I earnestly recommend Old.
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Unbreakable is rad, but I hated the Village when it came out.
His latest efforts, turning his incredibly lame James McAvoy multiple personality disorder movie into an Unbreakable Cinematic Universeā¦ that shit is bananas. And probably also bad. But I havenāt actually watched it.
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i heard that trilogy ends up being fucked up and blackpilled which supports my theory that m night is more astute than critics give him credit for, but ive only seen the first 1
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Titanic in 3D Dolby was a religious experience. What a god damned movie! I had clean forgotten
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Glass was good and the reaction to it especially from people who will twist their brain into a pretzel trying to pretend marvel movies are radical works was baffling
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the correct take.
I like his pre-Signs movies and his post-Split movies. Donāt particularly care for the slump in the middle of his career.
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signs and the village are the good ones
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my first m night was the village and adrian brodyās intellectually disabled character made a poor first impression
i worked at a movie theater when the last airbender came out and heard no end of didactic criticism of the man. i remember a crowd unanimously booing the trailer for devil that year
i am curious about the happening, though, that one sounds funny
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Iām a big M Night enjoyer. Devil is good. The Happening is good. The Knock at the Cabin feels closest to those two. I love how he roots all of his characters in Philadelphia.
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Did I ever tell my story here about trying to watch Split on a friendās hacked Amazon Fire setup?
The bootleg movie streaming software she had correlated stuff by title then year. We looked up Split, watched 45 minutes of it, then realized it was a romantic comedy about bowling that came out that same year and was therefore filed under the description for the Shyamalan movie. We were waiting for his patented twist to hit super hard for that first 45 minutes Audition-style because the tone so far was not what we expected.
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Heās in this category of directors for me where I have an intense amount of resentment for people who criticize him but I have little to no interest in ever watching his movies. There just arenāt that many directors doing that kind of hyper personal but also hugely mainstream stuff anymore. Iirc everything he does is self funded too. Heās like a middle ground between Robert Rodriguez and Tyler Perry
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Sorry, Iām not trying to dunk on the movie, I just saw this and it cracked me up.
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this is so good. I think this joke is actually really in spirit with the film, because Skinamarink is basically doing Duck Amuck but in a context that emphasizes the kind of scary absurdity of cartoons and plays it for horror instead of laughs. Itās a keen observation to make this joke!
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agreed, this rules
I recently watched the original Backrooms short that helped kick off the whole backrooms content craze and it was interesting to see that AFTER Skinamarink. Theyāre both clearly reacting to the same horror fascinations of a younger generation that has yet to really fully explore them in commercial media.
I am interested to see more full length horror in this ādrywall is scaryā genre and I think the next one we get will be the A24 full-length Backrooms movie that James Wan is involved in. I think the real next level shit will come when the people making this stuff figure out how to get relationships between characters into their stories. Yeah, okay, itās scary and sad to be trapped in modern American architecture, it makes me feel lost and alienated, drop ceilings make me want to die, etc etc, okay, and?? Gimmie some adult humans interacting with one another in these spaces!
But yeah if you havenāt seen Skinamarink yet definitely do, someday people will be recommending it to you as the best earliest example of zoomer āliminal spaces horrorā 
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There was an episode of Atlanta season 4 that missed out on the horror of liminal space but did develop relational drama in this kind of setting. Maybe the merger will happen sooner than later!
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Oh shit which episode is that
I think itās the first episode, one of the plot threads involves wandering through an endless mall and parking lot. It isnāt scary but it does have some emotional weight to it.
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was sick at home so watched Sadako Vs Kayako, fun but v inessential, my favourite part was when the main girl was watching the curse tape with her friend at the start but then didnāt get cursed herself bc she was texting instead of looking at the screen. it truly is because you be on that phone.
the ending monster mixture of the two curses was cool but otherwise the climax maybe felt like confirmation that these two ghosts whose main thing is walking slowly at you in an unsettling way would not actually be that engaging to watch fightā¦ maybe i should watch freddy vs jason for comparison.
i liked the kane parsons backrooms shorts on youtube so iām curious to see how the backrooms movie goes. it feels like part of why the whole thing has stuck around so long is because it never really developed as a concept in any way, itās sort of the inverse of the increasingly baroque fussiness and worldbuilding of SCPs, the backrooms are only ever the one repeated image and it never seems to accumulate layers or characters or lore in any way which sticks. itās kind of like seeing people pine for going back to memoryless, continuity-free episodic tv after two decades of stuff with arcs
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Yeah I think the reason so many teens have created their own stuff in that setting (and they have done a ton of lore buildingā¦ they just donāt all agree on which bits of it to use as inspiration) is because thereās essentially very little going on there. A perfect blank canvas for your own weird little ideas. Itās an empty genre about empty spaces. This emptiness was also some of my problem with Skinamarink howeverāI think it coulda been even more impactful at 60 minutes long, like it felt like a work on the same scale as Host (2020) was
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I was on the exercise bike today, thinking about this movie, and movies like it, and I decided that I think this would benefit greatly from a single scene at the end where Alexander SkarsgĆ„rd is sitting alone on a chair, and sorta shakes his head, and is like, āThat was some crazy shit that just happened to me.ā, and then it fades out.
Iād like this to be how you close out most movies like this, thatāre more of a collection of bizarre torture scenes and surreal imagery than your typical narrative.
And thatā¦ is The Mothra Take.
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