That was my favorite part of the movie. Shyamalan really thought. "Alright what will this rappers name be? Hmm okay what kind of car do I drive? A mid size sedan, boom got it."
His name was Giuseppe. Wow that was bad. the whole theater was laughing so much (not the good kind). for me the first half it was “the room” funny bad, but the second half was just boring and so much random stuff happening.
This is why he should just be a writer in Hollywood that you hire for only the first rough draft and then you get other writers to touch it up and get a real director
I figured that was coming a long time ago. I'm just surprised it took this long. I figured something was up with him when he didn't want to do a "worst off" end of year list a few years back.
@@ankitsaikumar6866 yeah, he's going to focus on his stuff and just share movies he liked (like he did this week with Pig and Josee, which I agree are awesome)
A major plothole is how none of the guests told their friends/extended family where they were going.. and surely if a super famous rapper was taking a holiday at a restort countless people would 'have' to know where he was...
Wait that's so true I read the wiki for the plot and it mentioned that the hotel takes the peoples passports and stuff so they can claim they never showed up but with the Rapper like you are telling me this guys agent/manager/entourage wouldn't know where he was going/if he got there or that he wouldn't have posted about it on social media? Actually, any of these people not posting about it or letting someone know that they got there safely seems highly implausible.
Yeah, they tried to lampshade it by explaining (through heavy-handed exposition) that they go to their houses and wipe their computers. ...And socially, they're just 'missing persons' cases. :/
Thanks for the warning on the potentials of camera induced motion sickness. I'm quite susceptible to that when wildly overwhelming camera movements are involved in these types of movies.
shaky cam is usually not a good sign for a movie. It's either a gimmick or they are doing it to cover something they are lacking -good choreography on an action sequence or bad camera work.
I’m soooooooo happy to hear you rant about this movie! I’ve read so many positive reviews on letterboxd that it made me eyeroll until madness! The thing that killed my experience was just see them CONSTANTLY walk off screen instead of sticking together 👁👄👁 there is literally nowhere to go. And of course the entire film was literally people turning around towards the people who left and going like ‘o M g’ and repeat forever.
@@djangoblack-fire2327 The nurse's wife was also black and she did age a bit. Again, the makeup effects weren't great, so you could barely tell when the adults aged.
Do I kind of disagree with this review, sure - I really enjoyed this film, something about this film just really sat well with me. I liked that it had like 20 + ways of showing us time passing because it didn't leave anything, it used up the potential to the max. But does that mean I'll dislike and hate on the review? No, I completely understand the points made.
I appreciate how Dan pays attention to the pace and cadence of dialogue in movies. I've just watched the All My Movies episode dedicated to Master of the Universe, where Dan highlighted a scene with a bunch of characters dumping a lot of lines, and it blew my mind how little attention goes into this in so many movies.
I just got out of this movie and you do learn the rapper's name, it's Brendan. He reveals it during a conversation with Maddox and it's repeated a few times.
Honestly my biggest problem with this movie is the fricking pacing. Sometimes stuff happens so quickly, and suddenly, that you have no time to react nor process what the heck is going on. It made the movie feel disjointed half of the time.
I actually really enjoyed it! I think the pregnancy was more for shock value and also to answer questions that the audience may have had. Personally I wondered what would happen to a baby on the island and then that question was answered. I also think the baby’s death was important because it made Cara lose her will to care/live.
Mmm, to me it just seems like an idea that someone who writes short stories thought was an interesting "what if" or "wouldn't that be crazy if" and put it in the story. This guy acting like it's hard to grasp the concept of teens or children fooling around is part of the problem with modern day Americans... completely immature and unable to grapple with anything outside the bounds the normalcy or things that makes feel the least bit uncomfortable
@Shy Brotha Speaks At first, I thought we were only gonna see his eyes on the rear mirror but then it kept going, then he started talking, and then more scenes lol
Ken Leung gave one of my favorite performances in the movie and I actually thought his character came across as a bit more natural than others, so I guess I didn’t notice the dialogue issue.
The acting and dialog were on par with The Happening… Good premise that could have been better with realistic dialog/reactions. Multiple people walked out and didn’t come back.
If I saw it alone and hadn’t planned a whole date night around it, I probably would have walked out. It felt like just watching a bunch of people die from illnesses with horrible camerawork and dialogue
In regards to the spoiler thing... Yes this is supposed to be a disturbing horror movie but I feel like that is crossing a line If I was a studio exec and someone brought me that script I’d be like “Get the hell out of my office”
It was in the graphic novel, so not entirely his fault. It was uncomfortable then too though. *Spoilers* All it really ended up representing there though was the overall theme of aging & being afraid of it. Everyone else dies of old age and the child is left to die alone (we assume anyway). Idk why he still kept it if he wasn’t gunna sell that theme, but it’s not that important to the story of the graphic novel either. I read it as more of a shock value/consequence thing
Could be that the weird line delivery derives from the fact that some of the actors are not native English speakers and M didn't direct them accordingly.
The thing that happens in the spoiler section of Dan's review reminds me very much of Steve in the random guy's body in WW84. Why was that in there and how did nobody think this would be problematic? It's just there for no good reason and it sinks the movie more than was already happening as the movie is terrible.
I really think it's an indication of how many Hollywood types have NO ability to think through things outside of their own limited perspective. No empathy, no understanding of various insane situations. They seem to think people will accept even the most inhuman unnatural interactions without question, because they didn't question it lol.
@@mabusestestament Exactly. If someone had taken over a woman's body (and used it for sex) there would have been - rightly - an outcry. But it was a guy so no problem.
I feel like this is one of those movies that’s gonna come up in conversation every now and then but no one really remembers. Like “Hey do you remember that movie where they all get old really fast?” “Yeah that was kinda weird.”
I’m not sure if it’s a plausible idea without more time and exposure given to them as kids in older bodies. Children tend to remain very childlike even if some physically develop earlier and faster than their peers by a few years.
@@AP-Design You can explain the mental age away by the same magic that affects physical age, if that's what they wanted. In the graphic novel the two teens get together because they're trying to come to terms with dying the next day and don't want to die without having experienced sex. More important is their child. In the novel she outlives everyone (although with the same fate) and plays into the theme of "everything is temporary". Here, as Jeremy said, the baby dies instantly so there was no point at all. It's just creepy for its own sake, made worse by how Shyamalan handled the mental ages.
I think it's established that the characters minds mature with their bodies. The sex is still weird, but the characters acknowledge that their minds feel different. I think that means more than just "I feel horny".
As fast as kids these days learn about sex. I doubt 5-6 years old kids would know “where” or which “entrance” to place things let alone “how” to. It’s possible but its just so unlikely in such a stressful situation, and with parents around, that it feels random for the event to be in the film at all.
Plus the whole pregnancy scene has nothing to do with the rest of the film. The scene was in the graphic novel that the film was based by but the resolution is a bit different from what I've heard
In the graphic novel, the baby survives and is the last person still living (as an adult) when the story ends. I haven’t seen the movie but how on earth do they end it if the baby dies?
Yeah what is up with the dialog. It goes from tight and resonant in some movies (Sixth Sense, Split) to akward and stillted (The Happening, The Village, Old). Do the actors adlib in the movies if the dialog is really bad.
Yeah. I was most blown away by the rapper, as he had been on the beach hours before the others showed up. In truth, though, they really didn't try with the adults.
It was a self funded film so it's probably a budget issue. But it would have been better to save prime beach location fees and set it indoors or in the woods then spend the savings on aging CGI.
Great review man. I think the section you brought up in the spoiler section was intended to show that the characters were traveling through time both physically but mentally, their comprehension levels may have not developed but their genetically bound instincts(reproduction) developed regardless of the characters abilities to understand why they would be motivated to act on them.
Having read the graphic novel and not seen the movie yet, they didn't really handle the spoiler well in the novel either. It's never very clear if the kids are still kids in adult bodies or if they have mentally matured as well and there's a lot more kids behaving badly in the graphic novel than I suspect the movie has. They seem to go back and forth. The one good thing about the spoiler is how it ties into the title of the graphic novel, Sandcastle.
The graphic novel is worse IMO - they seemed way more childlike than in the movie. (Plus that part where the dad has the kid take is pants down in front of everyone else to confirm he’s aging, like you can’t just look at him.)
Just a small note for reviews, for your consideration, Dan: While I don't care about spoilers, for those who do, you should add a banner on the screen that's vivid and indicates the spoiler time (not quite "Dancing Joe" level, just text!). For those who do care, they can scrub through to get past it from the visual on the screen. I know you have some experience putting graphics on the screen - usually in a chart-like form - but I think it's something that should take just a few minutes to drop over a review/spoiler segment, even if you don't have chapters.
Spoiler: I thought the scene where Maddox is singing to her mother while the father silently smiles at Trent just before both parents die was really effective.
I had thought I would catch this on demand in 17 days (and I'll admit that hearing Dan paraphrase Ken Leung's first line made me laugh til my brain stopped working, to say nothing of Mid-Sized Sedan) but after hearing the full review... Nope* This sounds like an FX Saturday afternoon movie. * Do you think Jordan Peele was trying to warn us when the title of his next movie dropped the *same week* as M. Night's newest movie drops in theaters?
I will always support M. Night, who choses to do it his way, rather than some big studio machinery order. He always comes back with an interesting idea, and that's enough for me. Murrell's demographics is used to 'quantity over quality' superhero movies and it really shows in the comment section.
I like how they did 20 different things because the movie is showing a whole day, I mean what else were they suppose to do? Just talk over and over again? If the situation you are in is crazy and there's multiple people. Wouldn't crazy stuff happen? Something is going to happen to them all
Did they explain the miracle fabric the bathing suits were made of? The little kids disappear for a minute, come back in young adult bodies and yet are still wearing their original swimsuits. Pretty sure I couldn't fit in the same suit I wore at 6.
Trent mentioned it. And he was wearing a towel around the age of 11. Prisca also gives Maddox her spare bathing suit later. There was an effort to acknowledge it.
Whenever I hear that director’s name, I automatically grasp that I have 90-120 minutes of my life that I Won’t be spending at the cinema or in front of a screen somewhere.
I completely agree that you typically either love or hate M. Night Shyamalan. I am firmly in the love category - he’s an original director who - like Tarantino and Nolan - really is an auteur with a vision. “Old” made me feel like a kid while watching it (in that I excitedly didn’t know what to expect) and tapped into my intellectual side as an adult after the film had ended. It’s not Split or The Sixth Sense but I think it’s a Top 5 film of his and I think he achieved what he wanted from the film. B+
Thank you for sharing a reasonable and honest review instead of recklessly hating and joking. I want to hear real articulation, regardless if I agree with it.
My Answer to the SPOILER Question: Body Horror! As a woman who has no children & don't want any because of giving birth among other reasons, this is a big nightmare for me. (I only have seen this in the trailer!)
That was the best review of this film. You've captured my thoughts exactly. I suffer motion sickness and found the camera movements brought this on. The delivery of the script was clunky and the thought of a 6yr old experiencing childbirth was projected far too flippantly for the gravity of horror it demonstrated. It felt like just one of a series of events and she felt like a throw-away character. In all fairness, Shyamalan filmed this during Covid so that may explain the lack of prosthetics and script supervision but it is very noticeable. The rapper was there the longest and should have aged considerably yet didn't age at all but this is never addressed.
I definitely enjoyed the movie but I can't say I'd recommend it to people unless they really know what they're going to see. That spoiler part did certainly leave me questioning a lot of things so at least the film will remain in my mind for a while.
I watched it and generally enjoyed it, but it isn't something I'm going to watch very often. I do think the two truly horrific scenes at the climax were particularly effective. I hope M Night finds his stride again.
I wonder if this would have worked better as a miniseries, kind of like they did with "Fear Street." Shyamalan needs to work on four-hour long drafts that don't rush themselves. The ending would have been much better served, I think. Also, naming a rapper character Mid-Size Sedan in the midst of weak characters is kind of Shyamalan in a nutshell.
The movie got old quick… dumb joke aside, I got tired in the middle of the movie and kept thinking to myself “is it almost over? How much longer do I have to sit here?” It was a bit of a drag to sit and watch. I would have left that theater and walked into a different movie if I wasn’t with friends, but I’m glad I saw the ending. The ending was probably the most interesting part to me. Probably because I like resident evil and those usually always end in a lab. But again I was sitting in the theater wish time in that room going by faster.
I found something to be interesting, you said they dont do a good job aging up the adults. the trailer made it seem like the children are the only ones affected since they say "no kids allowed on the beach" and we only see the kids getting "old"... Ill try and catch this movie at some point
So glad I heard about the mid size sedan character in this review before seeing the movie at the Alamo drafthouse tonight, because I probably would’ve been kicked out of the theater for laughing too hard.
Little late on the comment window, but being prepared for clunky dialogue made it go down easier. Also, commenting on Rufus Sewel going on about 'Missouri Breaks' (the film with Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando), at first I thought he was trying to make some 'OR' small talk. It can happen in surgeries to help ease the tension, but then realized it was just some random obsession coinciding with his 'issue'. Ironically enough 'Missouri Breaks' is not well regarded, and was considered really violent for a 'PG' at the time.
i havent seen it (YET) but it looks bad and good at the same time and it seems thats the case, so maybe ill like it because i love almost everything hes done. Nice review, Dan!
I said the same thing about the baby part. It was about 5 mins of a storyline that didn't even really need to be there. I can see if the baby survived. Then yea. But it made zero sense
I actually loved Old - it felt playful and invigorating to me. Like you said multiple times, this movie is comprised of scenes that make the same point over and over. I don’t think this is a bad thing in a thriller, in fact I found that it made for a more surprising and unpredictable watch. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any more ridiculous, it did! I was impressed that Shamaylan was able to commit to so many bizarre and/or unsettling ideas. He pushed the envelope but people went ahead and panned him for not meeting expectations. I get that there are universally regarded storytelling guidelines but no creative person has ever made a legal agreement to follow them. I think Night did whatever the f he wanted and it shows. That's why I love it.
I just saw it today, as I had some spare time.... and I agree with everything you said. Especially the *spoiler* mention you discussed. It was so very weird and not there for any reason.
I have no intention of watching Old, but the trailer reminded me, premise-wise, of a movie I came across on Netflix called Time Trap. Not the best of movies, but a really fun wild ride if you want to explore different flows of time in movie form. It's one of those slow ramp up builds; slightly annoying that the viewer can figure out what's going on before the characters do, but overall well worth it in my opinion, so I recommend it as an alternative to Old. (I had to look up the twist in Old, and no spoilers from me if you want to see Old, but that part is very different from Time Trap)
Look look, Gael is one of the most actually underrated Actors in Hollywood, I know he’s prob the #1 Actor in Mexico but DO NOT think he’s bad from this movie. He’s done some truly revolutionary work. Hopefully he and Diego can star in the new Cassian Tv show 😭🙏
YES! Gael is wonderful. Sad, but it seems most actors that go for indie projects are just seen as meh. I would love for Diego to bring him into the Estar Guars universe in the Cassian show!
Another ridiculous premise - I just can't get on board with this. What about the food? It would spoil immediately and everyone would either die of starvation or food poisoning.
Um. About that thing about six-years old becoming teenagers. Hormones actually do stuff like that. Children with hormonal diseases and hormones affected chemically due to some reason reach puberty and start to develop certain sexualized traits earlier, such as displaying a very certain and odd interest in opposite sex. This was even included in "House M.D." at one point. There are still plot points if you think about that, but it's not out of the realm of possibility entirely, considering the rules we've been given.
