Let me get this straight. The mother, who hadn't contact her parents in 15 years, decides to send her kids, who never seen their grandparents, to the train station to visit their grandparents instead of chaperoning them to her parents and reconcile with them. Some mother.
@Ghost Guts Why is grandma acting like she's possessed she's supposed to be a mental patient. Come to think of it, I wonder what would've happened if the film had made the grandparents possessed like the "Exorcist" or something.
Jennea Coleman-Cubero I honestly thought they were supposed to be possessed or some kind of supernatural creatures (especially with the whole Hanzel and Gretyl theme). Having them be mental patients only made it nonsensical, due to the unrealistic sounds the grandma made (unless there's some obscure mental illness that makes the afflicted growl like an autotuned tiger) and her fast moving teleportation skills.
I'm pretty sure he's referring to the idea that he had to actively hinder himself from making more traditional cinematic decisions, because he was making a found footage film. Counterintuitive stuff.
@@cbb3480 Okay, then what did he mean? He obviously didn't literally mean he was trying to make stupid decisions. No one, no matter how incompetent, is _trying_ to be an idiot. So what would be your real world explanation for what he meant? Mind you, you could just find the interview and see for yourself.
I think the reason why the “creepy child/old person” trope exists is because we almost always see children and elderly as innocent pure people, so when they do something unsettling or creepy, we automatically feel of it as uncanny. Even though when you think about it, it’s kinda dumb.
T.otally A.wesome D.rawings like the whole uncanny-valley effect? Like... When something looks human, but you know it isn’t. It’s slightly off and you can tell it isn’t human, but yet it seems human. So like, you know it’s a child/old person but it feels like an uncanny-valley thing because they aren’t cute/innocent.
I feel like it could be used well. With kids and old people, we automatically see them as unthreatening and even cute, and they’re almost always the first people we try to protect in dangerous situations. So when they’re able to pose as a real, genuine threat to our well-being, it causes a disconnect between our human instinct to protect them and the obvious danger they present. For instance, if a healthy middle aged man with a knife was trying to kill you, it’d be terrifying, but it’d be terrifying in an understandable way that you can rationalize. And even though a lot of people tend to see women as less threatening, a healthy woman with a weapon could still definitely kill you. In those instances, those are situations where you know what you’re fighting. But a three year old crawling on the walls and chasing you with murderous intent? An old person running at you in a way they physically shouldn’t? That gives an inhuman element to individuals we immediately define as weaker than most, which naturally throws people off.
I think what might actually make it uncanny is that old people and kids are weird by nature. Think about it, there isn’t many things a little kid or an old person could do that would genuinely freak you out. 🤷♀️
The original motivation for Synecdoche NY was Jonze and Kaufman trying to make their interpretation of a horror movie. What kind of comedy was that now?
Honestly, I think the movie should have made "creepy grandma" a secondary thing and focus more on the horror of being a powerless child. Like, what can they do? Walk to the police station and say "grandma's being weird?" Leave their phones functional and just acknowledge they don't know anyone in town, they can't pay for a taxi/hotel, and they can't get grandma arrested for being a weirdo
This is great but they should just drop the grandma and make it like a uncle or something because thats more of a power dynamic then a fucking disabled old lady
@@thetruelord1317 nan creepy uncle being phone to the police compared to grandma being weird... which one you think the cops are going to considering a teenage girl is calling
I genuinely feel bad for the brother actor. At least the sister was the straight man character and thus was sparred most of the horrific scenes and lines. You know his awful cringiness wasn't his idea.
I remember this one horror christmas movie both the boy and girl actors were in, the boy had a better role as a stereotypical nerdy character and was actually pretty good in the role, so it was definitely the movies fault lmao
For what it’s worth, as a kid at the time (I was about 13 when I watched this), I remember him being a bit of a hit, among my friends with whom I had seen the film they liked him. I remember myself even liking his performance. Don’t get me wrong, I think even I could sense the cringe writing at the time, but there was an excitement to seeing a character our age in a horror movie who wasn’t just killed early on, or barely a character. So point being, he did well and was well liked despite the role and hopefully the actor has gone on to do better things
This movie was filmed in my hometown. I remember in high school everyone was excited because there was a “famous director” in town filming one of the schools. Then we found out it was M. Night...
Shyamalan is always a mixed bag. The Sixth Sense is awesome, Unbreakable, and A few of his others are decent. But, if his movies are bad I can never tell if its because they're cerebral or because they truly do suck. Except for Avatar, because that's just awful.
Hello human family, I am currently on the text with two seperate non-lineage related human females. Do not fear, I have am not replaced with lizard, that is most unorthadox. Look, I rap just like your usual human male offspring
"They're throwing shade!" That..is not how that term is used. Do they think "throwing shade" means being shady? There's literally no way that phrase applies there.
I just realized how goddamn stupid it is that they're literally in the real grandparents' house instead of, say, a completely different house owned/controlled by the fake grandparents. They picked the kids up from the train station, right? So why not have them end up in an unknown location? That could at least give the ending some actual tension. Make it so calling the police from the cruise liner isn't a perfect option because the kids aren't at the address the mom thought they would be and the police need precious time figuring out where they are. The fact that the camera doesn't work for most of the movie is...actually, no, screw that. Give a real reason for the camera not working well: connection quality. Just have their first call be a random mess of sound and flickering glitches, and then they switch off the video and the audio becomes at least reasonably tolerable. Done. Then throw in some ambiguity about their location that works with the characters. If one of the kids mentions a rickety-ass shed in the back yard, the mom can pause, and then sigh as she laughs about how her dad always tried to be a handyman but he could never decently build anything bigger than a birdhouse. Stuff like that. Make it clear that it's a blend of guilt and nostalgia that's reasonably coloring the mother's opinion of her folks and thus why she's willing to overlook what might otherwise be mild warning signs. So I guess the bottom line is that Mr. Night Shylamian should put more thought into his films on certain levels. Or many levels.
I hated how in the oven scene (which was marketed as the scariest scene), the movie doesn’t bother to give any logical reason why the girl goes inside it, like there’s literally no reason for her to crawl in voluntarily while she cleans it
I mean, he obviously invokes cinema as an emotional art and not a logical endeavor. He's wrong, found footage supposed to be realistic, but try and understand where he's coming from. Why he's wrong...
@papayer I remember it all, Google won't let me forget... OK, I just rewatched this video, but my point still stands. Pointing out that he doesn't make sense isn't enough. If people want to be productive, they need to understand why he doesn't make sense. Otherwise, it's just bullying, kicking a man while he's down. Cinema needs to be both emotional and logical. M. Night just convinced himself that being emotional is a good excuse for everything, so he decided to plant his flag there (that would explain his speech at the end of the video). But a completely logical cinema would be equally bad, if not worse. Imagine Community's Abed and his films, but one that takes himself seriously...
Rogue Sigh... Why do filmmakers keep doing this? 99% of mental patients are not even close to the way they are presented in popular media. It’s not just unrealistic, it’s boring, overdone and very harmful to people with mental issues or just people that are a bit weird.
fuck i had to skip every part where the kid raps. so painful. that kid probably thinks of those rapping scenes every once in a while when he's about to go to sleep and it keeps him awake
definitely does not keep him awake at night , hes probably just like "damn i cant believe they really payed me to fuck up that shit so bad. gg unlucky well played"
If this kid started saying "GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG" it would get a 10/10 for authenticity. M. Night's mistake was imitating Biggie when writing rap lyrics for a child in 2016.
I mean, being produced by Blum isn't the worst deal. He won't dictate anything because he literally doesn't care, so you can just perform your vision to the best of your ability and budget.
I'm glad adam touched on the inauthentic nature of how the movie is filmed. Like if it's supposed to be a found footage movie then why are they using a 8K cinema camera and have impeccable camera work. The whole point is to make the viewer think it was lost footage. But that feel is completely lost when it's made to look as cinematic as possible
lampini I’ve noticed it’s been that way for a while now. I mean, all they need is a title card detailing how the footage was lost and found to sell the idea. Blair Witch Project had one. And while that Apollo 18 movie wasn’t the greatest, I commended it for at least trying to present itself as footage from a classified NASA mission.
