The many mistakes of M. Night Shyamalan 

"My dad doesn't like Coral." This was just a reference to his father's hatred for the kid from The Walking Dead.

Giuseppe seems to be the clear winner in this whole thing. He really dodged a bullet there.

I'm absolutely obsessed with the Last Airbender. It fails on every single level. I've watched it over and over. Would love to see a behind the scenes documentary. I really hope the cast and crew get an opportunity to share what happened from their POV.

M. Night does this thing where he has what he thinks is a cool, high concept premise (and often he's right) and then immediately starts phoning it in. All through the writing and directing process, he clearly decides again and again that it doesn't matter whether the plot makes any sense or the characters' actions or motivations are logical or believable, as long as we get the weird premise and the BIG TWIST! at the end. He's under the impression that he's such a gifted filmmaker that he doesn't need to worry about minutiae like logic, plausibility, characterization, or character arcs because his underlying concept & visual style are so strong that the audience will be too blown away to care. It's like he heard that story about Steven Spielberg telling Peter Benchley not to worry about the scuba tank blowing up at the end of JAWS because the audience will be so engaged by then that they'll buy any ending they're given and decided that he's so brilliant he can make whole movies that way.

The biggest disappointment of Old was that Night’s cameo wasn’t the boy aging into him😤

Well, I do not understand the hate for the Movie "Old". I sat alone in a darkened Cinema and watched 'Old' for what felt like 9 hours. Image my delight to note that, upon leaving the Cinema, only 108 Minutes had gone by. This means that I gained over 7 hours! If I watch this Movie once a day for 10 years, Two things will happen: A) I will gain over 1,000 Hours!!! and B) I will be utterly insane.

I feel like it’s not even a mystery if you don’t give the audience legitimate clues to the solution. Sixth Sense did have some of that. But now it’s just pulling out something without at least letting us try and deduce them ourselves as the audience

while coming up with the worst plot twist I could think of, I told my friends in the theater as a joke "what if the monsters in The Village weren't real and they were living in modern day? lmao." when it actually happened I face palmed so hard.

The biggest twist that M. Night could pull on me at this point, would be making a half-decent movie...

The biggest problem I had with this movie was that, just like in The Village (no spoilers for either movie), there's this great big info-dump at the end to "explain" everything, and it makes sense when you first hear it, but as you think about it more afterwards it raises even more questions/plot holes. M. Night needs to realize that a "twist" and an "info-dump" are not the same thing.

M. Night thinks his Last Airbender movie is good so clearly he's insane

This guy (M. Night) has completely wrecked the twist ending for other filmmakers. It's a trick (like jump scares) that you can't use a lot, so you have to make it count, and Shayamalan has blown it for people who make thrillers or mysteries.

You know. It is clear how egotistical M. Night truly is. He is pretty dang good at cinematography, Old is shot very well, all of his movies look great, He can make a pretty interesting concept for a movie as well. But if he would just hire a dang screenplay writer who can handle the dialogue/pacing and the actors, I think he could make A+ stuff here. But he keeps thinking he needs to do it all.

Mid Size Sedan going "dang" is how I feel about every Shyamalan "twist" post-Unbreakable. Like, wow... so... what else

The issue I have with the twist discussion is that the Twilight Zone did this successfully for multiple episodes. I appreciate the twist ending, it's has to be good though, and M. Night just can't always deliver.

At the start of The Village, when they discuss the "forbidden box", I thought it was a television. So from that moment on, the movie was set in present day for me, with the villagers simply having shunned all technology and went back to basics. So yeah, the twist ending was kind of blown for me.

Mid-Size Sedan had some good songs, sure... but let's all be honest here... his career was just never the same after he broke it off with Four Door Hatchback.

“That’s Mid-Sized Sedan!” I hysterically laughed at that for about 2 mins straight.

He always has to have this twist or reveal and be deep and mysterious. Sometimes I just want to watch a movie.

I think it's pretty clear that M. Night sold his soul to the crossroads demon who only gave him a 3-movie deal.

