7.23.10 - 12:00PM
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Emmy Blotnick

Theater Audiences Groan and Laugh at M. Night Shyamalan's Name

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Here's something I never thought I'd say: I almost feel bad for M. Night Shyamalan. Almost.

Entire audiences are collectively groaning and laughing at his name in the trailer for his next movie Devil and, from the sound of it, it's happening in theaters everywhere. Granted it's a little Emperor's New Clothes-y to include a title card that reads "From the mind of M. Night Shyamalan" but still, ouch. It's sad that his career has plummeted to a point where his name is a punch line even before your wacky uncle has a chance to call him "Shyama-lama-ding-dong" again.

But just like that, I'm all out of sympathy. Let's face it, Devil looks like some grade-D '90s-era nonsense and you'd have to be out of your mind to brag about M. Night's creative involvement in anything these days, be it a summer blockbuster or a community theater puppet show. After the break, we've got all the hilarious evidence you'll ever need that American audiences have had their share of this guy and his mind.

In case the video didn't make it clear enough, maybe a couple graphs will do the trick:

link:// Break: Audience Groans at M. Night Shyamalan's Name
link:// Gawker: Audience Laughs at Seeing M. Night Shyamalan's Name in Movie Trailer
link:// Slashfilm: LOL: Graph Predicts M. Night Shyamalan Will Be Responsible for the First Ever Negative Tomatometer Reading
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7.23.10

By Annemarie Dooling

Neutral

Poor M. Knight!

7.25.10

By N.DayShamalan

Neutral

The thing is, you can't tell exactly what the very very few snickers in the theatre are about. I expected a "collective groan" or "collective snickering" what I got was 1 or 2 chuckles, probably from this D-Bags pretensious friends.

Fact is, he is in Hollywood making movies, and these guys are paying to go to theatres to WATCH movies. Enough said.

7.25.10

By Danny

Neutral

Jeez, "book by cover" much?
Y'mean to tell me that didn't look vaguely interesting to anyone?

7.25.10

By sunny

Neutral

Yeah...I kinda feel bad for the guy too.
He's become a joke.
I suspect there is some talent in there somewhere.
I just don't know where.

7.25.10

By KAT

Highest Rank

WHO KEEPS GIVING THIS GUY $$$ TO MAKE THESE MOVIES? THEY NEED TO STOP!!!

7.25.10

By Abraxus

Neutral

I think he may a heap of money from The Sixth Sense and a little less from his next 2, but it's been enough to keep him going. He's kind of a one trick pony though - the first movie was great, quite a good twist at the end, and then he kept trying to do the good twist at the end in every movie after. His movies are all supposed to be "documentary-like" so I think it is HIS fault that all his actors appear wooden in the movies - he makes them act that way. I bet the Last Airbender could have made more money has his name not been attached to it - I didn't even consider going to see it at AMC because of previous feelings of being ripped off at his most recent awful flops!

7.25.10

By Mark

Neutral

I've enjoyed M. Night Shyamalan's movies ever since the early years of him making movies. Unbreakable was a bit childish, but it was passable. Then his movie The Village came out and it was terrible. The Lady in The Water didn't do much better, Then the movie The Happening just wasn't happening for me. Mark Whalberg is a fairly good actor, yet in The Happening, it seems like he was reading from Que Cards, his acting was terrible, but then I watched a few movies Mark acted in after The Happening, and he was right on spot again. Could it be that the movies M. Night Shyamalan has been making for the past decade, just haven't mustered?

It's unfortunate if that's the case, because M. Night Shyamalan started off to be a good creator of movies, and a good movie director. I haven't seen his movie THE LAST AIRBENDER. I did watch a short trailer of it on tv, the speial effects seemed to be ok looking, but obviously, the movie didn't do well. I hadn't heard anything about this new movie by M. Night Shyamalan titled DEVIL, until I just read about it.

I wonder though if someone paid these people to laugh at M. Night Shyamlana's latest movie screening. If you listen to the people watching the screening of his latest movie, they begin laughing right before M. Night Shyamalan's name is even shown on the screen.

But I have to admit, ever since M. Night made his movie The Village, I've noticed his other more recent films have also lost creativity. The acting just isn't good enough within the actors of his most recent films. I wonder if M. Night Shyamalan is trying to tell the actors how to act, instead of giving them pointers and directing them on how to naturally react.

M. Night Shyamalan is the creator and the director of his movies, he's directing the actors, and if they seem like unseasoned actors, then it's due to his own manner of directing them. It's either that, or it's a conspiracy created against him by the actors he's been using in his movies since he wrote and directed The Village.

7.25.10

By rude

Highest Rank

I was paid $2.00 to laugh. The guy behind got $.50 more to throw popcorn at the screen. Not sure what they paid the woman who kept screaming 'NO, NOT AGAIN. NO MORE, NO MORE!!'.

7.25.10

By Sue

Neutral

The thing is he can't just direct he has to star in his own movies what is that about? like Tyler Perry and Spike Lee
I don't get it dumb

7.25.10

By denise

Neutral

He wants attention and he's getting it, even if its negative attention. Not a bad move!

7.25.10

By OrlandoFred

Lowest Ranked

The Last Air Bender was a really good movie.

It was very true to the series.

Why is everyone bashing him for making it.

Every Kid I know including my son went nuts over the movie. They loved it. I liked it a lot. There are a lot of kids movies I just can't sit through, but I was into The Last Air Bender right from the opening frames. It was a great movie.

It was Very well done. Every kid I know loves that cartoon series and he did a great job of adapting it into a movie.

7.25.10

By joe

Highest Rank

Actually, it wasn't at all true to the series: The characters were way off, absolutely none of the humor that made the series fun. Terrible direction, terrible editing. For those of us who are fans of the series MS'Last Airbender was anger provoking.

7.25.10

By Liz

Lowest Ranked

True to the series, eh? How many of the main characters were played by Asian actors?

7.25.10

By GARGAMEL POUPEE

Lowest Ranked

If OrlandoFred really liked The Last Airbender then he must really do some serious bending over for M. Night Shyamalan.

7.25.10

By pfritz6601

Highest Rank

I have watched the show with my son a few times. My favorite charter is the Uncle, nothing remotely in the movie matched his humor or look. I took my son & two of his friends all 11yrs old.
They were very disappointed. The best thing I can say was thankfully we only paid matinee price. What a flop.

7.25.10

By snowkey

Highest Rank

We saw the trailer twice yesterday, before "Inception" and before "Salt". We never heard anyone laugh at either one - what are you talking about? If you read the credits, you would see that M Night did not direct the movie, John Eric Dowdle directed it, M Knight produced it and thought of the idea, but did not write it, according to Wikipedia.

7.25.10

By jonahmcpain

Neutral

I wish I'd seen the trailer instead of 'Inception'. Doubt it would have been half as self-indulgent.

7.25.10

By B

Neutral

The only good movie he made was, "The Sixth Sense," in my opinion.

7.25.10

By kris

Highest Rank

I did not see Last Air-Bender...not my cup of tea. But I have to say my husband,daughter and I have enjoyed all of M. Night's movies and I look forward to Devil. I loved Lady in the Water and enjoyed The Happening. I think it's refreshing to see movies that rely on story telling instead of cookie cutter special effects. I mean seriously, How many times can I see a computer generated landmark be blown to smithereens? I saw The devil trailer and no one laughed...a few besides my family even applauded. I think M. Night has become the critics whipping boy because he makes the film he wants to make and not what Hollywood deems the norm. Go M. Night!