters. Rating: PG-13 (Disturbing Thematic Content|Disturbing Behavior|Some Language|Violence) Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him - as well as everyone around him - as the walls between his compartments shatter. Fletcher (Betty Buckley), there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all of the others. Though Kevin (James McAvoy) has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr.
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