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didnt he already do that with DEVIL or whatever it was called? The movie where the people are stuck in an elevator and where the side of the strawberry smirred toast determines that the devil is around?
George Lucas dialogue feels like added effects put in after everything else is already done, it's almost an afterthought, but you need it to wow the audiences,...so add it. M. Night dialogue is far more uncanny, like it wants to be really sophisticated just by the words uttered and stand out as everything else is so understated...and it falls flat.
Hands down. George Lucas is just scattered brained with his focus when it comes to writing and he tends to focus on the wrong things. M Night is just bonkers. Like George Lucas dialogue is bland at worst but M Night's dialogue is almost undescribable. There's talking like robots and there's talking like you've never interacted with people before
I don't get why it's a BAD masseuse though. Aren't the good or at least decent masseuses the ones you forget about unless they mess up? The bad ones you can't even ignore cause they're so bad.
I love how NC used to go on rants about Shyamalan and now he's just like accepted him as that crazy family member he can't get rid of and secretly loves. 😂
He does point out how the dialogue in this movie is SO AWFUL that anyone who lets him write his own scripts should lose their job if they agree to it. Seriously, it’s that bad…..
What's sad is that the movie has a pretty genius premise, but was botched so badly. The horror of rapid aging being forced on unsuspecting people who cant leave this beautiful beach is terrifying. That was the hook for me.
The book apparently handled it better. The book is downright bleak and depressing, it focuses on the futility of it all and truly understands what a story like this should be
This ain’t the first time M. Night botched up a good premise, remember Devil? Minus the supernatural and having a killer in a elevator would be a thrilling tale.
You know what would've been a cool twist? If when the siblings got back to civilization they noticed that everything looked different than it did before and they soon learn that everyone on the beach was reported missing 20 whatever years ago, they then realize that they actually were on the beach for 20 something years but it only felt like a few days. Yeah I know it's basically the same thing Interstellar did but it would've been way better than the big pharma conspiracy plot they went with
Doug honestly seems so much more relaxed these days. He's more forgiving of bad stuff, especially if it's uniquely bad like this movie. I don't know if it was the pandemic or just getting older, but I like this less red-faced murderous nostalgia Critic a lot more.
I'm sure that Channel Awesome controversy from a few years ago and the negative reception of "The Wall" review knocked him off his high horse and got humbled.
@@TGWTGCensored Okay yeah that might all be true but I honestly never got the seething hatred people have for that video. He sure took it a lot better than I would have though!
What Could Have Been: Shyamalan had tremendous trouble deciding if he would stick to the graphic novel’s bleak, fatalistic ending or go with his usual style of adding a big shocking Twist Ending. He only made a final decision about a month before the film needed to be in the can. According to a post on Reddit, test screenings didn't even have the ending.
@@Jennyfisch everybody died except for a baby that’s rapidly aged into a 50 year old. The infant minded adult wakes up, sees his dead parents and just builds a sandcastle as he sits alone and awaits death, then we cut to a panel of a small hole in the rock surface that the people could’ve used to escape if they just looked a little harder
Dong been hit and miss lately.. This one is a hit.. but it happens to the greatest of Artists.. It's going to happen to you at some point.. We all have our greatest moments of all time and we at most times can't live it forever.. but only show glimpse of it afterwards but you can tell Dong and Rob show they can still dance even though they have lost a step but they are super experience cause they are season vets we can all learn a thing of two from..
When rapid pregnancy and skeletazation aren't as disturbing as the acting, directing, and script, you know it's a Shyamalan movie! Thank you for the charity shoutouts by the way, A Safe Haven for Newborns is a great choice.
I agree with Doug in that really the only way the son’s speech and mannerisms could’ve worked is if he had a “condition”…ie was neurodivergent: as a kid with Asperger’s, my speech was oddly formal compared to other children my age, like his is, and I would often fixate on certain things and repeat certain phrases or questions, like when the son repeatedly asks “What’s your name and occupation”? I don’t think that’s what Shaymalan was going for, though: all the dialogue he writes is weirdly formal, and it seems as though the boy only goes around asking people their names and jobs is for clunky exposition, like Doug said.
as someone with Aspergers i ask that you don't use the term "neurodivergent". I roll my eyes whenever i hear it because it sounds stupidly pretentious, like saying "I'm not short, I'm vertically challenged" or "I'm not lecturing, I'm performing an intellectual monologue"
@@narcosis1507 As someone with autism, I don't have a problem with that term because it expresses that autistic and ADD individuals aren't disabled, they just think differently than most people.
@@narcosis1507 It's a lot different within the context of Autism, Aspergers, ADHD, etc. Less about being pretentious and more about using equal-ground language. They're not a mental health issue on their own like PTSD or OCD or Depression. While having these can lead to poor mental health and co-existing disorders, the extra problems come from how society doesn't accommodate us. Neurodivergent means we're different, not something that is inherently wrong or needs a cure. It's definitely a lot better than being called "mentally disabled", that's for sure.
@@narcosis1507 As someone on the spectrum, I'm with ElFreakinCid that you do not police people on our behalf. Secondly, neurodivergent is an umbrella term that's inclusive and covers other conditions such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, etc. It's not used to be pretentious. It's used to promote support systems and as Hawklegs stated equal ground language.
Me too! I was watching this in the kitchen while having a snack and I was trying so hard not to laugh out loud because my sister was in front of me cleaning her dish. She of course asked me what am I watching.
