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As did REC, as the protagonist hosted a television show entitled "While You Sleep." Now...once the ish hit the fan in that one, you could maybe make the case for them ending the recording as well but the explanation that she was trying to cover a ridiculous story works fine.

As for this film, if the "force greater than Mother Nature" turns out be something otherworldly as the author suggests, count me in. I'm a bit apprehensive just because I don't know how they'd make a potential Sci-fi element work along with a massive tornado (seems like one or the other should be taking center stage in a film like this), but if it turns out to be anything even remotely alien abduction-y, I'm listening.

Fine, I'll say it:

Pedobear: The Movie.

But wait, I thought that audiences all over America were laughing at the "Devil" trailer. Surely there's more than ONE YouTube video. That sounds like the new joke making the rounds anyway. Anywhere you see an M. Night article, someone in the comments is talking about how their audience burst out laughing when they saw his name in the previews.

Now one of those commenters happens to be a movie blogger as well.

And damn, this was kind of a long article for a movie that you clearly already disliked and for a director who you clearly think is a hack.

A hack who began to show his true colors all the way back during "The Sixth Sense" huh? Cool story, bro.

Mean't to say that I added that last paragraph after scrolling back up to read the rest of the article. I could've worked it into the post, but I just decided to tack it on at the end.

I'd rather take more alien-themed films (X-Files/abduction type), over the recent vampire craze. I think audiences will be plenty receptive to alien-themed films considering here haven't been that many. I'd argue that there aren't enuogh and I don't really think aliens when I think Transformers.

Give me something along the lines of "Communion," or the ideas that "The Fourth Kind" played around with (not the whole re-enactment bit). Something like what the "Mothman Prophecies" tried to do. Something SCARY. That's the type of alien film that we need more of and while I didn't particularly like Platinum Dunes' "Friday the 13th" remake, it wasn't a poorly made film, and I'm all for alien abduction stories.

This could be good.

Oh, I'll admit that I didn't read all the way to the end of the article but I noticed your comments about the "The Fourth Kind minus the 'this is real' shtick," and I, obviously agree wholeheartedly. That's what we need more of. Though I didn't think Paranormal Activity was that great at all.

I'd like to think that that could be the case, but then why do would they make it a point to introduce Eames as the guy who is on the team specifically to mimic a person close to the mark.

They wouldn't really need Eames if it were that easy would they?

Why do people take this perceived downfall so seriously? Will someone pull out the cop out argument of "he showed so much potential early on and I just REALLY want him to find his footing again..."?

It's weird that there's so much made of a guy that so many people clearly see as a hack. I, personally, am a fan of his and while I thought that The Happening was pretty poor (but he did say that he wanted it to pretty much be a B-movie), I didn't HATE "The Village" or "Lady in the Water" as much as other people did. As for The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs, every film has its problems, but I can't see how anyone can see those movies as anything other than quality films. The Sixth Sense would probably be his crowning achievement, but, and maybe this is because of my fascination with the alien invasion/abduction genre, I thought Signs was awesome.

It's just that you see shit like My Bloody Valentine 3d, and the endless sequels to Final Destination, Prom Night remakes, the raping of the Freddy and Halloween franchises, and there seems to be more outrage about M. Night's fall from grace.

If anything, I don't take him, or his career, seriously enough to consider this a talking point. I also don't see some gradual decline from The Sixth Sense to Airbender. It was three really good movies in The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs. Followed by some weird ones (with some very effective scenes, mind you) that I probably wouldn't watch again but kept me interested until the end. And then there's The Happening and Airbender (which I haven't seen). The "twist" in The Happening was pretty shitty, I'll admit, but that doesn't really take away from how creepy the rest of the film was. Now I'm just looking for him to get back on form, which I think is entirely possible as he's only really made, in my estimation, 2 films of questionable quality.

Maybe too much of a fan, or perhaps I'm something of an apologist but if Uwe Boll can keep making this direct-to-DVD trash, and the other slasher flicks and shitty rom-coms can keep getting made, I see no reason why M. Night's career has to be over. It's just weird that in the wake of Airbender there's been all of this energy put towards this re-evaluation of a relatively young career and a signalling of the end of it as well.

Found my way here through Cinematical and just wanted to say that it's really weird (and cool) that I was just thinking about Signs (and "Fire in the Sky") after seeing an article about some of M. Night's new films and was hoping that someone would do a piece like this on the movie.

This didn't scare quite as much as "Fire in the Sky" did, mainly due to the fact that I was around 9 when I saw it, but this is right there and it's definitely a better movie overall.

Best alien invasion movie that I think I've ever seen and although M. Night probably won't go back to this subject, I hope that we get another alien-themed film like this from someone good in the near future.

Call me crazy, but I didn't find AvP 2 to be that bad. It was probably because I didn't have the same high expectations for it that came with the first one. with AvP I was extremely disappointed that they took such a cool concept and did next to nothing with it.

With the second I just wanted to see what would happen when the aliens finally got to Earth. I don't like using the "turn your brain off and have fun" argument, but that's kind of what I did in this case. I'm not as invested in the property as others though so maybe it was a bit easier for me to do that.

As for I, Robot, I thoroughly enjoyed that one so I'm not sure that I can say that I agree with this sentiment. So long as he doesn't take what appears to be a series held in very high regard (I'm about to grab it from Amazon), and give it the same treatment that he gave the AvP movies. We might be in good shape.

Didn't know much about The Martian Chronicles before checking it out after seeing this article but it sounds like it's right up my alley. My most recent sci-fi reading has been largely comprised of cyberpunk (Richard K. Morgan; and this was about a year ago) but that cover of one of the paperback editions gave me a real Frank Frazetta vibe and made me think about two of the weirdest, but most awesome sci-fi/fantasy-themed animated movies that I've ever seen in Light years and Fantastic Planet as well. Sure it's only a cover, but it'll help me let my imagination go nuts.

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They aren't. But someone will tell you that it's an early build (which it probably is). Though they did feel that it was good enough to show off.

I also don't know how I feel about helicopters.

And that stupid missile objective-based mode was not impressive.

It really doesn't look or feel like the old Twisted Metal, especially with these damn snipers in the cars.

I guess I'll reserve judgment until I get a chance to see more and/or rent it, but I didn't get the OMG! reaction that I thought I would.