Comments on: Somebody’s feeling a little snippy

By: jyotsana

jyotsana — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:32:22 +0000

UPS:

Looks like you are the only one around who isn't an idiot, just like that clumsy rookie at boot camp, who insists everyone else is marching out of step. Besides you are a v.articulate film critic.

By: UPS

UPS — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:40:37 +0000

Let me just add the Spielberg sucks, but The Mummy and Cameron suck even more.

By: UPS

UPS — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:34:33 +0000

Anyone who says The Mummy is better than Raiders is an idiot.
Anyone who thinks Cameron is better than Spielberg is an idiot.

By: paromita ghosh

paromita ghosh — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:33:48 +0000

Oh! his defensive tone and repetition of “how fascinated” he is with the journalist’s comment tells me he is living in denial. But how long can one get by with that approach.

By: Asha

Asha — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:40:55 +0000

My problem with Signs and the Village (I barely remember Lady in the Water) was that Shyamalan hit you over the head with foreshadowing. After 10 close-ups on one object it's like "ok, we get it already, it's going to be important!" I thought the Sixth Sense was more subtle and easier to go back to scenes and say "oh, i see it now".

And the Village ripped off a children's book called "Running out of Time". He claimed it was a coincidence but there are so many similarities that it seems hard to believe.

By: Yoga Fire

Yoga Fire — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:31:57 +0000

Actually I’ve known several people who became really irate about the religious overtones in “Signs.” I wanted to smack them and tell them to grow the hell up but that works even less well in real life than it does on these here comment threads.

By: wunderbar

wunderbar — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:28:33 +0000

I was part of that groaning while my other friend was visibly angry at seeing his name on the screen.

angry ? some psychoanalysis is called for - regardless of how good/bad/indifferent/profit-making/loss-making his movies are.

By: papu

papu — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:18:36 +0000

I agree, Rahul's comment is funny. Maybe he should be a screenwriter!

I also agree that you should support someone based on talent and skill, but for desis to keep putting the boot in on top of everyone else is not required. This blog post is just a way of getting at Shyamalan - nothing to do with his films.

By the way, he is called M night because that's what they called him growing up, because the americans couldn't or wouldn't pronounce his name. You ever had to deal with that, homeboy? When you grow up as a minority in another country, there is alot you have to put up with. Even when you work as a minority in another country, there is alot you have to deal with.

But you know, you keep rolling the way you feel is right, man, that's up to you. Be an individual, it's the American way, homies!

Peace to all my true desi homeboys/ girls, you know who you are...!

By: ang

ang — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:13:05 +0000

Obviously I realize the show is not brilliant. What I don’t get is how the joke gets past the million people who work there? What is the joke? I don’t get it. No one questions it? Not one post on all of the internet questioning it? Beacuse Family Guys is run by manatees it’s not worthy of evaluation? I think it is – even humour is taken to be true (that’s why it’s supposed to be funny). And this is a popular show watched by millions. It’s dangerous!

The show is called “Meals on Wheels”.

By: Yoga Fire

Yoga Fire — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:08:10 +0000

The episode where Peter opens a restaurant and hires M Knight to do his commercial? Disgusting! The commercial couldn't be aired b/c "M Knight had something to do with 9/11".

You realize the Family Guy writers are just manatees who pull balls with words on them out of a pen and deposit them into a tube right?