But he made more good movies!
LKJ out here saying nobody gets a second chance. I never thought heād be the one.
Lady in the Water WAS the second chance. Somehow I went back to the theater for another Shyamalan movie after The Village happened. That was incredibly gracious (read: stupid) of me.
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Itās not your fault. The Village was a good movie.
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Stinker of a twist, but otherwise a good movie.
So small local theater has done a cheap $2 4th of July after fireworks comedy movie. Absolutely killed it the last two years with Airplane and Tte Big Lebowski. Not digging the choice of Talladega Nights
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Well I concede Lady is a bad movie.
But to my eye, heās only had four true stinkers. Thatās probably a better batting average than Ridley Scott.
Lol ugh
Years ago when I lived in a small college town in the South, their independent theater had a classic film night where they showed what looked to be an original film print of Empire Strikes Back. Whoo it was an experience.
Thirteenth Floor
5/10
Released in 1999, a man finds his world isnāt real and is only a simulation, but instead of a Kung fu movie, this is a noir movie.
Unfortunately the script is a mess. Normally youād have a set up to the mystery but in this case there is none. I didnāt even realize the police were suspecting him of murder, instead of just investigating a murder until the police officer said it. The graphics of jacking into the simulation are silly.
The visuals were pretty cool though. The noir touches makes a lot of the scenes kind of striking.
The Thirteenth Floor was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film but lost to The Matrix.
Not even a close comparison, just superior in every way.
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek called the film "much better than The Matrix ".[10
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13th Floor Elevators are much better as far as 13th floors go
This is one of my favorite movies!
But I would argue Dark City directorās cut is the far superior noir.
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Itās strange that three movies so similar all came out so close together. Dark City has the best plot, the Matrix is well the Matrix and this one stands out on how much it is really is an homage to a noir, just with a slight twist.
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Better writers/critics than I
https://x.com/davidehrlich/status/1935442961547845984?t=0arzcwVOPdSHdtIYBB8SuQ&s=19
https://x.com/BrndnStrssng/status/1936996086893465855?t=zNsIu0mzWNgHGLoWryCjQg&s=19
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You wonāt find me caping for Ridley, thatās for sure. Iām pretty discerning about what Iāll watch from Ridley too. But theyāre very different directors. They donāt compare very easily, but the way I see itā¦
*Ridley has higher highs, and I say that as someone who dislikes Blade Runner and isnāt counting it as a high.
*Ridley isnāt generally (ever?) failing because he was trotting out a silly gimmick and passing it off as a movie. Heās just high-volume, has little central directorial vision and seems like more of a hired hand with certain significant talents that can deliver an excellent movie when he binks the right project. He has a poorly functioning garbage filter, so yeah the batting average is unimpressive.
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Ridley is also 87 and working only for reasons known to him. He doesnāt enjoy working from what Iāve read but still does it. Why?
I wonāt forgive him for butchering The Passage so badly the actually interesting story never even got a chance to form before getting canceled.
Ridley should have hung it up after Prometheus. Before actually.
Why hang it up when people are willing to pay you for what you can do in your sleep?
I liked Prometheus, come at me.
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The Counselor
The Martian
All the Money in the World
The Last Duel
All worth him continuing to release terrible movies if he occasionally gives us another banger.