Got a buck to send M Night Shyamalan to film school?

[The Straight Story]

Got a buck to send M Night Shyamalan to film school?


Those of you unfortunate enough to have spent money seeing The Last Airbender will doubtless be only too willing to blow one more dollar to send M Night Shyamalan back to film school.

That's the aim of the splendidly-named M Night School campaign, which declares: "Certainly, there must be 150,000 of us film lovers out there who are tired of his schlocky plot twists, canned dialogue, and over-commercialized image as an 'auteur.'"

It adds: "If we all donate just one dollar, we can send M Night back to NYU so he gets the help we all so desperately need."

Once the fundraising drive reaches its target, Shyamalan will be presented with a giant cheque to fund his rehabilitation into the director he once promised to be.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/15/m_night_school/

[Warren DeMontague]

1. I remember thinking "Signs" was one of the dumbest fucking movies EVER.

It's nice to see everyone else has come around on that dude.

[demwing]

11. Signs was a potentially awesome movie, doomed by the greatest plot fail of all time-

Namely, the unbelievable premise that any alien bright enough to master interplanetary travel would also be stupid enough to take their dissolving-in-water asses to a planet overflowing with H2O. DERP! Worse yet, its not just that there's OCEANS of the stuff on the surface, but its also in our atmosphere and sometimes FALLS from THE SKY!!!

And to top it off, the idiot savant aliens like to land in corn fields - one of the wettest places on a farm!

The rest of the movie was pretty enjoyable. Great cast, cool aliens!

[Swede]

13. They were demons,not aliens.

This is IMHO. But it does explain a lot.

[Yavin4]

14. Ah, You Haven't Seen "The Happening"

That movie makes "Signs" look like Shakespeare.

[tridim]

16. It was awful, I even thought The Sixth Sense was a really bad

I watched it with someone who already knew the twist and when it was revealed I said, "That's it?" and LMAO. I didn't even bother to finish watching the rest of the movie.

IMO he's worse than Ed Wood.

[fasttense]

2. I like Shyamalan's movies.

Say what you will, but I've enjoyed most his movies and look forward to seeing more.

[Ratty]

17. Me too

Never saw Last Airbender though. Just not my cup of tea. But I loved loved The Happening, Signs, The Village, Unbreakable, and it goes without saying The Sixth Sense.

[notesdev]

3. LOL

I'm afraid he is beyond the help of professional assistance... that one is too far gone. Just let him make movies and hope nobody is seriously injured by watching them.

[Tesha]

6. Every generation has to have its "Ed Wood".

(And yes, "Signs" was the tipping point for me, too.)

Tesha

[FormerDittoHead]

24. Sorry, but I found today's "Ed Wood" - Tommy Wiseau

You guys. You don't know BAD. I saw THE ROOM TODAY...

Check the comments on THE ROOM:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368226/

EXCERPT BELOW IS JUST A SAMPLE)
I have now seen Mr. Tommy Wiseau's cinematic tour-de-force, 'The Room' three times. With each viewing, 'The Room' becomes more complexly entangled in and inseparable from my own life. I no longer know where The Room ends and I begin. It is, without question, the worst film ever made. But this comment is in no way meant to be discouraging. Because while The Room is the worst movie ever made it is also the greatest way to spend a blisteringly fast 100 minutes in the dark. Simply put, 'The Room' will change your life. It's not just the dreadful acting or the sub-normal screenplay or the bewildering direction or the musical score so soaked in melodrama that you will throw up on yourself or the lunatic-making cinematography; no, there is something so magically wrong with this movie that it can only be the product of divine intervention.

[cognoscere]

20. Duck fat. Every dollar he wastes making a movie takes a dollar away

from a good writer/director.

[CBGLuthier]

4. Very hit or miss. Nowhere near as clever as he thinks he is

I liked Unbreakable for its atmosphere. Hated Signs. Hated the one where trees killed everybody.

Liked The Village despite its way too obvious surprise.

Have no interest in seeing an Indian American man take a project that WAS full of good ethnic characters and white wash it.

[Dorian Gray]

5. He already went

and look at the dreck he's turning out.

While humourous, I'm not wasting a penny on re-sending him to Tisch. As far as I'm concerned, he can keep making crappy movies and I can keep not going to them.

PS I think The Sixth Sense is one of the most over-rated films ever.

[EstimatedProphet]

7. Nope. I'd only pitch in for someone who shows promise.

[Javaman]

8. M Night Shyamalan is a product of a film industry that so badly wants

another "Hitchcock" that they will latch onto anything that remotely smells of "suspense". Sadly, what today's film industry calls "suspense", real filmmakers of yore called, crap.

He's about as suspenseful as the anticipation of finding the surprise in a box of cracker jacks.

[thelordofhell]

22. Shyamalan is Hitchcock if he had ADD

My apologies to all ADD sufferers out there.

[Javaman]

26. LOL

Good one!

[undeterred]

9. He's made some good ones.

[MilesColtrane]

10. He's just another product of the machine.

Find a director, author, musician, who's got maybe one or two good ideas in him, then hype him as the next big thing until it becomes painfully obvious to everyone that he's been done for a while.

[joeybee12]

12. I'm willing to donate $2 to this worthy cause! KNR

[Codeine]

15. "Unbreakable" was wonderful. Everything else has been shit.

The most overrated director ever, bar none.

[They_Live]

23. I liked that one

right up until the end, which ruined the entire thing for me. I even gave the film a second chance, and the same thing happened. He just rushes through it so quickly, it ruins everything.

[Recursion]

18. As long as he keeps making movies in which Bryce Dallas Howard takes her clothes off...

...I will continue watching them.

[progressoid]

19. Or maybe just stop going to his movies.

:yawn:

[elehhhhna]

21. I'll add another buck for Bryce Dallas Howard to got to acting classes.

oh. My. God. Nepotism thy name is Bryce Dallas Howard. YECCHHHHHHHHHHH.

[ZombieHorde]

25. His version of the Last Air Bender is one of the worst things to happen in the history of atoms.

Bush's Presidency was less painful.

[arenean]

27. The Village..... Zzzzzzzzzzz....

The Village was so so sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.........