It reminded me him laughing over the boy in Lady in the Water reading cereal boxes...times 10. I may be wrong, it may be equal to that time, but either way it reminded me of it and it was just as aweome to see
I felt that Shyamalan had something here. After reading about it, and how it’s apparently based on the graphic novel ‘Sand Castle’, a book Shyamalan was reading as he was coping with the idea of losing loved ones to sickness and old age, I thought this was going to be deeply personal. I would guess the thing that holds it back from greatness, at least for me, is that it aims more to be like Inception instead of Groundhog Day. As in, instead of just letting the odd phenomenon be the emotional drive of the story, it aims to try and find answers and create twists. I mean, the mystery is just fine, but wouldn’t it have felt more impactful had the twist been more metaphorical instead of convoluted? Like, what if the ‘ageing’ wasn’t caused by anything? What if everything just went on like normal, but they just didn’t realise time was passing by? That the whole time, we were witnessing several trips to the same beach, and the characters realise how odd it feels that all the time sort of ‘slipped away’? A tragedy-horror film. Wouldn’t that have been something?
I was thinking something similar, but kinda messed up in another way. Like, what if the further away you are from the beach, you age back to your normal age, but it takes more time (we don't really know what the deal with the beach). So in the end, the kids are almost back to their original ages but they still have no parents and are really traumatized. They mentally grew up too fast.
@@flixchix95 Yeah, leave the beach a mystery. No one knows why it makes you old, it just does. But if you absolutely need a reason, make it a believable one. Like, it's an old Native American Burial Ground or something. Have the guy who owns it be the one who disturbed the spirits by building a resort on the island, and in order to break the curse you have to trap him on that beach so the spirits can have their revenge. Or have there be a shrine hidden in the rocks that's doing it, and only by performing a certain right and purifying it can you stop the aging thing. Have the movie be about them discovering that, then trying to find out what the purifying rights are and figuring out who is meant to perform them. Y'know, _something_ credible. Oh yeah, and also make it have actual believable dialogue, with shots that make sense and are in focus. That might help, too.
Is there any better way to start a new year than with a movie reminding us how old we are? Here's to a new season and a new round with the Shyamalizing.
I saw this movie and it's honestly sad that this movie had cool ideas and a great concept but was poorly executed like some Shyamalan movies. Even some of the acting was laughable
@@LebahG4nteng Agreed the concept was interesting. It is actually based on a French graphic novel known as Sandcastle. Unlike the movie the source material is much darker and doesn't have a happy ending/
@@barbiquearea the only thing that made the movie watchable was just some few standout performance but man the dialogues were cheesy as hell. I really wanted to liked the movie because Shyamalan always delivers something very unique and very new stories to the big screen and I love weird movies but really tanked with the execution he has
He's not the only movie reviewer who ends his reviews on a positive note. Bobsheaux, Media Hunter, Animat, Steve Reviews, Decker Shado, Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews, Deusdaecon...even YMS have had videos that ended on a positive.
Frederik Peeters, the artist who made the "Sandcastle" comic who inspired this movie, is a teacher in my art school! I highly recommend you to read the original comic and/or his other novels. He made an autobiography where he talks about his wife who has HIV, called "Blue Pills". I love this dude's art!
@@DaniMarko he said in an article that he doesn't like giving his opinion on the movie. He said that the movie was alright, but it looked like a Netflix adaptation of his comic, and he didn't like the end. But he also said that he understands that most of the issues are from the fact that a movie needs to be fast.
There is a Simpsons fanfiction that is based on this movie and the graphic novel. The twist was that Mr Burns used the beach to extract youth from people.
I know the pregnancy scene wasn't supposed to be funny, but I when I first saw that she was pregnant, I busted out laughing in the theater. I laughed harder at that than I have in any recent comedy.
It would have been way funnier if he got his old friend Bargo to play M Night because they’re both Indian. Besides, Bargo hasn’t been in the Channel Awesome spotlight for a decade and Doug really needs to bring him back.
I got a theory that the aliens from the Signs took the form of humans and are now every Shyamalan movie which is why people don't talk or act normal in any of his movies.
Being in Theater watching this was the best. Half of the audience were in for a terrible but entertainingly hilarious watch (like us), the other half started leaning forward and scrunching their forehead in confused concentration more and more trying to figure out what it could mean because it couldn't possibly just be stupid. It was wonderful.
@@yudithcaron8053 He was sick, like everyone else. I forget the condition. I think it was something with the brain. But they were all either terminally ill or families of terminally ill patients...or, I guess, suffering from a mental issue.
The funnest thing is that this is an adaptation of a really good graphic novel, even when taking a prewritten twist he STILL can't do it right 🤣. The twist as explained in the graphic novel is that this pharmaceutical company finds people with diseases or conditions (like the woman with the seizures), invites them to the island, laces their food with whatever treatment they want to test and then bring them to the rapid aging area to study the side effects and effectiveness of the treatments at an accelerated rate, saving years and years of research and drug trials. This was entirely explained and Shame-alan left out the most important part of the twist, the medication laced food.
This movies concept scared me when I saw a trailer for it, due to my autism I couldn’t stop thinking about it, hearing the word “Old” would also be a sort of trigger word for me, it was hard for me to sleep sometimes too, I had to motivate myself just to watch this video. But watching your review has helped me face my fears, it even made me laugh lol, In the end you helped me. Thanks Doug.
I think part of it is just the realization that it’s just another bad Shyamalan film, despite what the dramatic trailer music kept trying to tell you. There’s a character named Mid-Sized Sedan, for fuck’s sake’
I wish they had kept to the source material and not kill off the baby but let him grow up rapidly and end up as the lone survivor on the beach after everyone else ages themselves to death in a short span of time and he is left alone on the beach building a sandcastle.