Ok… all criticism and weird whatever aside, the only take-away I got from this vid is that one of the characters in the movie is a rapper named Mid-Sized Sedan. 10/10
Mid-sized Sedan will go down in history as one the best character name ever.
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Compact Hatchback - uncredited cameo
@@sammygirl6910 Born in 2010, you’re cringe.
Damn
@@danhay8933 🤣
All my worst expectations of this film have come true.
Except for one: Mid-size Sedan is a hilarious rapper name.
That was my favorite part of the movie. Shyamalan really thought. "Alright what will this rappers name be? Hmm okay what kind of car do I drive? A mid size sedan, boom got it."
@@andrewleboeuf9520 should've been called the "tezzlah" lol.
Also, why didn't he age
@@eastwaters4082 but wasnt he at the beach for a lot longer than the others? since he presumably was waiting for that girl for a while
His name was Giuseppe. Wow that was bad.
the whole theater was laughing so much (not the good kind). for me the first half it was “the room” funny bad, but the second half was just boring and so much random stuff happening.
*Sees Dan's face in the thumbnail.
Yup that's all I need to know.
I thought the same
Might've been a cool Twilight Zone episode
It actually would’ve been good too
Watching this movie I thought the same thing.
Exactly,night is a big zone fan!!
Yes! exactly
@@lilyabrams3292 you are stunning😍
can't believe you uploaded an old review instead of a new review
AHAHHAHAAHA
I see what you did and that feels like an …old joke try something .. new
Underrated
😂
4:03 Yes, we do. His real name is Brandon. He tells Maddox as they are walking down the beach, talking.
Or, Brendan
thank you!
The biggest problem with M. Night is that he mostly is unable to take his stories beyond the premise. Great set up, but terrible payback
that's a great observation. he always has such interesting premises. even the happening has an interesting premise and man he botches it sometimes
As a science fiction premise, sure. As heavy handed expressionism, no. Either way he didn’t even write the premise for this one.
This is why he should just be a writer in Hollywood that you hire for only the first rough draft and then you get other writers to touch it up and get a real director
Hes a good producer. As a director and writer any talent in his early career he had has long gone.
Exactly what I said when I came out of the movie
So the week where Chris Stuckmann quits reviewing movies is the same week this movie comes out... FML
I figured that was coming a long time ago. I'm just surprised it took this long. I figured something was up with him when he didn't want to do a "worst off" end of year list a few years back.
Did chris quit reviewing movies? I thought he just didn't want to be a harsh asshole critique that just bash the movie for views
@@ankitsaikumar6866 yeah, he's going to focus on his stuff and just share movies he liked (like he did this week with Pig and Josee, which I agree are awesome)
@@mavm0210 no wonder he didn't review space jam new legacy LOL
Breaka my heart too, man. I grew up with Stucks' reviews.
A major plothole is how none of the guests told their friends/extended family where they were going.. and surely if a super famous rapper was taking a holiday at a restort countless people would 'have' to know where he was...
Wait that's so true I read the wiki for the plot and it mentioned that the hotel takes the peoples passports and stuff so they can claim they never showed up but with the Rapper like you are telling me this guys agent/manager/entourage wouldn't know where he was going/if he got there or that he wouldn't have posted about it on social media? Actually, any of these people not posting about it or letting someone know that they got there safely seems highly implausible.
Also how in the end everyone believed that they aged in one day. Also how the resort didn't have the police paid off to keep people away.
Yeah, they tried to lampshade it by explaining (through heavy-handed exposition) that they go to their houses and wipe their computers.
...And socially, they're just 'missing persons' cases. :/
He's called 'Mid-size sedan', there's no way the guy has any entourage at all.
Thanks for the warning on the potentials of camera induced motion sickness. I'm quite susceptible to that when wildly overwhelming camera movements are involved in these types of movies.
It happens during the first scenes. It threw me off a bit.
shaky cam is usually not a good sign for a movie. It's either a gimmick or they are doing it to cover something they are lacking -good choreography on an action sequence or bad camera work.
I’m not prone to motion sickness but I had to look away and I felt nauseous
I'm curious if higher frame rate movies would work better for you? It has a huge affect on motion sickness in games.
@@alucard2010 no need to roll eyes, everyone is different and that type of sensitivity absolutely sucks
I’m soooooooo happy to hear you rant about this movie! I’ve read so many positive reviews on letterboxd that it made me eyeroll until madness! The thing that killed my experience was just see them CONSTANTLY walk off screen instead of sticking together 👁👄👁 there is literally nowhere to go. And of course the entire film was literally people turning around towards the people who left and going like ‘o M g’ and repeat forever.
Exactly! Its a small beach yet most of the time theres only like 3 or 4 people on screen out of the 11 people in the movie
The movie is bad, nobody can confuse me.... Nice concept but stupid execution. Cringe movie!!!
They couldn't even keep their children with them... So stupid
Yo Rufus Sewell is a tragically underused actor, I've liked him since Dark City.
Dark City is quality, so underrated
It's funny, I just mentioned Dark City when talking about Dune.
He was incredible in "Man in The High Castle".
@@drakenfist Agreed he should have some awards for that show.
do you know what he was saying about marlon brando movie ? and was that an important detail or something.
the only good thing to come out of this movie is the rapper name “mid-size sedan”. that was funny
@@djangoblack-fire2327 The nurse's wife was also black and she did age a bit. Again, the makeup effects weren't great, so you could barely tell when the adults aged.
