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M. Night, Lady in The Water?

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kokeyjoe:
I just watched "Lady in the Water" on Saturday night, as a rented flick at my girlfriend's house.  I had semi-high hopes for the movie, as I was a fan of M. Night Shyamalamadingdong and his work with "The Sixth Sense," "Unbreakable," and "Signs," but I was generally very let down by "The Village." 

I want to try to keep this thread and post constructive and intelligent, but I'm sorry, all I can say about "The Lady in The Water" is that it was utter shit.  It was most likely the worst movie of 2006 (that I saw).  I didn't even know Paul Giamatti was in the film before I watched it, and after seeing it, I'm glad he was.  He was the only entertaining part of the movie, and even his character was pretty lousy -- he made the character and his lines interesting.  Even the effects were pretty hokey, by today's standards.  And I'm getting really sick of that actress who played Story, with whom M. Night is for whatever reason infatuated.

I wanted to like this movie, I really did.  I tried.  But it was just bad.  Am I the only one who sadly thinks M. Night peaked at Signs (or even earlier) and should just hang it up?  His stuff always had this somewhat "film school" feel to it, but it's only gotten worse lately.  Poor M. Night.

Jenno:
Signs was pretty terrible as well. Although I must say I was enjoying it immensely until they showed the alien.

kokeyjoe:
Yeah, you're right.  I tend to think I enjoyed Signs quite a bit, but then I remember the ending did leave me a bit "meh."  All the "Swing away, Merill" business mixed with seeing the alien kinda left a bad taste in my mouth.  But at least M. Night showed the alien in a kind of cool way, with the shadows and usage of some silhouette-age.  I still think it's way better than movie we find as the subject of this thread, though.

SaskiWhiteflower:
Lady in the Water was actually pretty good story in a junky wrapping...

And when it ended I was like

"I hope there will be something after this THE END sign  :| "

Will:
I could possibly be the only one I know of who actually liked this movie.  It wasn't the greatest thing I've ever seen, but it was enjoyable to me.  Part of this might be because I didn't really go into this movie expecting to hold it to the same standards as every other M. Night film I've seen - no real reason for that, I just didn't - so I wasn't as primed for disappointment, but also, I just enjoyed the basic story behind it.  It was campy at times, and the whole part that M. Night wrote in for himself did reek of self-importance, but I still liked the story.  C'est la vie...

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