Considering the kids made it out alive... what was the point of it being 'found footage'? Found footage only really works when you have the premise of a third party watching it in terms of trying to discover what happened.
Well I think that girl's (supposed to be) a wannabe filmmaker, so if the context was that she made a documentary movie it makes some sense. What doesn't make sense is why the hell would you put the director and the actors name at the opening scene. This is supposed to found footage, and found footage don't put credits at the beginning!
My gut says M. Knight doesn't understand how found footage works. Also, he probably thought his reputation could be damaged if he had a movie where people under 18 get murdered.
There are multiple scenes in which a dorky kid raps. Not just one, but several. With references to pop stars as jokes, like shouting Katy Perry when your non-grandma is trying to kill you. And an old dad (who is also M. Night) wrote the lyrics. Pain. Pain.
The reason there was a “Blumhouse Truth or Dare” is because there was another movie with the same title produced around the same time. It is also terrible.
Is it freestyle? I mean the kid couldn’t even stay on beat which infuriated me. Just, wanted to slap him so hard he suddenly became good at freestyle rap.
Dr.CandyStriper I came to this comment section for the sole purpose of finding out if someone else was bothered by that. An earlier comment also points out that he says he's "on the text" early on, which NO ONE says. (Also younger teens these days aren't obsessed with texting like they used to be, anyway?? The cabin apparently has great internet, so he should be just fine with snapchat and Twitter and Instagram and whatever else they use these days) But yeah, "throwing shade" is insulting someone, usually in a kind of passive-aggressive way. It's not a substitute for "acting shady", but whoever wrote the dialogue seems to think they mean the same thing.
DysnomiaFilms I was just pointing out how poorly executed that shot is. It's supposed to be a relatively small camera within the movie (in reality it clearly isn't) and it's supposed to hit the doorknob (which it clearly doesn't)
And the whole conceit of the scene makes little sense. Unless that camera was from the 80's and made mostly out of overbuilt metal how exactly was it going to break off a brass doorknob? And just in the functionality of a door of you snap off the nob the latch bolt most likely would still be engaged--you just no longer have a mechanism to try and twist the inner workings and get it to disengage. Movies....
I think I was 12 or 13 when this came out, and it was the first horror movie I EVER watched because I was such a baby. I mean I still get scared pretty damn easily, but it’s nice to look back now that I’m 17, senior in HS, and be able to say “me at 4am looking for shredded cheese.”
I like that whoever told the kid to say “They’re throwing shade” Didn’t know what that actually meant. They clearly thought it had something to do with being “shady”
And then he became the co-worker who has a high-paying job despite not being skilled enough for it, and who thinks he's the only genius in the world who can do his job, but tells more talented, broke people who are struggling to get even half-way where he is currently that they "shouldn't do it, don't do it, film-making sucks" like he's the chain-smoking character from St. Elmo's Fire.
Yes....YES! I mean, look at his character in "Lady in the Water". A writer who is going to inspire the president with his greatness and become a martyr because he's so misunderstood(and the movie says the movie critic is the most evil man of all time.)
@@phousefilms I think about this movie every now and again and whenever it crosses my mind I'm utterly floored by the completely delusional amount of ego so prominently and explicitly display. My boy is lost in his own sauce.
I watched it in the theatre/cinema. I actually paid to watch this trash 🙈....I had nothing else to do at home lol I remember rolling my eyes and sighing every time he rapped
Aidan Pettit, I convinced my mom to take me to see it in the movie theater and as I sat there watching the kid rap, I regretted my life decisions that led to that moment.
Devil's Advocate imagine showing up to the theater late and having to sit in the very front row, forcing your neck to practically snap into your shoulders while having to experience that.. kinda glad a good movie wasn’t spoiled by my aching spine
It would’ve been nice if the kids cleaned the webcam, talked to the mom, and the grandparents were in the background. The mom could’ve asked who was there and, when the kids tell her it’s her parents, the mom could’ve had a reaction. She’s trying to remain calm and tell the kids the truth. (The kids could’ve not known what the grandparents looked like because a house fire destroyed all recent pictures. They may only have pictures from like the 80s; enough to say the grandparents looked different but nothing that the passage of time couldn’t explain away.)
Imagine watching it in a theater with a bunch of people around lol 😂 it's one of those things where you are so embarrassed for the person you start getting embarrassed yourself.
Pancouver venguins that’s called second hand embarrassment and it’s one of the worst feelings ever, its worse then being cringy because you can’t immediately stop it unlike being cringy.
When I first saw the trailer for this movie I thought that it was going to be a modern reimagining of the Hansel & Gretel fairytale in a horror setting due to the oven scene.
I thought so, too! Believe it or not, I was actually kind of excited to see a modernized Hansel and Gretel storyline. Then I found out who directed it, and all joy left my body.
It looks like the kid is just as uncomfortable "rapping" as the audience is watching him rap, his arm movements are a manifestation of the awkwardness he's feeling... That child has more self awareness than M. Night "Eminem" Shyamalan.
This movie is baffling from the word go. First the mom says the kids demanded to see their grandparents even though she didn't want them to, but in the next scene they talk about how they need their phones and she says "it's only a week." If she really didn't want them going, she would've encouraged them to stay where their phones work.
I know this is old, but parents do this sometimes Kids wanted to go but make a fuss about the smallest inconvenience after making a commitment? Too bad kids, you made a commitment to something, even though mom doesn't like it, and you gotta follow through with your commitments.
Shankspeare Agreed. I would’ve liked it better if the mom and grandparents were starting to mend their relationship. For example, the dad died instead of left and the grandparents reached out to the mom shortly after. It’s been like a year and the kids send their mom on a cruise to help her unwind from the dad’s death (she’s been comforting them), and the kids stay with the grandparents after the mom agrees to let them see the grandchildren they’ve never met.
Shankspeare I agree that the movie is barf, but I get why the mom did that. I mean, people change their minds or get persuaded all the time. Plus, they already packed and drove off. It’s not that special if you ask me.
Love how M. Night takes a real life condition that just makes a person more anxious and confused when the sun goes down into a condition that turns you into a fucking rabid dog.
Even if it is a little nitpicky, Adam is right about everything he says in this review. Spending more money to make a film less realistic in found footage defeats the purpose. You are definitely right though
That wasn't the rhyme... The rapping was bad enough you don't have to pretend like he tried to rhyme again with again because he said again twice in a rap If I rap 'flowers are nice flowers are twice' it's pretty obvious I'm not rhyming flowers with flowers. Why don't you go after Eminem for rhyming Slim Shady with Slim Shady
I remember seeing this in theatre with my mother and we were both really bored (we love horror so this was pretty mundane to sit through), but ever since it's become a meme in my family for the line "Would you mind crawling inside the oven to clean it?", specially if someone says they're bored, my nan loves to use the line, but can never keep a straight face to say it.
I think the reason the elderly and kids are used as scary things in horror movies is because people think of them as nice and innocent. Same with kids dolls. When you take something seemingly good and then alter what we all know about it to something malevolent, if done right it can be spooky. Sorry i'm not good at explaining.
Mr. Fish the frog yeah I definitely see your point, but whilst I find things like Pennywise pretty scary, I’m never going to wake up with nightmares about old or child villains from horror flicks, as like Adam said, they’re just really easy to overcome physically.
I never realised this was meant to be a found footage film and just assumed that only the first person shots and the solo interviews where meant to be found footage and that it was just regular horror told from the kids prospective, goes to show how bad the directing was
Probably because M night was too incompetent to include the camera UI features like the time and battery percentage lol. Just looks like a poorly shot movie
I remember I had one, when I first felt with them. In middle school I was part of a fandom that orbited too close to furries and my experience was forever ruined by the degeneracy that ensued
"And this is where the movie *should* end, but instead they throw in one more scene..." Me: Oh please be a jumpscare into the camera for no reason! "I may be thirteen, may not live in the hood-" Me: *THIS IS WORSE! THIS IS INFINITELY MORE SCARY, WHAT A TWIST!*
I remember the sixth sense so fondly. I was maybe 10 and my Dad was like, "Hey, I think you're old enough to see horror films now. Would you like to go to the movies and see The Sixth Sense?" I was nervous and excited. I watched the film and I had such a good time. My Dad really liked it too. We gushed over the movie for days. That movie was engaging and it was a right of passage for me. It's so sad to see M Night Shyamalan slip from grace :(
@@Torrance92 Yeah but Split is an older script back from when he was making good movies, so I don't count it as a return to form quite yet. We'll see how Glass turns out.
