"trap": could this be m. night shyamalan's comeback movie?

[brianmanahan]

i admit that i am intrigued

could this be his first good movie in a quarter century?

 

[darkswordsman17]

Er, don't people consider he's already made a comeback? Wasn't Split that? I think some liked The Visit, and the Knock at the Cabin did well.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

I enjoyed "Old" from 2021 and "Knock at the Cabin" from 2023.

I think M. Night is doing good work so looking forward to his next work.

 

[DigDog]

it take courage, far too much courage for me, to watch a M.N. Shamalamadingdong film. I accidentally watched the one with the poison trees and that was enough for me.
This guy made The Last Airbender, let's not forget.

 

[zinfamous]

His movies still make tons of money and tend to be quite popular, regardless of actual quality. He will never again recapture what The Sixth Sense was, but I don't think he or any of his fans are really concerned with that.

I recall some of us recent ones being fairly decent...but I honestly haven't watched much of us stuff

 

[purbeast0]

The concept of Old caught my attention so I watched it and I thought it was good.

Other than that, the rest all still suck yet for some reason I've still watched most of them.

 

[Tormac]

After struggling through "Signs" I don't think I could sit through another of his movies. "The Sixth Sense" was a great movie, but I am not confident his has another great movie in him.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Watched M. Night's The Visit (2015) on HBO tonight -

Film's budget was $5M, grossed $95M globally and was produced by Blumhouse.

It's the details, the foreshadowing, the writing, the cinematography, the Directing that ties this movie with a very odd twist together.

Critics liked this one, called it M. Night's return to form - it gets a 6/10 from me. Twist was solid, some hilarious moments that were over the top, and the kids dialogue/actions seemed genuine.

 

[nakedfrog]

I had no idea he'd made that many movies in the last few years (but I don't keep up with current movies much either).

 

[guest1978]

The boy in basement is related to singer. Butcher knows they are on to him and uses boy as way of getting to singer and using her and her security and limo as way to escape concert. Someone apparently as skilled is not going to just walk into a trap. It would seem he is doing his own research but to get to singer he uses concert as his own opportunity. A gift for his daughter. Maybe......at least something along those lines.

 

[mikeymikec]

His movies still make tons of money and tend to be quite popular, regardless of actual quality. He will never again recapture what The Sixth Sense was, but I don't think he or any of his fans are really concerned with that.

I wonder if the mistake that some make is to look at his work as if he is writing something "great" (e.g. to be remembered in the history of story-telling / film-making), but on the other hand there's something about how they're marketed that screams that they should be taken as such.

For me, watching 'The Sixth Sense' for the first time in the cinema was an enjoyable experience that climaxed in the twist, but when I look back on it I felt that the twist was all there was to it.

I used to enjoy 'Unbreakable' more, there's a little bit of class in how the villain is portrayed in a way that very plausibly mixes the surreality of the comic book genre (e.g. comic-book villains wearing garish outfits) with reality. Since then though I've found myself watching the DVD less and less often to the point that I ended up giving it away. I wonder if I should watch a speed-run of it with only Samuel Jackson's scenes

Part of the problem is that I just don't think Bruce Willis ever had the acting chops to really carry a film (I'd be surprised if anyone could realistically name a good film that if it wasn't for Willis it would have bombed).

I couldn't bring myself to watch 'Split' because for the trailer it seemed like a very garish way to depict mental illness. Same obviously goes for 'Glass', and I've become less interested in his work as time went on. I have to admit that the trailer for 'Trap' intrigued me a bit.

I don't think M. Night Shyamalan is quite as low-brow as say Dan Brown, maybe a bit better than Brett Ratner? I have 'Red Dragon' on DVD but there are some scenes in it that just have no class in whatsoever (like that stupid final ending scene mentioning Agent Starling).