Besides using a tonic clonic seizure the seizure first aid was actually pretty close to accurate. You honestly cannot do anything besides what Jared and the Doctor did in that case unless the woman has emergency medication or it lasts more than 5 minutes. So 5/10 on the epilepsy representation scale, points off for not using a myoclonic seizure ( as visible but less stigma with more awareness) but simulating what an appropriate reaction to a seizure is, stay calm get the person on their side, cushion the head and stay with the person having a seizure. Can people die to a seizure, yes SUDEP or sudden unexpected death in epilepsy happens to every 1 in 1000 cases of epilepsy. As someone with epilepsy all of Hollywood needs to stop using tonic clonic seizures all the time. By Hollywood I mean everyone from writers, and directors to studio execs.
There’s a true tragedy to this film, “Old”: Rufus Sewell (the doctor) was the antagonist in “A Knight’s Tale,” starring a young Heath Ledger. One grew old and the other didn’t. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going off to my crying corner to cry.
You know to quote the late great Norm Macdonald and i think this speaks well to Shyamalan "I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking; I'm terrible at acting; I'm terrible at dealing with executives; I'm terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I'm good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don't really have an ambition for money".
There's also a line in the beginning of the movie, where they arrive at the Hotel, and the mother says: - "Can you believe I found this place on the internet??" Like where the hell else should we assume you found it?
I think it was supposed to be surprise that she found it online and it was actually good. which, i mean, fair. tho, considering what happens, yeah, still fair.
I went into this movie not knowing it was made by M Night Shamylan... 😂 I only realised he was the director after they kept making expositions, and I was like ''I SWEAR, its him.''
Doug, it's time for the Phil Nibellink trilogy: Romeo and Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss, Puss in Boots (1999), and Leif Ericson: The Boy who Discovered America. 3 Animated musicals, all single-handedly animated by just one person, it's everything one imagines it to be and more.
17:30 Yep, that's the film. Though, funny enough, this got me looking up that film with them both as well. I knew Brando and Nicholson did a film together but I may have forgotten what it was then
I remember watching Weird Movies With Mark and him reviewing his favorite so bad it's good movie "Troll 2". The mother character in the movie was comforting her son about his grandfather being dead by saying "Grandpa is dead and now you must banish him from your mind", and Mark was joking how crazy that line was. To Shyamalan, that's just getting started.
Early Shyamalan (Sixth Sense, Signs) would know how to set up scenes, foreshadow and telegraph things to the audience. By Lady in the Water era he just stopped caring if anybody understands what he's doing. When you try to own every aspect of your production it often creates uniquely disastrous results like these.
@@kittycatmeowmeow963 He hasn't done Sixth Sense, the Glass trilogy, The Village, The Visit, or Shyamalan's first two movies that no one has ever heard of.
From the moment Doug was happy to see Shyamalan "back" I felt it was coming. I just wish the Shyamalan character had a bit more screentime like maybe he could have claimed the pog game be some kind of twist lol
Oh dear… I knew we were going to look at this after we got the teaser of M. Night Amon last week. This film is so baffling (including the kids who apparently decided to do… the thing… was that even needed? Who knows, but I’m sure we will be discussing that shortly…)
Ehh……….from what little I know, it made sense in the original comic, in the comic nobody got off the beach, but the baby lived and grew up along with the rest of the cast. With the baby growing up and actually being the last surviving person on the beach after the two kids (as in the doctors daughter and the boy, now adults) died in each other’s arms. There was no pharmaceutical company or explanation in the comic, it was just an allegory for aging and life itself. The baby growing up rapidly alongside them was suppose to be a part of that. However it made very little sense in the context the movie gave, especially since they just decided to kill the baby anyway. So in the movie it was just weird, disturbing, and necessary. Like if you were going to cut the baby out then why go through it in the first place?
Not gonna lie when the characters notice someone is watching them from a distance on the mountain I was desperately hoping the twist would be a meta joke where they reveal M. Night was recording them through a camera to make his movie
Mentally I stopped thinking when the two 6 year olds slept together and got pregnant. My mind couldn't accept that so it just hit the emergency stop button
It's crazy because if you see this film. The pregant girl is actually the part that makes the absolute least sense out of all of it. Breaking the rules they establish themselves
Oh yeah, the one that said “Only in Theaters, This Summer.” Compared to some of the other ads that popped up during the game last year which said they would be on some streaming service.
Holy cow you mean holy hell right I have never understand that word and the word what the heck just say hell what is wrong of saying hell hell hell fuck fuck fuck hell fuck hell its not like the world is going to be destroyed becuse of it im from sweden 🇸🇪 and here we say hell and fuck thank god for that.:D
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In light of her passing, can you do a Career Dive for Betty White?
We're gonna see a lot of Sixth Sense and Happening.
The sixth sense the rest is least favorite
Favorite: SIxth Sense, Least: Lady in the Water
Can you please do the Pacific rim uprising review please
We need a M Night directed movie based on a Stephen King story, it'll be the craziest thing ever put to film.
didnt he already do that with DEVIL or whatever it was called? The movie where the people are stuck in an elevator and where the side of the strawberry smirred toast determines that the devil is around?
And we need a cameo from the both of them. The world might implode but it is worth it
Nah, Stephen King has a good standard. There's no way he'll ask M Night to direct one of his books.
We talking pre or post drugs?
This sounds like an awful idea.
I'm on board.
As infamous as George Lucas is, I still think Shamalyan is the king when it comes to making skilled actors sound like malfunctioning robots.
George Lucas dialogue feels like added effects put in after everything else is already done, it's almost an afterthought, but you need it to wow the audiences,...so add it.
M. Night dialogue is far more uncanny, like it wants to be really sophisticated just by the words uttered and stand out as everything else is so understated...and it falls flat.