"Midsize Sedan" is a perfect rapper name, you have to admit. "Ford Pinto" would also have worked if he had really FIERY and EXPLOSIVE lyrics. ;)

I asked for "Old" movie review and got a 20 minutes Shyamalan rant! That's above and beyond anything I could've asked for! TNX Mark❤

“Wait until she learns about Amazon!” Still laughing at your timing and delivery of that line!! 😂🤣🤣😂

The Sixth Sense didn’t surprise me at all.. Bruce Willis was shot right in the heart in the beginning of the movie, with nobody coming to help, and now his wife won’t talk to him and the kid says he sees dead people in the trailer.

All it needed was a messianic figure turning up who promises to lead them through the coral, and you'd have a Neil Breen movie.

Nothing can be more pretentious than Lady In The Water, which turns into an origin story of M.Night playing the most important writer in the world who’s writing will save the world. And he also kills an always wrong movie critic to boot too in the movie

The Simpsons predicted a bad, over-hyped horror movie called The Happening in a Halloween episode from like 1995. They called it the "The Crappening" lol.

Poor dude made "The Sixth Sense" then became the lord of one trick ponies.

Hilarious and genuinely insightful regarding M. Night's filmography.

What a great RU-vidr, Mark is seriously underrated. I showed my parents your RU-vid channel and they laughed their asses off. They were also in shock that you didn’t have more subscribers. Keep it up man. You always make me laugh.

Another one of his movies where the ending makes you squirm in your seat with visceral disgust as you wait for the credits to roll.

I love the twist in The Last Airbender where you find out he never watched the show

To describe Shyamalan's career I'll quote Shakespeare: "The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones."

I'd never forgiven Shyamalan for The Last Airbender, to be honest. So, so, so bad... I never even knew about Old, really. I guess that's a good thing.

M. Night Shyamalan is exactly what happened if Neil Breen gets himself Hollywood level budget.

The Happenings explanation was hilarious, that trees and house plants were on the warpath. I couldn’t believe that M. Night thought that explanation was gonna be taken seriously. And the Village’s twist wasn’t much better. I’m all for imaginative and creative movies, with “out there twists,” but really, killer trees?

The delivery of the hair and nails explanation, sounds exactly how I imagine M Night's buddy offering his own suggestion

M. Night Shyamalan is pretty much a parody of himself now.

You really brought up a good point on the twist ending expectations and the lack of investment and trust in the very story we are being shown. You worded it perfectly in a way I wish someone would show him.

“Narfs” were one of his best trolls. The whole Korean lady plot in lady in the water is just gold!! 😂😂😂

The characters on that magical beach should of taken a hint of what was going on when Midsized Sedan turned into a gas electric hybrid, then electrical and then became a cold fusion powered flying car.

Mark. There’s a movie called “Party Camp” made in the mid 80s that is pure 80s bad movie teen sex comedy goodness. A friend of mine starred in it and I always give him crap. Please please please review it. Love your videos!

The baby thing was the most inconsistent aspect of the entire movie I feel. The reason why is because the film establishes that time is a danger as an internal factor and NOT an external one. More specifically, how time itself impacts the physical aspects of someone's body. For instance, if you take into consideration what happened to the baby (it dying due to lack of attention) and apply this to everybody else, then it would mean that the group should have begun experiencing large gaps in time between their own conversations. For them it should have felt like HOURS or days between talks but it didn't. In fact for them things seems to be progressing at a pretty average rate. Nobody on the beach was ever losing their sense of time throughout this whole thing and therefore this should have been the case with the baby too even though it was aging. What would have been a better argument would be to say that babies are more fragile and because of this have LESS resistance to things than someone older would. So a better excuse would be to say that the baby starved to death because it couldn't consume food fast enough due to its metabolism burning too fast. If you remember the kids eating a lot of food or being hungry at one point could have been used as a basis for this argument. But even on that note, it makes me think about another problem with this film.... Why didn't they ALL die within the first half hour? If your aging that fast then your body would naturally need to consume food faster too in order to maintain itself. If making it to the end of the day was like YEARS passing by then this would also be like them going years without eating. You cant argue that someone seizures speed up but their NEED to consume food doesn't. It makes no sense because in this case the issue is always gonna be the changes in biology. The movie seemed like it really couldn't make up its mind about which set of rules it wanted to follow.

