Shyamalan Takes on "Lady in the Water"

sounds silly

hey you never know maybe the mermaid might turn evil and start killing everyone in the apartment building. BEWARE THE MERMAID!!!!!!!!! MUAAHHHAHAHAHAAHHHH

Considering most of his past stuff touches on a theme...Ghosts, Super Heroes, Alien Invasion, (you got me what The Village was)....maybe this one will have something to do with Arthurian legends. Maybe the Nymph is the Lady of the Lake come to bestow Excalabur on a new owner?...

why not? you maybe right... though i would hate to read spoilers even before the movie gets made :D
All i know is that i love Shyamalan. He's been far too criticized for stupid reasons...

I as well love Night but the village was no where near the hype. just based on the little bit of info on the page it sounds like some weird new shit hes trying out. hopfully it will be better than the village.

The obvious problem is that there's no way in hell he can live up to The Sixth Sense. Doesn't matter what genre he switches to. It's a shame because aside from The Village (just plain weird) and Signs (a water fearing alien culture invades a planet that's covered mostly with water...and they can travel through space but can't break down a door. Anyway, I digress) Shyamalan's creative and good at scaring people, he should keep it up.

M.Night is one great piece of work and I realize that he's one of those directors that people either hate or love, there is no in between but my tastes for moving a movie in a direction falls so much in line with his style of this movie. Rather then overload our eyes with aliens everywhere killing mass amounts of humans, he brings into the terror of just one familie's lives. He doesn't show the alien upfront and close in a confrontational scene...instead, the director knows the audience members' minds will give far more terrifying images then some mere cgi alien. His use of claustraphobic camerawork in the pharmacy scene is another example of great work in keeping the audience skyrocketing on the tension meter.

There's a stretch there for 30 minutes where he keeps the audience wanting to breath some sort of moment of relaxation but he doesn't give it. Example: He shows us the doctor(himself) trying to dispell inner demons to the now faithless Father which turns the moment your watching into one big uncomfortable tirade...then, he ends the conversation with the "Don't go into the pantry, Father...I locked one in." Then, he switches us to Merril in the closet demanding to see more....to know more...not to fear anymore...only to terrify Merril. Then, back to the Father looking under the pantry door...and just when you breath to relax as the Father walks away....here he comes back even faster only to find a hand grabbing at him...brilliant use of tensing the audience beyond comprehension without any special effects...and no outright fighting between characters. It's just you sitting on the couch wanting to take a breath or two but the director never letting up the tension...

It's the little things that make this director great. In the beginning to halfway point, everytime you go in the father's room, you see the outline of a cross where it hanged so ceremoniously for years. There is nothing there but that overbearing shadow resembling lost faith of the

M.Night is one great piece of work and I realize that he's one of those directors that people either hate or love, there is no in between but my tastes for moving a movie in a direction falls so much in line with his style of this movie. Rather then overload our eyes with aliens everywhere killing mass amounts of humans, he brings into the terror of just one familie's lives. He doesn't show the alien upfront and close in a confrontational scene...instead, the director knows the audience members' minds will give far more terrifying images then some mere cgi alien. His use of claustraphobic camerawork in the pharmacy scene is another example of great work in keeping the audience skyrocketing on the tension meter.

There's a stretch there for 30 minutes where he keeps the audience wanting to breath some sort of moment of relaxation but he doesn't give it. Example: He shows us the doctor(himself) trying to dispell inner demons to the now faithless Father which turns the moment your watching into one big uncomfortable tirade...then, he ends the conversation with the "Don't go into the pantry, Father...I locked one in." Then, he switches us to Merril in the closet demanding to see more....to know more...not to fear anymore...only to terrify Merril. Then, back to the Father looking under the pantry door...and just when you breath to relax as the Father walks away....here he comes back even faster only to find a hand grabbing at him...brilliant use of tensing the audience beyond comprehension without any special effects...and no outright fighting between characters. It's just you sitting on the couch wanting to take a breath or two but the director never letting up the tension...

It's the little things that make this director great. In the beginning to halfway point, everytime you go in the father's room, you see the outline of a cross where it hanged so ceremoniously for years. There is nothing there but that overbearing shadow r

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..of the central character. At the end? You see fresh paint. You see pictures streaming the walls where a barren wall was before. You see a new beginning...

Another little thing...when they drive into town....the streets are empty....everyone is at home watching their own televisions exept the family the movie is about...

Of course, you have all the 'Signs' or coincidences....the one Alien book in the store just for the son to pick up. The bat on the wall for Merrill to swing away...the boy whoms lungs close before the poison is blown into..

Merrill, whom you as the audience watch...have no control over his problems. This is a character that is use to having control over his fears and the whole movie he's helpless. Frustration. Put a bat into his hands...a symbol of his pride..and he has control back.

I know I should shut up now....I just had to point out just why this movie is so great....a great movie surrounded in a year of bad movies...

ok, olddarkjedi, we get it Signs is the schizznet and so is Night in general. As much as i loved your rant this all started with Night comitting career suicide so let's get back on topic .I am just a little skeptical even someone as great as Night can pull off a movie with a movie premise that centers around a mermaid ( sea nymph, whatever )Oh well Night has never steered us wrong ( let's just forget about " the village" ).And finally to conclude SIGNS KICKED @$$ ! It was genius .