Hands down. George Lucas is just scattered brained with his focus when it comes to writing and he tends to focus on the wrong things. M Night is just bonkers. Like George Lucas dialogue is bland at worst but M Night's dialogue is almost undescribable. There's talking like robots and there's talking like you've never interacted with people before
“I’m like a bad masseuse, you don’t notice me until I rub you the wrong way”
I laugh at this more than I should’ve
Me too, it was actually hilarious! 😂🤣
@@trinaq 👍👍👍👍👍💯
I don't get why it's a BAD masseuse though. Aren't the good or at least decent masseuses the ones you forget about unless they mess up? The bad ones you can't even ignore cause they're so bad.
Sounds like that masseuse from The IT Crowd
I laughed so loud I scared my cat. 😆
I love how NC used to go on rants about Shyamalan and now he's just like accepted him as that crazy family member he can't get rid of and secretly loves. 😂
Not so secretly anymore
He does point out how the dialogue in this movie is SO AWFUL that anyone who lets him write his own scripts should lose their job if they agree to it. Seriously, it’s that bad…..
Trent: What's your name and what do you do for a living?
NC: I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so you don't have to.
I love your RUclips channel
Criminally underrated
Shady, what are you doing here?
This is an A+ joke, sir.
Oh hey Shady
What's sad is that the movie has a pretty genius premise, but was botched so badly. The horror of rapid aging being forced on unsuspecting people who cant leave this beautiful beach is terrifying. That was the hook for me.
The book apparently handled it better. The book is downright bleak and depressing, it focuses on the futility of it all and truly understands what a story like this should be
This ain’t the first time M. Night botched up a good premise, remember Devil? Minus the supernatural and having a killer in a elevator would be a thrilling tale.
That basically describes almost all M Night Shyamalan movies. Interesting premise but botched horriblely
How was it botched? I loved this film. I just dont understand the hate that its getting..
@@DylanCar Because the script is awful. Just because you love something doesn't mean it's automatically good.
Cypher Raige, Story, Narf, Scrunt, Tartutick, and now Mid-Sized Sedan.
What an extensive collection of amazing names.
Don't forget Pluto Nash. ☝🏼
@@MichelleOfDarkness Not a Shyamalan property
You know what would've been a cool twist? If when the siblings got back to civilization they noticed that everything looked different than it did before and they soon learn that everyone on the beach was reported missing 20 whatever years ago, they then realize that they actually were on the beach for 20 something years but it only felt like a few days. Yeah I know it's basically the same thing Interstellar did but it would've been way better than the big pharma conspiracy plot they went with
Damn that’s actually good i wish this movie was your cool idea instead of this shit
Chaplin: "Oh no! Lloyd went to the beach and now he's aging fast!"
Lloyd: "Idiot! That's how I always look."
😂💀
Buster: "And I’m still Buster!"
That bad masseuse line made me laugh so hard I choked. This is why I love Nostalgia Critic.
Okay, I know this is a random throw away gag but this is feels very accurate TECHNOLOGY now a days. 4:20
You have a good interest in low-grade Internet humor.
Didn't make me laugh. I find old critic was funnier than this. 🤷♀️
Glad I'm not the only one who choked while laughing 🤣
Oh? You didn’t laugh? Congratnoonegivesafuckulations.
I love how Doug keep naming the rapper after different mid size sedans 🤣🤣🤣
IKR. I keep on dying after that.
Doug honestly seems so much more relaxed these days. He's more forgiving of bad stuff, especially if it's uniquely bad like this movie. I don't know if it was the pandemic or just getting older, but I like this less red-faced murderous nostalgia Critic a lot more.
I'm sure that Channel Awesome controversy from a few years ago and the negative reception of "The Wall" review knocked him off his high horse and got humbled.
@@rommix0 ieeew the wall
@@rommix0 wait. What's up with the wall review?
@@floricel_112 He just... completely misses the point of _The Wall_ , and shits on it in the name of "waah, it's so pretentious!!!"
@@TGWTGCensored Okay yeah that might all be true but I honestly never got the seething hatred people have for that video. He sure took it a lot better than I would have though!
What Could Have Been: Shyamalan had tremendous trouble deciding if he would stick to the graphic novel’s bleak, fatalistic ending or go with his usual style of adding a big shocking Twist Ending. He only made a final decision about a month before the film needed to be in the can. According to a post on Reddit, test screenings didn't even have the ending.
The more you know
To be fair idk if people would have wanted a bleak fatalistic ending that year so...
How does the graphic novel end?
@@Jennyfisch everybody died except for a baby that’s rapidly aged into a 50 year old. The infant minded adult wakes up, sees his dead parents and just builds a sandcastle as he sits alone and awaits death, then we cut to a panel of a small hole in the rock surface that the people could’ve used to escape if they just looked a little harder
@@mrcritical6751 Thank you!
the moment I saw the Doug review of this I knew I wanted to see an NC review of it and I'm so glad we got it
Huh I never took you as a NC fan, but i guess is dumb to assume you only like transformers, undertale and pokemon
Oh hey!! I love your comics!!
Dong been hit and miss lately.. This one is a hit.. but it happens to the greatest of Artists.. It's going to happen to you at some point.. We all have our greatest moments of all time and we at most times can't live it forever.. but only show glimpse of it afterwards but you can tell Dong and Rob show they can still dance even though they have lost a step but they are super experience cause they are season vets we can all learn a thing of two from..
Have you watched it what do think about it?
@@axeljones8456 worth it XD
When rapid pregnancy and skeletazation aren't as disturbing as the acting, directing, and script, you know it's a Shyamalan movie!
Thank you for the charity shoutouts by the way, A Safe Haven for Newborns is a great choice.
