Links to M. Night saying it was a B-movie

...BEFORE the harsh reviews came in. As many can see on RT ( http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10007985-happening/?page=9&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;critic= columns&sortby=date&name_order=desc&view=#conten tReviews), the first review was posted on June 10, 2008. The day many people found out that M. Night said the movie was supposed to be a B-movie was the day the film was released, June 13, 2008, days after the harsh review came in. So, many have speculated that he said that to "cover his tracks." Well, it may be like a year later and people don't care anymore but I've got links listed below that shows the earliest dates to when he actually said The Happening was meant to be a B-movie:

The bottom article were posted on June 8, 2008, two days before the first review went online:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/2008/06/08/2 008-06-08_shyamalan_back_on_terror_firma.html
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These articles were posted on June 9, 2008, a day before the first review came online:

http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2008/06/09/shyamalan-prepares-
audiences-for-the-happening/

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/m_night_shyamalan_
interview_you_want_to_read

Thoughts?

So, let me get this straight: you want us to agree with you that M. Night is a great director because he made a bad movie on purpose that than bombed at the box office? That we should be admiring him for making a piece of crap on purpose and that we should be shocked that people saw it for what it was, a piece of crap, and thus rejected it all together? You do realize that makes no sense, right?

Well, saturnewatcher, for every one person who figured out the big twist at the first 10 minute mark, there were 9 people who didn't figure it out until the last ten minutes, if not the very ending. I'm guessing MWG was one of those people who didn't figure it out until the very end and he has declared Shamalamadingdong a filmmaking genius ever since.

I mean, let's face it, MWG is a fanatic in every sense of the word when it comes to M. Night's movies. He's convince himself that making a bad movie on purpose is a wise move in already failing movie career, and false advertisement makes for good marketing. It's to the point when M. Night's movies fail at the box office, it's not his fault, it's the movie goers' fault. And it's gotten so bad that now he praises mediocre movies like "Knowing" and "Orphan" just because they share themes or motifs from past M. Night films. It's like he's a junkie and M. Night is his dealer.

What about next year when "The Last Air Bender" comes out? Just wait and see how many posts MWG will be making about how M. Night made the single greatest martial arts movie of all time and how he's back in form.

No dEd, I think we'll probably have to surrender this time. The Happening was an intentional and great B movie in which something happened. I just missed it. The Sixth Sense wasn't sickly and senseless. Above all, The Village wasn't a pathetic attempt at a thriller that wasted most of two hours of my life. It was a stirring romance that will be remembered centuries from now in the same light as Romeo and Juliet. Yep...M Nut Shamalamadingdong...director for the ages.  (and shoe-in for the Razzie Hall of Fame)

Originally posted by thomsonmg2000 Strange, those links don't work anymore. Maybe those interviews were just... *gasp* A twist! Just figments of their, the website's, imaginations!

Updated the links.

Originally posted by dEd Grimley because it didn't have the sheer corniness

Are you sure about that?

1. Box office bomb: I'm pretty sure "The Happening" was M. Night's lowest grossing movie of his post-"Sixth Sense" career, or at least the lowest grossing opening. Far from being a "success".

2. Corniness: Again, you want us to think making a bad movie on purpose is a good thing for a director with "talent" to do? "Grindhouse" was being sold as a corny throwback to B movies, but "The Happening" was being sold as a serious thriller. False advertisting all but promised this movie's defeat, with the bad quality being the final nail in the coffin.

3. Romance: I know you go out of your way to find people on IMDb or YouTube to agree with your points of view about M. Night's movies, but "The Village" came out years ago and critics and most movie goers have spoken ... they don't like it (saturnwatcher was just messing with you when he said it's on par with "Romeo and Juliet").

Just accept it and move on. He's made three good, or at least decent, movies and followed them up with three duds. Now he's doing the somewhat right thing by taking a break from screenwriting and just directing a simple live action cartoon adapation. If he screws up this time, I think it's time he finds a new profession.

Originally posted by moviewizguy You could have taken a few seconds and look it up in Boxofficemojo or something. It opened $30 million with a budget of $60 million. The film made $60 million worldwide in its first week. The film has made over $163 million worldwide. It wasn't a bomb. In fact, it may as well been one of Fox's most successful movie of that summer. LitW is currently M. Night's lowest opening and total overall ($72 million) with a budget of $75 million.

Well, it just falls back on the old saying "Just because it was a hit, doesn't mean it wasn't sh*t". And of course, you had to mention worldwide because in nationwide only, it's not as impressive.

You do realize that M. Night doesn't market his movies, don't you? The publicity guys market his movies however they want to and because "The 6th Sense" and "Signs" were his two most successful movies, they market his recent films like those to get people to watch them.

Well, he should have really considered having a hand in the marketing and realized, "hey, marketing guys, you're making my movie look like soemthing it's not". Instead, we have him backpeddaling "oh, no, it was suppose to be a B movie all along". Heck, even Vin Diesel admitted "Babylon AD" sucked because of how the studio edited it.

Just because people don't like it doesn't mean it is a horror movie.

Horror or romance, it's still one of his least liked films.

I think he's still writing the script.

Well, that's a poor choice on the studios part, considering his writing skills just aren't what they used to be.