Lady In The Water

[jigzaw]

holy smokes, maybe I SHOULD see this film....high

[Pubrick]

lady in the bong water


patent pending 

[tpfkabi]

i thought this was horrible. it was like a big budget extended version of an Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode. it really bugged me the way Night was looking at Giamanti during the shower scene. the stuttering just didn't seem realistic to me and was very annoying. i could go on, but you get the picture.

it just felt like there wasn't enough there to even sustain the length so he had to have the characters talk to fill up that time. it might have been bareable as a 23 min AYAOTD? episode, but not a full length film.

[MacGuffin]

M. Night Shyamalan On Lady In The Water
Exclusive: He didn't want his name on it
Source: Empire Online

After a revelatory ghost tale, a supernatural comic thriller, a crop-circling tale of invasion and a mystical, creature-infested village, M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie – Lady In The Water – has been noted as something of a departure from the Director/writer's more calculated "scary" storytelling efforts. Was this cartwheeling 'family' tale a deliberate attempt to confound the expectations of his audience? Speaking at a press conference in London today, the auteur discussed some of the ways he's tried to avoid being "put in a box".

"The Sixth Sense was the first one of my movies that everyone got to see and it was a scary film – that was part of the subject matter. So when Unbreakable came out, I felt like everyone thought it was a mistake, but it wasn't necessarily supposed to be scary...I didn't realise I had been set in that vein already. However, if I worried too much about that I wouldn't be able to write. I'd love it if everyone could look at Lady In The Water as a lyrical parable, but there will be people that won't get it because they are coming at it with a certain lexicon of what to expect already in place".

"So, I seriously thought about taking my name off [the film]. When I was thinking about doing Life Of Pi, I was very worried about putting my name on the project. It's an amazing book that has a twist ending, but if I put my name on it, it would immediately lose the balance of the novel. So it's something I struggle with. I said to my wife that 'Lady...' may have benefited from my name being removed. At least then it would have signaled to people to look at the movie with a new language in mind".

[Pozer]

shut up Shyamalan... shut up forever.

[Ravi]

"So, I seriously thought about taking my name off [the film]. When I was thinking about doing Life Of Pi, I was very worried about putting my name on the project. It's an amazing book that has a twist ending, but if I put my name on it, it would immediately lose the balance of the novel. So it's something I struggle with. I said to my wife that 'Lady...' may have benefited from my name being removed. At least then it would have signaled to people to look at the movie with a new language in mind".

Written and Directed by
        Someone

[picolas]

starring Someone as the writer

[ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ]

Does he think for a second that removing his name would make the movie look interesting?  In the current climate with all the shitty horror movies coming out (Pulse, Descent, etc.) Lady In the Water would just seem so masterfully crafted.  People saw it because of his name, he needs to stop fellating himself.

[modage]

the descent is not shitty. 

thanks,
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[ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ]

Well, it was a horror movie title that is to come out that came to mind.  I'll retract what I said about Descent since I haven't seen it.

[modage]

read xixax next time.  this will save you from seeing the odious clerks 2 and help you towards the descent next time.

thanks!
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[Brazoliange]

this sucked, don't waste your money.

[RegularKarate]

this sucked, don't waste your money.

Brazoliange, you're alright!

[modage]

wow, possibly one of the worst movies i have ever seen.  and I LIKE Shamalamadingdong!  this movie fails on every level.  it is so unbelievably bad that none of the bad reviews could prepare me for it.  its almost impossible to believe he wrote like 17 drafts of this because the movie seems like it is being made up on the spot.  every line of dialogue is so hideously expository and just wincingly bad i cannot believe it.  the actors have nothing to work with, even the fricking camera placement/movement is terribly awkward.  as has been mentioned many times, the critic and the prophet are just awful AWFUL.  its a movie so bad that i'm not sure how he will ever make a good movie again.  i didnt like the village but i own the 3 movies before that and this almost makes me want to go back and re-examine them.  i feel bad because Paul Giamatti deserves better and he could've made a great modern day Dreyfus but this movie was putrid.