It would depend on the lock, you could have the locking mechanism be in the center of the door and the door knob as the switch, meaning that what keeps it locked is inside the door itself. You could also have the door knob be like 80% of the work, without going in the details of how, basically the door knob is the thing that keeps it locked instead of just the switch. Locks actually have a surprisingly amount of different ways they can be made and work, heck, complex locks are just crazy with the amount of things that has to be done for the lock to unlock or lock, they are normally to make it harder to pick locks.
Redbird7311 No matter what lock it is, there is still the closed trap (?). I really don't get why filmmakers are so sloppy regarding things like this. Do these people seriously lack the basic understanding of doors? Room doors usually consist of a thin layer of wood (or some other kind of board) and a filling of cardboard. If you need to open a locked door, just break through it with a heavy object. Even a little girl is capable of doing it.
"Listen to me, those aren't your grandparents." Why is she so calm?! Why isn't she FREAKING THE FUCK OUT that her kids have been staying with complete strangers?
@@mayonnaise3959 Not as bothered as she should be that her children are with likely dangerous strangers. What's not making sense? It's bad acting, period.
Wow, how have I never noticedthat Like, potentially there could be a stone wall down there that shows where the stairs are leading underground, but all of the sides are open and you can see outside, making that impossible Wait, no Its the real twist The grandparents could open wormholes Theyre dimension jumpers!
One true to life point in the entire script: I know several parents with the same attitude as the mother. "I didn't want my kids to do something, but my kids wanted to do it, so they did. What can you do?"
I remember watching this on tv with my brothers and we joked that the reason why the grandparents went insane was because of the boys god-awful rapping.
Filmmakers try to make you believe an actor is holding a regular hand-held camera but the way the camera moves seems like they're holding a large boulder
Let's be fun and overanalyze the raps and see how they hold up when put under musical scrutiny. Verse 1: Girl, I'm chillin' again. I'm feelin' again. I'm like Iron Man and Batman I'm a hero again. You think I'm little, but this month I grew an inch and a quarter again. You think you're too good for me, but that's really a joke. Okay, let's break this down real quick. First two lines are a decent bar. Chillin and feelin are near rhymes so they're passable. Again and again are exact rhymes, which is only passable because there's internal rhyming. However the third line rhymes with... nothing. Unless you're rhyming man and man, and in which case I'm not excusing exact rhymes again. Third line doesn't rhyme with anything except another exact rhyme. Now, that SHOULD be the end. Technically, that's 2 bars, one of which completely doesn't rhyme with anything. But for some reason at the start of the next bar, he keeps the same rhyme scheme, then starts a new one? Because nothing on the second line of the 3rd bar rhymes with anything else. At this point I'm ignoring exact rhymes. They don't count anymore. This whole second part is also kinda self deprecating? It sounds like he's bragging at first, then it sounds like he's just sad that he can't get this girl because she thinks he's short and a loser. I didn't include the last line, because while it does have an end rhyme, it doesn't belong there. It's an incomplete bar, because he made the rap 7 lines. You can't do that. Raps have structure. Good ol' verse 2: The girls, they like me They think I'm sweet like candy One girl looked at me like I was a Hershey Bar, her name was Angie A few tall girls, they just look at me blankly. This one is better in terms of rhyme scheme and structure. It makes more sense. I'm okay with the end rhymes and that kind of thing. But there's also a few horribly glaring problems. First off, the flow. The first and second line implicate a faster, less wordy rap. Something that people like Eminem actually do a lot. It emphasizes fast rhymes and sounds really good. It's also really good for doing just end rhymes and a simple rhyme scheme (not calling Eminem simple trust me) because you don't have to worry about internal rhyming when each bar only has about 5 syllables. But when you go 5 syllables into 7 syllables into.... 11? That breaks that flow completely. You should probably stay under around 8 to make the lines flow better together. IE: The girls, they like me. (5) Say I'm sweet like candy. (7) Looked at me, Hershey. (5) Said her name was Angie. (7) Tall girls, look at me blankly. (7) See how much better that flows together? It's still simple, but at least it's passable. And if you could say that pretty fast, it would sound at least impressive. But the problem is instead of thinking about these things, Shymalan made them as wordy as possible because it means it would fill more time. Instead of coming up with more lines, and more rhymes, he decided to make them wordy and long so they'd be easier to write. And it comes off like shit.
I'm surprised at how thoughtful MNS sounds when he's talking about that climatic car conversation. He evidently paid close attention to the details while setting the scene up. I definitely agree with him that the lack of score compliments the tone of the scene. Visually speaking it focuses on just Cole and his mom sitting side by side in this enclosed space, which makes you feel like you're there with them. The effect is that their conversation is surprisingly raw and poignant. You don't _need_ there to be sappy "emotional" music in the background because the emotion of the scene speaks for itself. The heartache these characters are experiencing feels *real* even though the movie's subject matter is fantastical. Without the ghost element, you still have an exasperated and lonely parent who's just made a profound emotional connection with her son after years of miscommunication between the two of them. There's nothing goofy or overwrought about the scene, which makes it so shocking to me that so much of MNS' work since then has been terrible and cheesy. I get that _Sixth_ _Sense_ is a tough act to follow, but the drop-off in terms of attention to detail is nothing short of startling. I don't understand how he went from the level of thought displayed in _Sixth_ _Sense_ to churning out thoughtlessly stupid tripe like that Mark Wahlberg feature. Did he just stop caring once he got rich and famous?
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The twist reminds me of that one episode of Spongebob.
"Oh that's right, honey. We don't have a son!"
"Oh yeah!"
TJ Hastie I thought the same exact thing, holy shit
Janet? Marty?! WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?!?!
Noice
only thing Patrick figures it somewhat realistic
No wonder the plot was so bad
Let me get this straight. The mother, who hadn't contact her parents in 15 years, decides to send her kids, who never seen their grandparents, to the train station to visit their grandparents instead of chaperoning them to her parents and reconcile with them. Some mother.
She was too busy on a cruise or something. Who cares.
4tahlulz4 WE CARE
That's a pretty realistic single mother.
TheTwilitHero What? She was estranged from her parents for years so she's gonna send her adolescent kids by themselves to go see them? Come on.
who gives a fuck, enjoy the movie
"Why is grandma making creature noises."
Why is grandma naruto running through the house
ghost guts me in 60yrs
Hey, luckily, the regisseur's kids are too old to watch "Naruto" and give him ideas, it would be great to do a live action film with it..
@Ghost Guts Why is grandma acting like she's possessed she's supposed to be a mental patient. Come to think of it, I wonder what would've happened if the film had made the grandparents possessed like the "Exorcist" or something.
Jennea Coleman-Cubero I honestly thought they were supposed to be possessed or some kind of supernatural creatures (especially with the whole Hanzel and Gretyl theme).
Having them be mental patients only made it nonsensical, due to the unrealistic sounds the grandma made (unless there's some obscure mental illness that makes the afflicted growl like an autotuned tiger) and her fast moving teleportation skills.
Oh shit this blew up
No lie when fake grandma screamed “yatzee”EVERYONE in the theater bursted out laughing.
Well it was supposed to be funny
@@flubbajubb4958 X: Doubt
@@generalgk The movie is literally a horror-comedy
@@flubbajubb4958 Problem is, the horror is hilarious and the comedy is terrifying
@@shinymetagross1666 what does that even mean?
The twist in this movie was the twist in an episode of Spongebob like 15 years ago.
Dalton Skinner which episode
Salvador Reyes the one where patrick's parents were visiting but it wasn't actually his parents
Salvador Reyes the title is I'm With Stupid
Janet? Marty?! WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?!
“Oh that’s right, we don’t have a son”
"the police arent answering" yeah you know 911, always dodging those calls.
All the operators took a lunch break
There’s actually a lot of states where they don’t have enough operators and some people call and get no one cause everyone is already on the phone.
