Want to know the best M. Night Shyamalan movies? How about the worst M. Night Shyamalan movies? Curious about M. Night Shyamalan’s box office grosses or which M. Night Shyamalan movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which M. Night Shyamalan movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
This page was originally part of a Shyamalan, Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino movie page. Part of that original page was this little skit I wrote that looked at all three of their movie careers. I figured even though I was giving each director his own page that I would still include the skit.
Christopher, Quentin and M.Night are at a bar drinking Shiner Bock beers, smoking Red Apple cigarettes and arguing about who will be the next Spielberg.
Quentin: It has to be me, I have been directing movies for over 20 years, my Pulp Fiction is a classic, people love my Kill Bill movies, Reservoir Dogs put independent movies on the map while Inglourious Basterds was a box office hit and picked up 8 Oscar® nominations. And my latest movie, Django Unchained, was my biggest box office hit of my career.
M. Night: You’ve been around the longest but you have only made 10 movies in 25 years and Four Rooms, Jackie Brown, Death Proof and The Hateful Eight died at the box office…that is not a good percentage.
Christopher: You got no room to talk M., you have not had a box office success since The Village, and most people have hated every movie you have made since Signs….talk about some movies with horrible reviews….you got The Village, Lady in the Water, The Happening , The Last Airbender and After Earth all lined up in a row.
M. Night: Well Mr. Nolan, at least Quentin and I have an Oscar® nomination for Best Director in our resume. And I know you remember how I was considered to be the next Spielberg after the success of The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs. I think you are forgetting The Last Airbender earned over $300 million in worldwide box office and was the 21st biggest hit of the year…plus After Earth did pretty well overseas.
Quentin: I actually have two Best Director Oscar® nominations…but who is counting. Sorry to have to tell you M. Night, but I do not think anybody has compared you to Spielberg in a very longtime….and as for The Last Airbender, true it made some money but I think it was the worst reviewed movie in the last 20 years….and I think the less said about After Earth the better.
Christopher: Speaking of box office hits…do you know my last four movies have a worldwide box office over 3 billion dollars? That includes The Dark Knight that crossed a billion at the box office, Inception which earned over $800 million and The Dark Knight Rises which also crossed the one billion mark. My latest blockbuster, Interstellar, picked up $672 million. Plus my upcoming, Dunkirk, will be my Saving Private Ryan which is yet another reason I now am considered the next Spielberg….sorry I took that title away from you M. Night.
M. Night: Maybe the last ten years have been a little rough for my movies, but I am on the road back…first The Visit was well received and now Split is on the way to being one of my biggest hits.
Quentin: Sorry to interrupt you M.Night, I agree Split was a success for you…hopefully you won’t follow it up with another Lady in the Water. As for you Chris, I loved Memento, The Prestige, and Insomnia but I think the Batman movies are overrated and I still do not understand your dream inside a dream inside a dream movie. And don’t even get me started on the ending of Interstellar….
Christopher: Hey I am sorry if you are not smart enough to figure out Inception, but I will try and explain it for you and don’t worry I will go real slow so maybe you will finally understand.
Quentin: (Reaches into his bag and slams two Oscars® down on the table) I am smart enough to know that this proves I am the best director in this group!
Christopher: You got those Oscars® for the screenplays for Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained, not for directing it. I’ll show you an award for directing…here is my COFCA (Central Ohio Film Critics Association) award for Best Director for Inception.
M. Night: I did not know we were supposed to bring our directing awards tonight.
Quentin: Yeah you could have brought either one of your Razzie awards as worst director for either The Happening or The Last Airbender.
At this point M.Night swipes the Oscar® and the COFCA off the table and a huge fight breaks out among the three directors. While the fight continues an older gentlemen who had been listening to the conversation grabs his stuff, pays his bill and starts to leave the bar.
Older gentleman to bartender: (Shaking his head in dismay) I just do not understand these younger directors…they have so much more to learn.
Bartender: I agree with you 100%….have a great night Mr. Spielberg.
M. Night Shyamalan’s IMDb page shows 14 directing credits from 1992-2017. This page will rank 11 M. Night Shyamalan movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. His television shows and straight to DVD movies were not included in the rankings.
M. Night Shyamalan Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort M. Night Shyamalan movies co-stars of his movies.
- Sort M. Night Shyamalan movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost.
- Sort M. Night Shyamalan movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost.
- Sort M. Night Shyamalan movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each M. Night Shyamalan movie received.
- Sort M. Night Shyamalan movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above M. Night Shyamalan Table
- Five M. Night Shyamalan movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 45.45% of his movies listed. The Sixth Sense (1999) is his biggest hit.
