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That scene in particular is where all the pieces fell into place and it sank in for me that Shayamalan seems to have some sort of actual irrational phobia of old people. Not aging mind you just... an irrational fear of human beings who are over a certain age in the same sort of way that I will absolutely freak the hell out if I see a centipede in my home. Explains a lot about the movie as a whole. And that other one. And probably at least parts of the rest.
I haven't seen one of his movies in years but it seems like it ties into what seems to be a fear of mental illness that manifests in making people with mental problems (and I'm going to assume this problematic aspect bleeds into his depiction of neurodivergence, again, going only by descriptions of his films) scary monsters.That scene in particular is where all the pieces fell into place and it sank in for me that Shayamalan seems to have some sort of actual irrational phobia of old people. Not aging mind you just... an irrational fear of human beings who are over a certain age in the same sort of way that I will absolutely freak the hell out if I see a centipede in my home. Explains a lot about the movie as a whole. And that other one. And probably at least parts of the rest.
I mean, he may have been scared of everyone except English people, but he was still a giant racist. There's no excuse for that. (Not that I think you're trying to excuse it, I'm just annoyed at how in the year of our lord 2022 we're still using this jerk's ideas like they're fresh.)Reminds me of how HP Lovecraft described minorities with the same morbid, melodramatic tone as his frightening tentacled creatures from other worlds. He was supposed to be a master of horror, but I got the feeling he was just a scared little man, afraid of everything outside his narrow comfort zone.
I was listening to Late Seating's review of Lady in the Water and they posited that M. Night Shyamalan must have dirt on one or many people in Hollywood to keep getting the kind of funding he does for films.On the one hand, yes. At the start of his career, M. Night Shaymalan accidentally made a good movie. I don't know if that was because of studio meddling or a lack of confidence or not having found his voice yet or what. But I do sincerely feel that his later movies, and Old in particular is what it is 100% on purpose. Like, it's BAD. It's DUMB. But everything in it feels very intentional. Like he sat down and went "I am going to make a movie where 100% of the dialog is surreally explicit exposition. An I am going to give a rapper the most ridiculously arbitrary name I can think of. And I am going to have a truly truly ridiculous boss battle at the end."
It's not like he's still trying to make 6th Senses and failing. He is succeeding in making weird garbage. And I have to respect that.
I was listening to Late Seating's review of Lady in the Water and they posited that M. Night Shyamalan must have dirt on one or many people in Hollywood to keep getting the kind of funding he does for films.
Honestly I feel like the opposite. The shows seem to only exist to set up films that come later and rarely end in a satisfying place because they're just elaborate prologues for theatrical events. And most of the D+ Marvel shows feel like they only have enough narrative content for a film and are stretched wayyyyy too thin. Like, Kamala here in her show? She's barely scratching the surface of her identity and powers, and we're like two hours deep into her story. And there's already been like 5 discrete scenes of her disappointing her parents which is beginning to feel a bit redundant.One effect of there being so many shows that last for 4-6 hours is that the two hours of a movie feel a bit lightweight in terms of events covered, and the films are kinda becoming stops in between shows rather than the shows filling in space between movies.
Another issue with it: it just has Wanda repeat her character arc from WandaVision (drastic solution to a major loss --> insistence she's not a monster --> realization that she is a monster --> repentance). It tries to blame this on her using the Darkhold, but... it's still the same arc, just with her conjured children as the driver of it instead of Vision.Watched and enjoyed Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, but something about it felt a little lacking? Just, narratively. One effect of there being so many shows that last for 4-6 hours is that the two hours of a movie feel a bit lightweight in terms of events covered, and the films are kinda becoming stops in between shows rather than the shows filling in space between movies. And the seams of the effects were showing more than usual, I thought.
I guess Everything Everywhere is not going to walk away with title of 'Badger's Favorite Movie of 2022' because I just saw RRR. It is a hard movie to explain; its basically historical fan-fiction about a pair of early 20th century Indian revolutionaries. Imagine if Michael Bay directed Braveheart, but it was also a musical and a Fast & Furious movie.
The movie starts heightened; its at 11 and you don't think it can go bigger. But somehow for 3 hours it just keeps going bigger.
I have heard a lot of people liked this movie, but after looking into it even a bit, I don’t want to see a ultranationalist movie from India with all the bad stuff the Indian government is doing right now.
I can see that, though I don't know enough about Indian politics to comment on how the movie portrays things. From an outsiders perspective it was mostly "fuck the British colonialists" which is a sentiment I think most of the world can agree with.
That's exactly what someone in Big Pharma would say, isn't it?! Nice try, ViolentVixen, or should I say BigPharmaVixen!Haven't seen the movie but I can confirm that we do not run pharmaceutical trials on different age/gender/pregnancy status group cohorts on evil beaches. But hey, maybe they know something I don't. I'm not into horror movies but might have to look up the ending to see just how bad this explanation is.
Two! Unbreakable was a good movie and I will die on that hill. The rest is as you say, though.On the one hand, yes. At the start of his career, M. Night Shaymalan accidentally made a good movie.
Magic is a better "grounded* version of Batman villain" than Joker.
We just finished watching it, and yeah. Just what it says on the tin. I love how many elements try to creep in and raise the stakes to turn it into an actual movie but B&B just refuse to engage with anything beyond trying to score. I needed something stupid, and it delivered.Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe isn’t as good as Do America, or probably just watching them riff on videos for 90 minutes, but few things are and it’s still new B&B content in the year of our lord 2022 and that’s just dandy. I enjoyed it.
Very late reply in this, but I think this is unfair. There's the saying that everyone has one masterpiece in them. Shyamalan actually got to make his.Here's the twist... The Sixth Sense was a fluke!