Tarantino King or idiot 911 operators that hang up on panicked callers. But forget all that
J O K E S A R E J O K E S
@@Nobody-hc2bo
i refuse to believe this is a thing
edit from late 2022: i can now fully believe that this is a thing fuck the police lmao
Uhg I hate when 911 dodges my calls
"I didn't let myself make an intellectual decision."
- MC Night, 2014
I'm pretty sure he's referring to the idea that he had to actively hinder himself from making more traditional cinematic decisions, because he was making a found footage film. Counterintuitive stuff.
@@charleynewman5057 Nah
@@cbb3480 Okay, then what did he mean? He obviously didn't literally mean he was trying to make stupid decisions. No one, no matter how incompetent, is _trying_ to be an idiot. So what would be your real world explanation for what he meant? Mind you, you could just find the interview and see for yourself.
@@charleynewman5057 It's called a joke, not that deep
yikes
"I downloaded the definition of sundowning" fucking kills me. maybe they were the grandparents the whole time
So like Benjamin Button?
The true horror was the Grandma inside us all along.
*stop all the downloadin*
@@xavierkazoo1619 no it was the grandma’s we made along the way that really count.
Ah yes let me “download the definition” because that makes sense
Adam, this is your fault...
Never thought you'd be here
FlyingKitty HOOOOO! My dog.
FlyingKitty cj follow the goddamn KFC truck
I was just about to comment that lmao
That profile pic fits that statement perfectly.
I think the reason why the “creepy child/old person” trope exists is because we almost always see children and elderly as innocent pure people, so when they do something unsettling or creepy, we automatically feel of it as uncanny. Even though when you think about it, it’s kinda dumb.
T.otally A.wesome D.rawings like the whole uncanny-valley effect? Like... When something looks human, but you know it isn’t. It’s slightly off and you can tell it isn’t human, but yet it seems human. So like, you know it’s a child/old person but it feels like an uncanny-valley thing because they aren’t cute/innocent.
I feel like it could be used well. With kids and old people, we automatically see them as unthreatening and even cute, and they’re almost always the first people we try to protect in dangerous situations. So when they’re able to pose as a real, genuine threat to our well-being, it causes a disconnect between our human instinct to protect them and the obvious danger they present.
For instance, if a healthy middle aged man with a knife was trying to kill you, it’d be terrifying, but it’d be terrifying in an understandable way that you can rationalize. And even though a lot of people tend to see women as less threatening, a healthy woman with a weapon could still definitely kill you. In those instances, those are situations where you know what you’re fighting.
But a three year old crawling on the walls and chasing you with murderous intent? An old person running at you in a way they physically shouldn’t? That gives an inhuman element to individuals we immediately define as weaker than most, which naturally throws people off.
I think what might actually make it uncanny is that old people and kids are weird by nature. Think about it, there isn’t many things a little kid or an old person could do that would genuinely freak you out. 🤷♀️
I just think, "Ahh woman at the door!"
@@gregjayonnaise8314 Have you seen X? If you did, what did you think of the old couple?
When you fail at Horror, you get Comedy.
When you fail at Comedy, you TRULY get Horror.
The original motivation for Synecdoche NY was Jonze and Kaufman trying to make their interpretation of a horror movie. What kind of comedy was that now?
@@user-me7hx8zf9y The comedy of tragedy
@Hugh James-Berry What happens if you fail at The Visit? Is it good or bad? Horror or comedy? both or neither? Questions like these must be answered.
@Candy Coloured Clown When you fail at making a bad movie you just get an embarrassingly bad movie. I've watched enough Red Letter Media to know that.
Well this movie was supposed to be both, so what was it?
Honestly, I think the movie should have made "creepy grandma" a secondary thing and focus more on the horror of being a powerless child. Like, what can they do? Walk to the police station and say "grandma's being weird?" Leave their phones functional and just acknowledge they don't know anyone in town, they can't pay for a taxi/hotel, and they can't get grandma arrested for being a weirdo
Yes
Creativity in a Shyamalan movie? Impossible
This is great but they should just drop the grandma and make it like a uncle or something because thats more of a power dynamic then a fucking disabled old lady
@@thetruelord1317 nan creepy uncle being phone to the police compared to grandma being weird... which one you think the cops are going to considering a teenage girl is calling
@@madmehr if somebody is being creepy the cops arent gonna do anything its not like the grandparents did anything until thr end lol
This movie is *S H A K I R A*
Tooby Toobs (shakira)
Tooby Toobs what? 😕😓
(actually watches the video and realises I'm a dumbass)
Oh, I get it.
True, too.
Shit-kira?
A piece of ass then?
I wonder if Shyamalan came up with that from the bit in 40 Year Old Virgin when Steve Carrell yells Kelly Clarkson as he's getting waxed
I genuinely feel bad for the brother actor. At least the sister was the straight man character and thus was sparred most of the horrific scenes and lines. You know his awful cringiness wasn't his idea.
He’s gonna suffer for it tho
I remember this one horror christmas movie both the boy and girl actors were in, the boy had a better role as a stereotypical nerdy character and was actually pretty good in the role, so it was definitely the movies fault lmao
For what it’s worth, as a kid at the time (I was about 13 when I watched this), I remember him being a bit of a hit, among my friends with whom I had seen the film they liked him. I remember myself even liking his performance. Don’t get me wrong, I think even I could sense the cringe writing at the time, but there was an excitement to seeing a character our age in a horror movie who wasn’t just killed early on, or barely a character. So point being, he did well and was well liked despite the role and hopefully the actor has gone on to do better things
Ad-lib definitely.
@@thatonelucariofan503 I remember it being the complete opposite 😭
This movie was filmed in my hometown. I remember in high school everyone was excited because there was a “famous director” in town filming one of the schools. Then we found out it was M. Night...
lmao it was years ago people were just kinda like "oh that's cool" or still salty about the last airbender.
I feel so sorry for you.
I fear that shame upon your town will never leave. . . .
You have my deepest sympathies.
M. Night filmed Signs in my hometown so i kinda love that movie. Happy he did it before he literally shit himself.
I go to that school too, Spring ford, right?
That was the twist
I'm starting to think Shyamalan had a stroke at some point midway through the production of Signs and has never quite recovered from it.
I heard Split was decent, so maybe he's improving.
@@WarrenValion He wrote that script ages ago though, YMS even says so in the video.
Shyamalan is always a mixed bag. The Sixth Sense is awesome, Unbreakable, and A few of his others are decent. But, if his movies are bad I can never tell if its because they're cerebral or because they truly do suck. Except for Avatar, because that's just awful.
@@oddeyes9413 But...Avatar is a James Cameron movie. And it does suck. One of his only movies that does IMO.
James Cameron's Avatar is awesome, and he is referring to The Last Airbender.
"I'm on the text with *two separate* girls" lmaooo on the text
Im glad someone else picked up on that
Yes mom I’m totally doing the messages with the females
Does he seriously not know even ONE fucking kid he could have asked for tips on dialogue?
Hello human family, I am currently on the text with two seperate non-lineage related human females. Do not fear, I have am not replaced with lizard, that is most unorthadox. Look, I rap just like your usual human male offspring
@@ms_rifle_spiral that made me die laughing
“Honey, what are you doi-“
*”I AM ON THE TEXT WITH TWO SEPARATE GIRLS”*
This is why your father left you honey
No real human child has ever, EVER said the phrase "on the text" outside of this movie or referencing this movie. Ever.
M. Night barges in: what a TWIST he was a villain all along he separated conjoined twins to text them separately it's reverse human centipede!
@@Manigeitora Shut up and feel the emotion tattooed in the paints
He was stressing so hard his forehead grew to 5x the normal size
i forgot what cringing felt like until the kid "rapped" on the train
I didn't even comprehend what was happening.
carikittygeek we all did
@Machine Fack is RoboCop three
I feel the same
I had to skip it. It was like watching a brutal car accident in slow motion.
"They're throwing shade!" That..is not how that term is used. Do they think "throwing shade" means being shady? There's literally no way that phrase applies there.
