Lady In the Water?

A new one from M. Night Shyamalan.

"Cleveland Heep, a modest building manager, rescues a mysterious young woman from danger and discovers she is actually a narf--a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the treacherous journey from our world back to hers. Cleveland and his fellow tenants start to realize that they are also characters in this bedtime story. As Cleveland falls deeper and deeper in love with the woman, he works together with the tenants to protect his new fragile friend from the deadly creatures that reside in this fable and are determined to prevent her from returning home."

Sounds, er, interesting.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lady_in_the_water/about.php

I really dug the trailer

M. Night failed with The Village. I'm sorry, i give him no more credit as a good director.

HBO baby! Unless someone wants to pay for me, then again, it better not be a waste of time like The Village.

Sure his other movies were somewhat predictable, but as soon as I knew what the movie was about (while watching it) i knew.

His movies are alright, far from predictable IMO. Those twists at the end give you a, "O, so thats why he did that" feeling.

I was a fan of the 6th Sense.
The Village was alright.
Signs was good, except for the whole water/alien thing.
I haven't seen Unbreakable, so poo.

But the plot twists make his movies more fool-proof, it tries to leave the viewer with no questions unanswered.
I mean if I had a plot twist at the end, I would make sure all the previous scenes in the movie absolutely meshed well it.


The only problem with him however, is that his directing style has become predictable, you know that he will introduce some crazy plot twist at the end.
So when your watching, you try to analyze every little thing to see what it means and where its leading.


This movie should be alright, but I do hate those commercials.
Children whispering is so damn innoying.

not predicatable!?! so you're one of those slow people...

The Village plotline had been done so many times...i'm pretty sure it was a Twilight Zone. The Sixth Sense, sure if you weren't looking. Signs didn't have one...it just kinda was. Then Unbreakable was the most predictable but Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson made it worth watching.

His movies have nothing to them that others dont. I couldn't even tell you who directed The Ring, 2, The Grudge, etc but M. Night has the same style. The only reason everyone knows him is he's apparently "weird" and critics and other slow people didn't know Bruce was DEAD!!!

This movie looks good, Ima see it.

p.s. For this movie guys, there is no "twist" M. Night says so himself.

Hes not that bad of a director. I saw the preview when i went to go see Superman. It looks interesting. Enough to convince to me go see it.

didnt he say there was no twist in one of his other movies. of course there was...

Trailers make me not want to see it.. with the little girl whispering it and everything.

Actually it pisses me off, I hate the whole commercial with her whispering on it.

im with damien here, his movies are totally predictable, reading that first post up there tells you everything. here's how this crappy m. night shamalammdingdong movie will end. You know that annoying ass little kid whispering on the trailers...well its gonna turn out that you watch this movie and when you think its over and this cleveland guy saves the day or whatever, BAM! it fades in to a little girl reading a book, she closes it, looks at the camera and says..."You paid 10 bucks for this crap" and scene....

Alright,

so from the begining, you guys knew the village, in The Village was in a nature preserve.

You knew from the beginning that water was caustic to the aliens in Signs.


Tell me, what gave it away? What scene or clue gave it away?

Seen the plot of the Village before like I said. After a little awhile, no prob. Although i did alright start guessing after seeing previews.

Signs, that wasn't a twist. but all the stupid water glasses around, first time i saw it i whispered that i bet something with the glasses will kill the aliens.

im an englsih major. they have wjole classes on foreshadowing not too mention, it just plain movie common sense.

im not saying i knew the exact plot twists of his movies, but come on...he's got a pattern with his movies. You know there'll be something at the end to twist the plot line, the movie will be slow and uneventful, and just be a big disapointment. and i'm sticking to what i said about the whispering girl...she'll have something to do with it near the end.

yeah, honestly, if this movie doesnt have a twist, itll suck even more. some guess as weedy pig monster thing and what appears to be another drowned girl...

M. Night failed with The Village. I'm sorry, i give him no more credit as a good director.

A lot of pple were expecting a horror/thriller from Villiage, and when it didn't deliver, he got shit for it. Watch Villiage again, and look for the bigger picture he's trying to show you. The reason he made that film was for a pov on society and politics. He just added is interesting and creepy touch to it. Honestly... to say he's lost credit as a good director is pretty damn ignorant.


As for trailers, lately, they ALL suck balls. Remember that Nick Cage movie, "National Treasure"? those previews looked so gay, but the movie was really good. Fuck trailers, they're just there to let you know the movie's comin' out soon. just watch the damn thing b4 you knock it down. I honestly don't think there's a girl whispering throughout the whole damn movie, seriously.

THE MOVIE WAS UNORIGINAL!!!!!

damn it people, I know I wrote that. I never said i expected creepy or suspenseful

yeah, so a group of people making a secluded crime-free, trouble-free society to escape the pain of reality plot maybe un-original... but then again, so is the whole College life thing with Van Wilder/Harold and Kumar/Eurotrip, and the whole racism thing with Crash/Green Mile/Mississippi Burning, and the whole crime thing with Snatch/Ocean's Eleven/Blow, and the whole Evil thing with Interview with a Vampire/Underworld/Van Helsing... I guess those directors have lost credibility, too... I'm not knockin ya for not liking the movie, jsut the fact that you think that one movie has made you lost respect for an outstanding director.

Most of the movies you said were books first...wow you need to learn a lot.

And it's not that it's unoriginal, it's copied! The exact story minus the monsters. They used other things before. But college movies are meant to be stupid and simple. Horrow movies suck, i know. Van Helsing is a copy yes. Underworld has been done, but updated lichen/vampire war and added more storyline.

Dont argue with me on plot/story lines on movies. I know what's been done and how. I've had to write scripts and watch tons of movies to make sure it wasnt done before.

Also, its not whether a movie is unorginal, but how's it done. there was nothing great to it except the acting, but that's 'cause he had good actors. And he's not outstanding. it's not like i loved him before that movie. You dont even know what level i had him on so for me to say i lost respect for him, isnt a far drop.

But what i really like was his book adaptation of Stuart Little. He did a good job which books are hard.

In your opinion, who is a good modern day director?
and why?

Most of the movies you said were books first...wow you need to learn a lot.

i came with w/e movie came to mind in 5 seconds, to make a point. I OWN some of those books, so thank you, i've already been schooled.

like i said, i'm not knockin you for not liking the movie, i don't care much what you feel about the originality of the plotline, the only thing that got me to post was the fact that you said MKS has lost credibility as a good director.

I got nothin against M Knight personally, but I worked at a video rental store during the time when Unbreakable, Signs, and the Village came out. I gave out many free movies during that time as "customer satisfaction" rentals to replace his movies. Well really mainly the Village. By the time I watched the Village a thousand people told me the ending so i couldn't watch it objectively, but overall i wasn't too impressed with it. Signs was good til the lame ass wicked witch of the west water solution which was pretty predictable given the insane number of half full cups of water the little girl left around the house. "Swing away":rolleyes:

i didnt feel like makeing a new thread for this little story.i fell asleep with the tv on and the volume up pretty good the other night



and that whispering little girl scared the SHIT!!!! out of me




thats all i have to say.i just didnt expect to hear a little girl talking to me in my sleep.it actualy woke me up and i dont think i want to see the movie now becuase of the sleep i lost :lol: