Shayamalan - Sixth Sense = AMAZING, Signs (from what I saw of it) = meh, The Village = meh, everything else he has done since then has either been "meh" or I just haven't bothered wasting money to go and see.
I watched Planet of the Apes (1968). It was brilliant! A true classic which has hardly dated at all. It was engaging and the story (although I knew most of it already) was still simplistically brilliant. It has some classic lines in it which are just epic, and attractive-female-who-doesn't-speak was a nice addition.
Amazing.
9/10
I also watched No Country For Old Men which was also brilliant. Simplistic - yet amazing - direction from the Coen brothers, brilliant acting all around, a story which was gripping (even if it is - once again - very simplistic) and I really engaged with the film. It's a modern classic.
9/10
Went to see The Adjustment Bureau. If you've seen it advertised, you'd see that it has been marketed literally as "Inception meets Bourne". It is nothing like that whatsoever. It is simply a love story based around a few people who control tiny parts of his life - I was quite disappointed. Even so, the film itself didn't even do much for me and it tried to be smart, but it really wasn't. From a marketing perspective, it must've been a major success by pulling both men and women in, but as a film - even ignoring the disappointment - it was a tad below par.
6/10
I watched A Clockwork Orange. It was amazing. WAY ahead of it's time, controversial, occasionally hard to watch due to distressing rape scenes but it really did make me go wow. It felt like gritty British gangster films of the modern age which was shocking, it had some dark humour within it and it really is a film that everyone should watch. I'm struggling to put words together - brilliant.
10/10
