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🗓️ 15 September 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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In light of the new film Trap, we look at this writer/director's oeuvre. Was he a bright light (The Sixth Sense) that at one point went out (certainly by The Happening), and has that light gone back on as he's regained full control in his most recent films (Knock at the Cabin, The Visit, et al.)? Is he a genius, overrated, or somehow both?
Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn and Al disagree both about Trap and about the overall Shyamalan experience.
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0:00.0 | This is pretty much pop a culture podcast and there will be no twist at the end of this. |
0:12.1 | Today we're discussing the films of M Knight Chamalan |
0:15.0 | in his offspring in light of the new film, Trapp. |
0:18.0 | This is Mark Linsen-Myer supporting a rather thin premise, |
0:21.0 | but with heartfelt execution. |
0:23.0 | This is Al Baker. My favorite dance craze has always been the Shaimel and Twist. |
0:28.0 | I'm Sarah Lynn Breck and I hear really clunky dialogue. |
0:33.0 | My name is Lauren Swear and I still see dead people. |
0:36.4 | Al could hardly contain himself as we were starting. |
0:40.2 | So wanted to give his take on Trap. |
0:43.2 | Let's just first say, we're not going to do spoil right away. |
0:46.4 | The whole premise is in the trailer. |
0:48.5 | So anything in the trailer with the setup is fair game. |
0:52.2 | I didn't find this to be very spoilery. |
0:54.0 | I mean it is but it's like a huge twist like he normally has. |
0:58.0 | I know but I'm just saying in general like after a certain point we're going to spoil everything. |
1:02.0 | Sounds good. |
1:03.2 | Sounds good. |
1:04.1 | Go ahead, Al. |
1:04.8 | I was so angry watching. |
1:06.6 | This whole experience of watching I'm not shy, |
1:08.5 | I'm in a movie movies has made me really, really angry because I was previously under the impression that he was a good filmmaker who was kind of lost his way in the latter part of his career because I was a teenager when the Sixth Sense came out and I love the sixth sense and |
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