It showed up out of nowhere, made the most bank in history (for a movie), refused to explain and disappeared for like 15 years, then came back out of nowhere with a sequel movie, a AAA game, and like 3 more movies in the works.
Edit: I think it now has like a Lego line too?
I’m glad you got all that out of it. For me, the whole value of the show was shown in what the movie delivered. I feel it was a loss that Shyalaman wasn’t given the green light for the rest of the saga in the same condensed style.
The thing is, I don’t think it’s a matter of opinion to say that the movie didn’t deliver what the show did. There’s a lot of subjective opinions about the artistic decisions of the movie, but there’s also just the objective fact that it did not cover most of the important character and worldbuilding beats. It couldn’t. 100 minutes of film just isn’t enough to have the same depth of character development and worldbuilding 60 episodes of television did. Or even to cover what 17 episodes (the 20 episodes in season 1, minus the three I said are mostly skippable) did.