OLD (2021) / M. Night Shyamalan

POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Saturday, August 9, 2025 14:11
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6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, July 29, 2024 12:04 PM

Holy shit. That was great.

I haven't seen all of Shyamalan's movies, but of the ones I've seen, this was by far the best. Nothing else even comes close.

46% Top Critics (50% All Critics) and 53% Verified Audience (43% All Audience)?

Why am I not surprised?

SPOILERS AHEAD

I understand the Critics hating on it because Big Pharma did not approve, especially with what we were all right in the middle of going through together at the time of release, July 23rd, 2021. I can only imagine the day that Dr. Fauci got to view an early screening of it and said "uuuuuuuuuuuh.... no. We're not going to let this one be taken seriously by anybody... especially right now". And all the good little boys and girls at MSNBC and The New York Times and Fox News and all of the other Billionaire owned "news" agencies got right to work burying it. And at this point in Shyamalan's spotty career, I don't think they even had to work any overtime to get that job done. It's been en vogue to shit all over the guy for the last decade and a half or so.

I'm just going to chalk the audience hate up to stupid people manipulating stupid people on the internet. And until tonight, at least on the topic of this movie, I count myself among everyone in the latter group.

Fuck The Sixth Sense... That movie was normie trash.

In all likelihood, this WAS Shyamalan's Magnum Opus. And now I have every intention to watch everything else he's ever done just to confirm that this is the truth.

Anyone who hasn't seen "Old" needs to see it, and anyone who has seen it before needs to watch it again.

Just reading that blurb on IMDB after JSF mentioned it as a movie that Thomasin McKenzie starred in after my high praise for her in JoJo Rabbit, memories of YT videos reviewing "Old" came flooding back. So instead of going blind into this movie, which I vastly prefer to do over knowing so much about the plot, I was very well aware of the main premise of the flick before I hit play. I can only thank the people doing those reviews at the time that nobody spoiled the ending for me.

It takes a little while for the setting and the main players to be established, but once things start going south it is non-stop tragedy after tragedy being thrown in your face without any room to breathe in between them.

Experiencing this movie is the antithesis of boredom.

And the whole time I felt myself wondering how the hell is this going to end? What kind of hokey plot twist did he put in this one that made everybody hate it so much?

And then, just like that, the completely unexpected happened...

The ending was great.

Of a group of around a dozen people tricked into spending the day on this "private beach" everyone but the 6 year old boy and 11 year old girl was dead. Only now they were 50 and 55 years old, so it's really hard to call them "winners" or claim that this had a happy ending.

But the bad guys, and oh were they all truly BAD GUYS... well, they all got what they fucking deserved.

Cult members, every last one of them. Worshiping at the altar of Commercialized Science, all the while believing that they were the good guys and that what they were doing was for the good of the human race. Little worms in white lab coats serving their masters at BlackRock and Vanguard well, while no doubt reaping the rewards of lifetime free medical care for them and their families, ungodly bonuses when things go right, and profit sharing in their 401k accounts that us normies could only ever dream about.

Not one of them would have lost a single night's sleep over murdering every single person in this group, just as they did not lose any sleep when they murdered every single person in the 72 cohorts of people they sent in before them to die in the name of Science, when all they were really doing is bolstering the bottom line and stock price of the fictional Warren & Warren pharmaceutical company.

Given the o

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, August 9, 2025 2:11 PM

Choose the pair of glasses to maximize your happiness: M. Night Shyamalan is a Comedy Genius

Great vid.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon