Samuel L. Jackson slams Shyamalan (sort of) - Blu-ray Forum

tommyboy81 · 12-21-2012, 01:02 AM

Here's a the interview here ---> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2325834.html

Samuel L. Jackson Slams M. Night Shyamalan

While making the interview rounds for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, Samuel L. Jackson had a few words to say on his collaboration with M. Night Shyamalan in 2000's Unbreakable -- not all of it positive.

When asked by The Huffington Post if we'd ever see a sequel to that film, the actor replied, "There were supposed to be three. I don't know... You'll have to ask the brilliant director who wrote it and didn't do the rest of them."

HuffPo noted that the filmmaker had moved on to films like The Last Airbender, to which Jackson remarked, "I mean, he hasn't made a really good movie since [Unbreakable]."

Does Jackson think there's still a market for Unbreakable 2? "Everybody would be waiting for it, yeah. [The Internet] would be crazy for it. It would trend through the roof now on Twitter. But, yeah, they would. But Quentin makes movies that Quentin wants to see. I don't think M. Night makes movies for the same reason."

Perhaps, as HuffPo speculated, Shyamalan puts too much emphasis on having a twist. "Yeah, there's that. And there's, you know, 'I'm smarter than everybody coming to watch my movie.' Quentin's not that. He's just, 'I want you to love my movie. I want you to love it and enjoy it because this is f***ing cool.'"
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So is that hard to maintain? I'm not conscious of it. I try not to be conscious of it. And I don't choose roles because of it. And, sometimes, people will just attribute stuff to it. It's like Elijah [Price, Jackson's character] in "Unbreakable." You know, people say he's "cool." He's a ****ing breakable nerd. And they go, "That ****ing coat and your hair -- he's just cool." And I'm like, "Really?"

We're never going to see a sequel to that movie, are we? There were supposed to be three. I don't know.

People liked "Unbreakable." You'll have to ask the brilliant director who wrote it and didn't do the rest of them.

He moved on to "The Last Airbender."
I mean, he hasn't made a really good movie since then.

"Signs" was OK.
There's some issues. I didn't like that thing in the cornfield.

I thought it was OK.
I didn't see the Wahlberg one.

"The Happening”?
Yeah.

I haven't either. But wouldn't "Unbreakable 2" be a good career movie for him?
Yeah! Well, he suffered from what happened to Quentin when he made "Jackie Brown.” He didn't make "Pulp Fiction 2," he made "Jackie Brown" -- which is a wonderful ****ing movie.

People love "Jackie Brown."
But it wasn't "Pulp Fiction 2." "Unbreakable" also didn't have the numbers of "I see dead people." That was a problem for him ... for his ego and the studio, also.

I don't remember Tarantino taking a critical hit for "Jackie Brown."
He felt like he did. He was hurt by the fact that people didn't love it. "Pulp Fiction" was loved.

But "Pulp Fiction" is a once-in-a-lifetime-type movie.
It's a standalone film.

If M. Night announced tomorrow that "Unbreakable 2" is going to happen, it would be all over the Internet.
Everybody would be waiting for it, yeah. It would be crazy for it. It would trend through the roof now on Twitter. But, yeah, they would. But Quentin makes movies that Quentin wants to see. I don't think M. Night makes movies for the same reason. Quentin makes movies that are genres that he wants to see. "I like Spaghetti Westerns -- I'm going to write a Spaghetti Western. I like blaxploitation movies, too - so I'm going to make the protagonist black." So, he's got a blaxploitation western with Hong Kong undertones. The "Bullet Ballet" undertones. He wants to see it and I want to see it. I want to be in that kind of movie.

I think M. Night gets too caught up on having to have a twist.
Yeah, there's that. And there's, you know, "I'm smarter than everybody coming to watch my movie." Quentin's not that. He's just, "I want you to love my movie. I want you to love it and enjoy it because this is ****ing cool."

Hucksta G · 12-21-2012, 01:17 AM

He makes good points.

bam777 · 12-21-2012, 01:25 AM

I like SLJ, but that's kinda of d**k thing to say. Personally I like M. Night's films and I know it's all subjective, but it kinda sucks he said this because this could hurt the possibility of there ever being an Unbreakable 2. It is what it is, but this article really does irritate me.

Although, I do however agree that there's always a lot of pressure for a director that releases a BIG movie at the beginning of his or her career to either live up to that movie or automatically make a sequel. I'd love to see an Unbreakable 2, but I'm so happy that M. Night made Signs and The Village because I absolutely love those films. And I know I'm in the minority but I thought Lady in the Water, The Happening and The Last Airbender were fun and entertaining for what they were.

