Rating his films

After Earth and The Last Airbender are NOT true Shyamalan films. They are well-known for
extreme studio interference and should be disregarded from Shyamalan's record.
I'll rate the other seven films on your list, though.

Wide Awake 5
The Sixth Sense 9
Unbreakable 7
Signs 8
The Village 6
Lady in the Water 5
The Happening 3
The Visit 7

He still co-wrote them, directed them and accepted the credit for them. If he felt they were not his he could have signed Alan Smithee. You can't just say movies are not yours because they didn't work critically and at the box office.

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You're wrong. He felt forced to co-write and direct the movies that way, because the studio would not allow him to film it the good way he originally wanted, and he was unaware that he could refuse to accept credit for them. His original non-studio-meddled scripts for both movies were immensely superior and would have worked critically, therefore expected to work at the box office. Just because it can occur to YOU that he "could have signed Alan Smithee", does not mean it would have occurred to him as well. Not everybody gets exactly the same idea as someone else when it's convenient. Like I said, those 2 movies (at least the way the ended up for cinemas) were not really his movies.

By the way, Lady in the Water (which was an objectively bad movie) was definitely M. Night's movie, and it's is one (of only 2) of his movies that were real flops.
But did you see anywhere in my first reply saying that Lady in the Water was "not M. Night's movie"? No, you did not. Because I know there was no Studio Meddling involved in that movie; he just felt compelled to take out his insecurities and express his desire for validation, but he didn't have his wise Disney producers to help him get over his problems at the time, so he didn't think things through, which I can forgive ... But we can tell that there was Studio Meddling involved in The Last Airbender and After Earth ... Unlike the final released versions of The Last Airbender and After Earth, Lady in the Water actually had substantial storytelling (stupidly substantial, but substantial nonetheless; substance doesn't automatically mean good stuff) ... and it had brilliant cinematography (because M. Night storyboarded the movie himself, unlike the final released versions of The Last Airbender and After Earth). That's why I'm split halfway in rating the movie.
So your assumption that I was only saying that The Last Airbender and After Earth were not his movies "because they didn't work critically and at the box office" is incorrect.

Let me help with you guys with how these films SHOULD be rated.

The Sixth Sense 7
Unbreakable 6
Signs 5
The Village 4
Lady in the Water 4
The Happening 3
The Last Airbender 2
After Earth 1
The Visit -456890

There. That's better.

The Sixth Sense 9
Unbreakable 8
Signs 8
The Village 10
Lady in the Water 7
The Happening 6
The Last Airbender 3
After Earth 4
The Visit 7

I honestly never understood the hate for Shyamalan. I think he makes excellent films, the only two I hated were After Earth and Airbender, and those he didn't actually write.
His first 4 films were amazing, and although I can imagine why most people didn't like Lady in the Water I was actually quite surprised how creative it was. Also, The Happening was bad, but not nearly as bad as people make it out to be.
This whole Shyamalan-hate seems like a mob mentality sort of situation. Someone started it and people just jumped on the bandwagon. There are a lot of directors with worse resumes that get tenth the amount of hate that this guy does. It's become quite ridiculous tbh.

Personally I'm glad that he's finally back to his roots now and I'm really excited for Split.

The Sixth Sense 10
Unbreakable 9
Signs 8
The Village 8
Lady in the Water 7
The Happening *
The Last Airbender *
After Earth *
The Visit 7

* haven't watched it yet



Am too, excited for "Split". and I hope he gets to make "Labor of Love" next with Bruce Willis. The plot gives me the vibes that it will be similar in tone with The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. I am very intrigued and very looking forward to it.




"She was beaten in the end, but it wasn't a man, it wasn't a woman. It was the sea!"

You didn't miss much by missing Airbender and Crappening. Airbender I saw because I heard it was good in a Battlefield Earth sort of way- it didn't disappoint. The Happening I saw because I loved his earlier working script. It's a real shame he didn't stay with it. Instead I saw a movie that was so hideous I actually preferred to break up a physical fight between two of my neighbors. Yes, it was that bad.

The Visit wasn't my cup of tea but I won't say it's a bad movie, it's just not my type of film. I'm hoping Split brings back Night's earlier classic style.

I'm a fan of his direction. Seen some of his movies like Unbreakable or Sixth Sense decades ago, so I have put my score here based on recall, if I were to watch these movies again I'd probably score differently.

Praying with anger - 7
Wide Awake - 9
The Sixth Sense - 7
Unbreakable - 7
Signs - 8
The Village - 8
Lady in the Water - 8(one of my all-time favorite movies)
The Happening - 7
The Last Airbender - 8
After Earth - 8
The Visit - 8(but I'm not a fan of found footage movies)