I wonder if the actors tried to tell Night that and he just refused to be corrected
Only one glance at your subscribed accounts made it clear that you are a man of culture
Or woman
Maybe both
Simulacrum Dei lol I appreciate your inclusivity
@@crunchii891 yes, the three genders, man woman and both xD
This comment, however, throws shade at their use of "throwing shade"
Did I do it right?
Anyone else impressed at how many times you can watch a YMS review? they never get old for me
@@Moon-vt4gv I'm sorry? i would kiss YMS review ass anytime of the day.
TheFreepie yes!
I have watched this review like 5 times.
This is the 3rd time I’ve seen this and I’ve seen his Spider-Man review 4 times
@@King_Rowlet I've watched this too many times...
@@Moon-vt4gv Begone tool
I just realized how goddamn stupid it is that they're literally in the real grandparents' house instead of, say, a completely different house owned/controlled by the fake grandparents. They picked the kids up from the train station, right? So why not have them end up in an unknown location? That could at least give the ending some actual tension. Make it so calling the police from the cruise liner isn't a perfect option because the kids aren't at the address the mom thought they would be and the police need precious time figuring out where they are.
The fact that the camera doesn't work for most of the movie is...actually, no, screw that. Give a real reason for the camera not working well: connection quality. Just have their first call be a random mess of sound and flickering glitches, and then they switch off the video and the audio becomes at least reasonably tolerable. Done. Then throw in some ambiguity about their location that works with the characters. If one of the kids mentions a rickety-ass shed in the back yard, the mom can pause, and then sigh as she laughs about how her dad always tried to be a handyman but he could never decently build anything bigger than a birdhouse. Stuff like that. Make it clear that it's a blend of guilt and nostalgia that's reasonably coloring the mother's opinion of her folks and thus why she's willing to overlook what might otherwise be mild warning signs.
So I guess the bottom line is that Mr. Night Shylamian should put more thought into his films on certain levels. Or many levels.
I hated how in the oven scene (which was marketed as the scariest scene), the movie doesn’t bother to give any logical reason why the girl goes inside it, like there’s literally no reason for her to crawl in voluntarily while she cleans it
You put 10x more thought into that YT post than M Night puts into any of his scripts.
What are you trying to do, be creative or something? Are you trying to write a scenario that might actually be scary?????
M. Night: “I didn’t let myself make an intellectual decision.”
Me: You said it, not me
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
He put his foot in his mouth there.
I mean, he obviously invokes cinema as an emotional art and not a logical endeavor. He's wrong, found footage supposed to be realistic, but try and understand where he's coming from. Why he's wrong...
Must take some serious restraint not to use that clip constantly.
@@strubberyg7451 Hey I know it's been 3 years since you dropped this comment and I just wanted you to know it still makes zero sense in 2023
@papayer I remember it all, Google won't let me forget...
OK, I just rewatched this video, but my point still stands. Pointing out that he doesn't make sense isn't enough. If people want to be productive, they need to understand why he doesn't make sense. Otherwise, it's just bullying, kicking a man while he's down.
Cinema needs to be both emotional and logical. M. Night just convinced himself that being emotional is a good excuse for everything, so he decided to plant his flag there (that would explain his speech at the end of the video). But a completely logical cinema would be equally bad, if not worse. Imagine Community's Abed and his films, but one that takes himself seriously...
My mom at the end of the movie "So were the old people demons or something?"
Lol, it's a stupid movie
There's nothing more terrifying than old people.
I'm pretty sure they explain their from a mental hospital
grand parents where demons from the fire nation DUH
Rogue Sigh...
Why do filmmakers keep doing this? 99% of mental patients are not even close to the way they are presented in popular media. It’s not just unrealistic, it’s boring, overdone and very harmful to people with mental issues or just people that are a bit weird.
Honestly, a movie about grandparents surviving psychopathic children would be a lot better than this.
But that would mean having cute kids not be profitable advertising bait, and god knows Hollywood doesn't want to take risks.
Everybody is a psychopath to them lol
Wait isn't that Children of the Corn
UnderratedBreakfast where the fuck have you been with your great ass idea !?
"These damn kids and their glowing eyes and grand theft autos"
fuck i had to skip every part where the kid raps. so painful. that kid probably thinks of those rapping scenes every once in a while when he's about to go to sleep and it keeps him awake
It's life
I'm glad I'm not the only one who couldn't sit through those scenes
definitely does not keep him awake at night , hes probably just like "damn i cant believe they really payed me to fuck up that shit so bad. gg unlucky well played"
I still have to skip the rap scenes, you know the kid either is bullied in school and/or never will get a girl or boy until he's senile.
@@anglepsycho you do realize this is just a movie? Grow tf up. You’re a little kid
2:46 I feel bad for the train conductor's actor. He looks so uncomfortable.
Adam this is your fault..
He is simply going through suicidal thoughts
Isn't that M Knight making a cameo?
Your profile pic 👏👏👏
He just kept telling himself "gotta earn that paycheck" before, during, and after that scene.
Conspiracy theory: M Night had a Ghost Writer that left
It could be you
It could be me
Its actually me
@@galleryofrogues close but not Hyde. Try later
It could be you, it could be me, it could even be... (get's shotgunned to the head)
M. Night: What?
If this kid started saying "GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG" it would get a 10/10 for authenticity. M. Night's mistake was imitating Biggie when writing rap lyrics for a child in 2016.
Gucci gang came out in 2017 thoooooooooooooooo brooooooooooooooo
Still got 'em tho
Gucci Gang wasn't rap. It's just practice for pronouncing two words properly
@@logger22 and failing at both of them
Dude if biggy was alive i cant tell you m.night would have been shot the day after he said that shit.
I mean, being produced by Blum isn't the worst deal. He won't dictate anything because he literally doesn't care, so you can just perform your vision to the best of your ability and budget.
which means this was all him...
Watched a couple of those Into the Dark things on HULU. They really have zero production influence. Those things are ALL over the place
"Ability" and "budget"
Or worst of your ability...
But also he produced Whipplash... I mean...
I'm glad adam touched on the inauthentic nature of how the movie is filmed. Like if it's supposed to be a found footage movie then why are they using a 8K cinema camera and have impeccable camera work. The whole point is to make the viewer think it was lost footage. But that feel is completely lost when it's made to look as cinematic as possible
lampini I’ve noticed it’s been that way for a while now. I mean, all they need is a title card detailing how the footage was lost and found to sell the idea. Blair Witch Project had one. And while that Apollo 18 movie wasn’t the greatest, I commended it for at least trying to present itself as footage from a classified NASA mission.
Actualy i did not got bothered by it i was a little annoyed by that .. Its the rapping that forced me to burn it down.
“Uh oh it’s a surprise grandma”
Best quote ever
Your high effort complaining is my favorite.
Love your videos :)
omg that's the perfect term for it.
right?!?! incredible
I agree 1000%
Geek Remix! Love you guys!
"I didn't let myself make an intellectual decision."
- M Night Shyamalan
I'm putting that on my tombstone
I'm just replying so you can see how much likes you got
Along with "I made the last airbender"
Considering the kids made it out alive... what was the point of it being 'found footage'? Found footage only really works when you have the premise of a third party watching it in terms of trying to discover what happened.
No shhhh you don't get it
Well I think that girl's (supposed to be) a wannabe filmmaker, so if the context was that she made a documentary movie it makes some sense. What doesn't make sense is why the hell would you put the director and the actors name at the opening scene. This is supposed to found footage, and found footage don't put credits at the beginning!
My gut says M. Knight doesn't understand how found footage works. Also, he probably thought his reputation could be damaged if he had a movie where people under 18 get murdered.
he probably thought his reputation could be damaged if he had a movie where people under 18 get murdered.
and then 'Split' came out
@@sori_osori_ split was when he was writing good movies
Every time Adam stops talking and let's a clip from the movie play, I immediately skip past it to avoid shattering my bones from all the cringe.
bones broken. typing with bloody tongue. send help and snacks.
Same...LOL
It is a known fact that this movie causes arthritis at best.
There are multiple scenes in which a dorky kid raps. Not just one, but several. With references to pop stars as jokes, like shouting Katy Perry when your non-grandma is trying to kill you. And an old dad (who is also M. Night) wrote the lyrics.
Pain. Pain.
