Looks like all of the recent criticism of his work has gotten to the notoriously sensitive M. Night Shyamalan. At the Mexico City press conference promoting The Last Airbender, Shyamalan went on the defensive after a questioner pointedly noted that “the audience has lost its faith in [his] work” and asked whether Airbender was his attempt to reinvigorate his career.
Shyamalan’s response? “If I thought like you I’d kill myself… Your impression of my career is not my impression of my career. It’s something you read on Google.”
He goes on to make the dubious claims that Unbreakable was a better film than The Sixth Sense and that his favorite film was The Village. (Editorial note: The Village?! Really, Night? Really?)
Watch the whole clip below:
Perhaps worst of all for Shyamalan is the fact that this isn’t the worst story that’s come out about him this week. IFC reports that moviegoers have been “audibly recoiling” at the sight of the filmmaker’s name during the trailers for the movie Devil, which is due out this fall. (Devil is directed by Drew and John Erick Dowdle, but the plot comes “from the mind” of Shyamalan.)
Anyone who says The Mummy is better than Raiders is an idiot.
Anyone who thinks Cameron is better than Spielberg is an idiot.
Let me just add the Spielberg sucks, but The Mummy and Cameron suck even more.
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.