If you take away the suspension from the “suspension of disbelief “ , you’re left with the disbelief.

Two humans held a super hero down in a puddle of water …a super hero….that could tangle with “The Beast”

You say that like a joke, but that’s actually how we found out our parents were divorcing - went to the Toronto EX (think six flags), and there was this bizarre energy to the day, then we get home and my dads just like “Well, time to head out to a hotel, me and your mom are getting separated”. Haha so that was fun! Turns out he’s been cheating on her constantly and was pretty verbally abusive. Anyways, point is haha yup, that shit happens!

My disillusion with the twists started with :'The Sixth Sense' when Bruce Willis is shot. My immediate thought was 'No one could survive that!' And every scene after that just confirmed it. And that, as far as I am concerned, is his best movie.

Iv had this movie "Old" sitting in my downloads folder for about a week now, im so glad you uploaded this, you saved me much needless pain and anguish.

Mid sized sedan might be the best name I have ever heard in a movie

It’s almost like he’s an incompetent writer/director who got lucky with a couple movies

"Now, a lot of people associate M. Night Shyamalan with a twist ending." I associate M. Night Shamalamadingdong with potentially good movies that have that "tries too hard" failure :)

Even after all these years I'm still not sure how I feel about him as a director. What I can't deny: I still get a little bit excited when I hear he has a new movie.

So, Mark ... what you are saying is ... M. Night should focus more on an actual good story and characters instead of plot twists all the time? I mean, I agree but ... I don't think he knows how to do that anymore

The biggest mystery is why companies keep hiring him to make movies.

*Fun Facts* *M. Night Shyamalan was born August 6th 1970* *He was born in India but raised in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania.* *The cumulative gross of all his films so far exceeds 3.3 billion globally* (10/2021)

There’s an episode of “The IT Crowd” where before Roy watches a movie someone tells him there’s a twist at the end. Roy’s was like “Oh, now I know there's a twist. I'm gonna spend the whole movie trying to guess what the twist is.” Moss says to forget there's a twist. And Roy says “how can you forget there's a twist?”

Mid Size Sedan is alright, but I've always liked Sporty Hatchback better.

In the mother's defence, maybe she usually looks for vacation spots, by aimlessly flying around the South Pacifac.

The Village was also a turning point for me. I knew the final twist halfway in the movie: I had seen it in an Outer Limits episode.

I feel ya man, his own hubris onscreen really seems to plague alot of his flicks. I honestly felt pretty betrayed as the credits rolled on the Village, and I was off the Shammalamma train! Though my 13yr old is definitely gonna be shown the 1st three! (And Split 😄)

"His name was Guiseppe Giorgio.... but everybody called him... Giorgio."

I've got to be honest I couldn't even get into Split all that much. Behind all the marketing, all the hype, when you get down to it, if you take away McAvoy's performance, it largely feels like the other Shyamalan movies that turned his career into a parody. The Shyamalan tropes that people make fun of are still there, the awkward self-insert cameo, the equally awkward dialogue, actors starring vacantly right into the camera, a script that thinks it's much deeper than it actually is. The only difference is McAvoy is able to give a performance in a Shyamalan without embarrassing himself and that alone should've gotten McAvoy an Oscar nomination because many otherwise good actors have not been able to say the same. Guys like Joaquin Phoenix, Dev Petel, Paul Giamatti, Mark Wahlberg, Will Smith will have memes made about them forever because for all of M. NIght's faults perhaps his biggest one is somewhere along the way he lost the ability to get his actors to behave like humans on screen.

