The Sixth Sense (Collector's Edition Series)
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Movie Reviews of The Sixth Sense (Collector's Edition Series)
Movie Review: An Unexpected Hit
Summary: 5 Stars
The Sixth Sense is a wonderful movie. M. Night Shyamalan was only known (just barely) for one movie up until this point, Wide Awake, so this was definitely unexpected.
The movie features Bruce Willis as a child psychologist who sees a patient (Haley Joel Osment) that can speak to dead people. The movie wnet on to score five Academy Award nominations and a place on AFI'a 10th Anniverary list.
This version of the DVD, the single disc version, features a number of featurettes and deleted scenes, definitely worth a look.
Highly recommended.
Movie Review: Still Very Good Even When You Know The Ending
Summary: 4 Stars
This was hyped big-time when it came out and, if memory serves me, was a good conversation piece among those who saw it at the theater.
I didn't see it for a few years afterward, on tape and now on DVD. It was very good but I didn't find it as "the greatest movie ever" as some did. It is an involving story, however, and I've come to appreciate it more with multiple viewings. I've seen it three times, the last one looking for mistakes to disprove the surprise ending....but couldn't find any. The filmmakers covered their tracks. However, a couple of scenes were misleading. Those who have seen this movie know what I'm talking about. For those who haven't, I'm not going to spoil it here.
I enjoyed both Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment as the two leads. Willis has had many action-packed, profane macho roles in his career but I like him best when he's low key, as he is in here (and in "Unbreakable," to name another fairly-recent movie) Osment, meanwhile, is a terrific child actor, as he has proved in other films. He's simply one of the best of his young generation. He and Dakota Fanning are the two best child actors I've seen in many years.
This isn't just some supernatural-horror movie. It's a nice human interest story. There is one scene late in the movie in which Osment's mom is having a talk with her young boy in the car. It is an extremely touching scene that brings tears - a great moment in the film.
Movie Review: so so bad
Summary: 1 Stars
It was always a complete mystery to me what people saw in this movie. Why it caught on in terms of popularity across the United States back in the late 90's is totally beyond me. When I first watched this movie, the first thing that went through my mind was "Oh no, this movie is going to kill the horror genre". Luckily not every single horror movie ripped off the ideas of this film to make the entire genre worthless (unlike say, Van Halen, whose influence made listening to guitar solos in a rock song a chore from that point on, but that's a different subject for a different time).
I was never *ever* scared while watching the Sixth Sense. Not even once. Nothing even came close to giving me goosebumps. Everything came across so ordinary, almost like a dream from a childs point of view. No, not a nightmare- just a regular dream. I was completely unsatisfied with the acting as well. The little boy from Thunder Alley was the worst possible choice- he wasn't convincing at all. I didn't feel his emotions (which were overbearingly exaggerated most of the time). The whole "I see dead people" thing was about the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Watching him walk around and say things like "There's a dead guy over there" didn't have me convinced a dead spirit was around him at all. Guess what everyone? There's a dead guy standing next to me while I type this review for amazon. I'm scared, shaking and very nervous right now. Are you scared? Of course not.
Going to high school when this movie came out, I can't believe so many of my classmates were scared of this story and actually went around saying the new hot expression "I see dead people". How horrible. Then again, maybe they were making fun of it. I hope so.
I have nothing good to say about the Sixth Sense. It was boring, predictable, lacked suspense, and was just a horrible film overall.
Movie Review: An Original, Horrifying, Dramatic Debut
Summary: 5 Stars
It's been eleven years since a new director with the unlikely name M. Night Shyamalan graced theatergoers with this icy ruby of movie magic. And although he has made worthy follow-ups in the years since, for me, he's never topped THE SIXTH SENSE.
Malcolm Crowe is a child psychologist tormented by the one patient he couldn't save. It's been a year since he had to confront that awful truth, and in that time, his confidence and his marraige have undergone a slow and steady crumble that has finally reached the breaking point. Enter Cole Sear, an eight year old child of a single mother with a decidedly nasty neurosis: he believes he sees the dead.
If Crowe (Bruce Willis) can help the boy (Oscar-nominee Haley Joel Osment), he may just redeem himself; but the effort he spends in doing so continues to erode his relationship with his wife, and a nagging suspicion that Cole is NOT delusional threatens Crowe's fundamental understanding of the universe.
This is a terrific thriller-ghost-story-drama that would suffer from any further explanation. Great acting and subtle direction (note the selective usage of the color red), along with an absolutely killer storyline, make THE SIXTH SENSE probably the best movie of 1996. Eleven years later, it still holds up.
(This review has been posted by Marcus Damanda, author of the vampire novel "Teeth: A Horror Fantasy.")
Movie Review: The Happy Quilter
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great movie, very well done--you get drawn into these characters' lives. I have watched it several times and discover something new each time. Bruce Willis gave a brilliant performance as the psychiatrist. If you enjoyed Patrick Swayze in Ghost, you will also love this movie. It deals with the supernatural in a profound and touching manner.