I agree with Doug in that really the only way the son’s speech and mannerisms could’ve worked is if he had a “condition”…ie was neurodivergent: as a kid with Asperger’s, my speech was oddly formal compared to other children my age, like his is, and I would often fixate on certain things and repeat certain phrases or questions, like when the son repeatedly asks “What’s your name and occupation”? I don’t think that’s what Shaymalan was going for, though: all the dialogue he writes is weirdly formal, and it seems as though the boy only goes around asking people their names and jobs is for clunky exposition, like Doug said.
as someone with Aspergers i ask that you don't use the term "neurodivergent". I roll my eyes whenever i hear it because it sounds stupidly pretentious, like saying "I'm not short, I'm vertically challenged" or "I'm not lecturing, I'm performing an intellectual monologue"
@@narcosis1507 As someone with autism, I don't have a problem with that term because it expresses that autistic and ADD individuals aren't disabled, they just think differently than most people.
@@narcosis1507 As someone else with Aspergers, I ask that you not police people's language on behalf of all of us.
@@narcosis1507 It's a lot different within the context of Autism, Aspergers, ADHD, etc. Less about being pretentious and more about using equal-ground language. They're not a mental health issue on their own like PTSD or OCD or Depression. While having these can lead to poor mental health and co-existing disorders, the extra problems come from how society doesn't accommodate us. Neurodivergent means we're different, not something that is inherently wrong or needs a cure.
It's definitely a lot better than being called "mentally disabled", that's for sure.
@@narcosis1507 As someone on the spectrum, I'm with ElFreakinCid that you do not police people on our behalf. Secondly, neurodivergent is an umbrella term that's inclusive and covers other conditions such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, etc.
It's not used to be pretentious. It's used to promote support systems and as Hawklegs stated equal ground language.
8:02, Doug dying of laughter, with his legs sticking up, amuses me on so many levels! 🤣
8:02
Me too! I was watching this in the kitchen while having a snack and I was trying so hard not to laugh out loud because my sister was in front of me cleaning her dish. She of course asked me what am I watching.
It reminded me him laughing over the boy in Lady in the Water reading cereal boxes...times 10. I may be wrong, it may be equal to that time, but either way it reminded me of it and it was just as aweome to see
Not to mention @18:48 where he seems to *really* starts losing it by the time Jarred (once again) blurts out his name for no reason.
Well what kinda rapper would take that name?😂😂😂😂
I felt that Shyamalan had something here. After reading about it, and how it’s apparently based on the graphic novel ‘Sand Castle’, a book Shyamalan was reading as he was coping with the idea of losing loved ones to sickness and old age, I thought this was going to be deeply personal.
I would guess the thing that holds it back from greatness, at least for me, is that it aims more to be like Inception instead of Groundhog Day. As in, instead of just letting the odd phenomenon be the emotional drive of the story, it aims to try and find answers and create twists. I mean, the mystery is just fine, but wouldn’t it have felt more impactful had the twist been more metaphorical instead of convoluted?
Like, what if the ‘ageing’ wasn’t caused by anything? What if everything just went on like normal, but they just didn’t realise time was passing by? That the whole time, we were witnessing several trips to the same beach, and the characters realise how odd it feels that all the time sort of ‘slipped away’?
A tragedy-horror film. Wouldn’t that have been something?
I was thinking something similar, but kinda messed up in another way. Like, what if the further away you are from the beach, you age back to your normal age, but it takes more time (we don't really know what the deal with the beach). So in the end, the kids are almost back to their original ages but they still have no parents and are really traumatized. They mentally grew up too fast.
@@flixchix95 That could've been a fairly good bittersweet ending.
Like If The Thief of Always was for adults!
@@flixchix95 Yeah, leave the beach a mystery. No one knows why it makes you old, it just does. But if you absolutely need a reason, make it a believable one. Like, it's an old Native American Burial Ground or something. Have the guy who owns it be the one who disturbed the spirits by building a resort on the island, and in order to break the curse you have to trap him on that beach so the spirits can have their revenge.
Or have there be a shrine hidden in the rocks that's doing it, and only by performing a certain right and purifying it can you stop the aging thing. Have the movie be about them discovering that, then trying to find out what the purifying rights are and figuring out who is meant to perform them. Y'know, _something_ credible.
Oh yeah, and also make it have actual believable dialogue, with shots that make sense and are in focus. That might help, too.
The graphic novel it never explains why, when they try to get off the beach they just wind up circling back. The people have theories, but that's it.
Been awhile since I've seen Papa Walker in a NC episode. Glad to see he's doing well!
As nice his brief appearence in the review for Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever was this one was great and I also hope for more
"He's been impounded." That is a golden line right there
Love NCs reaction to “mid-sized sedan”. I felt the same 😂
I do love me a Mazda 6
@@ChannelAwesome don’t forget; Honda Accord, Nissan Sentra and Ford Focus. Now all in the rap group… the parking lot
Whoever is the owner of the white sedan, you left your lights on
Me too and dumbfounded, BlackSheepNara
you will, never ever, be a real woman
Is there any better way to start a new year than with a movie reminding us how old we are? Here's to a new season and a new round with the Shyamalizing.
The old Shyamalan huh huh get it.😂
"My only regret... Is that I have... Bonitis.."
I nearly died with laughter 😂😂😂
8:51 "A dead woman is found in the water and Honda Civic approaches."
🤣🤣😂😂💀
This is honestly one of those movies that I've seen everywhere but have never actually watched, so this should be interesting!