Just when you said “that’s how you get a satisfying ending” an advert break hit halfway through the word ending and it was such a hint at what’s to come

I actually really enjoyed the campiness of the Happening, as well as the reveal at the end of the Village. I was in my very early 20’s when the best M. Night movies started coming around and because of that, I was much less critical of movies than I am now at 45. Signs and the Sixth Sense are still 2 of my favorite movies, period. Speaking of the Sixth Sense, I can recall the reaction of the crowd in the movie theater like it happened yesterday. But check this out...I just dug up my ticket stubs of all the movies I went to see in 1999 and this is how busy (and fucking blown away) I was that summer: The Matrix Blair Witch Project Fight Club Office Space American Beauty Magnolia The Green Mile Man on the Moon Holy shit!!! What a lineup! And there are even at least 10 to 15 more bangers that came out in ‘99 that I didn’t see in theaters.

20 seconds in and I'm laughing my ass off. I love your deadpan approach, Mark. Oh, and I always say the TO! part along ahahaha

The thing is ... "The Sixth Sense" is pretty much a Frank Marshall movie. That's the reason it has such a intriguing and coherent story. As soon as M Night seperated himself from Frank Marshall, he slowly shifted to those bad stories we have seen in past decade ...

The problem I had with the Sixth Sense was that even though the twist hadn't been spoilt for me before I saw it, I knew it had a big twist. Because I knew this, I predicted what the twist was very early in the movie - I kept asking myself why no-one was interacting with Bruce Willis, then it hit me. I imagine if I had gone in cold it would have had an impact, but that's the problem with twist movies - when you know there is one you look for clues about it. The exception would be The Usual Suspects - I defy anyone to have predicted that twist before the end of the movie - it truly came out of nowhere but made perfect sense after the reveal and changed the nature of the entire experience.

My Granny actually guessed the ending to 6th Sense 5 minutes in. She wrote it down and showed me after the movie. But she's also seen a bajillion movies in her thousands of years on this planet, so she's got that edge.

Yeah Resort Rip Van Winkle. I think people calling him the next Alfred Hitchcock went to his head. I like some of his movies but I never was what you would call a fan.

To me, M Night was always "Okay" at directing. He's not the worst director I've seen, he's just pretty mediocre at best.

How can you hate The Happening? It's one of the best comedies out there!

The trappings of debuting with one of the best movie twists ever...

I love The Happening ironically and I will die on that hill.

I will say, even though I don't like most of his movies I can respect him more than someone like Michael Bay. At the very least I feel like M Night Shyamalan is trying to make good movies unlike Michael Bay who only cares about money.

' The Plot Hole King", M. Night Shamalan's films are like someone took Rod Serling's stories and gave them to an 11 year old to rewrite.

When I spoke to M. Night, I gave him one advice: in your next movie, apply 2 things: misdirection and a double-twist

Mark has a standard American accent, can't tell he's Canadian but when he said "rabbit out of a haaat" his Canuckness briefly manifested itself.

This was a great review and I loved how Mark was pretty much able to cover M. Night's entire body of work in such a compact, yet detailed frame of time. Ironically, the only Shyamalan product I truly enjoyed in recent years wasn't directed by him, but based on one of his stories - it was "Devil" which, at only 80 minutes, was very satisfying on all levels, from the claustrophobic atmosphere, to the characterizations... and right down to the final reveal which, for once, didn't disappoint. I didn't really like "The SIxth Sense" (sorry if that's blasphemy) and I am the only person I know who actually enjoyed "The Happening" - a lot. I also really liked "Signs" up until the idiotic ending. I agree with Mark about "Unbreakable", which I think is his most balanced and successful film to date. I loathed "The Village" and couldn't even finish "Lady in the Water". "The Visit" gave me a headache with that hand-held camera so I wasn't able to enjoy much. You gotta hand it to him, though, he has an undeniable passion for his work AND isn't going to let any bad reviews or poor box-office convince him that he's really not all that. I actually find an endearing similarity between him and Ed Wood in that department!

