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Date: 2008-02-05 10:40:32

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Editor: Scotty wrote this post and submitted just after EchoTengoBravo did his. I felt we should run it anyway. Enjoy:

M. Night Shyamalan?s new movie is coming out.  Let me guess, suspense based movie seeming to employ an unforeseen plot twist and featuring a couple of low rent actors, a standout performance from someone new and a big name draw.  Bingo.  So everyone pretty much agrees that this worked on The Sixth Sense, and even cynical old me liked it, but his other movies have served to only slightly entertain.  I am usually happy when I am on a transcontinental flight and one of them is the featured movie.  I also get pretty hyphy when they hand out chocolate covered pretzels in these situations as well.  So in this new trailer, I see some redeeming qualities.  Allow me to explain.  There are people jumping to their doom of a roof and falling like rain.  I liked this when they almost did it in the Japanese movie, Suicide Club, but the people were not falling frequently enough.  Secondly, it has Mark Wahlberg.  I will not try to explain this I just like him as an actor.  It may be because acting ended his rap career.  Also, Mark Walhberg looks terrified.  I like this terrified Mark Wahlberg much better than I like him as some kind of unflappable hero.  Compare his performances in I Heart Huckabees and The Big Hit.  It also features Alan Ruck who played Cameron Frye in Ferris Bueller?s Day Off, kudos to casting.  My main pleasure is that this film seems to feature copious amounts of death.  I love movie death.  My main fear brought out in this trailer is how the words between the scenes bounce like an oscilliscope.  I DO NOT want some kind of a sound to be causing all this death.  That shit is played out.  Like M. Night Shyamalan is afraid of Rock ?n Roll poisoning the minds of our youth.  In conclusion, step your game up M. Night Shyamalan.  One good movie is not enough for you to be considered an outstanding director.