If I've got it right, most people like his early movies like The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, but then he suddenly realized that he wanted to save the world with movies or something like that, and most people seem to view him as kind of, I don't know, pretentious, but in a silly, shallow kind of way? Started with Lady in the Water where there was this half-woman, half-fish person living in a swimming pool somewhere, and then there are these evil forces out to get here, and all of this is supposedly an allegory for life on Earth, but the best part was that Shyalaman cast himself as a writer who will save the world, but lose everything in return. And then, following this, he made this movie with this environmentalist message where plants or something start turning people into trees or something like that, because they're angry at people for polluting, and I heard it really made no sense if you knew the slightest about how trees and the sort work. Also, I remember the acting was kind of... wooden. Ironically. So that movie was all kind of uncanny, really.
Anyways. Since then I have that impression, based on what I hear and read and all that, that I mentioned. Personally I like his movies a lot. Especially The Village. There's this village in the movie, right? And in this village a lot of people live. But they're scared of the woods! Because there are these really cool, but not to them I guess, monsters with red cloaks! Anyways. This blind girl that lives in the village is about to marry Johnny Cash, but then Johnny Cash gets sick, and to save him she has to go through those woods. So what we have here is a movie about a blind, lovestruck girl going through a wood filled with these bizarre monsters to save the guy she loves!! How poetic is that? And then there is a twist in the end!
I also liked those newer ones that nobody seems to like, but in a different way maybe? I can really watch anything with Zooey Deschanel in it so I handled The Happening fine, and Lady in the Water was, if not anything else, different. I mean, I wasn't bored watching it, and I remember all the pieces falling into place in a very satisfying way in the end. So I'm cool with him in any case, though I guess I kind of see why people would dislike him as well. Then on the other hand I have a suspicion Shyalaman has a thing for the misunderstood artist thingy.
I don't know
