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« on: May 15, 2006, 09:01:16 PM » |
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M. Night's mermaid movie-- his "bedtime story," which looks like it would give most kids nightmares-- is coming... and the poster is freaking awesome.  |
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« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2006, 09:13:18 PM » |
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Everybody knows I love Shyamalan, so I'm psyched of course.
That poster is awesome, but so is the other one, with the footprints on the hardwood floor.
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« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2006, 12:08:44 AM » |
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I'm looking forward to this one, even though I know very little about it. Whatever I know is likely to be misleading when I actually see the movie anyway. I actually have a poster for the movie that a friend procured for me during her final days of working at Warner Brothers.
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« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2006, 12:18:30 PM » |
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Awesome. We need more nightmare-inducing children's films these days.
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« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2006, 01:19:52 AM » |
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Bryce Dallas Howard makes me think of what Tilda Swinton as the White Witch would have looked like as a young innocent girl.  delightfully creepy. |
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« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2006, 09:06:27 AM » |
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Ouch! My local paper hated it!"Lady in the Water" isn't just another disappointment. It's a jaw-dropping catastrophe -- a picture so wrong-headedly intoxicated with itself you view it through an embarrassed haze. It's not doing so well on metacritic, either. |
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Josh
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« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2006, 09:18:18 AM » |
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Not too surprising; initially I thought it seemed like M. Night was trying some new tricks, but it's sounding more and more like he's still stuck on his old ones-- which, frankly, I think a lot of people are getting tired of.
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« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2006, 10:05:50 AM » |
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Jeffrey Overstreet says it's overhyped and undercooked, but still worthwhile. He gives it a B-.
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Vlad!
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« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2006, 10:37:40 AM » |
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If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.
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« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2006, 10:58:28 AM » |
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I saw it last night, and I enjoyed it. I think it's probably one of Shyamalan's weakest efforts to date, if not the weakest, but it was still an enjoyable film. I'd probably give it a B-.
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« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2006, 11:30:00 AM » |
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I saw it last night, and I enjoyed it. I think it's probably one of Shyamalan's weakest efforts to date, if not the weakest
I'm positive it's not the absolute weakest. Did you see watch all the bonus features on the Sixth Sense DVD? :-D |
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« Reply #11 on: July 23, 2006, 12:14:11 AM » |
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I'm positive it's not the absolute weakest. Did you see watch all the bonus features on the Sixth Sense DVD? :-D
Touche.  The weakest of his feature films to date, then. |
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« Reply #12 on: July 23, 2006, 01:02:22 PM » |
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Touche. The weakest of his feature films to date, then. Including Wide Awake, and that other one he made before Sixth Sense?  |
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« Reply #13 on: July 23, 2006, 05:01:17 PM » |
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Including Wide Awake, and that other one he made before Sixth Sense? Yup. Those ones are much better, if only because nothing about them makes me think of "Pinky and the Brain." NARF! |
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« Reply #14 on: July 23, 2006, 07:59:25 PM » |
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Same thing we do every Night, Pinky: try to make the next blockbuster hit!
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If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.
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« Reply #15 on: August 06, 2006, 08:28:56 PM » |
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Finally saw it today. I was quite underwhelmed, and that's after going in with a very open mind. I don't expect a new Shyamalan film to be like his old ones, but if he wants to buck the system and not tell stories in the most obvious of ways and not give us Hollywood endings, etc., that's fine, but he needs to replace those things with something worthwhile. There was literally no payoff in this movie, no showing of any consequences or lasting meaningfulness beyond the abrupt conclusion. Nothing much to think about after it was over.
Oh well, at least the film critic character was fun. The Asian mother and daughter amused me at first, too, before their shtick started to become extremely tiresome.
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« Reply #16 on: December 29, 2006, 11:07:14 AM » |
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I saw this movie last night. I agree totally with the NARF comment. It was also funny because, just this morning, the local paper was doing a recap of 2006, and listed this movie as the #1 worst movie for 2006. I have to say, I don't think it was all that bad. Of course, I liked The Village and never saw Sixth Sense, so maybe my Shyamalan perspective is whacked. I called pretty much every plot development before it happened except the one with the butterfly lady, but that didn't keep me from liking it. Also, the CG in this one is just as bad as it was in Signs.
However, Madam Narf has now become a permanent part of our lexicon :D
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If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.
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« Reply #17 on: December 30, 2006, 12:29:57 AM » |
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I saw this movie last night. I agree totally with the NARF comment. It was also funny because, just this morning, the local paper was doing a recap of 2006, and listed this movie as the #1 worst movie for 2006. I have to say, I don't think it was all that bad. It wasn't. I gave it a C+ because it was still rather entertaining, until the ending pretty much revealed that Shyamalan had no more cards up his sleeve. It's in my bottom 10 for the year, but I didn't see anything that rated worse than a D ( The Devil Wears Prada), and very few C's, so there may even be some B- grade movies in my bottom 10. It was a disappointment, but coming from a first-time director it'd probably have been acceptable. Of course, I liked The Village and never saw Sixth Sense, so maybe my Shyamalan perspective is whacked. It's not. I thought The Village was awesome and I know I'm in the minority on that one. I figured people were bashing Lady for the same reasons they bashed The Village, but this one turned out to be much more bash-worthy. You really should see Sixth Sense, though the effect might be dulled a bit because I'm sure someone's spoiled the ending for you by now. I called pretty much every plot development before it happened except the one with the butterfly lady, but that didn't keep me from liking it. My favorite plot developments are the ones that totally catch me off guard, but then I realize I should have seen them coming. I've watched Shyamalan's other suspense/"horror" films, and I'm a huge fan of Lost, so I've trained myself to expect the unexpected. When I can call a plot development ahead of time and it's not something I'd expect the average person to find totally obvious, I generally still enjoy it. When there's little sense of surprise to the way these things play out, though, is when I get bored. It just felt so tedious to me - we meet each character and they all have their little role to play in the fairy tale... OK, fine, but no bigger picture at the end? That's why I say the film felt like watching an RPG game being played. You go to the different rooms, you meet the characters, you solve the puzzle, and yay for you, game over. Spirited Away felt like this for me, too, and a lot of other folks loved that movie to death. NP: "Who Am I?", 38th Parallel |
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« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2007, 12:06:50 PM » |
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Everybody knows I love Shyamalan, so I'm psyched of course. i'm still waiting for your take on it. i attach the most worth to the review by the most passionate fan (seeing as i am a diehard). |
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« Reply #19 on: January 14, 2007, 10:10:47 AM » |
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i'm still waiting for your take on it. i attach the most worth to the review by the most passionate fan (seeing as i am a diehard).
I was very, very disappointed in Lady in the Water. I was in Shyamalan's corner all through The Village fallout; I loved that movie (and every one that came before it) and still do. But as for this one, I found it nonsensical and just plain bad, which makes me sad, because I wanted to love it. |
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« Reply #20 on: January 15, 2007, 12:50:10 PM » |
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well i thank you for filling me in. i have yet to see it, but i still plan on it. although i will have lowered expectations now, unfortunately.
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Vlad!
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« Reply #21 on: January 15, 2007, 08:36:23 PM » |
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Sometimes lowered expectations are the best way to see a movie.
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