Speaking of, they brought up Unbreakable and the fact that there still isn't a sequel on PARKS AND RECREATION. Pretty funny.

ZooTv · 12-21-2012, 01:31 AM

I always wondered why there wasn't a sequel for this film. It performed well both domestically and internationally and still has a strong cult following.

jkh206 · 12-21-2012, 01:33 AM

Well you can most likely bank on them not happening now after talking all that trash.

Monkey · 12-21-2012, 01:35 AM

Please don't waste resources making a sequel to that crappy movie.

"The called me Mr. Glass" ok, not Sam's fault for the highly laughable line.

P@t_Mtl · 12-21-2012, 01:37 AM

If I was Shyamalan I would reply "well I been wanting to make a second movie but Sam L Jackson is always busy having second hand roles in every movie made in the last 12 years, we can't have him back how can we make the sequel?"

BStecke · 12-21-2012, 01:39 AM

Yeah, that little Avengers movie was a real drag on the career

Moefiz · 12-21-2012, 01:42 AM

What the hell is Shyamalan working on now

tommyboy81 · 12-21-2012, 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Moefiz

What the hell is Shyamalan working on now

That Will Smith movie, "After Earth"

Moefiz · 12-21-2012, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by tommyboy81

That Will Smith movie, "After Earth"

Skim through the trailer for this, didn't even know Night was directing this

Monterey Jack · 12-21-2012, 01:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Moefiz

Skim through the trailer for this, didn't even know Night was directing this

I don't think it's a coincidence that Shyamalan's name is conspicuously absent from the trailer.

tommyboy81 · 12-21-2012, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Moefiz

Skim through the trailer for this, didn't even know Night was directing this

I think this is the first trailer that didn't splatter his name in large letters on the screen. I think it's a smart move.

I remember when the Devil trailer premiered in theaters, it looked interesting and then his name pops up and the theater starts laughing. It's happened everytime I went and the trailer pops up.

frogmort · 12-21-2012, 01:59 AM

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Speaking of, they brought up Unbreakable and the fact that there still isn't a sequel on PARKS AND RECREATION. Pretty funny.

I noticed that too. Right as I started reading this thread, P&R mentioned Unbreakable 2. Pretty freaky!

Captain Kirk · 12-21-2012, 02:04 AM

Maybe he's a jerk to work with so SLJ didn't care to speak out? I think the comment he made about M. Night thinking he's smarter than his audience is probably the same way he views his actors. That's got to be a hard working environment to be in.

I only really cared for Signs. I didn't go crazy for The Sixth Sense, I really didn't enjoy Unbreakable...and have loathed every other film he's made.

MifuneFan · 12-21-2012, 02:09 AM

Unbreakable is pretty underrated. Even I didn't particularly care for it my first viewing, but it's fairly unique in its approach as a superhero movie. I didn't really think there was any need for a sequel either. I mean, after the "twist" ending we kind of wrap certain things up. I believe M. Night was going to introduce another villain, but to me that ruins the sort of nice duality of good and bad that the first movie had.

BStecke · 12-21-2012, 02:12 AM

This reminds me, they never did fix that popping issue in the PCM track on Unbreakable . . .

CZAR · 12-21-2012, 02:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Monkey

Please don't waste resources making a sequel to that crappy movie.

"The called me Mr. Glass" ok, not Sam's fault for the highly laughable line.

I think u are about the only person that hated this film? I mean nuthin is 100% so there may be others but Unbreakable is a damn good film and I dont see anything funny about that line u keep quoting. Got Em!!

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Originally Posted by tommyboy81

I think this is the first trailer that didn't splatter his name in large letters on the screen. I think it's a smart move.

I remember when the Devil trailer premiered in theaters, it looked interesting and then his name pops up and the theater starts laughing. It's happened everytime I went and the trailer pops up.

Devil was also a very good movie as well in which he wrote it. Got Em!!

spanky87 · 12-21-2012, 02:47 AM

Good for Sam Jackson telling it like it is. He is clearly an actor who was proud of his work in Unbreakable, and is annoyed that the director didn't follow through on his planned trilogy. It had the potential to be the most groundbreaking superhero series ever, but M Night is wasting it away.

Kevin Holly · 12-21-2012, 02:54 AM

Nice to see a great actor slamming an incompetent hack director. Thank goodness Shyamalan didn't make more Unbreakable films, it would have killed me to see Jackson and Willis pissing away their talent on a trilogy. One was bad enough.

