But… Split is a M. Night Shyamalan movie! …OK, so maybe that was harsh. But it’s been a long freaking time since Unbreakable and The Sixth Sense. And, OK, sure, Signs and The Village weren’t awful. But it got pretty bad out there, after a bit. Perhaps I’m just being bitter.
Perhaps.
Anyway, here is the trailer.
I actually like The Village myself. People say they saw the twists coming, I did not. Maybe I was in one of those moods where I wanted to be lead when I first saw the movie.
I also liked it, even seeing the twists, the moral was sufficiently solid.
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Now, Lady in the Water…
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Mew
I too thought The Village was fantastic, while noting that he revealed the twist way too soon to have any lasting impact.
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Lady was just throwing random fantasy tropes at the wall. Or into the pool, as the case may be.
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I never bothered with Happening, and what possessed any studio with knowledge of style and genre to let him anywhere near Last Air Bender is beyond me.
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Nice to see he’s back on a reasonable track though.
I did like Signs, and there were quite a few things to like about The Village, but Lady in the Water was just bad. And ask reports were that he kept getting worse after that.