M. Knight Sampleamalayan

[Thrifty]

M. Knight McShyamallammanamascammallayan, the Ed Wood of the 21st Century

That's a little harsh.  Ed Wood never made a halfway decent movie, and all his movies had laughably terrible production values.  M Night had a few highly acclaimed movies and all his movies are at least visually appealing.

I think Uwe Boll is closer to the modern day Ed Wood.

[gbeenie]

The death of the kids (SPOILER, I guess?) was unsettling, but it felt absolutely gratuitous. It didn't do anything for the plot. It felt pointlessly tragic and yet somehow comic. Kind of a microcosm for the whole movie.

Those kids were nothing but plot-meat, and the movie disposed of them with a callousness that, if intentional, shows a pretty cynical disregard for its own characters or, if unintentional, bespeaks some REALLY ham-fisted writing.