January 26th, 2007 -- Written by John Campea
I have to say that a lot of M.Night Shyamalan’s movies are in my dvd collection, and I enjoy all of them (except Lady in the Water..its not on my shelf). I even liked the Village even if I did see the plot coming before the end of the trailer. As many predicted, M.Night couldnt keep doing these intelligent plot twist movies because we all look for it now. We are wise to his shenanigans, and wont fall for it again. The love is gone.
A couple weeks ago the web was swirling with news of M. Night Shyamalan’s next film: an adaptation of the Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender. But what we didn’t know is that he has apparently been shopping around another script to a number of studios, and most of them have turned up their noses at it. The movie is supposedly called Green Planet, and it involves some sort of alien presence trying to teach humanity the error of its ways by using nature to strike back at us. According to film ick, the movie is about “the emergence of a New Eden when our flora and fauna come under the influence of something alien and make moves to take back the planet. Think The Day After Tomorrow with more smarts… a strange, upside down way of looking at ecological destruction.”
Well there it is. He was still trying to hit us up with a movie of his own makings. Don’t get me wrong, it does sound like an interesting premise, and might have actually made a good movie. But his name is like the stench of bad socks when attached to a movie like this.
No wonder he is attached to the Avatar project now. He couldn’t GET another job!
I think the guys at Robot Chicken can sum this up far better than I ever could.
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Outstanding! I knew down deep in my heart someone out there has the guts to do an updated version of ‘Day Of The Triffids!” Hats off to M.Night on a wonderful i…what’s that, Rod?
That’s not what it was?
Damn!
M Night …you stink!!!
Every director has made at least one bad film (I also liked The Village, so he’s 4 out of 5 for me too). As long as he gets his head out of his giant, conceited, self-congratulatory ass I’m still willing to give his movies a chance.
It’s gonna be an uphill battle though, because Lady was still a huge failure and he does indeed have that pungent stink on him. I think he’s seeing that now that every studio except 20th Century Fox has flat out crumbled up his script and taken a shit on it. Maybe this will be the lesson in humility that he so desperately needs and he’ll learn that constructive criticism is a good thing.
That being said, I dont think the whole “Plants taking back the Planet” idea sounds very interesting. At least not to me, anyway. It may surprise me but when everybody passes on it… well, it just gives me a bad feeling. But… everybody passed on the LOTR movies too, so you never know.
Kudos to Darren for knowing a great classic scare flick.
Day of the Triffids is one of my favorites.
Oh, come on, you know that Avatar: The Last Airbender is an awesome show, and that M. Night is the right man for that job.
How exactly is a suspense/thriller writer the right man for the job of directing a children’s fantasy show?
Aside from Stuart Little (which he wrote the screenplay) everything he has done is PG13 or worse.
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All I’ve got to say is that I love m. night. to me he is one of the great directors of our time.
believe it or not, contrary to many, lady in the water, I thought was magnificent. He blew me away with that film. I thought it one of his best yet. Of course that being said I like all the other movies he’s directed-unbreakable, signs, the village, etc. He’s phenomenal. I actually can’t believed that so many people didn’t like lady in the water. It made so much sense and the ending was remarkable. The giant bird took the narf back to the blue world with the help of mere humans that just simply believed. These humans made a mere simple choice to believe in this girl. It was beautiful.
All I’ve got to say is that I love m. night. to me he is one of the great directors of our time.
believe it or not, contrary to many, lady in the water, I thought was magnificent. He blew me away with that film. I thought it one of his best yet. Of course that being said I like all the other movies he’s directed-unbreakable, signs, the village, etc. He’s phenomenal. I actually can’t believed that so many people didn’t like lady in the water. It made so much sense and the ending was remarkable. The giant bird took the narf back to the blue world with the help of mere humans that just simply believed. These humans made a mere simple choice to believe in this girl. It was beautiful.