Before a showing of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (a strange but wonderful movie that deserves a posting of its own), I paid witness to the trailer for Devil. Not knowing anything about the movie, I was somewhat intrigued by its suspense-filled, Twilight Zone-like premise.
When it was revealed that Devil comes to us "from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan" and merely plays subtitle to a film series (I think) called "The Night Chronicles," I, along with nearly every member of the audience, burst out laughing. It was a somewhat bizarre experience: never in my many years of movie-going have I ever seen an audience outright laugh at a trailer not intended to elicit laughs.
11 years ago M. Night Shyamalan was taking the country by storm with The Sixth Sense. Today he is being mocked by people who would gladly admit to enjoying the Twilight series (just an indication as to where their standards lie). Play him out, keyboard cat....
Paul and Ilana's Time Travelling Bong
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This is one of the rare exercises in time travel that mentions something
which immediately comes to mind when I think about visiting another time.
I am r...
20 hours ago
I did not even know that Keyboard Cat was an established reference until this post forced me to look it up.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I'm not sure how that cat did not squirm away... mine would not have tolerated it.
Poor M. Night Shyamalan. At least his early films managed to make Philadelphia a movie-genic city again after a mid-ninties drought.