I saw this movie and it's honestly sad that this movie had cool ideas and a great concept but was poorly executed like some Shyamalan movies. Even some of the acting was laughable
@@LebahG4nteng Agreed the concept was interesting. It is actually based on a French graphic novel known as Sandcastle. Unlike the movie the source material is much darker and doesn't have a happy ending/
@@barbiquearea the only thing that made the movie watchable was just some few standout performance but man the dialogues were cheesy as hell. I really wanted to liked the movie because Shyamalan always delivers something very unique and very new stories to the big screen and I love weird movies but really tanked with the execution he has
It’s a decent movie and enjoyed it.. even though I felt like I was high on hallucinating drugs..
You do know that Doug is not a professional critic but rather an amateur, right?
I love that Jarin is literally an "I'M HOMER SIMPSON" Gag, this is destroying me.
"No here is Patrick!"
I loved the stupid car jokes, so when he casually threw in, "He got impounded", I straight-up cackled.
Despite the hate that NC recieves from others movie reviewers, I love that he's the only one who ends his reviews with positive note
He gets hate? From who?
@@Poever his former channel awesome employees and people who love to be on the NC hate bandwagon. They have been irrelevant for a while anyway.
Even his most awkward ending has that vibe, Rodor 27
@@rommix0 You gotta love the irony every movie reviewer who left CA is basically forgotten but the channel itself remains strong
He's not the only movie reviewer who ends his reviews on a positive note. Bobsheaux, Media Hunter, Animat, Steve Reviews, Decker Shado, Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews, Deusdaecon...even YMS have had videos that ended on a positive.
Remember kids, never accept rides from Shayamalan unless you want a twist of a trip.
If I ever go on a trip and he's driving, I'm offering my role as protagonist to the next guy behind me. Who knows maybe I can sell it to him.
Frederik Peeters, the artist who made the "Sandcastle" comic who inspired this movie, is a teacher in my art school! I highly recommend you to read the original comic and/or his other novels. He made an autobiography where he talks about his wife who has HIV, called "Blue Pills". I love this dude's art!
What’s his opinion on the film?
@@DaniMarko he said in an article that he doesn't like giving his opinion on the movie. He said that the movie was alright, but it looked like a Netflix adaptation of his comic, and he didn't like the end. But he also said that he understands that most of the issues are from the fact that a movie needs to be fast.
@@elwensa4893 Sounds like a nice way of saying he didn't like it without having to say it.
There is a Simpsons fanfiction that is based on this movie and the graphic novel. The twist was that Mr Burns used the beach to extract youth from people.
The part where Critic's legs are up in the air, laughing hysterically just straight up killed me! I haven't laughed that hard in so long!
7:54 I legit burst out laughing when she said his name!😂
It's starting to feel like instead of the beach that makes you old, it's the movie that makes you unconvincing
What a way to start off the new year! A review featuring Shyamalan. This is gonna be fun!
@the phantom split no it won't I hate the old movie 😤 😒 😑 🙄 😐 😪
I will now be awaiting a Shyamalan-like twist to 2022 sometime around November.
indeed!
Ok.
I was gonna say the same thing! I can't believe that Nostalgia Critic is starting off the new year with M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie.
I almost spit my Gatorade with Doug’s reaction at 18:49🤣
I know the pregnancy scene wasn't supposed to be funny, but I when I first saw that she was pregnant, I busted out laughing in the theater. I laughed harder at that than I have in any recent comedy.
"He's been impounded!" You're starting off the year strong with these jokes Doug! 🤣
It would have been way funnier if he got his old friend Bargo to play M Night because they’re both Indian. Besides, Bargo hasn’t been in the Channel Awesome spotlight for a decade and Doug really needs to bring him back.
@@AlexMcGillvrey Could it have been possible for him and Doug to have some sort of falling out at some point?
@@AlexMcGillvrey it’s still kinda funny that they still have Shyamalan in the Amon outfit from the “The Last Airbender” review
@@Samwise_Ass Remember those mistreatment reports that were revealed to us in 2018? Did any of them mention anything about Bargo?
@@AlexMcGillvrey I don't know
I got a theory that the aliens from the Signs took the form of humans and are now every Shyamalan movie which is why people don't talk or act normal in any of his movies.
Why would those aliens want to travel to the beach? They would instantly die going into water.
@@jlev1028 Never underestimate the strangeness of Shyamalan characters my friend.
I hope someday he makes a movie that reveals that is the case. I will honestly be impressed with that level of dedication.
@@jlev1028 You could see it as they were sent there and this movie was their message to the world
@@gianinabadami5341 👍👍👍👍💯💯💯💯👍💯💯💯💯💯👍💯💯💯. That would be a riot
1:55 - "You think Split would have rolled like that" is the funniest thing ever said on this very funny channel. Well done
Being in Theater watching this was the best. Half of the audience were in for a terrible but entertainingly hilarious watch (like us), the other half started leaning forward and scrunching their forehead in confused concentration more and more trying to figure out what it could mean because it couldn't possibly just be stupid.
It was wonderful.
It was wonderful
Perfect description
8:05 The dialog of Shyamalan's movies was so bad, it literally caused the Critic to die with laughter.
*WHAT A TWIST!*
Chevy Silverado really sold that "OH Damn" in the movie...totally believable
Having seen the movie, I got sit in wonderful anticipation for the last time he shouts “I’m Jarin!!” for Critic’s reaction.
I love seeing Doug Walker's adorable old dad in his videos
"I'm token black guy, I'm only allowed to say *damn.* "
-Not Another Teen Movie
And that's Whack! 😊
And shiiiiiiitt
"Maaiin dis some bullshiet"
The "IM JARED!!!" line made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe for 2 minutes straight!
*Jaren
I’m Jarin by the way
18:46
@@artslife4424 “I’M JARIN!”
Now, we need a sequel called New. Then, we can have a real life Old vs. New.
7:14 My name is Jaron! Thank you for your support critic! You're my favorite character too.
Mid sized sedan also has a rapping partner: sport utility vehicle.
