This is pretty much pop, a culture podcast, and there will be no twist at the end of this.

Today we're discussing the films of M. Knight-Chamalan, his offspring in light of the new film,

Trap. This is Mark Linson-Mire, supporting a rather thin premise, but with heartfelt execution.

This is Al Baker. My favorite dance craze has always been the Shyamilin Twist.

I'm Sarah Lindbrecht, and I hear really clunky dialogue.

My name is Lawrence Ware, and I still see dead people.

Al could hardly contain himself as we were starting, because I so wanted to give his take

on Trap.

Let's just first say, we're not going to do spoil right away.

The whole premise is in the trailer, so anything in the trailer with the setup is fair

game.

I didn't find this to be very spoilery.

I mean, it is, but it's like a huge twist like he normally has.

I know, but I'm just saying in general, like, after a certain point, we're going to spoil everything. Sounds good. Okay. Sounds good. Go ahead, Al. I was so angry watching this whole experience of watching M. Night Shyamalan movies has made me really, really angry because I was previously under the impression that he was a good filmmaker who's 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 Unbreakable followed and I've rewatched Unbreakable, but let me tell you at the time when I was a teenager, I loved Unbreakable.

I thought M. Knight Shyamieland, this guy is going to go a really long way. And then I've rewatched a bunch of

M. Night Shyamalan movies, including the new one. And I now think that he is somebody who has no idea how to make good

movies and has gone. And got phenomenally lucky that one time.

And I can't explain it because I was looking and was saying, is it like a George Lucas thing

where like the editor was the person who saved it or like he had a co-writer or something?

What is it about the sixth sense?

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