The Smash Mouth mashup was hysterical cringe
This movie scared the emojis out of me
Salokin it scared the emo jizz out of me
the emoji movie
Enough
Fk you meat eater
what an E M O J I N I AL rollercoaster
The reason there was a “Blumhouse Truth or Dare” is because there was another movie with the same title produced around the same time. It is also terrible.
@@cactusmalone Which one is so bad it’s good?
why didnt he just steal a bag of chips from the gas station or something
@@cactusmalone You have to watch the so bad it's amazing one called Truth or Dare: A Critical Madness
that freestyle rap hurt my soul, I demand compensation from M. Knight himself.
it hurts. i literally have to avert my eyes from the screen, because of the cringe
same
Is it freestyle? I mean the kid couldn’t even stay on beat which infuriated me. Just, wanted to slap him so hard he suddenly became good at freestyle rap.
Howesenberg I had to skip each rap scene in this review
"night"
"They're throwing shade"
Now I haven't seen the movie, so correct me if I'm wrong...But I don't think he's using that phrase correctly.
He’s not.
Dr.CandyStriper I came to this comment section for the sole purpose of finding out if someone else was bothered by that. An earlier comment also points out that he says he's "on the text" early on, which NO ONE says. (Also younger teens these days aren't obsessed with texting like they used to be, anyway?? The cabin apparently has great internet, so he should be just fine with snapchat and Twitter and Instagram and whatever else they use these days)
But yeah, "throwing shade" is insulting someone, usually in a kind of passive-aggressive way. It's not a substitute for "acting shady", but whoever wrote the dialogue seems to think they mean the same thing.
Shade comes from reading
@@blurrycryptid To be fair, I think it was meant to be used wrong to add to the kids cringe
• Vico • throwing shade is making fun of someone but in a light hearted non Serious manner
That "breaking the doorknob with a camera without touching either of those" is the best thing I've seen in a while.
It moves as if the camera weighs 12kg... because it does.
DysnomiaFilms I was just pointing out how poorly executed that shot is. It's supposed to be a relatively small camera within the movie (in reality it clearly isn't) and it's supposed to hit the doorknob (which it clearly doesn't)
I know, I was just commenting on how fake the movement looks due to how heavy the camera they were moving was.
Let me break this doorknob by waving a camera near it
And the whole conceit of the scene makes little sense. Unless that camera was from the 80's and made mostly out of overbuilt metal how exactly was it going to break off a brass doorknob? And just in the functionality of a door of you snap off the nob the latch bolt most likely would still be engaged--you just no longer have a mechanism to try and twist the inner workings and get it to disengage. Movies....
I burst out laughing at grandma Naruto running down the hallway with monster sound effects and dramatic lighting
I need a timestamp for that!
I think I was 12 or 13 when this came out, and it was the first horror movie I EVER watched because I was such a baby. I mean I still get scared pretty damn easily, but it’s nice to look back now that I’m 17, senior in HS, and be able to say “me at 4am looking for shredded cheese.”
Bianca & Auggie! That is what we call growth
Fort Hater 16:47
She's one of the leaf village's deadly assassins, Graninja! Her skin is like a genjutsu man....
I like that whoever told the kid to say
“They’re throwing shade”
Didn’t know what that actually meant. They clearly thought it had something to do with being “shady”
I think the point was that the kid was a dumb white kid who didn't know what it meant.
I'm just replying so you can see how much likes you got
Character: Psychotic old woman escaped from an asylum.
M. Night: Did you mean growling werewolf creature?
JustWeirdOut does your grandma not growl?
While watching the review, I was waiting for a twist of her being possessed by a demon.
@@charliewegner she also doesn't naruto run around the house in the middle of the night while making monster noises? Weird
@@troin3925 the twist was that The Visit was a sequel to The Devil all along
@@JeanMarceaux That's not funny
I'm in my grandma's house right now. I am comfortable. This movie did to old people what Ratatouille did to France.
actually, i don't think the movie did anything to old people
I liked ratatouille....
What the fuck does this even mean?
Jack Balance good question
that comparison is spot on lmaooooooo
I adore how you use scenes from interviews, it really gives an interesting insight into the nonsense haha
haha
M night is just the kid who was told he was really smart a bit too much in school.
And then he became the co-worker who has a high-paying job despite not being skilled enough for it, and who thinks he's the only genius in the world who can do his job, but tells more talented, broke people who are struggling to get even half-way where he is currently that they "shouldn't do it, don't do it, film-making sucks" like he's the chain-smoking character from St. Elmo's Fire.
Yes....YES! I mean, look at his character in "Lady in the Water". A writer who is going to inspire the president with his greatness and become a martyr because he's so misunderstood(and the movie says the movie critic is the most evil man of all time.)
@@phousefilms I think about this movie every now and again and whenever it crosses my mind I'm utterly floored by the completely delusional amount of ego so prominently and explicitly display. My boy is lost in his own sauce.
you mean jaden smith?
I almost died of cringe at the rapping scene. I can't begin to imagine how that felt watching it in a movie theater.
Just imagine experiencing the first two rap scenes. Then to be punched in the face by the credits.
I watched it in the theatre/cinema. I actually paid to watch this trash 🙈....I had nothing else to do at home lol I remember rolling my eyes and sighing every time he rapped
Aidan Pettit, I convinced my mom to take me to see it in the movie theater and as I sat there watching the kid rap, I regretted my life decisions that led to that moment.
People in my theatre laughed the first time, but when he rapped again, then the last time the laughter died down. You could feel the eye rolls.
Devil's Advocate imagine showing up to the theater late and having to sit in the very front row, forcing your neck to practically snap into your shoulders while having to experience that.. kinda glad a good movie wasn’t spoiled by my aching spine
It would’ve been nice if the kids cleaned the webcam, talked to the mom, and the grandparents were in the background. The mom could’ve asked who was there and, when the kids tell her it’s her parents, the mom could’ve had a reaction. She’s trying to remain calm and tell the kids the truth.
(The kids could’ve not known what the grandparents looked like because a house fire destroyed all recent pictures. They may only have pictures from like the 80s; enough to say the grandparents looked different but nothing that the passage of time couldn’t explain away.)
Not bad. Why the fuck are you doing their job better than they do it?
@@tommythecat7752 brain have? Yes.
“I’m on the text with two separate girls”, what kind of horror is this
The thot horror.
@@dawsonfoorfour *B e g o n e T h o t*
Right? They should have been conjoined.
Do you think the aliens from Space Jam sucked the directing and writing abilities out of M. Night Shyamalan after Unbreakable?
holy shit...
Yes
I wanna see the movies they made afterwords
Absolutely. They'd become the Monstirectors after. 😂
I physically cannot watch those “rap” scenes
I -have- to skip them
Imagine watching it in a theater with a bunch of people around lol 😂 it's one of those things where you are so embarrassed for the person you start getting embarrassed yourself.
@@stpbasss3773 i think thats called cringe
everytime it happens i just think oh the director is just tryna make it more entertaining but it was so cringy
Pancouver venguins that’s called second hand embarrassment and it’s one of the worst feelings ever, its worse then being cringy because you can’t immediately stop it unlike being cringy.
It hurts so much to watch
I like how The Visit has a cross-stitch style movie poster; just reminds me how much I'd rather be watching Fargo
Lmao same
Darn tootin'
they really tried to make the boy as white as possible.
The one thing they succeeded in.
In the same way that they tried to make Apu in the Simpsons as Indian as possible.
Werewolf grannie would've been a way better plot twist tbh
Like some twisted take on Little Red Riding Hood, lol.
When I first saw the trailer for this movie I thought that it was going to be a modern reimagining of the Hansel & Gretel fairytale in a horror setting due to the oven scene.
I thought so, too!
Believe it or not, I was actually kind of excited to see a modernized Hansel and Gretel storyline.
Then I found out who directed it, and all joy left my body.
Holy shit, I thought the same thing.
The worst part about your comment is that m night could have pulled that off... what a waste
This comment was infanatly more entertaining than the movie.
@@AspenBrightsoul "Infanatly?" You mean "infinitely?" XD
Well they changed the "roar" sound effect to a simple scream in the french version.
Floop De Doop
Dive Dive Dive Dive In Meeeeeeeee
Nice to know that they're the smart ones.