12-21-2012, 01:02 AM	#1
tommyboy81 Blu-ray Count Member since:Oct 2007 Location:Savannah, GA Home Theater Gallery:17 Blu-ray collection:93 Blu-ray reviews:3 Trading Score:2	Samuel L. Jackson slams Shyamalan Here's a the interview here ---> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2325834.html Samuel L. Jackson Slams M. Night Shyamalan While making the interview rounds for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, Samuel L. Jackson had a few words to say on his collaboration with M. Night Shyamalan in 2000's Unbreakable -- not all of it positive. When asked by The Huffington Post if we'd ever see a sequel to that film, the actor replied, "There were supposed to be three. I don't know... You'll have to ask the brilliant director who wrote it and didn't do the rest of them." HuffPo noted that the filmmaker had moved on to films like The Last Airbender, to which Jackson remarked, "I mean, he hasn't made a really good movie since [Unbreakable]." Does Jackson think there's still a market for Unbreakable 2? "Everybody would be waiting for it, yeah. [The Internet] would be crazy for it. It would trend through the roof now on Twitter. But, yeah, they would. But Quentin makes movies that Quentin wants to see. I don't think M. Night makes movies for the same reason." Perhaps, as HuffPo speculated, Shyamalan puts too much emphasis on having a twist. "Yeah, there's that. And there's, you know, 'I'm smarter than everybody coming to watch my movie.' Quentin's not that. He's just, 'I want you to love my movie. I want you to love it and enjoy it because this is f*ing cool.'" __________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ So is that hard to maintain? I'm not conscious of it. I try not to be conscious of it. And I don't choose roles because of it. And, sometimes, people will just attribute stuff to it. It's like Elijah [Price, Jackson's character] in "Unbreakable." You know, people say he's "cool." He's a ing breakable nerd. And they go, "That ing coat and your hair -- he's just cool." And I'm like, "Really?" We're never going to see a sequel to that movie, are we? There were supposed to be three. I don't know. People liked "Unbreakable." You'll have to ask the brilliant director who wrote it and didn't do the rest of them. He moved on to "The Last Airbender." I mean, he hasn't made a really good movie since then. "Signs" was OK. There's some issues. I didn't like that thing in the cornfield. I thought it was OK. I didn't see the Wahlberg one. "The Happening”? Yeah. I haven't either. But wouldn't "Unbreakable 2" be a good career movie for him? Yeah! Well, he suffered from what happened to Quentin when he made "Jackie Brown.” He didn't make "Pulp Fiction 2," he made "Jackie Brown" -- which is a wonderful ing movie. People love "Jackie Brown." But it wasn't "Pulp Fiction 2." "Unbreakable" also didn't have the numbers of "I see dead people." That was a problem for him ... for his ego and the studio, also. I don't remember Tarantino taking a critical hit for "Jackie Brown." He felt like he did. He was hurt by the fact that people didn't love it. "Pulp Fiction" was loved. But "Pulp Fiction" is a once-in-a-lifetime-type movie. It's a standalone film. If M. Night announced tomorrow that "Unbreakable 2" is going to happen, it would be all over the Internet. Everybody would be waiting for it, yeah. It would be crazy for it. It would trend through the roof now on Twitter. But, yeah, they would. But Quentin makes movies that Quentin wants to see. I don't think M. Night makes movies for the same reason. Quentin makes movies that are genres that he wants to see. "I like Spaghetti Westerns -- I'm going to write a Spaghetti Western. I like blaxploitation movies, too - so I'm going to make the protagonist black." So, he's got a blaxploitation western with Hong Kong undertones. The "Bullet Ballet" undertones. He wants to see it and I want to see it. I want to be in that kind of movie. I think M. Night gets too caught up on having to have a twist. Yeah, there's that. And there's, you know, "I'm smarter than everybody coming to watch my movie." Quentin's not that. He's just, "I want you to love my movie. I want you to love it and enjoy it because this is *ing cool." Last edited by tommyboy81; 12-21-2012 at 01:45 AM.*

12-21-2012, 01:25 AM	#3
bam777 Blu-ray Samurai Top contributor Member since:Dec 2008 Location:Dallas, TX Home Theater Gallery:3 4K collection:83 Blu-ray collection:140 DVD collection:77 Blu-ray reviews:1 Trading Score:289	I like SLJ, but that's kinda of d*k thing to say. Personally I like M. Night's films and I know it's all subjective, but it kinda sucks he said this because this could hurt the possibility of there ever being an Unbreakable 2. It is what it is, but this article really does irritate me. Although, I do however agree that there's always a lot of pressure for a director that releases a BIG movie at the beginning of his or her career to either live up to that movie or automatically make a sequel. I'd love to see an Unbreakable 2, but I'm so happy that M. Night made Signs and The Village because I absolutely love those films. And I know I'm in the minority but I thought Lady in the Water, The Happening and The Last Airbender were fun and entertaining for what they were. Speaking of, they brought up Unbreakable and the fact that there still isn't a sequel on PARKS AND RECREATION. Pretty funny. Last edited by bam777; 12-21-2012 at 01:33 AM.*

12-21-2012, 01:42 AM	#9
Moefiz Blu-ray Knight Member since:Jul 2007 Blu-ray collection:288 DVD collection:20 Blu-ray reviews: 15 Trading Score:70	What the hell is Shyamalan working on now Last edited by Moefiz; 12-21-2012 at 01:44 AM.

