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M. Night Shyamalan stinks. His movies stink. The things he says stink. His chokers stink. Everything. We know that. But there has been a lot of BREAKING M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN STINKS NEWS lately. Between the release of The Last Airbender two weeks ago (stinks) and the recent debut of the trailer for the new movie he wrote, Devil (stinks), it has been hard to keep up with all of the new developments in the world of M. Night Shyamalan stinking. After the jump, a round-up of some of this week’s most recent new examples of the ways in which M. Night Shyamalan stinks and/or people express their feelings about M. Night Shyamalan, in which those feelings are that he stinks.
At a Mexico City press conference for The Last Airbender, a journalist asks him if he is trying to recapture the interest of audiences with a more commercial project after losing them with films that they hated, such as Lady in the Water, and “many of your more recent productions.” His answer stinks!
“That is something you read on Google.” No, M. Night Shyamalan. The general feeling that your movies stink and that you stink is based on having seen your movies and, as in this clip here, seeing you talk. Although Google is a really interesting magazine?
Also, the trailer for a movie that he wrote, Devil, was shown in front of Inception this weekend, and when the title screen “from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan” appeared on the screen people laughed. Because he stinks!
Oh, whoops. The video has been removed, even though there are dozens of copyright-infringing ripped copies of the Devil trailer floating around. It doesn’t matter. You don’t actually need to see shaky iPhone camera images of a movie trailer with the faint sound people laughing and groaning when they see M. Night Shyamalan’s name to get the point, which is that he stinks.
As always, we will continue to bring you news about M. Night Shyamalan stinking whenever he stinks anew. (Via Vulture and FilmDrunk.)
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this makes me sad, because I’ve really loved some of his movies.
Someone downvoted you, which is absolutely hilarious. But yeah, I’m a big fan of Sixth Sense and Signs and I freaking love Unbreakable without shame. It’s been said a million times, but it’s just sad that his exponentially growing ego suffocated every last creative bone in his body.
Oh, I expected downvotage. I don’t mind. I love Signs (sigh, mel gibson), unbreakable, and even the village (I can’t punch down my love for joaquin). Sixth Sense was obviously great, but I didn’t find it as scary as everyone had hyped it to be (on the other hand, I was warped as a child, and go to see scary movies by myself for laughs).
I can look past how he’s acted and weigh each of his projects individually.
Also, I have shitty taste.
I don’t really remember any of his possibly good movies well enough to judge them, but the first three, yeah, I wouldn’t run screaming from a rewatch. I never finished Unbreakable, but that wasn’t my choice.
That One, you really nailed it — his ego is the problem. I used to think, maybe it was after the Village came out, that if he didn’t write, direct, and produce, his movies could be good. If he directed someone elses script, and had a good producer? That could probably be good stuff. Unfortunatly, I think it’s too late for even that to work, considering the douchery on evidence here.
They should reboot (yuck) “Amazing Stories” and let him handle two per season.
I think that’s about where the supply/demand curve crosses on this one.
Yes! I like Signs, too. And The Village. Where were you last week?
—The Last Shyamalanbender
Unbreakable was great.
I will resist the Videogum superbrain and say that I unashamedly enjoy his first three movies wholeheartedly.
The Sixth Scents.
The Spillage
The Crappening
Dead in the Water
Signs (that M. Night Shyamalan is terrible)
Unbankable
Stuart Little (did we know that he hasn’t actually made that many movies? this game is running out of puns!)
I’m just happy that we can make a game out of anything. Thank You Monsters.
The Fifth Sense.
I’m having a hard time:
Devil + Terrible = ?
Terrivil?
Yeah, Terrivil.
The Last Airbender (there isn’t much more I can add to make this more of an insulting movie title)
Not Happening.
And The Last Airbender remains popular in syndication in spite of this garbagefest
For reals though, and despite the fact that it is a cartoon meant for children and not grown men who have jobs and should not be watching cartoons or posting about cartoons on the internet during work hours, the Last Airbender TV series is legitimately great. I just powered through all 3 seasons of it on netflix watch instantly this week and it was the best.
James-Franco-eating-a-pie level good.
I did this too. Let’s start a club.
At our first club meeting can we discuss how excited it is appropriate to be about today’s announcement of a sequel to the television series coming out next year?
This is like the gulf oil spill version 2.0. When will someone finally find a way to keep garbage from spewing out of this man? The world’s helpless citizens look on in horror.
**Spoiler Alert**
M. Night Shyamalan is a fucking douchebag.
Damn You, NBC Universal! Quick, nerds, find a backdoor so I can watch that second video!
I guess on the up side it seems like sooner or later he’s going to realize that lady was right. Then he’ll kill himself.
jk don’t kill yourself M! (mr shamalan? night?) just stop making movies.
