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Spoilers for Sixth Sense!
M. Night Shyamalan is promoting that creepy doll movie series on Apple +, Servant. I want to see it after reading Kristy Puchko’s review on Pajiba (I almost always agree with her takes!) but I’m not going to subscribe to yet another streaming service for it. Plus the only Apple device I use now is a Macbook air and I’m about to phase that out. Hello Cyber Monday sales! Shyamalan was on The Tonight Show and I enjoyed his interview so much. I especially liked the part where he told Jimmy Fallon that his family won’t watch shows with him because he can’t hide it when he judges other filmmakers! I could relate to this somewhat in that I always think about the actors’ personal lives, styling and wardrobe when I watch shows. I try not to indicate this at all but it’s also hard to hide when I’m watching at home. Here’s some more of what he said, including about The Sixth Sense and why he still doesn’t want anyone spoiling it.
On how he can’t watch shows with his family
It’s tough to watch something with me. My family doesn’t like to watch anything with me. If they’re watching a TV show and I’ll come in, even if I don’t say anything I’m just judging the camera angles and the performances. I try not to breathe differently but I’m like sighing. ‘That’s not the right lens.’ I just get up and walk out just disappointed. Sometimes they’re in the den watching TV and I honestly will yell ‘you’re making a choice.’“Do you hate when people give spoilers to Sixth Sense. Even now?”
Yeah. Now with this whole new generation watching. We’re screening Sixth Sense [for the] twentieth anniversary. Half the audiences knew. New fans watching The Visit and Split and Glass they’re never seen it. You guys can’t say anything about what happens.On the line ‘I see dead people’
That’s fine you can say [‘I see dead people.’] But don’t say what happens.It’s not a particularly well written [line] [Ed note: Shyamalan wrote it]. He’s ten and it’s really [something] a six or seven-year-old would say.
[From The Tonight Show via YouTube]
After that Shyamalan said that Questlove interrupted filming for The Sixth Sense when he came out of his house in Philadelphia! It was a funny story and Questlove looked kind unbothered about it. Ooh and Servant got a second season, they just made the announcement.
Do you remember the first time you watched Sixth Sense and did you know the twist ahead of time? (I almost always remember movies, I talked about that here.) I remember seeing it and I did not figure out the twist until it was incredibly obvious. I rented it at home, I think I was still using a VCR at the time, and I was making out with a new guy through most of it. While I was like “cool movie, very creepy,” I didn’t pay enough attention to get the fact that Bruce Willis was dead through it. (I told you there were spoilers.) I remember that part shocking me! At least that’s my excuse, although it’s possible that I wouldn’t have known if I had seen it in a theater and wasn’t distracted either.
We had Internet of course back then but it was limited to our computers and our phones were just for voice calls. So we wouldn’t get exposed to spoilers typically unless our friends told us about it. I kind of like knowing the twists in movies and shows ahead of time, but I know this really bothers some people. I’ll probably read spoilers for Servant before I watch it.
Also, I really liked Split and The Visit but I quit watching Glass halfway through. It was both tough to watch and boring.
Here’s that interview!
Lauren Ambrose is in this! I used to like her when I only knew her from Six Feet Under, but then I saw her performance on the X-Files reboot.
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Someone did spoil it for me and I was annoyed. it was out on video by that point but hadn’t been out that long and someone was like, “you should really see it, hes dead the whole time” and I was like THANKS. But, I still enjoyed it and found it creepy AF – maybe even more so knowing the twist? I just wasn’t as obsessed with it as some people, prob bc I did know the twist.
I think in general, with pop culture, movies, TV shows, etc – you have to expect that over time, you are going to hear about spoilers, and some things(like bruce willis being dead) are just part of our culture at this point. But, I think its an asshole move if someone is like “so I’m watching the Sixth Sense for the first time tonight, no clue what happens” and you’re like “SO HES DEAD THE WHOLE TIME,” even though its been out for 20 years. Its just basic manners – don’t spoil the end of something for someone on purpose. But I don’t think that means that no one can ever talk about the ending of a movie like Sixth Sense bc someone may overhear who hasn’t seen it yet.
OK, but you just did, and with capital letters sooooo…
Hard agree. I get that there’s a time limit on spoilers, and if I was talking about it with someone my age I would assume they knew the twist.
I would not tell the ending to anyone under 25. That’s rude, lol. Yes, it’s an old movie, but it was really well done. Don’t ruin it peeps.
He’s always been an odd cookie, but for the most part, I’ve enjoyed his work throughout the years. I was watching for “something” during sixth sense. All the red bits kept trying to formulate coherence. I guess not too incredibly long after the, “I see dead people,” line, I figured he was talking to dead people lol. His therapist. Good show. But Village irritated me at the end because I had invested in one, maybe two, ideas only to roll my eyes so far back in my head I gave myself a monster headache.
Glad I’m not the only one who is phasing out all Apple products. We, too, have a lingering MacBook my youngest uses, but we’ve been done with that exclusive realm for quite some time. I love my Samsung tablet so much, but I’m going to have to get another laptop to work from home ugh. It won’t be Apple lol.
