I've seen 3 Shyamalan movies this year. First, Knock at the Cabin. Which I thought was surprisingly good and I was thinking, could this really be, has he returned to form?
Then I watched Old, and I was infuriated, puzzled, mind blown to see such an ensemble of fantastic actors all acting so atrociously bad.
Now, The Visit cements to me the "why". Because here again, the characters are written so poorly, no acting in the world can save this kind of trash.
I am starting to think that, maybe Shyamalan and his twists are really just preparing us for the biggest twist of all: Shyamalan himself is really from another planet. This is why he can't write believable characters even if his life was at stake. It's like if Michael Jackson had tried to write a genuinely authentic story about life in a rural small town. I don't know if Shyamalan doesn't see regular, normal people no more, or what his problem is. He makes very cool concepts. But his characters are nothing like real, normal people, not in any way. They talk weirdly, the act strangely, and yet, he keeps on making dialogues heavy movies that makes me embarrassed for every single line delivered. Maybe start making alternative, artsy movies abiut aliens and shapes and colors and stuff, man. Because these characters, these dialogues, these motivations they are all some of the very, very, very worst that I have seen in modern movies.
Then I watched Old, and I was infuriated, puzzled, mind blown to see such an ensemble of fantastic actors all acting so atrociously bad.
Now, The Visit cements to me the "why". Because here again, the characters are written so poorly, no acting in the world can save this kind of trash.
I am starting to think that, maybe Shyamalan and his twists are really just preparing us for the biggest twist of all: Shyamalan himself is really from another planet. This is why he can't write believable characters even if his life was at stake. It's like if Michael Jackson had tried to write a genuinely authentic story about life in a rural small town. I don't know if Shyamalan doesn't see regular, normal people no more, or what his problem is. He makes very cool concepts. But his characters are nothing like real, normal people, not in any way. They talk weirdly, the act strangely, and yet, he keeps on making dialogues heavy movies that makes me embarrassed for every single line delivered. Maybe start making alternative, artsy movies abiut aliens and shapes and colors and stuff, man. Because these characters, these dialogues, these motivations they are all some of the very, very, very worst that I have seen in modern movies.