Comments on: James Newton Howard Reteams With M. Night Shyamalan To Score ‘After Earth’

By: right

right — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:03:49 +0000

Yo Joe, r u a friggin stupid? Shyamalan is a money making machine for the studios and you are putting him down? Do you live in a basement or do you have any money in the bank? The guy is international fame. U r no match to him. Keep your shitty critique to yourself.

By: Gilles

Gilles — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:03:49 +0000

And ooh yeah! My hand is up too.

By: DEREKONEILL

DEREKONEILL — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:03:49 +0000

Well Joe my hand is up!

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:03:49 +0000

Have you not read articles on this site before? Are you not familiar with its tone?

This article at no point calls Shyamalan terrible, just that the films he's making now aren't as good as the ones he was making a decade ago. I rate all of his films to some extent right up to The Village,but not so much after. This isn't a review of his old films though, it's just there as context to write a news piece around. Neither is it a promotion of his film, again, it's a news piece.

Maybe the opinion in this piece mirrors other widely articulated views – but they also happen to be my personal view. Would you prefer I changed my opinion on a director's films just to be different? I'm really not sure why the words 'hatred' and 'terrible' are popping up, all that's expressed in the piece is the lack of excitement for the film of a director whose last few have been weak. I often look at movies on an 'academic' level…but again, in reviews, not in news pieces. You need to understand what you're reading here, don't come to a short news piece expecting detailed analysis of something that the article's not really about.

And yes, it's sarcasm. This is The Playlist, not Variety.

By: derekoneill

derekoneill — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:03:49 +0000

Shyamalan has still got good movies in him. Unbreakable was just amazing great superhero origins story. Signs was a great movie lots of tension with a great issue of faith and belief. The village was miss sold as a horror when at the heart of the movie its really a love story. Lady in the water was good if only a little muddled but a great central performance by paul giamatti. Shyamalan was once hailed the next spielberg he has made mistakes but hes a born filmmaker

By: Edward

Edward — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:03:49 +0000

Boring! Another tedious article about how terrible a director M. Night Shyamalan is, disguised as a "real story." Yeah, we get it. You hate the guy because he couldn't reach the same insane level of critical and commercial success of his third feature. Now let's forget about actually approaching each film for what it is (and looking at it as a work of cinema in its own right) and continue to turn the process of filmmaking into a game of one-upmanship. Maybe if you're not interested in his upcoming movie you should stop promoting it. Or at least have the decency to not steal photos and updates from his Twitter feed and pass them off as your own work. Seriously, don't be a hack! Anyway, I'm done with these amateur blogs. They all parrot off the same opinions; it's as if they're the work of a single person. How about developing your own taste and opinions and learning how to look at movies at an academic level? Otherwise you're just polluting the blogosphere with your second-hand snark – though I suppose that's what gets you those all important blog-hits.

By: Mr Fist

Mr Fist — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:03:49 +0000

All this *ahem* hatred of M. has been redundant since the release of The Happening (give or take) and I'm really tired of it.

On the plus side though, if this film doesn't work, at least Manoj won't be ENTIRELY to blame due to not being the writer…

By: JT

JT — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:03:49 +0000

For me, Signs (aside from the much maligned, aliens with one weakness seeking out a planet made of that weakness thing) had a lot of strong points, lady in the water less so, same with the Village, but The Happening was so fucking terrible. The audience I saw it with was cracking up the whole time and it still has the best example of "did an Alien who's never actually spoken English write this script" moments, when John Leguizamo frantically says the train is "going to make a stop in the town of Princeton, New Jersey…."

By: Rohan

Rohan — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:03:49 +0000

This news is a bit obsolete, but it's fine to publish even it is late. And, I have to disagree with your statement placed in the second line of your first paragraph, Joe, in which you are saying that after 'The Sixth Sense' every film of Shyamalan has been worse. 'The Last Airbender' and 'The Happening' does stand at Shyamalan's weak side, yet you cannot state without articulating that rest of his work is the 'worst.' You have the right to hate or like anything in the world, Joe, as we are all entitled to our opinions, but it would be nice if you take the time to write something about 'Unbreakable' or 'The Village' Or 'Signs.'

We all, in a way knew that James Newton Howard was going to score, but we were waiting for Shyamalan or Howard to confirm it. I don't know what makes you think this as you state in the second paragraph: 'It must have been a difficult choice." – Is it sarcasm?