@@UnboxingAlyss That's cuz she was quite a bit older than Mid-Size Sedan.
Do I kind of disagree with this review, sure - I really enjoyed this film, something about this film just really sat well with me. I liked that it had like 20 + ways of showing us time passing because it didn't leave anything, it used up the potential to the max. But does that mean I'll dislike and hate on the review? No, I completely understand the points made.
For as good as the premise was, the movie was not executed well enough for me.
I appreciate how Dan pays attention to the pace and cadence of dialogue in movies. I've just watched the All My Movies episode dedicated to Master of the Universe, where Dan highlighted a scene with a bunch of characters dumping a lot of lines, and it blew my mind how little attention goes into this in so many movies.
DuckTales did this concept way better in the episode The Forbidden Fountain of the Foreverglades
Duck Tales did it
Lmao all these years and I remember that episode
Lol
I just got out of this movie and you do learn the rapper's name, it's Brendan. He reveals it during a conversation with Maddox and it's repeated a few times.
Can't wait for the prequel: "Young"
I saw that, it's called "Benjamin Buttons".
Honestly my biggest problem with this movie is the fricking pacing.
Sometimes stuff happens so quickly, and suddenly, that you have no time to react nor process what the heck is going on. It made the movie feel disjointed half of the time.
I actually really enjoyed it! I think the pregnancy was more for shock value and also to answer questions that the audience may have had. Personally I wondered what would happen to a baby on the island and then that question was answered. I also think the baby’s death was important because it made Cara lose her will to care/live.
Mmm, to me it just seems like an idea that someone who writes short stories thought was an interesting "what if" or "wouldn't that be crazy if" and put it in the story. This guy acting like it's hard to grasp the concept of teens or children fooling around is part of the problem with modern day Americans... completely immature and unable to grapple with anything outside the bounds the normalcy or things that makes feel the least bit uncomfortable
Good or bad, M. Night Shyamalan always takes swings. I respect that.
Seeing this tomorrow night!
Noo this movie is awful.
Also, perhaps M. Night’s longest cameo in this movie.
@Shy Brotha Speaks At first, I thought we were only gonna see his eyes on the rear mirror but then it kept going, then he started talking, and then more scenes lol
@Shy Brotha Speaks stan lee tho......steven king.....
@Shy Brotha Speaks Everytime he does it I think "No, you are NOT the next Alfred Hitchcock" 🤣😣🙈
@@thatvolvoguy6565 Stan Lee/Alfred Hitchcock are iconic. You actually look forward to seeing them 😂🤗
Ken Leung gave one of my favorite performances in the movie and I actually thought his character came across as a bit more natural than others, so I guess I didn’t notice the dialogue issue.
Yeah I thought he spoke sort of awkwardly but like a real human who just is a little awkward
Thank you for the spoiler-free timestamps. Keep up the good work, Dan.
The writing of this movie did not deserve the directing of this movie.
That awkward moment when the director also wrote the movie HAHAHHA
I mean they were both pretty bad
And vice versa.
The acting and dialog were on par with The Happening…
Good premise that could have been better with realistic dialog/reactions.
Multiple people walked out and didn’t come back.
I agree. I really wanted to like it, but the acting was really bad.
If I saw it alone and hadn’t planned a whole date night around it, I probably would have walked out. It felt like just watching a bunch of people die from illnesses with horrible camerawork and dialogue
And that feels like it has to be direction/writing. It's a fairly solid cast
“Pretty clunky” is the biggest understatement I have ever heard 😂
If we're sticking with the stew metaphor this one sounds undercooked, under seasoned, and may cause nausea 😬
In regards to the spoiler thing...
Yes this is supposed to be a disturbing horror movie but I feel like that is crossing a line
If I was a studio exec and someone brought me that script I’d be like “Get the hell out of my office”
I agree. There is plenty of body horror in the movie. You don't need to add a weird sexual element to it.
It was in the graphic novel, so not entirely his fault. It was uncomfortable then too though.
*Spoilers*
All it really ended up representing there though was the overall theme of aging & being afraid of it. Everyone else dies of old age and the child is left to die alone (we assume anyway). Idk why he still kept it if he wasn’t gunna sell that theme, but it’s not that important to the story of the graphic novel either. I read it as more of a shock value/consequence thing
We totally learned Midsized sedans name tho- it was Brendan…
Could be that the weird line delivery derives from the fact that some of the actors are not native English speakers and M didn't direct them accordingly.
Dan. I just want to say how much I appreciate how rarely you um and ah in your videos. Well done you!
The thing that happens in the spoiler section of Dan's review reminds me very much of Steve in the random guy's body in WW84. Why was that in there and how did nobody think this would be problematic? It's just there for no good reason and it sinks the movie more than was already happening as the movie is terrible.
I really think it's an indication of how many Hollywood types have NO ability to think through things outside of their own limited perspective. No empathy, no understanding of various insane situations. They seem to think people will accept even the most inhuman unnatural interactions without question, because they didn't question it lol.
Excellent comparison. 🧐
@@mabusestestament Exactly. If someone had taken over a woman's body (and used it for sex) there would have been - rightly - an outcry. But it was a guy so no problem.