I had already known the ending because pop culture as a whole had referenced it for YEARS before I saw the movie. I was only 9 when it came out, so it wasn’t like I was standing in line to see it on it’s release. So by the time I actually cared to watch it, I already knew how it was going to end. I don’t particularly mind spoilers that much – but my husband hates them. He somehow managed to make it to probably about 20 before he saw the movie, and somehow was surprised by the ending. He’d only heard it referenced briefly, so he’d forgotten about the ending completely. But he was able to fully enjoy it because of that.
I’m someone who truly gets creeped out super easily. I watched the Shining while at home with kidney stones, and I actually remember sitting there giggling through it because my whole life I’d heard that it was a great scary movie, but it was just so silly for most of it.
But I can honestly barely watch creepy commercials without getting affected. I’m a total wuss, to the point that Shyamalan’s the Village gave me nightmares as a teen hahaha.
I only recently watched Silence of the Lambs and laughed my way through that.
Haha, I’ll have to pop that one on (during the daytime). I already know enough of the story that I can’t imagine I’d be TOO scared because I do know what to expect for the most part.
I just watched the Shining again around Halloween, and was surprised I didn’t find it at all scary (I did ages ago when I first saw it). Most of the acting is pretty bad.
I wouldn’t dare stay in the real hotel though!
The Sixth Sense was a great movie, I remember seeing it in the theater and it was so chilly at certain spots. Good twist too.
I think that’s what kills the scary for me. The acting is just SO over the top, and I found the lead actress annoying. And I mean, I rooted for her obviously, but there was just something about her that was off-putting. Maybe that was the intention to a degree, though?
I’m way too creeped out to do the haunted hotel kind of thing haha. I love listening to ghost stories but they creep me out so bad. There’s a ‘famous’ haunted hotel/inn/’mansion’ near where I live in NS. I actually own a silver bracelet that used to belong to one of the ‘alleged’ ghosts (there were some family ties there). Even owning that kind of creeped me out for the first while.
Yeah she was annoying, and I also found the minor characters pretty bad too.
I’ve stayed in a bunch of B&Bs and stuff that have had stories, but I think I’d be too chicken to stay at the Stanley. Something about big old hotels like that creeps me out!
While there’s a time limit on some spoilers, when it comes to movies that totally revolve around a twist ending, you’re a jerk if you spoil that for someone, lol!
Someone spoiled it for me and I’m still mad about it lol. I watched it at the movie theater when it first came out.
What I remember is seeing this and spotting Donnie Wahlberg’s name in the credits and the entire theater going nuts. No one could figure out where he was (he was still only famous for being in NKOTB). So we have this to thank for Donnie’s acting career.
He was unrecognizable in that movie !
Great interview, he’s quirky but interesting.
Why is everyone phasing out Apple products!?
I’m interested in knowing this, too (Apple stuff). I drank the kool aid, but have been seriously considering switching to android. It annoys me that Mac doesn’t really play well with others. I dunno. Have a MacBook Air that’s only about 4 years old, so I’ll probably keep it a while longer. I absolutely loathe that all the storage is on the cloud, which keeps creeping up in price.
I used to be very much an Apple person but now I’m phasing out. I’ve switched from iPhone to Android, and will probably do the same with my MacAir at some point as well. I like the products, but I hate the lack of compatibility as well as the totally closed system, and the fact that they tend to die out quickly…
I’ll never forget. My husband and I were able to go see this in the theater. It was a big deal because we got a sitter and hadn’t been out anywhere since our daughter was born, she was one at the time. So we were so happy to get out and be among the living for the night. We’re watching the movie, I’m totally into it. Half way through my husband leans over and whispered” he’s dead.” I was pissed! He ruined the movie and all I wanted to do was have a nice evening as adults and he ruined the movie for me. 20 Years later I’m still annoyed.
people need to get over spoilers….it’s really not that big of a deal and I guessed the 6th sense pretty early in the movie….it was kina obvious lol
I saw it in the theater pretty early, before anybody was talking about it, and there was an audible collective gasp from everybody in the theater when the wedding video was playing and then the ring drops to the floor and everybody in the theater realized what happened all at once. The movie was so well done that even when I watch it again now, it’s hard to catch on that he is dead the whole time. All those times you thought he was having conversations with the mom, she’s really just mumbling to herself and he is nodding or saying “hmmm.”
I can’t help but laugh because really and truly the sixth sense was spoiled for me by lonely island. I have no one to blame but myself!
I mean…in general I think thats a dick move to purposely spoil a movie for someone who hasnt seen it. No matter hold old it is. That being said, you cant really control someone if they want to discuss while having dinner at a restaurant or something. I mean, what are you supposed to do, ask everyone in the general area if they’ve seen it?
One of the funniest scenes in Always Sunny in Philadelphia was finding out that Charlie thought the twist was that the actor was Bruce Willis the entire time.
I was out of the country when the movie came out. By the time I finally got around to seeing it, I’d heard SO many people say, “Ooh, you have to see it, there’s such a great twist at the end!”, that I knew within the first 20 minutes of the film that Bruce Willis was dead.
But “The Others,” with Nicole Kidman? BLEW MY MIND. I wasn’t expecting that at all.
M. Night is one of the most imaginative writers/directors to come out of Hollywood in the last 20 years. That’s my hot take. Love him or hate him, no one else makes movies quite like his, he doesn’t rip anyone else off, and still lives in Philly to avoid the LA BS.