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Posted: 8/18/2017 6:49:45 PM EDT

The guy from Philly has had a couple of decent films and a few real clinkers. What was Shymalan's worst?

For me, it's easy: the ruination of "The Last Airbender." The source material was fantastic - great characters, story, plot, humor. The movie MNS made lacked every bit of every item. I'm re-watching the Nickelodeon series with the kids, and they love it.

Posted: 8/18/2017 6:52:26 PM EDT

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Signs.

Aliens who can't tolerate water at all decide to invade a planet that is 71% water, wonder what "Darwin Award" translates into in that alien language...

Posted: 8/18/2017 6:53:24 PM EDT

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The happening

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:00:35 PM EDT

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All of them. I never liked anything he did.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:05:29 PM EDT

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I like all his movies. Not a genius or anything but entertaining. I dont really understand all the hate.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:08:33 PM EDT

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Because he forces a "twist" into every movie he makes, it quickly became a shtick and not interesting movie making.

It worked in The Sixth Sense, after that it went from tiresome to hack-ish; I gave up even trying to watch any of his movies after The Village.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:09:05 PM EDT

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Lady in the water.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:09:45 PM EDT

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The village

Or the lady in the water.

Both tied for stupid film of the Millennium.
Beaten only by 'plan' 9 from outer space' featuring a nearly dead & unintelligible Bela Lugosi.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:10:07 PM EDT

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I've only seen The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, The Village, and about 2/3rds of The Lady in the Water. I enjoyed the first three, with Unbreakable being my favorite and the only one I've seen more than once. I kinda lost interest in TLitW, and I just turned it off.

Have heard the rest kinda sucked, but I haven't seen any.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:10:41 PM EDT

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Girl in the pool. Fucking retarded.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:10:53 PM EDT

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Yeah. I gotta go with this one too, lol.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:12:29 PM EDT

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I didnt realize he made a good one.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:18:18 PM EDT

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The correct answer.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:25:05 PM EDT

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Signs.

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Signs isn't really about the aliens. It's about the, well, "signs" that a greater power or creator or the universe or whatever are sent to a guy that gave up his faith on how to deal with the coming threat.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:25:53 PM EDT

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The correct answer.

His last few were bad, but this was horrible. What exactly was the happening? Exactly.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:27:17 PM EDT

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The story is a little better if you change the aliens to demons.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:28:24 PM EDT

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And it's not even close

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:28:42 PM EDT

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I agree with The Last Airbender, although it was a pretty close race.

I enjoyed The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:28:46 PM EDT

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This. Lame. As. Fuck.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:29:01 PM EDT

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Let's solve math problems while everyone's dying!!

The soldier saying cheese and crackers. Holy hell that movie was bad.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:29:23 PM EDT

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Signs isn't really about the aliens. It's about the, well, "signs" that a greater power or creator or the universe or whatever are sent to a guy that gave up his faith on how to deal with the coming threat.

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Yep, I get that, but on it's face it was aliens.

It would have been a much better movie if:

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:29:46 PM EDT

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Whatever his current movie is.

He is one of those directors who manages to out-awful himself with each subsequent film. His movies start out ok and slowly become awful as each one comes out.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:35:58 PM EDT

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I didn't hate it. Yes, the thing about the aliens and the water was stupid. But I thought he did a good job with the human drama stuff and Gibson's crisis of faith. Not to mention some decent creepy moments...like when Phoenix is watching the TV in the closet. I thought the acting was really good. But yes, aliens harmed by water...you'd think they would have planned the invasion better.

I thought Devil was pretty good. I thought he actually was showing some correction with that one. His "moral to the story" actually tied into the whole story arc a bit better and maintained some cohesiveness.

I think his movies by and large are well done in terms of directing, acting and production. And I think his stories are mostly solid. But yes, there's always that one wonky idea that kinda ruins it for me, be it the water cups all over the place or the fact that it's plants.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:38:22 PM EDT

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Split was pretty good. Last Airbender was horrible.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:42:01 PM EDT

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The Visit pissed me off at the end when the mom tried to call the police but couldn't get through because the local PD was out of the station...

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:43:17 PM EDT

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The Sixth Sense

Fucking seriously, Bruce Willis didn't know he was dead the whole time? It shows him getting shot at the BEGINNING OF THE MOVIE.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:50:52 PM EDT

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Shittiest. Recon. EVER.

So for plot holes? Signs.
Lazy writing? The Village. Seriously, the monster is a dude in a monster suit? I've seen that show; it's called Scooby Doo. At least it had Bryce Dallas Howard.
I never did finish The Lady in the Water. Not even BDH could polish that turd.

