so why is it so bad

Yeah it gets a bad rep and like you i really dunno why ,the performances are all great , the characters are all very likeable , and the story is awesome ,I freakin love it , one of my fav M NIGHT movies , i think its a fantastic dark fairytale

And all will turn
To silver glass
A light on the water
Grey ships pass
Into the west

I think people thought it was a horror film, thats what got them disappointed. I though it was really good also.

It was one of the worst wide released films of all time and signified the decline of M.Night - if you notice, he began producing On Demand films like "Devil" and then his name was not attached to After Earth (usually he had M.Night Shylamalan's "film title") . The story with Lady in the Water was that the producers had problems with that script from the get go, M.Night got pissed, and studios and filmmakers should be a collaborative effort. M.Night was very hot and very popular, and felt his script was perfect.

He stormed out of a meeting...and made it the way he wanted to - he left Disney (via Buena Vista distribution) it got picked up by another studio, and it went on to be one of the worst flicks EVER.

consequently, After Earth scored a sparkling 4.9 on the imdb and dazzling 33 of 100 on Metacritic. It was Smith's lowest revenue films and oh yeah, Last Airbender was a 4.4

He's done. Maybe he has a re-make of Strangers on a Train, but i dont think he'll EVER get a widely distributed film again (as director , anyway)

I've just watched the BD yesterday, and I think it's an interesting film that combines two ingredients:

- visually, it's as close as it gets to the aesthetics of David Lynch, but also to Bergman with Farber talking directly to the viewer.

- the storytelling reminds me a lot of Robert Bresson, especially the Diary of a Country Priest, where all suspense is erased by the insistence of the narration through all the ways made possible by the cinema. In DOACP Bresson makes us hear the priest tell his account while he's writing his diary, and we can read the page at the same time, and then we see the action take place.
For example if he writes: "I've seen the doctor and he told me to eat only bread soaked in a small glass of wine", we hear him say the words, we see the written page, and then only we see the priest talk with the doctor and have his supper back at the rectory.

I don't like any of his movies, because of the fact all the actors are wasting time with talking more than doing anything through most of the movies. Not all movies are just about acting. That is how a lot of them are more popular for the action not words. Oh, there you go starting me off with a Def Leppard song. But as the song goes action not words is better. You have an all words acting movie, and it tends to be pretty boring. This movie never had any scary or eerie or spooky parts. You think something is going to be like that and as soon as it does, it is gone just as fast.

All his movies are pretty much the same, and I agree with that statement, because they all are pretty mellow movies to the same genres. I am not a fan of build up movies at all, and usually the build up ones end up leaving only last 10 to 15 minutes of something good, but does not finish right or not leave something good for the watcher. I am telling you that this is rubbish, and those things I mentioned is why. I have watch a lot of movies that are way better than his movies. M. Night Shyamalan.

I was really ticked seeing The Village in the theater. Waste of money. Signs was only good with Mel Gibson. Otherwise Signs sucked. Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis, still sucked. No its not just of no gore either from the signature. I even saw his rated R ones too. They are all just drawn out boring movies. Its like he is taking plays on a stage and putting them in movies.

I am sorry, if you dislike what I am saying, but I am not going to agree on something that is not true. Sorry, if you like it. You like it fine, but I am not going to say I do, when I don't. Most of his movies are not for scary, and if you take it that way, then you can't handle the real scary ones.

I don't really care if you say I don't understand what he is telling, but you don't have to tell a story just by someone talking to another person all through out the movie, and nothing much else happens. I could of fallen asleep many times through all his movies. Especially when there are so many pauses between saying something.

I am a gore watching freak!!!

If it don't have it, it isn't worth the watch.

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