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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M. Knight?……. Really? Comparing something like Inception to something like Signs or The Village? Why? HOW? That’s like comparing Citizen Kane to………. well…. anything Michael Bay has pooped out. Bay and M. Knight belong in the category of director I had in mind when writing my page “A Call To Arms… Sort Of”
Good points…thanks for stopping by.
My God, is Nolan the new thing now?both Quentins and M Knights best movies are an entire league above Nolan’s movies, BUT their worst movies admittedly are an entire league below Nolan’s movies.The world forgets so quickly, suddenly the man whobrought in a new unique screenplay technique with sixth sense and unbreakable gets RIDiCULED.my oh my,,,
Nolan is the most likely to succeed Spielberg….thanks for the comment and the visit.
A great skit on 3 great directors, all of whom have produced unique work – 6th sense, Memento and Pulp Fiction stand out for me as 3 films that best represent the director’s best work to date.
Who is the best? Pick your favourite film, but you will never get a scientific breakdown, not using turnover, ratings, oscars etc. as this is subjective. Who is the best painter ever? The best dancer? The best musician?
Great movie page, very thought provoking.
Roly
Hey Roly….thanks for the visit and the comment. I think you picked out three movies that will only improve with time. Memento is what put Nolan on the map….and no matter how big he gets…..Memento will always be one of his greatest movies. Pulp Fiction is simply one of the greatest movies ever…up there with the Citizen Kane and Vertigo of the world. 6th Sense…a classic as well….and younger people are still being surprised by the ending….13 years later.
You make a good point about…picking the best is subjective…..but it makes for a good conversation.
LOL This is outstanding, Cogerson! This page is definitely very creative and outstanding! Voted up and tweeted!
Thanks for the visit….KDUBarr… Glad you enjoyed this page…..and thanks for such nice words.
Bruce, loved their conversation in the pub – if it was in a movie, Quentin would have probably shot that scene at the beginning and end of the page…..out of sequence, maybe! My preferred director is Tarantino, I just love his movies, I even quite liked Deathproof and I think there is more to come from him but he will always make movies like an independent film-maker because it’s in his make up to do that. I agree with you that Nolan will probably follow in Spielberg’s shoes; he is a talented director with an eye for what the viewer wants to see. M Night…Mmmmm, whatever happened to him? Sixth Sense and Signs were both amazing movies but his studios gave him too much rope!
Hey Jools99…..I figured the skit was the best way to get information out on the three directors while still trying to do something different….I think it is pretty funny…you are right Quentin T. would have shot it out of order…lol. I think Nolan is the next Spielberg….and in 20 years he will have Oscar glory as well….I do not think The Dark Knight Rises will earn him any nominations…but I think his next project ,which is unknown at this time, will earn him his first directing nomination….and two or three movies down the line…he will hold up the Oscar as best director….Hollywood likes to make people wait especially when that person has had huge financial successes like Nolan has had in the past.