I love suicide jokes! Haha he really gets me!
And having worked as a journalist, I also LOVE IT when someone I interview insults and implies that I should kill myself.
This guy is the best, I don’t know why everyone here is always insulting him when he’s clearly a really smart, compassionate, and humble guy.
I’m pretty sure the entire premise of The Happening was just people standing downwind of M. Night Shyamalan.
get it? it’s because of all the stink.
The Crappening.
*Sigh*ns
My 6yo son loves this book, which is essentially a propaganda tract from the New York Department of Sanitation. What is one thing he does not love? Pompous assholes who make stinky movies.
NEW YORK’S STRONGEST (smelling)
By the way, Scholastic did a totally enchanting animated version of this that Andy Richter narrates.
Worth checking out.
M. Night- I see good movies.
Bruce Willis- Well no one else does.
What’s that smell????
so if m. night shyamalan thought in spanish, he would kill himself?
So much yes. I spend whole evenings at parties doing this as much as possible — intentionally misinterpreting poorly worded statements by douches. So much fun.
actual yahoo undecided question: Did anyone “Aw” and laugh in disappointment when M. Night’s name came up in the “Devil” trailer for Inception?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100716121620AAQSaQQ
Did you see this answer?
please anyone tell me why is M. Night so lame? I don’t know him but everyone said that in the theaters so I want to know who he is and why does he suck?
I want to know who he is and why does he suck. Ha Ha!
That’s what my parents say every time I telll them I’m dating someone.
Back in the early aughts, my friend’s campus therapist (at an undisclosed university) was Mrs. Shyamalan. Apparently she is actually a nice lady, and I feel sorry for her. Although I bet sleeping on a mattress stuffed with money probably helps.
Toys based upon his stink also stink!! http://onegoodminute.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/what-the-heck-is-going-on-with-the-last-airbender/
Ill-conceived promotional tie-ins based on his stink are super stinky!!
http://www.embassysuitesthelastairbender.com/
HAHA! Her question was basically “You stink. Amirite?”
“You stink and are a sellout. Yes/yes?”
I can’t wait until he completes his final film and it is revealed in a shocking twist that his career was dead all along.
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/.a/6a00d8341c66b253ef0134858e1c7f970c-500pi
It’s a shame that most of his movies make their money back, because that’s just going to keep the garbage truck rolling forever.
Sorry, with world wide receipts, all but one of his movies made it’s money back.
I hear Lady in the Water is huuuuuge in Spain.
Every country has its own favorite Shyamalan movie. He probably read that on Google somewhere, and probably didn’t get the sarcasm or something.
Let’s not forget the gem that was the fake-umentary that aired on the Sci-Fi/SyFy channel. That didn’t stink at all. Not one bit. Nope. Pure gold.
The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan. Perhaps they should do a new one called “Bury M. Night Shyamalan”.
france’s favorite movie is the village? england is teaching a class on the happening? am i allowed to start a USA chant?
I’m not sure “France” actually knows “The Village” is its “favourite” “movie”.
The class is called ‘Shitty American Movies 101′
“I wish you would.” – The World
Forgive me if I am hearing this stink butt wrong, but is there something else smelly about his logic? “Clearly my movies are not bad! You can tell they are not bad because they make lots of money. Europe people! They love them! Why I have had to turn down lots of money to make sure there are no sequels to protect my artistic vision.”
It’s like, if he is being offered lots of money so that Hollywood can make sequels, that implies that Hollywood expects to make lots of money from those sequels. And if those sequels make lots of money, he cannot say they are bad, unless he is willing to admit that bad movies make lots of money all the time, including his, unfortunately.
Also: he really needs to stop sounding like Jon Lovitz, it is distracting.
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I keep thinking about it, but I don’t think I’ll succeed.
But, ok, so, he only wrote the story for Devil so maybe the screenwriter made it into something watchable? Maybe? No?
I feel bad that I want to watch a TS camrip of it because Geoffrey Arend and the guy who played Trey on The OC are in it? Sorry?
My sister’s favorite movie is Lady in the Water. My sister, by the way, was played by Juliette Lewis in The Other Sister.
I must say, that was a pretty crass question. I’m not a fan of his work these days, but I would be perplexed to hear my career summed up like so.
But he still didn’t really answer the question, which based on everything he said was “No, I don’t think that’s why I wanted to do Last Airbender. I wanted to do it because blah blah blah.”
“…whenever he stinks anew.” – Gabriel Delahaye. Pulitzer please.
OMG – I was having such a so-so day until I saw that the YouTube video for the audience reaction to Devil had been deleted by NBC/Universal. I love you.