I will defend most of his movies to my last breath, because they had at least something that kept me interested and intrigued, with the exception of Signs (terrible movie). It’s not about twists for me. It’s about the subject matter.

Granted, The Happening wasn’t his best-written film, but it still kept me interested. If any of that happened to you, I think you’d sh** yourself in fear, and be the first ones to die.

LitW was one of his better films, because it was meant as a fairy tale, and thus I had no problem with suspension of disbelief.

I dislike how most people are bashing The Village. It was one of his best. I know people were expecting a horror movie when it is in fact a love story, no thanks to the way the trailer was edited, but Shayamalan had no control over that. As for the twist, I thought it was awesome, not thrilling. I wasn’t expecting thrills for that. I know his style by now.

Finally, I think doing a sequel to Unbreakable would be an interesting idea, but I liked where it ended. And as for the people who say that he has lost his touch, I say thee nay!

The only thing that’s wrong is that too many people today have ADD and can’t take anything that isn’t action-packed at a Michael Bay pace. They need their adrenaline to be pumped every millisecond, and I find that very sad.

Filmmaking should be about bringing people ideas and shaping minds to act responsibly in their day-to-day environment, to think for themselves and not watch the trash that Hollywood comes up with on a daily basis.

End rant!

I would love to see another chapter in unbreakable. it was a comic book based in the real world.

As stated ^ ‘Unbreakable’ was meant as a possible series of films, but since Shaymalan wanted to make other films, and the actors got more films…it fell by the wayside. M.Night’s Mous House partnership, as noted, had come to a head with Lady In The Water. He blasted the studio for passing on the project.
The film flopped.

While I won’t rule out another, different film with Sam Jackson and Bruce Willis- long overdue for the next pairing- I also don’t think it will be Unbreakable II.

Likewise, as much as it pains me to write this, I think M.Night would be better off NOT revisiting past films but rather doing other films. I could see him crossing over into a film noir like genre for example, or doing a vampire-type film.

Listen.

I can’t join on the wagon train here 100%. I think Shyamalan still has some talent in him, I don’t think he’s a “terrible” writer-director at all. He just tends to overthink, or throw in a twist/surprise that either makes no sense whatsoever, (Signs, Village, Water) or isn’t that much of a shock (such as in Unbreakable, answering questions which the audience never asked)

So I’ll say it again. M Night has to re-invent a little or try other (related) genres. The Happening may have been stupid, but I’ll defend that scene where the kid gets randomly blown away by that shotgun by the recluse paranoid farmer any day. That scene I didn’t see coming. Did it make sense in the course of the film? No. But it was effective, and the only true scare of that film.

(Then again, as a friend pointed out to me last year, people going bonkers over a breeze hasn’t got much impact or shock value; a loud, bloody shotgun blast to the head at point blank range on the other hand…)