I like M Night's flics for their simple strait forward presentation. This no frills story with limited special effects kept me glued to my screen. Funny thing is, I'm not exactly sure why though. I think that's part M Night's mystisism.
- 21.January.2011
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- by: chrissnave
- chrissnave rated this movie
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I like M Night's flics for their simple strait forward presentation. This no frills story with limited special effects kept me glued to my screen. Funny thing is, I'm not exactly sure why though. I think that's part M Night's mystisism.
- 21.January.2011
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- by: chrissnave
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A suspense thriller with excellent imagination and creative story line. Even with its few parts that might be considered "cheesy" the movie still has a strong and eerie ambiance. It will haunt you for a long time after you've watched it. I recommend...
- 10.January.2011
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- by: Netflowers
- Netflowers rated this movie0/10
A suspense thriller with excellent imagination and creative story line. Even with its few parts that might be considered "cheesy" the movie still has a strong and eerie ambiance. It will haunt you for a long time after you've watched it. I recommend it and I gave it 5 STARS
- 10.January.2011
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- by: Netflowers
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"A bedtime story" is a great tagline for this film. From the very beginning we are thrust into a world where make-believe comes true and good creatures need our help to protect them from the evil. M. Night may be arrogant and think more highly of...
- 07.October.2009
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- by: Petri33
- Petri33 rated this movie0/10
"A bedtime story" is a great tagline for this film. From the very beginning we are thrust into a world where make-believe comes true and good creatures need our help to protect them from the evil. M. Night may be arrogant and think more highly of himself than he deserves (he's not another Hitchcock), but this movie is, in my opinion, one of his best. Ever since the Sixth Sense, he has been expected to put a twist in every film he makes. Yes, it worked great for Sixth Sense but I've always hoped to see M. Night as more than just a one-trick pony. Lady in the Water solidifies my opinion that M. Night has, not only a good director's eye, but also an incredible imagination. Make no mistake, Paul Giamatti as Cleveland Heap carries this film. Bryce Dallas Howard is great, but Giamatti makes you really care about what happens, humanizes the experience and helps you feel what he feels. Without Giamatti this film wouldn't have been even nearly as good.
The PG-13 rating is almost completely for "frightening images" and it's well deserved. The Scrunts (the wolf-like animals), are extremely frightening. That part of the bedtime story may give little ones nightmares.
Why is this movie getting such bad reviews? It couldn't possibly be because M. Night Shyamalan portrays a movie reviewer as being out-of-touch, arrogant and stupid could it? While the film isn't as good as it could be because of M. Night's insistence to put himself as a major character (a very distracting choice), this is a solid fairy tale that I really enjoyed. I hope all of M. Night's films continue to be as good as this one.
4.4 out of 5
- 07.October.2009
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- by: Petri33
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Another fine performance by Paul Giamatti, but this one wasted what is essentially a trivial vanity piece. (To wit, Shyamalan casts himself in a pivotal role, and yet displays all the screen presence of a splotch of slowly drying paint.) A couple of...
- 06.October.2009
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- by: Clarence
- Clarence rated this movie0/10
Another fine performance by Paul Giamatti, but this one wasted what is essentially a trivial vanity piece. (To wit, Shyamalan casts himself in a pivotal role, and yet displays all the screen presence of a splotch of slowly drying paint.) A couple of interesting ideas and one great shot (of the right eye of a snarling CGI wolf) are about all that remain to evidence how much promise Shyamalan once showed.
- 06.October.2009
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- by: Clarence
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This will be one of those movies that people will really like or really dislike - no middle ground. Personally, I enjoy fantasy movies and ones that stretch the norms, and I applaud Night for having the guts to do this. With that said, the movie...
- 30.March.2009
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- by: Parker in MN
- Parker in MN rated this movie4/10Disappointing
This will be one of those movies that people will really like or really dislike - no middle ground. Personally, I enjoy fantasy movies and ones that stretch the norms, and I applaud Night for having the guts to do this. With that said, the movie feels like it needed another year of reworking the script and then remove some of the more mundane scenes so it's not utterly rediculous. I really disliked that in the whole world, the asian woman knows this bedtime story that this narf in the water. I really disliked a kid reading signs from a cupboard full of cereal boxes. But most of all, I disliked that nothing is ever achieved and there's no payoff for the movie. Giamatti and Howard do a great job of acting.. however they're not given much with this limited story.
- 30.March.2009
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- by: Parker in MN
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Very well acted and directed. Also inspirational. Again all characters do justice to the role.
A note on the critics. They are very opinionated and need to understand the essence and deeper meaning of a story,which obviously they fail to understand...
- 21.March.2009
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- by: gauravarora77
- gauravarora77 rated this movie
 10/10Must See
Very well acted and directed. Also inspirational. Again all characters do justice to the role.
A note on the critics. They are very opinionated and need to understand the essence and deeper meaning of a story,which obviously they fail to understand and so should get other jobs which they are better at, since they obviously suck at being movie critics.
Everyone has their likes and dislikes, trust your judgement.
- 21.March.2009
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- by: gauravarora77
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not creepy enugh...
I saw this movie a few weeks ago. I expected something terrifying and scary, instead I watch a simple thriller movie who wasen't really frighten. however the music was very scary so I could watched the movie until the end and even enjoy it.
- 10.October.2008
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- by: rose
- rose rated this movie7/10Good
not creepy enugh...
I saw this movie a few weeks ago. I expected something terrifying and scary, instead I watch a simple thriller movie who wasen't really frighten. however the music was very scary so I could watched the movie until the end and even enjoy it.
- 10.October.2008
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- by: rose
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