10 Movies Rated Fresh On Rotten Tomatoes That Would Be Rotten If Released Today

The main reason for M. Night Shyamalan's films getting worse Tomatometer scores in a near linear fashion is pretty much because he managed the impossible of totally upending expectations and going worse every time, to the point where most people had lost the ability to be surprised by the time After Earth came around. Although that it was so perfect a descent also speaks of the gradual realisation of how poor a filmmaker he was.

Look at Signs, which sits on 74% and is Certified Fresh. At this point Shyamalan was two-for-two in his popular hits (he'd made two movies prior to The Sixth Sense, but literally nobody ever references them) and was now getting those "Next Spielberg" claims thrown around, so the default assumption was his alien chiller with a pre-fully-mental Mel Gibson would be good and thus it seems people went a little easy on his eccentricities.

But the film doesn't really hold up. It has that great Birthday party video scene and the manner in which the aliens are teased works wonders, but otherwise it's a preemptive parody of everything wrong with Shyamalan's later work; needless long takes, unbelievable, samey dialogue with wooden delivery, and a twist so perplexingly lacklustre it has to be a joke. Release this after The Village and it would have its score sliced down by twenty points at least.