Lady in the Water

[The Blind Dead]

You’ve heard of “The Neverending Story” right? Yeah, well, welcome to The Neverending Movie.

I’m sorry. I love fairy tales as much as the next person. Probably more so, actually. But the fairy tales I’m used to are maybe ten pages long, tops. They have a point/goal/moral to make and they don’t usually waste too much time in getting to it. Lady in the Water is indeed a very sweet cinematic fairy tale complete with a Lesson to Learn, but unfortunately, watching it is a little like watching five pages torn out of Grimm’s, bleached and run through a taffy pulling machine.

Paul Giamatti is the oddly named Cleveland Heep, the dumpy but lovable maintenance man for The Cove, a Philadelphia apartment complex. Cleveland spends a lot of his time reading, killing bugs and trying to figure out who the hell is using the swimming pool after hours. It’s off limits after 7pm, you know.

One night, Heep catches sight of someone screwing around in the pool, a person who does not respond to his...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000599.html)

[Pain]

M. Night really needs to deliver the goods soon. He is capable of so much more, and I did have much higher expectations for this.

[The Blind Dead]

I enjoyed this but I really would have only given it 3 stars myself. I really do enjoy his stuff and this was no exception but I wasn't blown away either.

[B00Ne]

I really liked it, just saw it last night. Absolutley great review although I would have given it a higher score; it was leagues better than Signs and The Village. Truthfully, the only detractor for me was M. Night's arrogance in the part he wrote for himself, otherwise IMO a great popcorn/dark fairy tale.

[The Blind Dead]

I liked this better than The Village. Despite Night's silly messiah complex I thought he did a fantastic job when it comes to acting. He's grown.

[B00Ne]

Yes he did do a good job in the role, I'll give him that. I just wish for the sake of listening to all the M. Night haters out here in the internet that he hadn't cast himself as "the writer who could change the world".

[The Blind Dead]

Yeah I figured the haters would jump right up on that bandwagon.

[Morbidfilm]

I must have been in the right mood the night I saw this because I really enjoyed it. The stortelling kept me interested thoughout the entire movie.
I don't undertand the haters band wagon for this one.

[The Blind Dead]

My wifey loved it, I thought it was pretty good. Actually, I liked it far better than The Village. I'm a Shyamalan fan so I'm pretty good with everything he does.

[Pain]

This is on my Netflix queue. I've seen all his other movies and still plan on seeing this, although my hopes aren't quite as high as they were.

[BRAAAAAAINNNNNS]

I definitely liked this one. It's no Unbreakable or Sixth Sense, but it's a good one for the family. There are some hilarious characters in this story. What's going on with the guy who only works out one side of his body?

How I rate M. Night's Movies

1. Unbreakable
2. Sixth Sense
3. Lady in the Water
4. The Village
5. Signs

[Darkness]

"I know I'm probably gonna 'pin my heart on my sleeve' with this one, but I just saw this movie, (finally) and I am now wiping a tear from my eye."

"I found it had great symbolism, intelligent reflection and a good delivery. I looked up a few of the Water Nymph (narf) Myths, and it's clear that M. Night Shyamalan did his research. Either that, or grew up on the stories for real. That's important to me. I liked the way the links to the chain were slowly assembled right before your eyes, creating the feeling that you were there, helping to put the pieces together."

"I wouldn't call it horror, as such. I'd list it with movies like Big Fish, Never-Ending Story, (good call, TBD.) Ever After, Stardust and the like. It's good, but more haunting than horrifying."

"Well done, M. Night Shyamalan!!" :clap:

[DentFoster]

I enjoyed this as well. So far I have liked all of his films, but seeing him act in them just plain embarasses me. His acting has gotten much better though, as it shows in this one, but I still think he should stay off of the celluloid and focus on true actors.

[HOO-HAA]

I really liked it, just saw it last night. Absolutley great review although I would have given it a higher score; it was leagues better than Signs and The Village. Truthfully, the only detractor for me was M. Night's arrogance in the part he wrote for himself, otherwise IMO a great popcorn/dark fairy tale.


Yep, I loved it too. :clap:

[Zombie Joe]

I didnt think I would like this one, howver I was rather please by it. If anything, it kept me interested in the movie.

[zombiebub]

I thought it was good but kinda slow and a little boring. As the story goes it was really good.m Good modern fairy tale

[ZombieAoD]

I really enjoyed this movie, just like every other movie M. Night has made. Too hard to choose one favorite, but if I had to, it would be Signs, because that's how I'd picture it if aliens actually came to Earth.

[Moonbutterfly7]

Personally I find "Lady in the water" and "Unbreakable" as my favorites of his movies. I love "Lady in the water" because of the fantasy world and the real world collide and how we should believe in the impossible and the world can be a better place. Stuff as an adult you loose sight of and for me this movie brings that. I know that maybe corny to a lot of people, but I'm just a big kid so yeah.

I personally think "Unbreakable" is his best work and is very underrated.

[ZombieAoD]

Watched Unbreakable last night, and I have to say it was awesome seeing it again. M. Night is an amazing director, writer, etc....