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Release Date: 15 January, 2002 Retail Price: $29.99 OUR Price: $26.99 You SAVE: $3.00! Cast: Complete Cast (7 total) |
The Sixth Sense (Vista Series) Reviews
M. Night's Masterpiece
A young boy has the uncanny ability to see and communicate with the dead....that's pretty intense. This movie keeps you on the edge of your seat and wanted to pee your pants the whole time. M. Night Shymalan is one of today's best directors. The performances by the actors are fantastic and believeable. The movie has a plot that is totally awesome with an awesome ending. This is certainly one of my top 10 movies of all time.
Fatalism, responsibility, blame others, for one's own life...
When I sit down in the theater to watch a film I start with a neutral rating of zero so that the movie itself can then take me up the star rating, or down. I rate differently than most. I do it, for my purposes, in a much better way. Trust me. You should try it. Start out neutral then be mutable. Go up or down with your rating as the movie progresses. At the end of the day you will come up with what is a personally more accurate composite rather than a final, less step-by-step derived method of judgment. If only waiting until the end to state your case, much of your case cannot be stated. You will come up with a more accurate impression if the film is evaluated as you go. Very important also, is the type of rating. Never limit yourself to the typical zero-to-five star confinement. Always allow yourself a much more realistic range of from a minus ten stars, up to a plus ten stars, or at the very least, a negative five up ten to a plus five stars. You will like it better, personally. You know very well you have seen a movie where zero stars is simply not low enough.
This movie: I generally have a difficult time recovering up into the plus-star level on my movie score card rating, back into the positive rating category, when I consider the overall rating ultimately given, when in the first few minutes I am abused by a movie in the way this one burnt. It is not a good sign, or indicator of good quality to come, when a deranged, icky creep in his underwear comes out of the bathroom in someone else's house, screeches, shoots the lead actor in the gut then commits suicide after blithering back into the bathroom. It wasn't scary. It wasn't a harbinger of great things to come. It was just crude, offensive and a cheap way to get intellectually challenged viewers to want more. Right off the bat this is a gross, totally classless way to abuse a captive audience paying for, hopefully a well thought out storyline, artfully delivered. The art of movie making was sacrificed in favor of a blood and guts in your face introduction. Sitting with my wife I told her, within five minutes of the opening curtain, that B. Willis "was one of them." She waited until near the end and asked me how I knew that so soon. "Well, my first clue," I says, "was when he (Willis) was shot dead on his own bed by the underwear-guy with the concave chest during the offensive first scene, just before he splattered his own blood and brains all over the bathroom as far out into the bedroom as possible." Think about it: from that opening scene on Willis did not interact with anyone the way normal people interact, even if one stretches reality in order to conceive the acceptance. Subsequent interactions were not right and very obviously so. Now, don't misunderstand. I have seen many films that are filled with all kinds of gritty gore and head squashing. This particular film was so low class in its attempt to shock the viewers that it was simply disgusting.
Believe it or not, the classless opening is not the main reason upon which I rate this movie a minus nine stars. The reason is this: The single most predominant cause of my disliking this film is philosophical in nature. That is, I do not like any message that implies that we, ourselves, are not responsible for what affects our lives. Everyone would love to get off easy for their own actions that have led to poor conditions within which they themselves find. Yielding the responsibility for our behavior, and course of our lives, blaming our own individual predicaments on other forces, by us uncontrollable and subject to another force, or entity, is the biggest excuse for self produced bad circumstances that mankind has ever used, the most often used, that is. Uneducated people, those that haven't been around, haven't traveled, are not well-read, do not see or hear or care to understand the world and their place in it, hoping to blame something else for their resultant condition, they eat this up. It is too frightening for them to face their action's consequences so just love to excuse themselves from their own equation catalyzed by this type of tripe. The completely erroneous idea that what will be will be or what will happen happens is rooted in certain, "Eastern Philosophies," based on the idea that man is inconsequential in his own environment and might just as well not try to improve his own conditions since what is gong to be will be no matter what. The "Western Philosophy of Life", where what happens to us depends a great deal upon how hard we work at being and becoming what we want to be, is the main reason those cultures seeing the world and life and our place in it in that way, that are light years ahead of societies which have been around for thousands of years longer. If water is not delivered by pipes directly into our homes then it was not meant to be, and why fight what is meant to be? If sewage is not drained from our homes by pipes to be deposited in recycling plants then it is useless for us to change what is into what might be better since it is the way it is since what is, is. What results of this approach, if these views of life are taken as unalterable facts, is that no motivation exists to stop from lazily sitting and watching life go by being what it will be. This film sends a message that other forces make puppets out of us, so our screw ups are not our blame. That's a bad way to approach life. Bad. Even if the premise of this film is accepted, the positive reasons for the sixth sense to exist at all were left on the cutting room floor. The examples of the workings of the mechanism that might even slightly imply why things were OK to be the way the film portrayed were left out. Go figure. One could lie to himself with that assumption, albeit erroneous, if why what was the main theme of the movie had been even somewhat justified.
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