Here's a twist ending: M.Night makes a decent movie. Then retires. What a twist!

There is a full size pickup concert tonight. He goes on right after compact two seater, and unicycle.

The one thing I hated while watching Old was all the characters incessantly narrating their actions. That reminded me of his "American audiences have different sensibilities" comment, which everybody knew he meant he thought Murricans were dumb and didn't understand his movies, so he made the characters CONSTANTLY mention their actions to help the dumb-dumb audience to understand it better. I'm SEAsian with English as a 2nd language and even I think he (and this movie's characters) are dumb. Sucks because the premise of the movie was interesting tho

I never felt like he was passionate at all. Ive just always felt like he thought he was brilliant and could do no wrong. I mean, he is the chosen one in his own movie.

This movie almost made me fall asleep in the theater. I never expected such a thing from Shyamalan.

It bugged me so bad that the 2 children found their way back to the hotel.

I really don't like hating on Shyamalan as he CAN deliver really good stuff. The problem is with him, you always gotta gamble. "Am I feeling Unbreakable today, or is my luck gonna turn into a Lady in the Water"...

Rufus Sewell and Gael Garcia Bernal are 2 of my favorite actors. Even they aren't enough for me to spend the time watching the whole movie.

I was 13 when the village came out. 20 minutes in I figured it out and never watched a m. Knight movie till the happening then not again till split. Poor guy he’s obviously talented.

My friends and I figured out the Village too. We guessed the ending before she even went into the woods. The one with the Devil in the elevator is amazing. The toast landing butter or jam up. It was amazing. Right up there with the Happening. God I love that movie. It’s my guilty pleasure movie. It’s so bad it’s awesome.

This sums up a lot of what I have always thought about his movies. It's like people see a scary trailer and have goldfish memory re the other shit movies this guy has put out.

M. Knight is the prime example of why you shouldnt huff your farts

M. Night Shamalan should just do Goosebumps-Movies. That's basically all when his movies are.

I'm one of the rare people that actually enjoyed _the Village_ and this video just helped me figure out why: it's because when I watched _the Village,_ I didn't know it was an M Night Shyamalan movie so I wasn't already expecting a twist.

This is my favorite episode of yours. It shows how much you love movies and your vast knowledge of them and the types of cliches increasingly found in Shyamalan's films. Your passion and frustration is so palpable around 15:43, proving how much you care about it. Bravo.

I'm not a big fan of that movie Signs. Talk about aliens who did absolutely no reconnaissance. Water is their weakness but they invade a planet that over 70% of its surface is covered by water. All we need to do is have an army of Super Soakers to defeat them.

His movies are the equivalent of fever dreams. Disjointed, convoluted, confusing, frustrating and unsatisfying, but kind of cathartic!

I actually knew going in that the twist of The Village was going to be that the events take place in modern times because watching promotional interviews with the actors before release, they just kept going on and on about the specific year that the movie was set in, and I found it odd that they would consistently refer to the specific year each time the subject was brought up. No surprises in the theater that opening night.

Fingernails and hair grow from the living part at their base, not the dead part. Just a FYI for M Night if he’s checking out his mentions. (You know he does . . .) Also: No love for Signs? A perfectly decent film up to the twist reveal. And his cameo.

I've been waiting for thiss

M. Night is a Hit or Miss; Loved the Signs and Most of the 6th Sense Triology But his Most Iconic Style Like Lady in the Water and The Village, Which should be his Specialty, Fell Flat to his Potential.

As a fellow film reviewer, this is great stuff. Night's twists seem to be an albatross for him. His best assets are being a Hitchcock fan. His worst is what he has locked himself into. The twist ending. And he still hasn't grown beyond it. "Old" was another twist & one of the silliest. His cameos are a nod to Hitchcock. The problem is, he gives himself too many lines and the man CANNOT ACT. It's been well over twenty years now since "Sixth Sense" and Night hasn't grown a bit. That's a shame. Well done man.