Worst M Night Shyamalan plot twist (SPOILERS)

I'd watch it if it was all the same movie.

Voted "IT'S REALLY PRESENT DAY!" because in addition to being stupid, I had figured it out from the trailer.

I voted for the secret Unbreakable sequel. Because it set up Glass which was horrible

Aliens who are killed by water invade planet that's 70% water

Signs made me so mad I've never seen any of his other movies and I feel incredibly lucky.

I saw Split cos it was dubbed his return to form and it was garbage.

Horror movies about dissociative identity disorders are never entertaining, just a laborious exercise for the lead actor.

Glass was great if you like three mutants bitching for an hour

cryptosicko seconded, because I can’t be bothered to watch all this nonsense

Might have to vote "THOSE AREN'T YOUR GRANDPARENTS" because that's what convinced a few people he had returned to form.

That being said, has any director who had one fluke success ever had so many "returns to form"?

Signs made me so mad I've never seen any of his other movies and I feel incredibly lucky.

which one of these is The Last Airbender

The twist for that one is that he'd never seen Avatar: The Last Airbender

Signs is mostly a fine movie but it def has the worst twist.

yeah signs is tight as hell except the twist tbh

I guessed The Sixth Sense from the trailer and have never put myself through most of his shit but the plants one is fucking stupid and not even really a twist

sad that After Earth didn't have a twist, cos DJP mighta nailed it

Jaden is the father

― whelping at his sandpapery best (DJP), Monday, April 4, 2011 4:19 PM bookmarkflaglink

I just realized that, prior to this poll, I haven't heard/read a single post-release utterance re: Glass. Must've been a helluva film.

I saw The Sixth Sense in the theater before there was even hubbub about a twist (and before Shyamalan became known colloquially as Mr. Twister, natch) and...yeah, I think I figured it out like half an hour in?

Glass was like a 2 hour bottle episode

having the Regal Unlimited plan makes me feel less guilty of seeing shit I know will suck

yeah signs is tight as hell except the twist tbh

I still liked it cos 50s-esque sci-fi/horror is my wheelhouse

the "lol you had asthma and my wife died to save us from the aliens" though was pretty hilarious as a twist

The Lord works in mysterious ways - he's just a HUGE DICKHEAD

Shyamalan's style always seems like he's come from some different planet where narrative conventions are different but he's injected a bunch of pathos on top as a disguise

And by different, I might just mean incredibly basic and dumb

You gotta treat yourself to The Happening. Stock up on drinks and take plenty of breaks.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, November 5, 2019 4:54 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Such a great premise, and then ruined by Mark Wahlberg delivering dialogue in what seems to be a 5 year-old's cadence, full of wonder.

....great premise..?

Signs is the most frustrating bc the shitty twist(s) ruin what was preciously a pretty enjoyable scary movie, making it the worst viewing experience of the M Nights I’ve seen. But going strictly by the terms of the poll gotta vote Village because it truly is The Worst Twist. Just so... incredibly... DUMB.

The Happening is def the apex of this moron’s career and it is v v funny

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Wait, which one is “bruce willis is a government operative?”

Glass

Which retroactively ruins Unbreakable

I kind of liked Unbreakable, but Glass is total trash.

oic. So you have Glass up there twice.

Multiple twists

None of which land

ok I keep seeing the trailer for his new movie, about a beach that makes people age really fast. in one scene there's a boy who's 6, then in the next he's like 15. my question is, do the clothes and shoes grow with him? no I will not watch the movie to find out

Glass was great if you like three mutants bitching for an hour

I'm gonna assume you meant to post this in a thread about This American Life

Lotsa teens visiting that beach so they can appear old enough to drink

What's the plot twist in Old gonna be?

“IT’S ACTUALLY A GOOD MOVIE WITH A COMPELLING, WELL CONSIDERED PLOT!”

I predict they get old and die but then are reborn again, repeating, in essence eternal life, but ... only on that magic beach?

When you go to this beach, your body gets older but your clothes just get bigger, meanwhile you have to trim your nails like crazy.

ending cuts to Don in the Mad Men finale, contemplating a bottle of sunscreen

I'm not going to see this, just as I haven't seen his last .. six movies? Seven? But I looked up the ending and ... nah.

same, I was curious how this one ended and...yeah, movies like this maybe shouldn't try to explain things

spoilers for the graphic novel (and by extension the movie)

syntactically frustrating ending summary from an AV Club comment: "In the comic everyone dies of old age and the comic ends with the toddler pregnant and in the body of a 20-year old alone on the beach who will also inevitably die." Not exactly shocking they didn't go with that for their PG-13 genre movie but the real ending sounds a lot sillier

Plot summary of Old seems to echo Death Stranding a fair bit.

