Rate and Review : Lady in the Water.

[CrypticOne]

How did you guys like Lady In The Water? I gotta say, it wasn't the best movie of the summer. It had it moments but not that many. It's better than The Village though in my opinion. So lets hear guys.

 

[PrinceAlbert]

what the f**K kind of review is this?

hhahahahhahhhhhahhahahhahhahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahhaha!!!!

f**ker didn't even see it

 

[Blayton]

I saw it last night ok is about the only good thing I can say I liked the Village better. The Strange thing is alot of people left during the movie.

I haven't been to a movie that this many people Walked out of in a long long time. It's not a Great Movie but it's not that Bad.

 

[PrinceAlbert]

cause it's a f**king fantasy, what do you expect?

if you don't know how to write fantasies, shamayalan, don't f**king write it, please.

stick with what you know best. jesus.

 

[U.S War Machine]

It was a real thriller when I whent to go see it. M Knight does make up some good scary creatures

 

[Mr. Credible]

it sucked

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

My Review:

I'm a huge fan of M.Night's movies. I loved "Unbreakable", "Signs and "The Sixth Sense" and consider the former two to be atleast in my top 25 of all time favorite movies. But I didn't take to The Village so well. It was a lame contrived story with bits of goofy dialouge and one of the worse most predictable twist endings (and last 30 minutes) in the history of cinema, but the acting was top notch and the movie was creepy and well directed.

I went to see the "Lady in the Water" last night with my 19 year old sister, my 12 year old neice and my mom.

My mom kinda liked it, my neice did too, but my sister really hated it and I kinda did too. But it's kind of a sad movie too me... because the director/writer is so much better than this.

I liked the idea of Lady in the Water. A fairy tale being brought into the "real world" but the dialouge was goofy and just damn right terrible most of the time. People actually said stuff about believing in yourself and other such sappy ass garbage. I can't stress just how much I hated the dialouge in this movie, also there was way too much telling the story through words and goofy ass words at that. It's a movie, you tell the story with pictures too!

The tone was wildly inconsistent. One minute it was a laugh out loud comedy and the next moment it was a laugh out loud comedy. Honestly people in the theater didn't just laugh at the comedy, they laughed at just about everything else too. A guy who builds up only one side of his body stares down a poorly computer generated grass dog, was that suppose to be serious? A monster fight with badly computer generated ape/grass monsters and the grass dog. WTF? And the worse scene this year and probably in the top 25 worse scences in history. A critic (who is only in the movie because M.Night doesn't like critics, boo ****ing hoo!) talks about how movies play out before he gets killed by a poory computer generated grass dog. Just freakin awful!

All of the actors were wasted, the movie had too many characters and yet didn't have any characters. Get my driff. It sucked and it sucks even more because of the directors track record. The story line was boring and the movie didn't have one scene of tension. I could go on and on but I'll end my review here.

I certainly hope that one of my favorite directors haven't jumped the shark.

SCORE: 4/10. James Newton Howards music was great as always.

 

[Darth Elektra]

Im debating wether or not to see Lady in the Water in the theaters. The Sixth Sense and Signs were great films but the Village absolutely Sucked! So if I could get some ratings I would be greatful.

Thanks.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Why no 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9?

 

[Peacekeeper 2.0]

*potential spoilers in paragraph 2*.

I thought the movie was pretty good. It plays on that inner-child, fantasy-loving spirit inside people, and I think it's pretty inspiring at some parts. It helps to look at it as a world outside of reality, rather than a movie trying to show a realistic version of something supernatural (which is what it is not).

There are a few parts that I found particularly deep and meaningful. The part where Shyamalan's character is talking to Story and he's asking about the boy who will read his book and do great things, and why people will suddenly take him seriously because of it... I think there are some undertones to Night's own personal feelings about himself and his movies, as well as this movie as a stage in his career. Perhaps he is addressing how he's unsure if his movies impact and stay with people the way he hopes them to, and that perhaps he hopes his movies will inspire the future to do great things, but he's not sure if that means that he himself will eventually have to step out of the future's way so that that can happen. That might not be what the scene was meant to say at all, but it's what I got from it.

 

[Darth Elektra]

Spoiler

So are the monsters real? or is it in their heads?

 

[Peacekeeper 2.0]

Spoiler

So are the monsters real? or is it in their heads?

Spoiler

Yes they're real... no big twists in the story

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Also, the score is incredible. James Newton Howard is a genius, IMO.

 

[realestmutant45]

Good movie.IT had some really funny parts that had me crackin up but nuthang scary that would make u JUMP.My favorite CHARACTER would be the CRITIC.....Its WOrth checkin out....

 

[PrinceAlbert]

The twist is, beautiful Dark Electra, there is no twist; lmao.

 

[Triligors]

Great movie. If you enter expecting a horror movie, you're going to be dissapointed. Because it's not scary. But if you enter not knowing the genre, or seeing it as a fairy tale of sorts, you're probably really going to like it.

The film has humor, interesting science fiction elements, and a spoof even thrown into the mix. Overall a great film.

BTW, I thought the critic bit was really funny.

 

[ultimatefan]

I don´t even think enough people saw this to comment much.

 

[U.S War Machine]

It was a thriller M. Knight does come up with some scary creatures

 

[Jasmine]

This was very good, I liked this much better than his last one. Acting was good particulary with Giamatti, and the story was interesting.

 

[Saved]

I liked lady in the water. It was like a story based on a fairy tale. If you like suspense, action, fantasy, and a good plot, you'll like Lady in the Water.

 

[Darth Elektra]

From what Im hearing I'll wait for the dvd.

 

[Movies205]

Most self-indulgent movie I've ever seen, it's really sad since this could of been a great movie but the film seems like it came straight from a first draft screen-play with no rewrite, like there tons of ****ty comic relief, predictable and very stale story mechanics, but among all of it, it has a great climax, good visuals, and Paul Giamatti rising it to mediocre.

 

[buddha182]

Hmmm... saw it last night. I have to admit, his films are well made. Watching them I still get a spine-tingly feeling and this epic feeling to them and they're unique in that sense. However, that doesn't mean it was good nor was it worth it for me.

I thought above all, the message about critics, was fantastic. It's a great idea and many idiots around the world should see this just so they can open themselves and stop being so full of crap.

Secondly... I thought Paul Giamatti's performance could have been better. His stutter was "ok," but that wasn't want itched be about it. I don't know...

I voted that it could've/should've been better, and that's what I thought.

 

[Octoberist]

I agree that this is the most self-indulgent movie that I've seen in a while.

This movie for some odd reason, lacks a certain kind of magic that you need in a fantasy movie. I just didn't care for anyone..

 

[Movies205]

Come on... He couldn't think of a better plot device than going to see an annoying chinese lady ever 10 minute. A lot of the side characters were really annoying

 

[Octoberist]

I swear, the lady knew everything...she wasn't even a real character. Hell, I bet you that M. Night made all o that 'mythology' up.

I hated the fact that the daughter had that stupid accent. All of my friends said it wasn't needed, since she was basically Americanized. It's weird.