Friday, July 28, 2006

Why does this please me so much?


This is old news at this point, but I never get tired of reading about how Shyamalan's narcissism is becoming increasingly obvious.

"Even in a summer featuring a Garfield sequel and 'Little Man', M. Night Shyamalans 'Lady in the Water' is set to take the crown as the worst movie of the summer. The first reviews are in, and they're anything but good. Michael Atkinson of the Village Voice says:
"Shyamalan is mystically assuming that any idea or image that pops into his skull will make a shapely tale, no matter how much cock-and-bull logic he has to invent to Gorilla Glue it together."
The Hollywood trade paper Variety says:
"Shyamalan has followed 'The Village' with another disappointment -- a ponderous, self-indulgent bedtime tale. Awkwardly positioned, this gloomy gothic fantasy falls well short of horror..."
The Associated Press says:
"The premise is intriguing, yet the mythology Shyamalan builds around his main characters is forced, pretentious and outright silly at times."
The Hollywood Reporter isn't quite as harsh, but the review is summed up with:
"The film utterly fails."
One more:
"Ever sense 'the Sixth Sense', each of M. Nights movies have been about 10 percent worse than the one before, so if my math is right, Warner Brothers is gonna have to shoot me out of a cannon to get me into a theater showing this. I'd rather watch a sex change surgery than this dudes movies."

And apparently M. Night is just as despicable personally as he is bankrupt creatively. The blog 'Dues Ex Malcontent' tells the behind the scenes tale of an interview Night recently did in New York, and when Night decided he didn’t like the location where the interview was to be held, he quickly made sure that everyone knew about it:
"Somebody's gonna get railed when this is over. I just want you guys to know that. I just want to warn you that it's coming. You've never seen me on a movie set, but you're gonna."

2 comments:

Octopunk said...

It pleases me too! Nothing satisfies quite the same way as a self-important blowhard's street cred evaporating in exactly the way you expected.

Anonymous said...

BECAUSE HE SUCKS

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