Lady In The Water

Lady In The Water [+ favourites]

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Beautifully imaginative. I felt like a little kid again when I watched this movie. I felt something, really felt something deep.There was raw and sincere emotion that every other movie I've seen lately has been lacking. Shyamalan took a story that resonates within us all and made it modern, then transferred it to film without being entirely cheesey about it. As with all his movies, it was heavy on the symbolism and lacking in plausability. In this movie it works wonderfully however, due to the constant reminder that you are simply hearing a story. No surprize twists, yet he couldn't help but change your whole way of thinking just before the movie's end.

8/10

"I am Akba-Atatdia"
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First of all, I'm not going to the mother fucking theatre anymore. Summer is out, so along with all the standard fag retards that come to the theatre and talk, we have the influx of the high school assholes and their underdressed-insecure slut bag whores who find a reason to talk every time a pair of legs show up or laugh whenever something remotely scary happens.

That being said, the movie was good but there are wonky things that M. Night does that prevent his movies from being masterpieces (except for the 6th sense). The kid reading cereal boxes, the dad reading the crosswords, the fat "guild". There is something incorrect about keeping such things so entirely casual and unremarkable.

I suppose you could argue that this was the whole point... but in presenting a story with regular people doing incredible things, there still must be something special about them because after all, they are a part of the story you choose to write.

I would give this a 7/10.

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."

The cereal box thing got on my nerves, especially when the kid came back and said he got it wrong. If there had been at least a sentence or two explaining how he was able to do it I probably wouldn't have cared at all. You're right, there is always something like this in his movies.

Forgot to mention this; I loved seeing Shyamalan in a central role. I was expecting him to show up in his one -relatively unimportant- scene, like usual. Also, I am in disbelief concerning all the poor reviews. 6th Sense is still his best, but this is officially #2 as far as I'm concerned.

"I am Akba-Atatdia"

This is definitely #2. The critics are pissed off because he has a critic eaten in it. It's an obvious stab at critics, and they're lashing out.

I mean, a good portion of the film is dedicated to the critic being a totally self-righteous and useless idiot who actually causes the characters to suffer.

Just goes to show how egocentric the populace has become.

I also loved him in a central role. In fact, I can almost guarrantee you that he began writing this story from that central character, because that was the most interesting part of the film.

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I will re-iterate that M. Night has the same gift as Spielberg: The ability to create characters in a very short time span that have a whole life behind them that oozes out in the few seconds you have to witness them. This is why I still go to see M. Night and Spielberg movies.

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."