What I don't like about this guy is that his movies look way too glossy to be scary. He thinks he's the next HP Lovecraft because his plots are bizarre. Pfft. You need more than that. Even if you have a great story to tell, it isn't worth shit if you don't know how to represent it well.

The only good movie that I have seen of his is the Sixth Sense. I thought Signs was horrible and so was The Village, even though I did not hate it as much as other people. I did not bother with Lady in the Water because I can smell crap a mile away. But I'll be watching this one simply because I love post-apocalyptic tales.

--Julio

It's odd that new previews are promoting that Shyamalan "brings us his first R rated film".

Okay so now the RATING is a selling point? Is that a sign that Fox has little confidence in the picture now?

You know...this movie doesn't really look that interesting.  There's been an unfortunate trend for Shymalamaladingdong as his marketing skills have really deteriorated since the Sixth Sense...or maybe it's just because his films haven't been that good.

Sixth Sense was great...I see dead people...brilliant.

Unbreakable the following year...there's two reasons why I'm staring at you like this.  The first is that it seems in a matter of moments you will be the sole survivor of this train crash.  And the second reason I'm staring at you is that there's not a scratch on you.  Pretty good.  The film wasn't as successful but people talked.

I loved Signs.  I loved the trailer from the second I saw it.  It also scored huge at the box office.

The Village IMO is where he started to bomb.  The film had a huge opening weekend despite bad reviews, and then word of mouth got out that, yeah, this film kinda sucks, and that was it.

Lady in the Water didn't do anything with the critics or box office.  Didn't even bother to see this one.

And then you got this new film with a horribly unoriginal title and the trailers that don't really tell you anything.  If it came out today, I'd say it would do even worse than Lady in the Water.  As Roger Ebert said after the Village came out, he needs to take a break.

I read the script last year, originally named "The Green Effect", and it wasn't that great. I'm a big fan of M. Night Shyamalan, and I thoroughly enjoyed Lady in The Water, despite what the critics say. SPOILERS... The story is based around a science teacher, Elliot Moore who has grown apart from his wife (infedelity is involved). Then, strange things start to happen such as people stabbing themselves and builders jumping from buildings, pretty eerie stuff. It turns out the plants and so on are fighting against humans. The relationship with him and his wife acts as a good subplot to the main plot, but the scripts overall form was completely done to formula, with nothing really being that unpredictable. It was an ok script, but as I say I read this a while ago and changes will probably have been made.