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Someone Please Get M. Night a Decent Screenwriter

posted 7 years ago by oceanlite06
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The dialogue in this movie is cringe-worthy, specifically the children's. I don't know what playground M. Night has been hanging around, but kids do not talk like the pseudo-intellectual, pretentious New Yorker reading elitists presented in the movie. I'm not sure if this was deliberate, for comedic effect, but it's distracting as all hell. Even among precocious children, few if any behave in such an annoyingly stilted manner.

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[–] thebigmouth 7 years ago

I bumped on this, too. It's hard to write kids that age.

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[–] veganmango 7 years ago

I actually found the dialogue very believable and though the kids did a great job.

[–] thebigmouth 7 years ago

The kids were great. It was the dialog that let them down. Kids do not talk like that.

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