So is anyone planning on seeing the new M. Night Shyamalan film "Devil"?

[latenightapplepie]

. I for one think it looks awful. It will be filled with horrid acting, terrible dialogue, and the overall message will be something like the "devil" is inside all of us and humans have the capacity to do great evil. It will probably be delivered as if he was the first person to come up with it ever when theres been thousands of examples littered throughout history.

Doesn't look too bad to me. It has potential for a great, claustrophobic drama-horror.

It also doesn't really look like it has the message that you think it will. It seems more like a supernatural whodunit. As in, one of the five people in the lift is the Devil or a devil, and is out to get the rest of them for some reason. Sure, I bet ordinary human tensions are going to arise and the humans look likely to kill each other in confusion and/or fear, but it still seems to me like there's something otherworldly in play here. I could be wrong.

As for whether Shyamalan's involvement, whatever that may be, affects whether I see the film, well, it doesn't really affect it at all. I enjoyed The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, didn't see his more recent films, and I believe he could still make a good film.

It's not like he's Michael Bay. That guy has and never will make a film I'm likely to enjoy. Shyamalan has done it before, I'm confident he could do it again.

 

[Instinct Blues]

As for whether Shyamalan's involvement, whatever that may be, affects whether I see the film, well, it doesn't really affect it at all. I enjoyed The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, didn't see his more recent films, and I believe he could still make a good film.

That shows how naive of a movie-goer you are like really watch The Happening and try to tell me it wasn't the worst piece of shit you've ever seen. At least Michael Bay never tries to get all philisophical with his films he just delivers with the explosions and thats all people expect and want from him. And if it doesn't go over well he doesn't whine that the audience doesn't get his genius, he knows his place and M. Night should learn his.

 

[latenightapplepie]

That shows how naive of a movie-goer you are like really watch The Happening and try to tell me it wasn't the worst piece of shit you've ever seen. At least Michael Bay never tries to get all philisophical with his films he just delivers with the explosions and thats all people expect and want from him. And if it doesn't go over well he doesn't whine that the audience doesn't get his genius, he knows his place and M. Night should learn his.

I'll admit I don't watch as much films as I should, or would like, but I don't think I'm so naive. All I'm saying is that directors can sometimes make shit films, when they are usually good directors. Case in point: Oliver Stone made Wall Street and Platoon. He then made Alexander, which is utterly terrible.

 

[superbatranger]

Is he trying to make us afraid of elevators? Christ, that man is losing it.

 

[Instinct Blues]

I'll admit I don't watch as much films as I should, or would like, but I don't think I'm so naive. All I'm saying is that directors can sometimes make shit films, when they are usually good directors. Case in point: Oliver Stone made Wall Street and Platoon. He then made Alexander, which is utterly terrible.

I've got nothing against you if you want to see it I'll admit the premise is a bit interesting but I can't get past how bad M. Night is yes he made The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, but he also made Signs, Lady In The Water, The Happening, and The Village. I'll also admit that other respected directors have a bad film or two to their name but the point is they were able to prove they weren't flukes Shyamalan has yet to do that. Especially since he messed up the Last Airbender when I believe any other director could have been able to put that together competently.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Unbreakable was good.

... Yeah, I think that was about it for Mr. Shyamalan.

 

[latenightapplepie]

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Well, I liked Signs.

In any case, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. You're probably right anyway, I'm just being hopeful. And I'll probably get burned for it.

 

[ShakerSilver]

I don't think any of his recent films impressed me, so I'm not really going to see this one.