Honhonhon *screams in baguette*
@@PrototheDodo yo...i get that reference...oh shit...
THAT'S NOT WHAT THROWING SHADE MEANS AAAARGH
I CAME TO THE COMMENTS JUST FOR THIS VALIDATION, THANK YOUUU
It looks like the kid is just as uncomfortable "rapping" as the audience is watching him rap, his arm movements are a manifestation of the awkwardness he's feeling... That child has more self awareness than M. Night "Eminem" Shyamalan.
This movie is baffling from the word go. First the mom says the kids demanded to see their grandparents even though she didn't want them to, but in the next scene they talk about how they need their phones and she says "it's only a week." If she really didn't want them going, she would've encouraged them to stay where their phones work.
I know this is old, but parents do this sometimes
Kids wanted to go but make a fuss about the smallest inconvenience after making a commitment? Too bad kids, you made a commitment to something, even though mom doesn't like it, and you gotta follow through with your commitments.
Shankspeare
Agreed. I would’ve liked it better if the mom and grandparents were starting to mend their relationship. For example, the dad died instead of left and the grandparents reached out to the mom shortly after. It’s been like a year and the kids send their mom on a cruise to help her unwind from the dad’s death (she’s been comforting them), and the kids stay with the grandparents after the mom agrees to let them see the grandchildren they’ve never met.
Shankspeare I agree that the movie is barf, but I get why the mom did that.
I mean, people change their minds or get persuaded all the time. Plus, they already packed and drove off. It’s not that special if you ask me.
I just found your channel and I must say, I DID NOT REALIZE THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A FOUND FOOTAGE MOVIE WTF??
They take so many scenes to blatantly painfully explain that.
Oh Shakira I almost forgot this was coming
“I studied biggie for the raps” writes rap about sharing a Starbucks cappuccino blend or some shit
It's definitely Biggie's flow (except for too many forced syllables) but it's 2012 Bieber's lyrics
biggie famously loves starbucks
“I’m o n t h e t e x t”
"with two s e p e r a t e girls"
The rapping was true horror. PAIN HAS A FACE
I thought you said "the fapping" I was very scared
M night thought it was good, that makes it unintentionally hilarious :-D
Horror, has a face...
It’s that kids face
Yeah he's a cringey kid, so what? You're not meant to go like "wow what a cool kid he can rap and stuff!"
The fact that the little girl had no problem getting in the oven but playing Yahtzee was where she draws the line is hilarious to me
Indians are anti-septic.
Tells us how painful the child rapping is.
Proceeds to repeatedly show entire scenes of the child rapping.
Why would you do this to us?
We'llAlwaysHave VALIS if he had to suffer. We have to suffer.
I misread child rapping as... another similar word for a second. Glad I was wrong...
i thought that said child raping whoops
Jajaja, same.
To everyone who thought I put raping, it was me that felt raped by the child. So technically you're correct.
Love how M. Night takes a real life condition that just makes a person more anxious and confused when the sun goes down into a condition that turns you into a fucking rabid dog.
Dementia = rabies
“Just tell them what a furry is and they’ll die of a heart attack”
This joke somehow becomes funnier when you realise Adum himself is a furry
There's a saying that is something along the lines of "You can't truly be a fan of something unless you can laugh at it".
Is he really a furry tho??
Haven't kept up much with him
@@-d-devil-3393 yes he does but there is nothing bad or wrong.
@@nomukun1138 idc honestly I just wanted to know because I thought it's a joke and didn't want to end up getting trolled by an entire community, again
Yeah, you didn't know?
I don't think any of the filming critiques are "nitpicking" because the ENTIRE base of a found footage film is how it's filmed!
Libby Wood pineapple sweet Pineapple sweet we geek
Even if it is a little nitpicky, Adam is right about everything he says in this review. Spending more money to make a film less realistic in found footage defeats the purpose. You are definitely right though
Wait that kid rhymed again with again? Twice?
*Better than Drake*
Wait, you actually took time to listen to the rhymes?
Heck Frick it’s like from adventure time “saying turn back twice doesn’t count as a rhyme dude”
Whoopity scoop
Jean Marceaux Stappity bap.
That wasn't the rhyme...
The rapping was bad enough you don't have to pretend like he tried to rhyme again with again because he said again twice in a rap
If I rap 'flowers are nice flowers are twice' it's pretty obvious I'm not rhyming flowers with flowers.
Why don't you go after Eminem for rhyming Slim Shady with Slim Shady
I remember seeing this in theatre with my mother and we were both really bored (we love horror so this was pretty mundane to sit through), but ever since it's become a meme in my family for the line "Would you mind crawling inside the oven to clean it?", specially if someone says they're bored, my nan loves to use the line, but can never keep a straight face to say it.
This Movie was boring and played out, although there was some parts that made me laugh
it almost would have been better if she WAS a werewolf.
Consider Me Phil Official that would be amazing
It would have been 1000% better
I think the reason the elderly and kids are used as scary things in horror movies is because people think of them as nice and innocent. Same with kids dolls. When you take something seemingly good and then alter what we all know about it to something malevolent, if done right it can be spooky. Sorry i'm not good at explaining.
Mr. Fish the frog yeah I definitely see your point, but whilst I find things like Pennywise pretty scary, I’m never going to wake up with nightmares about old or child villains from horror flicks, as like Adam said, they’re just really easy to overcome physically.
I didn’t let myself make an intellectual decision
- M Night
lol
feels
indeed
That's his motto. Period.
I like your comment.
I never realised this was meant to be a found footage film and just assumed that only the first person shots and the solo interviews where meant to be found footage and that it was just regular horror told from the kids prospective, goes to show how bad the directing was
Probably because M night was too incompetent to include the camera UI features like the time and battery percentage lol. Just looks like a poorly shot movie
@@donnyg9993 Those wouldn't be caught on the recording either, it's just the UI.
Swerve gurl is my new go to sentence in any situation
same
"Just tell them what furries are and they'll have a heart attack"
That applies to anyone, Adam.
ActualAnthonino I had one just reading about furries
j mula this was a month ago, what made you even type this lmao
j mula zoophilia is different from furries tho
I remember I had one, when I first felt with them. In middle school I was part of a fandom that orbited too close to furries and my experience was forever ruined by the degeneracy that ensued
Fake Sense hell yeah
Lol i use to work at a retirement home and can say old ppl are both the most terrifying and least terrifying people on earth lol
Two lols
Sydney P It’s okay; lols are important. They’re like bookends here. Or Spanish question marks. They tell us that your statement is very lol.
thats actually a little young. most 60 year olds are still mentally healthy
John Toas nah it's the age of becoming a whiney edgy hormonical brat. Lol at you for accusing yourself as useful
@@lgbtqiarights yep, were waiting
Grandma: YATZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Me: That's one 6, two 2s and two 1s. Not a Yatzee, grandma
"And this is where the movie *should* end, but instead they throw in one more scene..."
Me: Oh please be a jumpscare into the camera for no reason!
"I may be thirteen, may not live in the hood-"
Me: *THIS IS WORSE! THIS IS INFINITELY MORE SCARY, WHAT A TWIST!*
I'm just replying so you can see how much likes you got
I remember the sixth sense so fondly. I was maybe 10 and my Dad was like, "Hey, I think you're old enough to see horror films now. Would you like to go to the movies and see The Sixth Sense?" I was nervous and excited. I watched the film and I had such a good time. My Dad really liked it too. We gushed over the movie for days. That movie was engaging and it was a right of passage for me. It's so sad to see M Night Shyamalan slip from grace :(
Well split is fucking great
@@Torrance92 Yeah but Split is an older script back from when he was making good movies, so I don't count it as a return to form quite yet. We'll see how Glass turns out.
I had a similar experience. Except with Signs, so... not as impressive.
@@robertyeah2259 well Glass was good too
4:13 scared the emojis out of me
30:53 I love how genuinely frustrated Adam sounds when he says “struggling”.
"Just kick 'em" -Adam Johnston on Old People.
Adum
@@Camothor10 no. His name actually is spelled Adam and Adum is actually a nickname.
True that
How does breaking a doorknob off even unlock a door? If anything a door without a knob is harder to open, even if it's unlocked.
