Devil not a good sign about the movie

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**IG_urban**

LordofHats wrote:An M Night Shameluthabaddirector movie that sucks?

I sir, am shocked.

Its not his movie....

He's the writer...

Sixth Sense and Signs were awesome imo. He wrote those.

**Ahtman**

IG_urban wrote:He's the writer...

That isn't quite right either. He came up with the story, someone else wrote it.

**JohnHwangDD**

Why does anybody care? He's a has-been. He had is 15 minutes, and it's now 15 minutes past that.

**sebster**

garret wrote:I actually like most of his films. And the point that his name on the screen mean bubcus if you want to see it see it. dont let his name just being there deter you.

Umm, I can't think of a better indicator of whether you'd like a film or not than if you liked the previous efforts from it's creative team.

A cool sounding premise is nice, but everything is in the execution, and teams that get that right, and do it in a style that you enjoy, will likely do it like that again.

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WarOne wrote:SWEAR to some higher power he gets off this kick for introducing twists into movies. The first movie he does this to he'll instantly be a movie making GOD again....maybe.

Funnily enough most of his most recent films didn't have a twist. The Lady in the Water didn't, nor did The Happening and I believe The Last Airbender didn't either. It didn't help, his problem isn't the twists.

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Darth Bob wrote:I think M. Night Shamallamallamallamaduck gets alot of un-deserved heat.

There aren't a lot of celebrity directors, maybe half a dozen. We pay more attention to Quentin Tarantino or M Night Shyamalan films, and form stronger opinions than we might for Michael Mann or Michael Winterbottom films, just because most people know who the first two guys are, but not many know the latter two.

I agree that there are directors with much worse records. He's got seven movies behind (that I can think of...) and two are very good movies (The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable), one is okay if ultimately contrived (The Village) one is a solid thriller let down by a very stupid ending (Signs), and two are utterly horrible (The Lady in the Water and The Happening).

The problem is that the very good ones are his early movies, the very bad ones are his last couple - I didn't see Airbender but apparently that continued the trend. Add in the fact that his bad movies aren't just bad, they're really bad.

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LordofHats wrote:I'm still waiting for a reasonable explanation as to why aliens who don't like water would invade a planet where water is an abundant resource...

I think it was like a Jackass program for the aliens. It's pretty thrilling to send Jonny Quasnar and Bam Mewexi down to the death planet to torment the crazy primitives that live there. If that isn't crazy enough... we're sending them naked!

**Oldgrue**

Frazzled wrote:... it might sucketh.

M. Night is pretty much the Uwe Boll of film - folks continue to wonder how he continues to make them.

**kronk**

Darth Bob wrote:
- Signs
- The Sixth Sense
- Unbreakable

I really liked these three. His other movies have been ho-hum.

Just remember no one makes great movies 100% of the time.

The man that brought us the original Star Wars trilogy also brought us Jar-Jar and Howard the Duck.

**Chrysaor686**

Oldgrue wrote:
Frazzled wrote:... it might sucketh.

M. Night is pretty much the Uwe Boll of film - folks continue to wonder how he continues to make them.

Isn't Uwe Boll the Uwe Boll of film?

**whatwhat**

Mr Mystery wrote:Multiple Milla....that's all I'm saying.

Shame she doesn't get multiple nekkid though.

They kinda teased you with the shower scene didn't they. Milla Jovovich, about to take a shower, taking clothes off...zombies FFS!

**MeanGreenStompa**

I bloody love the REvil movies.

They are trash, they try to be nothing else. But they are light and enjoyable trash none the less.

When wife is out or mates are round, delivery curry, a few beers and these movies is great.

M Night Shamalan is crap. I haven't watched a film of his since 'The Village' robbed me of 2 hours of my life, having followed on from the double horror of a gak story and Mel Gibson in Signs.

**whatwhat**

I saw the poster and I was like "hey I bet this film has an intricate well structured plot line and is not a trashy zombie b movie with lots of girls firing guns" I went to see it and was totally disappointed.

Seriously why would anyone go to see that film and analyse the plot line? What were you expecting. It's Milla Jovovich killing zombies, how hard to please are you?