EDIT AW SHIT I FORGOT ABOUT THE HAPPENING.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:52:21 PM EDT

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The one with the trees killing people. Fucking stupid.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:55:55 PM EDT

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"Devil" was real good.
"Last Airbender" sucked big time. Think I walked out of that movie.

Posted: 8/18/2017 8:01:44 PM EDT

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Yep, I get that, but on it's face it was aliens.

It would have been a much better movie if:

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Agreed.

Posted: 8/18/2017 8:03:17 PM EDT

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Unbreakable

Posted: 8/18/2017 8:05:04 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/18/2017 8:07:44 PM EDT

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Because he forces a "twist" into every movie he makes, it quickly became a shtick and not interesting movie making.

It worked in The Sixth Sense, after that it went from tiresome to hack-ish; I gave up even trying to watch any of his movies after The Village.

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Same.

Posted: 8/18/2017 8:09:44 PM EDT

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The Sixth Sense

Fucking seriously, Bruce Willis didn't know he was dead the whole time? It shows him getting shot at the BEGINNING OF THE MOVIE.

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Thanks a lot for the spoiler, dick!

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Posted: 8/18/2017 8:10:11 PM EDT

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Worst: The Happening was like having an ingrown toenail removed for 2 hours. F.

Best: Devil (elevator movie based on one of his stories, worth seeing)

Posted: 8/18/2017 8:12:06 PM EDT

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Signs and the Village are his worst that I've seen. Most of his stuff is good.

Posted: 8/18/2017 8:12:38 PM EDT

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lady in the water

/endthread

eta: /openthread

followed closely by the last airbender

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Posted: 8/18/2017 8:18:41 PM EDT

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All of them. I never liked anything he did.

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Posted: 8/18/2017 8:20:20 PM EDT

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The village

Or the lady in the water.

Both tied for stupid film of the Millennium.
Beaten only by 'plan' 9 from outer space' featuring a nearly dead & unintelligible Bela Lugosi.

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Man! That is rather harsh. Considering Plan 9 was from such a different era.

Posted: 8/18/2017 8:20:35 PM EDT

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i was really excited about lady int he water, so its turd impact was greatly increased. the happening was probably objectively worse.

edit: i really enjoyed the village, even thought he 'twist' was predictable.

Posted: 8/18/2017 8:33:22 PM EDT

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This piece of eco-crap.

Posted: 8/18/2017 8:38:04 PM EDT

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I've only seen 3 of his movies, Signs, Sixth Sense, and The Visit. I liked the first 2, quit watching The Visit halfway through.

Posted: 8/18/2017 8:38:52 PM EDT

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all of them.

Posted: 8/18/2017 8:46:55 PM EDT

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I'm really surprised Airbender isn't getting more vote. Y'all picking Signs or Lady in the Water not see Airbender? Those were mildly annoying: Airbender was really bad, and it was100 times worse if you had seen the series.

Posted: 8/18/2017 8:50:51 PM EDT

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I liked Split a lot. Couldn't even finish The Last Airbender.

Posted: 8/18/2017 8:50:58 PM EDT

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Liked Signs and The Sixth Sense. Watched Unbreakable. Hated it.

Posted: 8/18/2017 8:52:54 PM EDT

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The Happening. Hands down the worst movie I ever sat through in theaters.

Posted: 8/18/2017 8:53:46 PM EDT

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I'm really surprised Airbender isn't getting more vote. Y'all picking Signs or Lady in the Water not see Airbender? Those were mildly annoying: Airbender was really bad, and it was100 times worse if you had seen the series.

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Because no one has seen it. By the time Airbender came out he had released so many shit films that people know enough to stay away.

Posted: 8/18/2017 8:56:14 PM EDT

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I'm really surprised Airbender isn't getting more vote. Y'all picking Signs or Lady in the Water not see Airbender? Those were mildly annoying: Airbender was really bad, and it was100 times worse if you had seen the series.

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Never saw it, gave up on him after The Village because I find him tiresome.

Even if I didn't feel that way about him I likely wouldn't have watched it because the premise looked stupid, and I'm saying that as someone who liked Ishtar.

Posted: 8/18/2017 8:58:17 PM EDT

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And it's not even close

Worst movie plot ever.

Posted: 8/18/2017 9:01:11 PM EDT

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I'm really surprised Airbender isn't getting more vote. Y'all picking Signs or Lady in the Water not see Airbender? Those were mildly annoying: Airbender was really bad, and it was100 times worse if you had seen the series.

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I don't often not watch a movie all the way through, and Airbender was one of those.

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