Man… I really enjoyed this as being a weird, odd, almost thrill ride of schlock. I had a great time.
A little bit more and that kid would have transform into Dwayne Johnson
3 star movie
5 star review
-keep up the great content!!
I'm glad you mentioned that spoiler because I found that really gross and poorly handled.
@Hasan Kahraman Yeah, it was difficult to even listen to that.
can you give me the time stamp ?
@Hasan Kahraman I'm not that surprised. I'm sure a lot of people had no idea how to react to that especially with such little context.
I feel like this is one of those movies that’s gonna come up in conversation every now and then but no one really remembers. Like “Hey do you remember that movie where they all get old really fast?” “Yeah that was kinda weird.”
Kinda like the bee movie version of horror movies
As soon as you mentioned the boy and girl I went "oh, no."
Yea I didn’t get why that part was included.
I figured they would age mentally too but guess not lmao
@@educate3d That part made no sense. I think they were still mentally children and therefore would have no sexual attraction.
I’m not sure if it’s a plausible idea without more time and exposure given to them as kids in older bodies. Children tend to remain very childlike even if some physically develop earlier and faster than their peers by a few years.
@@AP-Design You can explain the mental age away by the same magic that affects physical age, if that's what they wanted. In the graphic novel the two teens get together because they're trying to come to terms with dying the next day and don't want to die without having experienced sex.
More important is their child. In the novel she outlives everyone (although with the same fate) and plays into the theme of "everything is temporary". Here, as Jeremy said, the baby dies instantly so there was no point at all. It's just creepy for its own sake, made worse by how Shyamalan handled the mental ages.
I think it's established that the characters minds mature with their bodies. The sex is still weird, but the characters acknowledge that their minds feel different. I think that means more than just "I feel horny".
Came here to make this point as well. Felt like he was so taken out of the movie at that point that he didn't pay enough attention to that point.
As fast as kids these days learn about sex. I doubt 5-6 years old kids would know “where” or which “entrance” to place things let alone “how” to. It’s possible but its just so unlikely in such a stressful situation, and with parents around, that it feels random for the event to be in the film at all.
@@NousagiCaptain It’s one of those things where I personally understood what shyamalan was trying to do but still thought it was an odd choice.
@@EvangelionFan-ru7ri Yea, M.Night usually has great set ups and premises, the implementation is just weird sometimes.
Plus the whole pregnancy scene has nothing to do with the rest of the film.
The scene was in the graphic novel that the film was based by but the resolution is a bit different from what I've heard
Two Dan videos at the same time!? Hell yeah!
In the graphic novel, the baby survives and is the last person still living (as an adult) when the story ends. I haven’t seen the movie but how on earth do they end it if the baby dies?
Don't WATCH THE MOVIE
it was boring........
I loved it. Everyone experiences all forms of horror a human can in one day.
My biggest issue is that the twist is absolutely unoriginal and telegraphed early on in the movie.
Yeah what is up with the dialog. It goes from tight and resonant in some movies (Sixth Sense, Split) to akward and stillted (The Happening, The Village, Old). Do the actors adlib in the movies if the dialog is really bad.
Mid-Sized Sedan's name is Brendan, he tells Maddox that when their walking on the beach together
That shows the attention of the reviewer.. lol..
Wait, so the people in Old don't look very old, even when they're old..? Lack of commitment to practical effects is getting old...
Yeah, that was a sad surprise
Yeah. I was most blown away by the rapper, as he had been on the beach hours before the others showed up. In truth, though, they really didn't try with the adults.
@@UnboxingAlyss Will Jungle Cruise win this weekend?
It was a self funded film so it's probably a budget issue. But it would have been better to save prime beach location fees and set it indoors or in the woods then spend the savings on aging CGI.
Great review man. I think the section you brought up in the spoiler section was intended to show that the characters were traveling through time both physically but mentally, their comprehension levels may have not developed but their genetically bound instincts(reproduction) developed regardless of the characters abilities to understand why they would be motivated to act on them.
I actually get really bad vertigo, so thanks for the PSA Dan!
Having read the graphic novel and not seen the movie yet, they didn't really handle the spoiler well in the novel either. It's never very clear if the kids are still kids in adult bodies or if they have mentally matured as well and there's a lot more kids behaving badly in the graphic novel than I suspect the movie has. They seem to go back and forth. The one good thing about the spoiler is how it ties into the title of the graphic novel, Sandcastle.
The graphic novel is worse IMO - they seemed way more childlike than in the movie. (Plus that part where the dad has the kid take is pants down in front of everyone else to confirm he’s aging, like you can’t just look at him.)
I was glued to the screen the entire time. What a tense experience. LOVED this movie.
Did not like the camera mpving. Gave me headaches
Just a small note for reviews, for your consideration, Dan: While I don't care about spoilers, for those who do, you should add a banner on the screen that's vivid and indicates the spoiler time (not quite "Dancing Joe" level, just text!). For those who do care, they can scrub through to get past it from the visual on the screen.
I know you have some experience putting graphics on the screen - usually in a chart-like form - but I think it's something that should take just a few minutes to drop over a review/spoiler segment, even if you don't have chapters.
I was laughing so hard the whole time. It was absolutely terrible. It felt like it was written by a 12 year old.