**garret**

whatwhat wrote:I saw the poster and I was like "hey I bet this film has an intricate well structured plot line and is not a trashy zombie b movie with lots of girls firing guns" I went to see it and was totally disappointed.

Seriously why would anyone go to see that film and analyse the plot line? What were you expecting. It's Milla Jovovich killing zombies, how hard to please are you?

Yeah. If you want plot read a book or see a foreign film.

**Snikkyd**

Chrysaor686 wrote:
Oldgrue wrote:
Frazzled wrote:... it might sucketh.

M. Night is pretty much the Uwe Boll of film - folks continue to wonder how he continues to make them.

Isn't Uwe Boll the Uwe Boll of film?

No, what Uwe Boll makes doesn't qualify as a movie.

**JohnHwangDD**

whatwhat wrote:

I saw the poster and I was like "hey I bet this film has an intricate well structured plot line and is not a trashy zombie b movie with lots of girls firing guns" I went to see it and was totally disappointed.

Seriously why would anyone go to see that film and analyse the plot line? What were you expecting. It's Milla Jovovich killing zombies, how hard to please are you?

Is Milla naked? Isn't that a requirement?

**assultmarine**

OP one thing always confuses me about this recent spate of horror films e.g DEVIL, The Last exoiscm(and ones that went before) is that why are people so happy to watch a film about the devil, but if a film about The Other Guy(no names) noone goes to see it?
and hey whend the R.e 3D come out, dont think we got it in ireland?

**Necros**

I heard M. Night and Uwe Boll were teaming up for the Manimal movie

**Ahtman**

assultmarine wrote:OP one thing always confuses me about this recent spate of horror films e.g DEVIL, The Last exoiscm(and ones that went before) is that why are people so happy to watch a film about the devil, but if a film about The Other Guy(no names) noone goes to see it?
and hey whend the R.e 3D come out, dont think we got it in ireland?

Besides the fact that The Passion of the Christ did serious bank, the problem is that piety isn't as much fun as devious. There is the saying that Hell has the best House Band.

Oh, and we have a review finally.

Spoiler:

From Scott Tobias at the AV Club

From the slush pile of M. Night Shyamalan comes Devil, a silly horror-thriller about a group of people trapped in an elevator with Satan incarnate. It’s Agatha Christie meets Final Destination as one of them picks off the others, one by one, whenever the elevator car loses power. (The effects are always the same: A dark screen, followed by a sound roughly equivalent to unsecured luggage kicking around in a large trunk.) Who could it be? The smarmy salesman (Geoffrey Arend) who oozes contempt for everyone else? The beefy security guard (Bokeem Woodbine) on his first day on the job? The pretty blueblood (Bojana Novakovic)? The kindly old lady (Jenny O’Hara)? The glowering mechanic (Logan Marshall-Green) with a suspicious hoodie? Place your bets now, because the devil can take many forms, and it won’t make a lick of sense in the end anyway.

To be fair, Shyamalan didn’t write or direct Devil; he’s only credited with the story, and for developing the project under his “Night Chronicles” production banner. To be accurate, though, Shyamalan’s authorial pawprints are all over the film, from little things like the Philadelphia setting and the overlay of existential angst to more obvious hallmarks, like the gimmicky premise and cavalcade of nonsensical third-act twists. The difference here is that Shyamalan and company have added a quasi-religious component to insult believers and non-believers alike: There’s a reason these five people have been corralled in the elevator of doom together, and according to the narration, we know this because a suicide precedes the gathering, and the final death takes place in front of a loved one. Because that’s how God operates.

Devil’s low-grade hokum would be hard enough to stomach without the spiritual component; confining half the action to a small space where everyone’s a suspect mostly results in characters looking shifty and shouting accusations at each other. But casting the Almighty as the puppetmaster is a bridge too far. With Devil, Shyamalan likens himself to God: a master of destinies, someone with a grand plan for all of us, someone who works in mysterious ways that we can’t comprehend. Perhaps someday, in the greatest twist of all, Shyamalan will be remembered as the Hitchcock of the early 21st century. Until then, movies like Devil will be misunderstood as schlock.

