After weeks of procrastinating and other things coming in the way, H and I finally decided to go for a movie Sunday afternoon. My first choice was the Great Gatsby, read the books many many years ago and liked it. Also, there's meant to be a cameo by Amitabh Bachchan. Unfortunately the timings weren't right. Saw that M. Night Shyamalan had a new movie out, so booked and went.
And what a disappointment! I cannot believe this is the same director who made the Sixth Sense, or even Signs for that matter. Sixth Sense is one of my all time favourites, need him to make a movie like that, not another huge Hollywood studio mass formula production full of cheesy predictable material.
No point going into the story because its too predictable - synopsis is that its based in the future and Will Smith and his son are stranded on a very dangerous Earth, the son has to sort out a beacon 100kms away which will rescue them etc. Too predictable in the way Jaden Smith is saved and kept safe, in the special effects, in the background of what happened to his sister etc.
The one and only one moment in the film I perked up was when his sister appears and yells at him to wake up, turning into a nasty looking ghost(?) I kept thinking its going to turn surreal and unpredictable after that, but, never mind.
I actually looked at H a few times during the movie wondering what we'd paid to watch. Hopefully Shyamalan's next wont be the same and Columbia will let him make his movies without the mass formula.
As an aside, Zoe Kravitz, who plays the sister is extremely pretty. She is Lenny Kravitz's daughter (as is obvious). His song Again is one of my most loved. :)
And what a disappointment! I cannot believe this is the same director who made the Sixth Sense, or even Signs for that matter. Sixth Sense is one of my all time favourites, need him to make a movie like that, not another huge Hollywood studio mass formula production full of cheesy predictable material.
No point going into the story because its too predictable - synopsis is that its based in the future and Will Smith and his son are stranded on a very dangerous Earth, the son has to sort out a beacon 100kms away which will rescue them etc. Too predictable in the way Jaden Smith is saved and kept safe, in the special effects, in the background of what happened to his sister etc.
The one and only one moment in the film I perked up was when his sister appears and yells at him to wake up, turning into a nasty looking ghost(?) I kept thinking its going to turn surreal and unpredictable after that, but, never mind.
I actually looked at H a few times during the movie wondering what we'd paid to watch. Hopefully Shyamalan's next wont be the same and Columbia will let him make his movies without the mass formula.
As an aside, Zoe Kravitz, who plays the sister is extremely pretty. She is Lenny Kravitz's daughter (as is obvious). His song Again is one of my most loved. :)
No comments:
Post a Comment