It would depend on the lock, you could have the locking mechanism be in the center of the door and the door knob as the switch, meaning that what keeps it locked is inside the door itself. You could also have the door knob be like 80% of the work, without going in the details of how, basically the door knob is the thing that keeps it locked instead of just the switch. Locks actually have a surprisingly amount of different ways they can be made and work, heck, complex locks are just crazy with the amount of things that has to be done for the lock to unlock or lock, they are normally to make it harder to pick locks.
Redbird7311 No matter what lock it is, there is still the closed trap (?). I really don't get why filmmakers are so sloppy regarding things like this. Do these people seriously lack the basic understanding of doors? Room doors usually consist of a thin layer of wood (or some other kind of board) and a filling of cardboard. If you need to open a locked door, just break through it with a heavy object. Even a little girl is capable of doing it.
As someone who has been locked in a room where the handle fell off, I can tell you that this comment is accurate
Moritz R I feel like many take it from star wars...even though Everytime I can think of they shoot the control panel to KEEP a locked door locked
Because why the fuck not?
The rapping made me completely abandon the movie when I was watching it with my parents
"Listen to me, those aren't your grandparents." Why is she so calm?! Why isn't she FREAKING THE FUCK OUT that her kids have been staying with complete strangers?
Because that’d only make the situation worse. Honestly this complaint never made sense to me
@@mayonnaise3959the way she says it is so unbothered. it’s just horrendous acting, not a mom trying to comfort her kids.
@@sunny-lm2np she very clearly is bothered though
@@mayonnaise3959 Not as bothered as she should be that her children are with likely dangerous strangers. What's not making sense? It's bad acting, period.
@@Mels0103 ok bud
I like how they put a "black guy" in the "rap" part
How much did they pay him to say all that praise, because there is no way he genuinely liked that shit.
how did they play hide and seek under the house, when they have a basement. How does that work?
Wow, how have I never noticedthat
Like, potentially there could be a stone wall down there that shows where the stairs are leading underground, but all of the sides are open and you can see outside, making that impossible
Wait, no
Its the real twist
The grandparents could open wormholes
Theyre dimension jumpers!
Oh
Checkmate atheists.
They were literally doing it in the movie???
They probably have an enclosed porch or something.
*I thought it was a different part of the house. Like a huge shed or something*
One true to life point in the entire script: I know several parents with the same attitude as the mother. "I didn't want my kids to do something, but my kids wanted to do it, so they did. What can you do?"
And those children grow up to become Hollywood molesters. ;]
What can you do?
Not raise your children badly, is a good start.
I remember watching this on tv with my brothers and we joked that the reason why the grandparents went insane was because of the boys god-awful rapping.
This is my new headcannon, thank you for this.
I can scare you in only two words
Unfriended Two
AaAAAgAAaAaAaAaghggaghah
Nononononononononono
NONONONONONONONONONO
NOOOOOOOOOONOOOOOOOOOO
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ANONYMOUS
Jokes on you I don't have two Freinds to unfreind me in the first place
*SCREAMS*
I actually moved my head back at that.
Adum why are you hatter you are mean to MC Shamalamn the planets best hippity hop
Yakka I mean, no reason to question him for his love of being a “hatter”. Maybe he LIKES hats?
Hatting is a SERIOUS BUSINESS... IN WONDERLAND!!!
Ya Andum, answer the doodly darn query already, you lugnut!
Adim, ur just yealus!
Filmmakers try to make you believe an actor is holding a regular hand-held camera but the way the camera moves seems like they're holding a large boulder
Really nobody is talking about why grandma yelled Yahtzee, when she rolled 2x1, 1x2, 1x4, 1x6. That is the real horror.
And the fact that they think you play teams in Yahtzee.
Let's be fun and overanalyze the raps and see how they hold up when put under musical scrutiny.
Verse 1:
Girl, I'm chillin' again.
I'm feelin' again.
I'm like Iron Man and Batman
I'm a hero again.
You think I'm little, but this month I grew an inch and a quarter again.
You think you're too good for me, but that's really a joke.
Okay, let's break this down real quick. First two lines are a decent bar. Chillin and feelin are near rhymes so they're passable. Again and again are exact rhymes, which is only passable because there's internal rhyming.
However the third line rhymes with... nothing. Unless you're rhyming man and man, and in which case I'm not excusing exact rhymes again.
Third line doesn't rhyme with anything except another exact rhyme.
Now, that SHOULD be the end. Technically, that's 2 bars, one of which completely doesn't rhyme with anything. But for some reason at the start of the next bar, he keeps the same rhyme scheme, then starts a new one? Because nothing on the second line of the 3rd bar rhymes with anything else. At this point I'm ignoring exact rhymes. They don't count anymore. This whole second part is also kinda self deprecating? It sounds like he's bragging at first, then it sounds like he's just sad that he can't get this girl because she thinks he's short and a loser. I didn't include the last line, because while it does have an end rhyme, it doesn't belong there. It's an incomplete bar, because he made the rap 7 lines. You can't do that. Raps have structure.
Good ol' verse 2:
The girls, they like me
They think I'm sweet like candy
One girl looked at me like I was a Hershey
Bar, her name was Angie
A few tall girls, they just look at me blankly.
This one is better in terms of rhyme scheme and structure. It makes more sense. I'm okay with the end rhymes and that kind of thing. But there's also a few horribly glaring problems. First off, the flow. The first and second line implicate a faster, less wordy rap. Something that people like Eminem actually do a lot. It emphasizes fast rhymes and sounds really good. It's also really good for doing just end rhymes and a simple rhyme scheme (not calling Eminem simple trust me) because you don't have to worry about internal rhyming when each bar only has about 5 syllables.
But when you go 5 syllables into 7 syllables into.... 11? That breaks that flow completely. You should probably stay under around 8 to make the lines flow better together.
IE:
The girls, they like me. (5)
Say I'm sweet like candy. (7)
Looked at me, Hershey. (5)
Said her name was Angie. (7)
Tall girls, look at me blankly. (7)
See how much better that flows together? It's still simple, but at least it's passable. And if you could say that pretty fast, it would sound at least impressive. But the problem is instead of thinking about these things, Shymalan made them as wordy as possible because it means it would fill more time. Instead of coming up with more lines, and more rhymes, he decided to make them wordy and long so they'd be easier to write. And it comes off like shit.
DrBrainzzz do you have a PhD in analyzing sh*tty rapping or something
@@m.m9076 Lol just a music enthusiast and a critic.
You put infinitely more time into analyzing it than he did into writing it.
I know everyone's said it and I know you know this but you spent way too much time.
Almost heaven
I'm surprised at how thoughtful MNS sounds when he's talking about that climatic car conversation. He evidently paid close attention to the details while setting the scene up. I definitely agree with him that the lack of score compliments the tone of the scene. Visually speaking it focuses on just Cole and his mom sitting side by side in this enclosed space, which makes you feel like you're there with them. The effect is that their conversation is surprisingly raw and poignant. You don't _need_ there to be sappy "emotional" music in the background because the emotion of the scene speaks for itself. The heartache these characters are experiencing feels *real* even though the movie's subject matter is fantastical. Without the ghost element, you still have an exasperated and lonely parent who's just made a profound emotional connection with her son after years of miscommunication between the two of them.
There's nothing goofy or overwrought about the scene, which makes it so shocking to me that so much of MNS' work since then has been terrible and cheesy. I get that _Sixth_ _Sense_ is a tough act to follow, but the drop-off in terms of attention to detail is nothing short of startling. I don't understand how he went from the level of thought displayed in _Sixth_ _Sense_ to churning out thoughtlessly stupid tripe like that Mark Wahlberg feature. Did he just stop caring once he got rich and famous?
I subscribe to the slowly encroaching brain tumor theory
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Why is that kid's hairline receding?
He's in an M. Knight Shamalan movie
Because he is actually a 45 year old midget man.
@@rowmagnvs A modern Shirley Temple.
5head
His parents might've had his hair tied up a lot and too tight and that's a big reason for hairlines receding earlier than they should
Man just watching these in preparation for the “old” review
I had to come back after I saw an add that old is the scariest movie since Jaws.