**IG_urban**

Ahtman wrote:
IG_urban wrote:He's the writer...

That isn't quite right either. He came up with the story, someone else wrote it.

He wrote the story. Still credited as a writer by Hollywood. Writing a screenplay from a pre existing story, especially from an arrogant ass like Knight, is an embellished format change.

So yes, I am right.

**Ifalna**

Anyone who can ruin Avatar to the level that he managed, with so much fantastic source material at his fingertips, becomes worthy of respect. Disgust, but respect also. That was an amazing achievement.

I have never seen rotten tomatoes give something a 1% fresh rating even at the end of its first week on screen.

**Ahtman**

IG_urban wrote:So yes, I am right.

You are still giving him to much credit. I'm not talking about the Screenwriters guild criteria.

**Kilkrazy**

kronk wrote:
Darth Bob wrote:
- Signs
- The Sixth Sense
- Unbreakable

I really liked these three. His other movies have been ho-hum.

Just remember no one makes great movies 100% of the time.

The man that brought us the original Star Wars trilogy also brought us Jar-Jar and Howard the Duck.

Remember though that there is a significant body of opinion that Lucas is a pretty poor director.

The best Star Wars movie -- Empire Strikes Back -- wasn't him.

A lot of critics think his best film ever is American Graffitti.

TXH 1138 seems to be fairly well regarded though I've heard it described as a bit studenty. As I've never seen it I haven't formed an opinion.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

I find his movies excruciating the first time I watch them, then they get better with each watch.

The Villiage is very watchable now.
Signs though is still boring.

I'd watch Devil.
I wouldn't watch the resident evil movie as they have been getting worse and worse with each movie.

**Kilkrazy**

I would watch any Resi movie late on a Saturday night when I was drunk and bored, if I were channel surfing and came across it by accident.

**Platuan4th**

sebster wrote:
Funnily enough most of his most recent films didn't have a twist. The Lady in the Water didn't, nor did The Happening and I believe The Last Airbender didn't either. It didn't help, his problem isn't the twists.

Lady in the Water definitely had a twist. In fact, it had several, all centered around who was playing what part in getting her back. No large twists like his usual movies, true, but Shambopaloobopabopbamboom couldn't shake his methods entirely.

**Wraithlordmechanic**

LordofHats wrote:

Yeah.

I'm still waiting for a reasonable explanation as to why aliens who don't like water would invade a planet where water is an abundant resource...

EDIT: On a side note, we need a thread to make up names for M. Night Shamulkhanijahd

Especially since there is moisture in the air- they could die under a clear sky in the south .Or most of south America.

I lost all faith in Monday Night Shamylan with "the happening" I'm so glad I missed that one (the trees? really?).

**del'Vhar**

Ahtman wrote:
assultmarine wrote:OP one thing always confuses me about this recent spate of horror films e.g DEVIL, The Last exoiscm(and ones that went before) is that why are people so happy to watch a film about the devil, but if a film about The Other Guy(no names) noone goes to see it?
and hey whend the R.e 3D come out, dont think we got it in ireland?

Besides the fact that The Passion of the Christ did serious bank, the problem is that piety isn't as much fun as devious. There is the saying that Hell has the best House Band.

Oh, and we have a review finally.
-SNIP-

Thats interesting, my GF read something on Bloody Disgusting that apparently said it was very good (something along the lines of ones of the best horror movies this year)
I didnt actually read the article, and haven't seen the movie, so cant comment beyond that.
I'm at work atm, anyone care to find the BD article and copypasta?

**Gitkikka**

Shamalamadingdong.

**JohnHwangDD**

I would gladly watch any Resident Evil movie over a M Nigth movie.

**Oldgrue**

Snikkyd wrote:
Chrysaor686 wrote:
Oldgrue wrote:
Frazzled wrote:... it might sucketh.

M. Night is pretty much the Uwe Boll of film - folks continue to wonder how he continues to make them.

Isn't Uwe Boll the Uwe Boll of film?

No, what Uwe Boll makes doesn't qualify as a movie.

Thank you sir. Subtlety is sometimes lost...

**Sanctjud**

So...how was it?