He has large measured South Sudan and small proportioned Venezuela
@@aidan6471 He also has a rival, O-Nisan Ultima.
Man, these twists are twister than Chubby Checker doing the twist while twisting a Pretzel!
I still don't know why Ford Impala's nose bled when they found the first corpse at 8:50.
Whilst playing Twister!
Ha!..now that is twisty.
uh..... twisty straw.......
@@yudithcaron8053 He was sick, like everyone else. I forget the condition. I think it was something with the brain. But they were all either terminally ill or families of terminally ill patients...or, I guess, suffering from a mental issue.
Jarin has real "I'm Chaplin!" energy.
It's crazy that the big twist at the end was just an explanation for why the characters were on the beach, not why it makes them old.
I love how people came into this film thinking there wasn't gonna be a twist and then were surprise there was one.
That's the twist
The funnest thing is that this is an adaptation of a really good graphic novel, even when taking a prewritten twist he STILL can't do it right 🤣. The twist as explained in the graphic novel is that this pharmaceutical company finds people with diseases or conditions (like the woman with the seizures), invites them to the island, laces their food with whatever treatment they want to test and then bring them to the rapid aging area to study the side effects and effectiveness of the treatments at an accelerated rate, saving years and years of research and drug trials. This was entirely explained and Shame-alan left out the most important part of the twist, the medication laced food.
At this point, Shyamalan _not_ doing a twist would be the biggest twist in one of his movies.
Kinda with Doug here, it's not so much a twist as an explanation in this one
@@AsiaDanceScene Yeah, I didn't even see this as a twist.
This movies concept scared me when I saw a trailer for it, due to my autism I couldn’t stop thinking about it, hearing the word “Old” would also be a sort of trigger word for me, it was hard for me to sleep sometimes too, I had to motivate myself just to watch this video. But watching your review has helped me face my fears, it even made me laugh lol, In the end you helped me. Thanks Doug.
Congratulations for facing your fears. Cheers and stay safe.
@@coronelkittycannon thanks
I think part of it is just the realization that it’s just another bad Shyamalan film, despite what the dramatic trailer music kept trying to tell you.
There’s a character named Mid-Sized Sedan, for fuck’s sake’
@@PumpkinNite you are scared of being in a place that accelerates your aging?
Omg dude, I literally felt the SAME WAY since I have autism too!!! So relatable!
18:51 the critic stands up... leaving the hats shadow behind and instantly ages 10 years. WHAT A TWIST!!!
8:00 had me busting a gut! The things Doug dose for these reviews are amazing. And that is why I absolutely love his videos!! ❤❤
I wish they had kept to the source material and not kill off the baby but let him grow up rapidly and end up as the lone survivor on the beach after everyone else ages themselves to death in a short span of time and he is left alone on the beach building a sandcastle.
"It was only just alive" reminded me more of Kryten's first appearance in Red Dwarf: "My God... But I was only away two minutes!"
Besides using a tonic clonic seizure the seizure first aid was actually pretty close to accurate. You honestly cannot do anything besides what Jared and the Doctor did in that case unless the woman has emergency medication or it lasts more than 5 minutes. So 5/10 on the epilepsy representation scale, points off for not using a myoclonic seizure ( as visible but less stigma with more awareness) but simulating what an appropriate reaction to a seizure is, stay calm get the person on their side, cushion the head and stay with the person having a seizure. Can people die to a seizure, yes SUDEP or sudden unexpected death in epilepsy happens to every 1 in 1000 cases of epilepsy.
As someone with epilepsy all of Hollywood needs to stop using tonic clonic seizures all the time. By Hollywood I mean everyone from writers, and directors to studio execs.
There’s a true tragedy to this film, “Old”: Rufus Sewell (the doctor) was the antagonist in “A Knight’s Tale,” starring a young Heath Ledger. One grew old and the other didn’t.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going off to my crying corner to cry.
I just realized that was him in a knights tale. Ty
He knocked it out of the park in that nazi imperial japanese show
You know to quote the late great Norm Macdonald and i think this speaks well to Shyamalan "I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking; I'm terrible at acting; I'm terrible at dealing with executives; I'm terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I'm good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don't really have an ambition for money".
Except Shyamalan doesn't know that he's good at comedy. Or terrible at acting. Or terrible at collaborating.
Nice to see the Critic’s dad in more of his reviews
20:44 Me: Ooo, I wonder what movie included Harrison Ford and Mark Hamil...wow, I'm an idiot.
Just here to report that Jug Walker officially made Lil Joel uncomfortable with his staring 😬
10:42
Guy: surely you can be serious.
Jarin: i am serious and my name is Jarin.
There's also a line in the beginning of the movie, where they arrive at the Hotel, and the mother says:
- "Can you believe I found this place on the internet??"
Like where the hell else should we assume you found it?
We’re not in the era of travel brochures anymore Lady, everyone finds places like this online
I honestly am shocked there wasn't a line about how it's amazing that you can send text messages with your phone now.
I think it was supposed to be surprise that she found it online and it was actually good. which, i mean, fair.
tho, considering what happens, yeah, still fair.
I went into this movie not knowing it was made by M Night Shamylan... 😂 I only realised he was the director after they kept making expositions, and I was like ''I SWEAR, its him.''
I love seeing that he does these videos with not only his friends but also with his dad and brother.
To be fair, Midsize Sedan's lack of acting could be because he's constantly losing blood. Not sure what everyone elses excuse is...
The doctor has a reason tho. The rest tho
The Doctor has early onset dementia that’s rapidly getting worse with time
@@mrcritical6751 actually it was schizophrenia as the movie says
Or he is an actual rapper, with no acting skills
Man even Andre the Giant dressed as a Dalmatian would be like "that's too many twists man I'm good!"