12-21-2012, 01:17 AM	#2
Hucksta G Blu-ray Knight Top contributor Member since:Jan 2011 Location:New Zealand 4K collection:119 Blu-ray collection:1000 DVD collection:378 iTunes collection:1 Trading Score:5	He makes good points.

12-21-2012, 01:31 AM	#4
ZooTv Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Dec 2010 Location:In the back, off the side, far away 4K collection:22 Blu-ray collection:319 DVD collection:105 Blu-ray reviews: 8 Trading Score:44	I always wondered why there wasn't a sequel for this film. It performed well both domestically and internationally and still has a strong cult following.

12-21-2012, 01:33 AM	#5
jkh206 Active Member Member since:Jul 2011	Well you can most likely bank on them not happening now after talking all that trash.

12-21-2012, 01:35 AM	#6
Monkey Blu-ray Knight Member since:Sep 2006 Trading Score:31	Please don't waste resources making a sequel to that crappy movie. "The called me Mr. Glass" ok, not Sam's fault for the highly laughable line.

12-21-2012, 01:37 AM	#7
P@t_Mtl Blu-ray Duke Member since:Sep 2008 Location:Montreal Home Theater Gallery:4 Blu-ray collection:452 DVD collection:513 Trading Score:3	If I was Shyamalan I would reply "well I been wanting to make a second movie but Sam L Jackson is always busy having second hand roles in every movie made in the last 12 years, we can't have him back how can we make the sequel?"

12-21-2012, 01:39 AM	#8
BStecke Blu-ray Knight Member since:Jun 2007 4K collection:182 Blu-ray collection:567 DVD collection:1 Digital collection:1 iTunes collection:1 Blu-ray reviews: 1 Trading Score:6	Yeah, that little Avengers movie was a real drag on the career

12-21-2012, 02:04 AM	#15
Captain Kirk Banned Member since:Feb 2012 Trading Score:2	Maybe he's a jerk to work with so SLJ didn't care to speak out? I think the comment he made about M. Night thinking he's smarter than his audience is probably the same way he views his actors. That's got to be a hard working environment to be in. I only really cared for Signs. I didn't go crazy for The Sixth Sense, I really didn't enjoy Unbreakable...and have loathed every other film he's made.

12-21-2012, 02:09 AM	#16
MifuneFan Blu-ray Emperor Top contributor Member since:Mar 2012 Location:New York City 4K collection:27 Blu-ray collection:1143 Trading Score:69	Unbreakable is pretty underrated. Even I didn't particularly care for it my first viewing, but it's fairly unique in its approach as a superhero movie. I didn't really think there was any need for a sequel either. I mean, after the "twist" ending we kind of wrap certain things up. I believe M. Night was going to introduce another villain, but to me that ruins the sort of nice duality of good and bad that the first movie had.

12-21-2012, 02:12 AM	#17
BStecke Blu-ray Knight Member since:Jun 2007 4K collection:182 Blu-ray collection:567 DVD collection:1 Digital collection:1 iTunes collection:1 Blu-ray reviews: 1 Trading Score:6	This reminds me, they never did fix that popping issue in the PCM track on Unbreakable . . .

12-21-2012, 02:47 AM	#19
spanky87 Blu-ray Baron Top contributor Member since:Dec 2009 Location:Ontario, Canada Home Theater Gallery:34 4K collection:168 Blu-ray collection:2714 DVD collection:548 iTunes collection:58 Trading Score:64	Good for Sam Jackson telling it like it is. He is clearly an actor who was proud of his work in Unbreakable, and is annoyed that the director didn't follow through on his planned trilogy. It had the potential to be the most groundbreaking superhero series ever, but M Night is wasting it away.

12-21-2012, 02:54 AM	#20
Kevin Holly Banned Member since:Nov 2011 Location:Canada	Nice to see a great actor slamming an incompetent hack director. Thank goodness Shyamalan didn't make more Unbreakable films, it would have killed me to see Jackson and Willis pissing away their talent on a trilogy. One was bad enough.

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