Shyamalan Responds to Razzie "Win"

You know, I actually liked lady in the water. The village, I figured the whole movie out in literally the first 10 minutes, but i still liked lady in the water. I dunno what that problem is....

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part of the minority that found sixth Sense utterly worthless. The ghosts were no threat and thus the film had nothing driving it forward. Totally lame film that never captured my interest. Unbreakable was a tad better but really Signs is where I began to think he might be a decent filmmaker. The village, for my money, was his best film with the strongest lead and by far the most exciting/intriguing premise. Lad was a tad flatter but still not nearly as unwatchable as Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.

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Did anyone find similarities between M. Night's response to the reporter and his response to the Narf in Lady in the Water? In the film, Narf freak tells M. Night (playing a writer, guh) that his work will be praised later in his life, that he will change to coarse of history and after he is gone he will be praised. M. Night acctually had the balls to pat himself on the back in a film that had nothing to do about him. Then he says that his work has always benefited from time... is he really quoting the Narf? The mans got balls.

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Shyamalan has no business being anywhere near 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' and the animation genuis that it is. He needs to wander off and work on his 'Green Effect' project and leave any presentation of 'Avatar' in full-length movie form to the co-creators who have rightfully earned the honor of creating it themselves. Shyamalan is like the plague and Avatar fans are diehards. They don't want him 'breaking' what isn't in need of his particular 'fixing' or his tendency to take 'poetic license' with egotistical cameos and illogical plotlines. Stay away from 'Avatar' Mr. Shyamalan. You have nothing we wish to see.

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Is it me, or does M. Night look like an exact mix of Spike Lee and Jeff Goldblum? You can't tell me he doesn't! Maybe 2 parts Jeff and 1 part Spike...

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I personally really liked the village and lady in the water. The village was really interesting and loved the twist in the end. Lady in the water was also very good. All these different people coming together on such a crazy story and helping this girl. The main character finding out that it is ok to love and live again after such tragedy. As far as M. Nights character, think about how you would feel knowing the only way you would make a difference in this world is for you to die. That really makes you think. I loved the sixth sense. signs was good. I love his movies. I love the twists in his story telling. thanks.

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And now to discredit myself: I Loved Lady in the Water; one of my favorite movies of all time.

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Sixth sense I liked but not as much as the hype suggested.

Unbreakable I liked a lot.

Signs was a mediocre film based on a War of the Worlds(book) rip off storyline.

The first 3/4 of The Village were awesome then it was ruined by a twist that was almost unnecessary.

Lady in the Water I got sucked into and put away all my sensible thoughts and actually quite enjoyed it. I'm sure with a less tired and emotional watch I not sure how I'd feel about it.

I don't mind the guy but I dunno what his obsession with twists in his movies is all about. I think he should try something different.

Robot Chicken said it best I think.

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Lady in the water would have been better with a couple elements:

1) He admitted in the extras on the DVD it's a kid's story... so it would have been better told from some children's perspective of discovering the Narf's, etc. I could have gotten behind that story.

2) Gawd, I just couldn't take one more "clue" from the Asian grandmother and her daughter... talk about "hand-holding" at it's worst through a movie. Let the viewer "discover" the story, not force-feed it to us literally every 10 minutes.

3) Okay, what was up with the dogs and the monkeys and the "rules", and the Eagle at the end... lame-o storyline, which made no sense...even after Grandma told me the whole thing. There are SO MANY great ancient legends, he could have used an existing story to tell a modern story...not one he (poorly) made up to tell his children, and then turned THAT into a movie.

4) When's the last time in modern apartment history did EVERYONE show up for a lame party with almost no food or music? There had to be 300 people at the party in the movie with nothing fun going on at all.

5) Last but not least... at least have a cameo role in your movies (that's cool), but don't force your TERRIBLE acting upon us for most of the movie. UNCOOL! Hitchcock was classic, with just a brief glimpse of him in his movies...kind of became a fun game to spot him. The opposite is true with this movie... it became UN-FUN very quickly with Shym. putting himself in it, with acting not much better than a made-for-TV "B" actor.

7) At least we saw it in Hi-Def DVD glory! The only thing that made me sit through the whole thing.

Nuff said,
Doc

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