Tiktokers have made better movies than this
I walked out 😂😂 cringe cringe cringe and more fucking cringe on a really high scale. It made me physically ill just listening to the dialogue.
@@edgarnello9165 No.
@@zackharris8373 Dummy.
Hope you all open a bag of chips with nothing in it.
thank you for the PSA, because that spinney camera move alone makes me nauseous every time
same here. I can also not stomach flight simulators in amusement parks, they always make me sick whereas normal roller coasters are fine.
Spoiler: I thought the scene where Maddox is singing to her mother while the father silently smiles at Trent just before both parents die was really effective.
Agreed
The long look on the dads face was hilariously bad.
It made me shed a single tear. I sold the movie for me. It's probably one of my top 5 Syhamalan films although I admit it's probably not good.
Cute scene, though her singing wasn't great.
@@UnboxingAlyss lol I don’t think the quality of her voice really mattered after everyone around her is dead and dying lol
I had thought I would catch this on demand in 17 days (and I'll admit that hearing Dan paraphrase Ken Leung's first line made me laugh til my brain stopped working, to say nothing of Mid-Sized Sedan) but after hearing the full review... Nope*
This sounds like an FX Saturday afternoon movie.
* Do you think Jordan Peele was trying to warn us when the title of his next movie dropped the *same week* as M. Night's newest movie drops in theaters?
I loved it despite being a very odd movei and I'm glad there is such a unique filmmaker like Shyamalan out there.
Don't worry, the focus groups agreed with you about your spoiler discussion
I will always support M. Night, who choses to do it his way, rather than some big studio machinery order. He always comes back with an interesting idea, and that's enough for me. Murrell's demographics is used to 'quantity over quality' superhero movies and it really shows in the comment section.
Bro this movie is awful. Says alot about how much u know about movies if u think otherwise. U sound like a M Night fan boy
I like how they did 20 different things because the movie is showing a whole day, I mean what else were they suppose to do? Just talk over and over again?
If the situation you are in is crazy and there's multiple people. Wouldn't crazy stuff happen? Something is going to happen to them all
Did they explain the miracle fabric the bathing suits were made of? The little kids disappear for a minute, come back in young adult bodies and yet are still wearing their original swimsuits. Pretty sure I couldn't fit in the same suit I wore at 6.
The whole movie was filled with stuff like this. Little things that should've changed but were never explained
Trent mentioned it. And he was wearing a towel around the age of 11. Prisca also gives Maddox her spare bathing suit later. There was an effort to acknowledge it.
Do many awkward questions and all of them are "Why?"
Whenever I hear that director’s name, I automatically grasp that I have 90-120 minutes of my life that I Won’t be spending at the cinema or in front of a screen somewhere.
I miss Unbreakable M Night
I’ve been excited about this review. Thanks brother 👍
11:35 to skip the spoilers (I only caught a brief spoilery sentence!)
Dan, thank you so much for the motion sickness warning. I struggle with that a lot and it can be hard to tell what I can and can't watch.
I completely agree that you typically either love or hate M. Night Shyamalan. I am firmly in the love category - he’s an original director who - like Tarantino and Nolan - really is an auteur with a vision. “Old” made me feel like a kid while watching it (in that I excitedly didn’t know what to expect) and tapped into my intellectual side as an adult after the film had ended. It’s not Split or The Sixth Sense but I think it’s a Top 5 film of his and I think he achieved what he wanted from the film. B+
I've never felt the need or the anger to file a lawsuit against a director for my money and time back.
Thank you for sharing a reasonable and honest review instead of recklessly hating and joking. I want to hear real articulation, regardless if I agree with it.
My Answer to the SPOILER Question: Body Horror!
As a woman who has no children & don't want any because of giving birth among other reasons, this is a big nightmare for me.
(I only have seen this in the trailer!)
I really enjoyed your take on this film, especially the rant in the middle (spot-on!)
That was the best review of this film. You've captured my thoughts exactly. I suffer motion sickness and found the camera movements brought this on. The delivery of the script was clunky and the thought of a 6yr old experiencing childbirth was projected far too flippantly for the gravity of horror it demonstrated. It felt like just one of a series of events and she felt like a throw-away character. In all fairness, Shyamalan filmed this during Covid so that may explain the lack of prosthetics and script supervision but it is very noticeable. The rapper was there the longest and should have aged considerably yet didn't age at all but this is never addressed.
I thought it was going to tie into his nosebleeds, but they never explained those either…
I like old. I didn’t love it but it was certainly interesting. M. Night Shyamalan films are always so tantalizing
I definitely enjoyed the movie but I can't say I'd recommend it to people unless they really know what they're going to see. That spoiler part did certainly leave me questioning a lot of things so at least the film will remain in my mind for a while.
Brilliant commentary, as always
I watched it and generally enjoyed it, but it isn't something I'm going to watch very often. I do think the two truly horrific scenes at the climax were particularly effective. I hope M Night finds his stride again.
I loved old and i enjoy the dialogue it's fun and unique. Also, it said the kid's minds were aging but you explained your opinion very well dan haha
I saw the trailer and I got happening vibes so this was gonna be a ride no matter what lol
It's certainly as bad 😏
I wonder if this would have worked better as a miniseries, kind of like they did with "Fear Street." Shyamalan needs to work on four-hour long drafts that don't rush themselves. The ending would have been much better served, I think. Also, naming a rapper character Mid-Size Sedan in the midst of weak characters is kind of Shyamalan in a nutshell.
