Well, people shit themselves over the Sixth Sense ending, which was literally stolen from an episode of Are you afraid of the Dark.
The only thing it has in common with Xfiles was it's Alien antagonists. Which, as I admitted, was pretty poorly executed. The ending itself - The story coming full circle and connecting the dots of seemingly trivial events was done beautifully.
M. Night said he got the idea for the ending from an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167404/trivia Scroll down to the bottom.
To be honest I just read it before posted. I find it strange. Is it possible, that That episode whas based on the play I mentioned? and then Sixth sense was based on that episode? It's all confusing. I'd wrather talk to M. Night about it.
I'm just throwing this out here, but how would you put M. Nights workings in order?
I'd say.
1.Unbreakable
2.Sixth sense
3.Signs
4.The village
I'm not saying the village is bad, I'm just saying it's the least Excellent out of all of his other films.
I'd love to see the Movie-short 'The hitchiker'. But it's damn hard to catch.
Originally posted by Silverstein
my friend told me a while ago. Shyamalan was going to re-film to ending of the Village so that the monsters would be real. Did he ever do that??its just what i heard
Your friend is a moron. How else would the conflict resolve if the monsters were real?
If that was at all true, I would immediatley lose my respect for M. Night. He shouldn't change his workings just because a few nobody's didn't like it.
True that. Who's looking for a comment on post-9/11 America in a Shyamalan movie, when we could have watched freaky Red Riding-hood monsters with long claws!?!? Claws! Claws! Claws!
I'm guessing that the actual Lady In The Water is going to be a genetically-modified human-goldfish clone; because Night is so down with what's up with the world.
As an American, are you saying that all your fellow citizens are retarded? Hmm, I'd go along with that. Save from Homer Simpson, of course...
Taken from www.empireonline.co.uk :
Plot
The super of an American apartment building rescues a young woman in the building's swimming pool. He learns that she is a character from a bedtime story, and is trying to get back to her world. There are nasty creatures trying to prevent her from doing this, and all the while the super discovers that he and the residents are all characters in the story.
Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
I would major a small fortune that the majority of the people who saw it didn't like it. Which would mean you're the nobody who [B]did like it. [/B]
The majority of people that went to see it were the seemingly "average" movie viewers, who went there, like anyone else, hoping for a horror film. Instead what they got was a romance. They were furious, right after that twist, they vowed not to like it, not because it was bad, but because it wasn't what they were expecting. It was falsely advertised. "Unfortunate" would be the word that describes the situation Shyamalan was put in.
Well, I was quite aware that Shyamalan doesn't stick to a certain formula prescribed by Hollywood, but I still found the movie to be junk. I came out of the movie theatre laughing at how terrible the 'twist' was. I think Backfire mentioned earlier, it was similar to the "and then I woke up and it was all a dream" plot that most high-school kids use in creative writing class. I expected more.