I went to see SS and figured out the big secret about 10 minutes into the movie, then got bored waiting for a plot to start. So much about that movie depended on the big twist, and without it, or once you figured it out, there wasn't much there.
STIR OF ECHOES is well-acted and thrilling; it actually has a plot! And it lacks Shyamalan's ponderous pompousness by just telling an exciting story and not trying to pretend it's about something bigger and significant.
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And this post proves you weren't paying attention while watching the film (or lack the imagination/deductive skills to figure it out). There is literally a line of dialogue that explains this entire plot point ya dingus.
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Nonsensical plot? You mean like a dead psychiatrist's spirit unable to realize he's dead but still he's 'mentally' stable and capable enough to psychoanalize a child that he was randomly assigned to him -by who?- as a patient -ghost file mechanographied on ghost paper and all? Who watches indifferently while the poor mother of said patient gets acused by doctors of physically abusing her child -without the audience questioning themselves about how beep contrived the whole scenario and the way it's developed is, apparently? That nonsensical? Uhm. Let me think about it
No.

People are saying that this was better than the Sixth Sense? LOL
There isn't even a comparison. Stir of Echoes was hackneyed, trite, predictable and cliched. The plot was almost nonsensical.
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I was more entertained by Stir of Echoes. Sixth Sense had that great twist at the end where I went "Oh".but I admit that it was kind of boring at certain times until the ending redeemed it and you're left with that lasting memory going out of the theater like a basketball game which is boring for the first 3 1/2 quarters and then suddenly has a dramatic finish. I caught this one the second time around and I think it's an under rated gem. The scenes with the babysitter was pretty exciting, where she's like what did you sayand then later Kevin BAcon confronting her at the train station. And also the ending (spoilers) where the father and his kid knew Kevin Bacon knewand there's this tense conversation before they try to kill him.

Me as well. Way better actually.

Stir is better in every single way one thing can be better than another.

I have yet to see The Sixth Sense though do have it ready to go so will watch it one day.
And Stir of Echoes was an all right film I gave it a 5 out of 10 it was on some channel called TCM not so long back.
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Agreed! This is far superior to The Sixth Sense and unfortunately it was just overlooked and overshadowed because of the huge twist in the other film. Problem is that without the twist SS is not that good.
This was simply some of Kevin Bacon's absolute best acting, too. The entire scene where he is digging and going off on the wife about everything. Freaking awesome!
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So do I, I always recommend this film

I LOVED Sixth Sense but I loved this film even more, it's creepier to be honest. Even the way Samantha walks is uber creepy.
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I had NO IDEA what I was getting into when I saw this when it came out I LOVED this movie, even now, more than 10 years later, I still love it. I love the scene of KB digging in the backyard. Awesome.

I agree. But since The Sixth Sense" came out first, you know that it got all of the press, especially because of the twist ending, and this movie was considered the "copy" of it. But SOE was actually a better movie, in my opinion.
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