M Night films always feel like experimental mood pieces. I’d watch them even without twists. He’s just a bizarre director.
It left a lot of unanswered questions about how the beach actually was able to do what it did to people
Something about the magnetic field under that rock affected time
The movie got old quick… dumb joke aside, I got tired in the middle of the movie and kept thinking to myself “is it almost over? How much longer do I have to sit here?” It was a bit of a drag to sit and watch. I would have left that theater and walked into a different movie if I wasn’t with friends, but I’m glad I saw the ending. The ending was probably the most interesting part to me. Probably because I like resident evil and those usually always end in a lab. But again I was sitting in the theater wish time in that room going by faster.
I found something to be interesting, you said they dont do a good job aging up the adults. the trailer made it seem like the children are the only ones affected since they say "no kids allowed on the beach" and we only see the kids getting "old"... Ill try and catch this movie at some point
There isnt a single movie he has made that I enjoyed watching.
Same to be honest. Someone spoiled the 6th sense for me which made it unwatchable. Signs was ok but the crappy ending negated everything.
So glad I heard about the mid size sedan character in this review before seeing the movie at the Alamo drafthouse tonight, because I probably would’ve been kicked out of the theater for laughing too hard.
Im sure M. Night intended for it to be funny. So laughter would be appropiate.
Little late on the comment window, but being prepared for clunky dialogue made it go down easier. Also, commenting on Rufus Sewel going on about 'Missouri Breaks' (the film with Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando), at first I thought he was trying to make some 'OR' small talk. It can happen in surgeries to help ease the tension, but then realized it was just some random obsession coinciding with his 'issue'. Ironically enough 'Missouri Breaks' is not well regarded, and was considered really violent for a 'PG' at the time.
I swear tho- when the baby was crying me and almost everyone in my family looked behind us thinking it was someone’s actual kid crying in the back lol
i havent seen it (YET) but it looks bad and good at the same time and it seems thats the case, so maybe ill like it because i love almost everything hes done. Nice review, Dan!
I said the same thing about the baby part. It was about 5 mins of a storyline that didn't even really need to be there. I can see if the baby survived. Then yea. But it made zero sense
I actually loved Old - it felt playful and invigorating to me. Like you said multiple times, this movie is comprised of scenes that make the same point over and over. I don’t think this is a bad thing in a thriller, in fact I found that it made for a more surprising and unpredictable watch. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any more ridiculous, it did! I was impressed that Shamaylan was able to commit to so many bizarre and/or unsettling ideas. He pushed the envelope but people went ahead and panned him for not meeting expectations.
I get that there are universally regarded storytelling guidelines but no creative person has ever made a legal agreement to follow them. I think Night did whatever the f he wanted and it shows. That's why I love it.
I just saw it today, as I had some spare time.... and I agree with everything you said. Especially the *spoiler* mention you discussed. It was so very weird and not there for any reason.
I have no intention of watching Old, but the trailer reminded me, premise-wise, of a movie I came across on Netflix called Time Trap. Not the best of movies, but a really fun wild ride if you want to explore different flows of time in movie form. It's one of those slow ramp up builds; slightly annoying that the viewer can figure out what's going on before the characters do, but overall well worth it in my opinion, so I recommend it as an alternative to Old.
(I had to look up the twist in Old, and no spoilers from me if you want to see Old, but that part is very different from Time Trap)
I believe they do give mid sized sedans name when he is speaking to teenage main character girl. It’s Brendan or something like that.
The thing abt the cinematography is so true, I had to look at my water bottle to make sure my eyes were still focusing right bc it was so disorienting
Look look, Gael is one of the most actually underrated Actors in Hollywood, I know he’s prob the #1 Actor in Mexico but DO NOT think he’s bad from this movie. He’s done some truly revolutionary work. Hopefully he and Diego can star in the new Cassian Tv show 😭🙏
YES! Gael is wonderful. Sad, but it seems most actors that go for indie projects are just seen as meh. I would love for Diego to bring him into the Estar Guars universe in the Cassian show!
I am here. My variant is currently watching the gi joe review...
My variant is set out to eliminate your variant to protect the sacred timeline.
Another ridiculous premise - I just can't get on board with this. What about the food? It would spoil immediately and everyone would either die of starvation or food poisoning.
They just said that their cells were aging rapidly thats literally the only explanation they gave for why nothing else aged
@@edgarnello9165 P L A N T S H A V E C E L L S
@@rebeccacummings6697 blood cells also there were no plants on the beach
@@edgarnello9165deterioration of blood cells doesn’t cause aging mate
@@edgarnello9165 and there was plants I believe, farther into the island
Um. About that thing about six-years old becoming teenagers. Hormones actually do stuff like that. Children with hormonal diseases and hormones affected chemically due to some reason reach puberty and start to develop certain sexualized traits earlier, such as displaying a very certain and odd interest in opposite sex. This was even included in "House M.D." at one point. There are still plot points if you think about that, but it's not out of the realm of possibility entirely, considering the rules we've been given.
Ok… all criticism and weird whatever aside, the only take-away I got from this vid is that one of the characters in the movie is a rapper named Mid-Sized Sedan.
10/10
Was it an interesting story - or did it get old fast?
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