"He's dead." 'He's been impounded.' Just got the joke. XD
11:10- I actually liked the directorial choice here. It's a nice build to the reveal of the aging effects (assuming you didn't already know going in).
21:05 just makes me think of the brick falling on JonTron's shoulder.
Doug, it's time for the Phil Nibellink trilogy: Romeo and Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss, Puss in Boots (1999), and Leif Ericson: The Boy who Discovered America. 3 Animated musicals, all single-handedly animated by just one person, it's everything one imagines it to be and more.
"Plan on murdering me in my sleep?"
"What? No..."
8:59 Oh damn dude, your nose is bleeding like crazy.
Seeing Critic review another M. Night movie makes me feel…. old.
boo!!!! (throws a paper ball)
First of all, none of that, second, it has been a long time since he reviewed a Shyamalan film, last time was in 2016 with Lady in the Water
The first Nostalgia Critic review of 2022!
Hell yeah!
@@JA9339 And it's not a nostalgic movie, either. it's a modern movie.
17:30 Yep, that's the film. Though, funny enough, this got me looking up that film with them both as well. I knew Brando and Nicholson did a film together but I may have forgotten what it was then
My problem with M Night is that he never learns from his mistakes
Midsize sedan: dies
Nostalgia Critic: "he's been impounded"
Me: holy shit I can't breathe🤣🤣
I remember watching Weird Movies With Mark and him reviewing his favorite so bad it's good movie "Troll 2".
The mother character in the movie was comforting her son about his grandfather being dead by saying "Grandpa is dead and now you must banish him from your mind", and Mark was joking how crazy that line was.
To Shyamalan, that's just getting started.
Trent: What is your name and occupation?
NC: I’m the Nostalgic Critic. I remember it so you don’t have to.
24:43 This is a first time that anything Undertale related has been seen or referenced on this channel.
This movie was confusing and weird. When I got out of the theater I was like: "What the hell did I just watch?"
M Night Shymalan in a Nutshell
Early Shyamalan (Sixth Sense, Signs) would know how to set up scenes, foreshadow and telegraph things to the audience. By Lady in the Water era he just stopped caring if anybody understands what he's doing. When you try to own every aspect of your production it often creates uniquely disastrous results like these.
@@linkinparkrulz2275 What noooo
This movie should have been called “Wrinkles”
Yes but then they would have to throw in a line from Wrinkles and he was busy when they were filming
"You have wrinkles"
“He’s been impounded.”
I’m fucking dead!
He's back!!!!
His last apperence was a cameo in cool world as a gag joke, it's so nice to see him as a proper antagonist.
As soon as I saw Doug’s first review of Old, I had a feeling he’d do a NC review of this
Dude, it's M. Night Shyamalan; of course he was gonna do it.🙂
@@kittycatmeowmeow963 He hasn't done Sixth Sense, the Glass trilogy, The Village, The Visit, or Shyamalan's first two movies that no one has ever heard of.
@@coolnerdlll6053 I'm talking about the shitty new ones. Even Critic says the resent ones are much worse; remember?
From the moment Doug was happy to see Shyamalan "back" I felt it was coming. I just wish the Shyamalan character had a bit more screentime like maybe he could have claimed the pog game be some kind of twist lol
Oh dear… I knew we were going to look at this after we got the teaser of M. Night Amon last week. This film is so baffling (including the kids who apparently decided to do… the thing… was that even needed? Who knows, but I’m sure we will be discussing that shortly…)
Ehh……….from what little I know, it made sense in the original comic, in the comic nobody got off the beach, but the baby lived and grew up along with the rest of the cast. With the baby growing up and actually being the last surviving person on the beach after the two kids (as in the doctors daughter and the boy, now adults) died in each other’s arms. There was no pharmaceutical company or explanation in the comic, it was just an allegory for aging and life itself. The baby growing up rapidly alongside them was suppose to be a part of that.
However it made very little sense in the context the movie gave, especially since they just decided to kill the baby anyway. So in the movie it was just weird, disturbing, and necessary. Like if you were going to cut the baby out then why go through it in the first place?
18:47 “I TOLD U ITS JARREN!!!”
"There is life outside of movies, critic."
"...I don't think that's true."
Lmao
Not gonna lie when the characters notice someone is watching them from a distance on the mountain I was desperately hoping the twist would be a meta joke where they reveal M. Night was recording them through a camera to make his movie
Would explain the shitty camera angles.
Fun Fact: M Night Shyamalan gets high before he makes a movie.
More like Fun False
11:48 oh, that wasn't acting; his question was directed at the film crew.
Mentally I stopped thinking when the two 6 year olds slept together and got pregnant. My mind couldn't accept that so it just hit the emergency stop button
I REALLY hope, when you inevitably do the fourth Matrix movie, we get a return of Schmuck. Welcome back, NC!
I remember seeing the trailer during the super bowl and holy cow when it showed the pregnant child I couldn't stop laughing
You saw the film right, they explain it
It's crazy because if you see this film. The pregant girl is actually the part that makes the absolute least sense out of all of it. Breaking the rules they establish themselves
@@jamesward3859 I know, it still makes me laugh.
Oh yeah, the one that said “Only in Theaters, This Summer.” Compared to some of the other ads that popped up during the game last year which said they would be on some streaming service.
Holy cow you mean holy hell right I have never understand that word and the word what the heck just say hell what is wrong of saying hell hell hell fuck fuck fuck hell fuck hell its not like the world is going to be destroyed becuse of it im from sweden 🇸🇪 and here we say hell and fuck thank god for that.:D
The Critic has finally made peace with M Night, all is well in the world.