
Day 12 - A Film By Your Least Favorite Director
I already mentioned Paul Haggis and Crash. No point in rehashing that or bringing up more of his awful movies. I figure I'll go with a director who I don't like -- who has a movie that I actually like.
Is there anybody left out there at all that likes M. Night Shyamalan? Its not so much that he is a bad director or storyteller -- he just tells really awful stories. I never cared for Sixth Sense -- and then his filmography is just a what's what in embarrassing movies movies.
But one shining beacon of badassness is Unbreakable. I tend to think that M. Night didn't even know he was making a good movie. Scratch that. He probably always thinks he's making a good movie, but this time he really did. Too bad its book ended by the stupid reference to comics at the beginning and the awful "surprise ending" which is less of an ending and more of a "oh yeah, and in case you didn't figure it out." Everything in between is everything an M. Night movie should be -- a super hero movie that builds up to one single shot 30 second choke hold!
M. Night Shyamalan's
Unbreakable.