I have to say, I really liked The Visit and I hate most of his films I've seen.

The beach is also visited by rapper Mid-Size Sedan

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The beach is also visited by rapper Mid-Size Sedan

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lol

as someone who’s actually seen it, I’m just gonna state that yes, the ending is a bit silly but is a bit better when seen?

Also found a lot of it surprisingly moving which says a lot considering the dialogue in this, attribute that to pandemic mindshare if you want

Also Shyamalan really knows his way around a camera, so yeah he just needs to be around more human beings so he knows how hu-mahns talk

Just imagine what Shyamalan and Christopher Nolan might achieve if they ever deigned to let someone with actual writing acumen write their movies.

if Shyamalan had directed Adaptation with same script / actors, would that have been good? not convinced.

as someone who’s actually seen it, I’m just gonna state that yes, the ending is a bit silly but is a bit better when seen?

easier to make fun of the wiki summary

does Mid-Size Sedan become a Full-Size Sedan

I've always liked him as a director. He has a good eye. Just as a writer he's pretty uneven and silly and awkward. That's really what kneecaps a lot of his stuff.

NOVELTY T-SHIRT: Life's a Beach and Then You Die

M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN: hmm

— Sen. Lemon Gogurt (R - MS) (@Ugarles) July 25, 2021

old is perhaps among the stupidest films I've ever seen. basically a low-budget 50's chiller-diller b film with delusions of grandeur.

having read the original comic, i can also say that every single thing that shyamalan added made it far stupider from "mid-size sedan" to the TWIST and everything else in between

Truly awful, below and beyond his reputation.

oh Mid-Size Sedan was HIS creation?

i was giving it a pass cos I thought he took it from the comic

what a dim bulb

basically a low-budget 50's chiller-diller b film with delusions of grandeur

i do like that this summarizes his whole thing

Why do they not all immediately die of starvation

plus idngaf how much your body ages on the beach, if you were twelve when you arrived and someone has sex w/ you after your body ages to like, 21, your driver's license still sez you're 12 and the other person is a pedophile

"dumber than a box of rocks, overambitious, and visually astonishing" is kinda my wheelhouse lately so i feel like i'm the verge of a shyamalan-athon. really enjoying old lol

*third eye blind voice* wish you would step back from that beach my friend (beach that makes you old!)

I listened to the How Did This Get Made ep on "Old" (I haven't seen it yet), and everyone was perplexed, because no one hated it and they all recommended it, and yet they were confounded by the sheer amount of risible bullshit in it.

i actually loved that movie lol

it just looked so beautiful, the camera movements were incredible

and the body horror was all extremely fucked up :)

I liked it too

*Barney Sumner Voice* I thought I told you to leave me
While I walked down to the beach
Tell me, how does it feel
Did this beach make me grow old?

To expand upon the seven words I managed to put together upthread, thought this was Plan 9, historically, stupifyingly bad.

Mid-Size Sedan

knock at the cabin was so good. several great performances, groff and bautista the most impressive among them

great single location thrillers have a level of tension so oppressive it feels like the single location is about to collapse around you and open onto a world of horrors and imo shyamalan gets that as right here as he did in signs

I just learned about this! I don’t enjoy Paul tremblay’s writing on a prose or character level but I do really like the ambiguous story constructions, I come away going “someone should do this but make it good” maybe m is the guy

This was much better than I was expecting! It doesn't mess about either! Bam, it gets straight into it. I loved Bautista as the gentle giant.

this was the first M Night movie I liked since Signs. probably because it was someone else's story he adapted.

like people talked up Split as his return to form and I outright hated that movie lol

the "M" stands for "Midsize Sedan"

Hated this. Bautista is admittedly great in it, though

realizing the ending of the book is a lot more nihilistic than the movie

yeah i'm in favor of every change he made

"IT'S REALLY PRESENT DAY!" 10

man fuck y'all

(just watched the village for the first time already knowing the "twist" and uh, it's good?)

i mean the movie is astonishingly beautiful and the twist isn't really a twist so much as like a photograph gradually developing details from the center outward

i also finally saw the visit which is the first found footage film since idk cloverfield that i've found to be legit scary

INo way am I a reliable narrator considering I just bumped the Julia Luis-Dreyfus Death Parrot thread but Trap was just entertaining enough to keep me going. I have nothing past that.