- An average M. Night Shyamalan movie earned $146.00 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 5 of M. Night Shyamalan movies are rated as good movies…or 45.45% of his movies. The Sixth Sense (1999) is his highest rated movie while The Last Airbender (2010) is his lowest rated movie.
- Two M. Night Shyamalan movies have been nominated for at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…or 18.18 of his movies
- Zero M. Night Shyamalan movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 0.00% of his movies.
- An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 40.00. 6 M. Night Shyamalan movies scored higher that average….or 54.54% of his movies. The Sixth Sense (1999) got the the highest UMR Score while Wide Awake (1998) got the lowest UMR Score.
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This is the most awesome thing I’ve ever read. I’m a fan of all those directors. I kinda feel bad for Shyamalan though… he was very different back then and I really hope he can rise above the failures and make an awesome movie again. I love Nolan and Tarantino. This was just an awesome read!! 🙂
-Aubrey
Hey Crazed Novelist….thanks for stopping by….I am glad you enjoyed my hub….I had great fun working on this one….I have had to go back an update the skit a few times. I think M. Night will bounce back some….I do not think AirBender was as bad as people make it seem….I think After Earth and Will Smith will make him a hot commodity again….and he has another Bruce Willis movie in pre-production…possibly a sequel to Unbreakable. Thanks for the comment
Very creative and interesting hub, Cogerson! I really enjoyed reading it. Of the three I think Shyamalan is the most overrated – Sixth Sense was a classic, Unbreakable was excellent, and Signs was very intriguing, but everything since then has been awful.
Favorite Shyamalam film – The Sixth Sense
Most Underrated Shyamalan film – Unbreakable
Favorite Tarantino film – Pulp Fiction
A Close Second Favorite Tarantino film – Inglorious Basterds
Favorite Nolan film – Inception
Most Underrated Nolan film – The Prestige
Hey thatmovieguy71….I am glad you enjoyed my “Director Duel” skit. I believe you are correct that Night is the most overrated of the bunch. I agree with most of your selections(The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, The Prestige and Pulp Fiction)…but I rate Reservoir Dogs higher than Inglorious Basterds…..and although I am a huge Nolan fan, I am one of the few that did not enjoy Inception as much as so many other people. Luckily I think each of these three will be providing us many more movies to enjoy.
What a novel way to do comparisons. Loved the play scenario. I really tried to like The Happening. I had high hopes for M. Night after the Sixth Sense and Signs. This was an informative and a good read.
Hey cyndi 10…. Glad you liked my little play…..it was fun and different to write. I agree 100 percent about m. Night, as I had high hopes for him as well…..maybe he can still bounce back. Thanks for the comment and the compliment.
Hi Bruce; Whatever talk there may have been at one time about M. Night Shaymalan being the next Speilberg died a long time ago. I recall being in the theater when the trailer for “Devil” came on the screen. When Shaymalan’s name came onto the screen, people started to laugh, as if anticipating another disaster. (They were right.)
Quentin Tarantino makes good films but he has a small niche he fits into. To be a truly great director, he needs to show more range than he’s shown. The dark, campy cartoonish violence he specializes in is entertaining but it makes him a one-trick-pony.
Many people point to Peter Jackson because of his successful “Lord of the Rings” films, but I don’t think he’s quite there yet. He’s only made one good non-Hobbit film (“Tintin”) so he needs to work on that resume.
One of my personal favorite current directors is Tim Burton but he also has a certain niche he’s comfotable in and needs to spread his wings more to be Speilbergian. (The Cohen Brothers fall into the same category.)
I’m not sure who’s around now that has the overall artistry and range to match some of the greats like Ford, Houston, Hawks, Capra, Wilder or Speilberg. We need to start looking at the up-and-coming guys to look for the next king of directors.
Entertaining movie page.
Hey Rob….you are correct…M.Night has quickly taken the title of the “next Spielberg” to “butt of jokes” in a very quick fashion…and Devil seems to have confirmed that as well. I am sure After Earth will redeem him when it comes out….I am sure it will be another Will Smith July 4th Blockbuster.
Tim Burton…I wish I would have thought of him when I was writing this page….but for some reason he slipped my mind. I agree with you about Peter Jackson, he is still the L.O.R. director, and with The Hobbit coming out soon…I do not think he will get past that title for many more years. Thanks for your very educational comment…it is greatly appreciated.
Hello – So Reservoir Dogs was in your skit – that is the movie I could bearly watch and stopped watching – NOT MY THING. It is sunny but NO SNOW. Thanks for the apples and caramel – was good. GOOD MOVIE PAGE..
Hey BERN1960…if you never finished the movie then you will never know how good Reservoir Dogs is….lol. You are welcome for the apples. Thanks for checking out my latest movie page