in Chicago, something interesting happened. A trailer for a film called Devil played (see the trailer here). The film is about five people who get stuck inside an elevator together. Naturally, strange things start happening, and eventually the characters turn on each other (and/or maybe something supernatural is at play). It looked like a low-budget psychological thriller, perhaps by a first time director, with no big name stars in it. The audience was deadly silent, and seemed engaged by the premise. That is, until the words: "From the mind of M. Night Shyamalan" appeared on the screen. At that point everyone in the entire theater burst into laughter.
My first reaction was: How sad. The visionary director that could have been is now an outright joke. A movie that the audience might have been interested in (it's possible) is rendered completely worthless just because his name is associated with it (P.S. he didn't even direct it). We're watching the death throes of an artist's career.
For more on Shyamalan's failings, see this and this.
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