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I enjoyed the first film but yeah, this sequel is a mark above. This is one of the best films I've seen of this type: horror suspense, action suspense, slasher horror, etc.
Can confirm with that. Just saw this in a theater. That's exactly what it is.
Not gimmicky at all. Just one fucked up situation leading to another fucked up situation. You don't sympathize with him per se at all, and the movie doesn't pretend to do it. You sympathize with the girl throughout. The movie is just one continuous high stakes scenario.
It was not a bomb to reverse time lol.
lol the fact that someone had to spell this out is amusing.
Oh sweet, I'm gonna have to put a preorder in.
During the whole village scene, I'm like wait a second, this doesn't seem right...
And then when it concluded, I'm like...wow fucking hell XD.
I continued to enjoy his later films (though I never watched After Earth or Avatar) but I admit yeah, the Village was the last of the great films. I will rewatch The Happening, and a large part of that is because I find the premise absolutely horrifying, so a few of the shots continue to be effective nightmare fuel for me. But I'm glad you draw the line at Village cause I think most ppl draw the line at Signs, and I'm always like...Village was pretty awesome too lol.
The Spielberg observation is a nice one.
Indeed, I thought The Visit was a good solid horror film, but it certainly fails to reach (or try to reach) the levels of otherworldly awe that his first few films managed to do. They had a very grand feel about them imo, in the way our leads found themselves in a strange, enigmatic world.
I very much enjoyed Split, and I liked Glass a lot more than many ppl I think, but yeah, they're enjoyable thriller/dramas, but they don't exactly hit in the way Unbreakable hits. Man, all this talking makes me wanna do an M Night marathon now lmao
Your description was correct for me. As an M Night fan, I very much enjoyed Age, but I don't think it's one of his better films by any stretch. I feel like it was a bit sloppier than normal, in regards to his filming and some of the acting. I feel like he was perhaps doing something a little bit out of his comfort zone though so maybe that's part of it. I mean, the movie feels like an M Night movie...but I can't help but feel that he was being more creative and trying to things differently here.
Yeah, I remember a lot of the negative Village backlash was due to people not liking the twist, but I personally liked it a lot more because of that. I think it cemented some of the themes good/evil and nature/nurture questions that would be otherwise absent without the reveal.
lol I can't say I would have any interest in the experiment but that's neat that there was a reality show on it.
Yeah you make a lot of good points there. I definitely agree about the bar needing to be relatively high. I think that goes with a lot of things actually. I think people are quick to judge and make attributions on very little information. And of course, there are injustices in the world...but you can't really just make leaps of judgment before making conclusions about certain scenarios.
I think OP may have thought this was just gonna be an ordinary heist film because the word dead or zombie wasn't in the title.
Shit, this movie is gonna bomb isn't it cause people don't even pay attention to the synopsis lol.
You act like Amanda Waller wouldn't send a hit squad after superman.
Er. she was only ever twilight famous, like rpat. They've both had success going the small, indie film route.
I enjoy them but totally get how you feel. Some types of humor just doesn't hit right. Everyone seems to love monty python and I think it's stupid as all hell.
<blockquote>How different does a property have to be to avoid plagiarism charges, even if the creator was inspired by something else?</blockquote>
Very true. Even if we ignore the legal definitions involved, I'm not exactly sure how I personally feel about it, and where I would even draw the line. I feel like it becomes rather confusing, especially when you also consider that there are official adaptations that are so far removed from the source (e.g. Bourne Identity, its sequels, etc.). Maybe it's hard to be open and shut with this kind of thing.
Unrelated, there was a song by Bring Me The Horizon a few years ago, and as I was listening to a part of it, I was like, this sounds way too similar to an obscure Evanescence song. It sounds different but the progression of the beat sounds the same. So weird! I didn't even cross my mind that it would be plagiarism. Like a year later, it came out that Evanescence's agent approached their agent and was like uhhh this song is ripping it off. And BMTH was like..."oh...shit yeah. that wasn't intentional but now that you point it out, totally right." And they agreed to have Evanescence officially is listed as a cowriter for that track lol.
This leads me to a different thought of all of sudden...
Let's say M Night DID get inspired by several of those ideas. But he personally doesn't feel like his usage of those ideas require purchasing the rights to the book. I don't mean to suggest this as being some sort of selfishness or greed. Just creatively, perhaps he doesn't think that that falls under an adaptation, and as you and warrior have said, it's very different.
So though he may be willing to admit that he was heavily inspired by those ideas, it might not behoove him to do so.
Interesting, I never quite really thought about this topic too much.
Nice!!! I actually quite considered The Village to be my favorite of his films for quite some time. (In recent years, I think I may be favoring Unbreakable more.) But yeah, thinking of catching Old while it's still in theaters, which made me think about The Village suddenly, and then that led me down the google/wiki/moviechat spiral XD
Well, I feel like a dunce; I thought the articles I was reading were recent, not from last year. Thank you for clarifying all that background as well. I kinda just stumbled on a rabbit hole of articles while googling about Old and The Village. This explains where there wasn't any existing threads too lol.
Oh, when I mentioned Old, I meant that that is clearly advertised as an adaptation of the graphic novel, sort of as a counterpoint to the idea to the notion that he is a serial plagarizer.
Some new apple TV show:
https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/01/15/apple-m-night-shyamalan-sued-accused-of-plagiarizing-servant
Regarding the Village, oh okay, I admit I hadn't actually read the novel myself, so I can't comment on it with any firsthand knowledge. Superficially, it did seem very concerning to me. Orson Scott Card commented on it briefly too in an article. And even if it were clearly a different story, the elements that seemed similar/borrowed seemed a bit too distinctive to me to not at least have been inspired.
At any rate, I was only a bit iffy back then, but with this news, I'm now wondering if this is enough to consider a pattern.
Same, I had no idea who the fuck he was until wiki-ing it later.
I genuinely got the impression that the organization in the future that is trying to activate the algorithm were just being vindictive.
I didn't at all think that they thought that they were gonna better things for themselves. Was there a line that said that? I thought the activation of the algorithm was solely punitive.
I think I have a decent handle about how inversion works with people.
But quite frankly, I am still unable to explain how inverted materials/bullets would even work. I have a suspicion, but it's hard to explain, but even within that explanation, the casings seem like an oversight.