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Posted 16 August 2004 - 02:40 AM

QUOTE (Jane Sherwood @ Aug 15 2004, 01:00 AM)
Here is where I have to ask:

Who the fuck is M Knight Shyamalan, anyway?! yell.gif

See:
Unbreakable
The Sixth Sense
Signs

Yup, he's already made FOUR over-rated, boring movies! And two of them have Bruce Willis!
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Posted 16 August 2004 - 01:29 PM

Ah. I see. I think I've seen all of those, although I only saw part of Unbreakable.

I couldn't watch The Sixth Sense twice, either... dry.gif
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Posted 16 August 2004 - 04:30 PM

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My only complaint was that, during the first few minutes of her appearance, she seemed awfully mobile for a blind person. Footraces?


Yeah, I thought this too... and later on when she says she can see some peoples "colors," I thought maybe it had to do with that, like a radar or something, I dunno. But that was just me trying to make it believable.

What I really want to know is what was Lucius's color, dammit! :angry:
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Posted 16 August 2004 - 05:55 PM

It was probably "The Bad Color"...
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Posted 07 September 2004 - 09:48 AM

I realise that the conversation long since died, but the film only came out on Thursday here, and I saw it last night and have to say that I loved it. The filmography was excellent. The suspence was well done, and I really cared about the characters. Assuming that anybody this far in the thread doesn't care about spoilers. When the main guy got stabbed, I saw it coming, and was sitting in the cinema just going "don't don't don't don't don't....." But I have to say the best bit of the movie was when the 'creature' charged at the blind girl(I don't know any of the names). I'm not sure how he did it, but that really made me jump.
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Posted 13 September 2004 - 12:52 AM

it only came out here a few days ago. saw it yesterday. thought it was awful, and the ending was- to put it mildly- a joke.
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Posted 13 September 2004 - 08:39 AM

The twist isn't much of a twist when you expect there to be a twist, but the directing and acting by far made up for it.
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Posted 13 September 2004 - 01:21 PM

I agree with you sime, if you don't go in expecting a mind-fuck twist, then the movie is actually a pretty good movie. Its simply different from the other movies Shymalamadingdong has made. smile.gif
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Posted 15 September 2004 - 04:11 AM

i didnt expect a twist though. the narrative compleatly ran out of steam about half way through, so when the twist happened i was surprised...then dissapointed as five seconds later it dawned on me that its one of the worst, forced and pointless endings to a film i think ive ever seen.

still, i liked it more than signs i suppose.
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Posted 15 September 2004 - 08:05 AM

It was okay. I got all the twists ahead of time, which I think nicely makes up for the fact that I didn't get the one in "sixth sense" until half a second before it was completely revealed. But if this was the first M. Night Shammycloth movie I'd seen, I probably wouldn't have gotten them so quickly.

The weirdly poor acting, while it makes sense, was kind of distracting.

And I totally didn't get that she was blind until someone was like "you're blind" or something equally obvious. She just didn't seem blind to me. I knew she was carrying a stick, but I thought maybe she was just a weirdo.
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Posted 15 September 2004 - 11:48 AM

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And I totally didn't get that she was blind until someone was like "you're blind" or something equally obvious. She just didn't seem blind to me. I knew she was carrying a stick, but I thought maybe she was just a weirdo.


That is funny because I could tell from the very first moment you see her in the film- when she is comforting her sister. The shot is from the back, but just the way she was moving and the way her body was facing straight ahead (unlike a seeing person who would probably turn toward the person they were comforting) I immediately thought "is that girl blind?"

And she was.
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Posted 15 September 2004 - 12:09 PM

I don't think I caught that fact at first because of how see was able to race Noah in the beginning, but I guess that could be explained by saying she knew the area or something.

I was also a bit too busy laughing at Kitty when she was crying to notice how she (the blind girl, what was her name? Ivy or something, wasn't it?) was sitting. I mean, come on, that was funny! Declaring her love for Lucius, on top of the world, perky, annoying as hell, and suddenly WHAM! She's in bed crying her eyes out! I felt oddly vindicated. biggrin.gif

Or maybe I'm just twisted like that...
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Posted 16 September 2004 - 10:37 AM

I thought that was quite funny myself, but thats due mostly to the direction and the actors. The disdain that he shows on his face, followed by the straight cut to her crying, was brilliant.

I thought she was blind straight off. When she ran, I turned to my friend and said 'I thought she was blind', and we'd only seen her onscreen for about 30 seconds before that.
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Posted 18 September 2004 - 12:08 AM

sending a blind woman

into a forest??

to collect `medicines`??

for a stab wound??
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Posted 18 September 2004 - 12:30 PM

Hmmm... my viewing might have been hampered by the fact that, for the first 15 minutes of the movie, the theatre's projector was out of whack so that we couldn't see anyone's head.
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