No one in my theater got it (nor did anyone besides me react to Shyamalan's cameo), and one person in a couple next to me (who also mockingly repeated Shyamalan's name during the credits, because that joke is still totally funny after it was run into the ground when the Devil trailer played in theaters) asked with all…
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Oh, I'm not worrying, and if his stint as disreputable horror maven results in more movies as good as this and The Visit, I'll be a very happy camper.
True, but it sounds like Shyamalan had such an awful time making it (with rampant studio interference at every level of production) that I can't imagine him eagerly going back for more. And while certainly terrible movies have gotten sequels before, even the likes of the Transformers movies made more money and weren't…
Christ, he actually promised to make Airbender 2 after making Split. I choose to believe that that was a conscious attempt to troll everybody into looking the wrong way in his filmography for sequels, because the alternative is too depressing to even consider (and I won't ever be proven wrong because in no future does …
The way he goes from irritated but mostly just bored to actively appalled is a work of genius.
Look, Shyamalan's been promising a sequel for a while now, I think we can say that the ending ties Split into the Last Airbenderverse. It was really amazing to see Dumb-Looking Bald White Boy again.
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The coda is maybe the most ham-fisted and objectively stupid thing I've ever wanted to pump my fist at. When the music started, I got chills.
Just as a warning, I may be retreating even further into movies talk here, for reasons that would be obvious even without my current avatar. God bless us all and may this year last long enough to be the Year of Soderbergh.
It's 2017, and I'm getting excited because M. Night Shyamalan cameos in his latest film.
A24 is making donations to Planned Parenthood for everyone who sees 20th Century Women.
Seeing Split and 20th Century Women this weekend. If I get both in before the bombs go off, this year is a win overall.
Ron Shelton, Ridley Scott, Bryan Singer, Norman Jewison, John Sturges, Jerome Robbins, and Michael Radford all have Criterion phantom pages now.
They're not really colonizing the planet so much as taking as many humans as possible in as little time as possible, so it's kind of like running to the hotel vending machine in your bathrobe.
Oh, I don't believe Lady in the Water is anything less than achingly sincere, I'm just referring to the dumb, weird jokes thrown around in the movie.
Honestly, if I make it to a screening of it before the bombs go off, I will consider this year a win (doubly so if they don't go off before I see 20th Century Women this weekend).
I mean, that movie is so baffling in every respect that I almost have to imagine some of it was intentional (it has some of the bizarre Shyamalan comedy that worked in Signs and didn't in Lady in the Water), but I really don't know how much of it was that and how much was no one saying no to his very bad ideas.