Looks like Lady in the Water is not getting good reviews

pclstyle · Jul 20, 2006

looks like MNS is as overrated as they say

Platypus · Jul 20, 2006

It seriously baffles me how seriously he takes himself. His AMEX commercial is so pretentious and narcissistic that you can't help but laugh in his face. All of his movies have been long winded text-book art school dropout style films that all have the same exact plot device and desperate attempt at symbolism over and over and over again.. how Paul Giamatti actually agreed to do this film is beyond he, he's far too good for something so hilariously terrible.

essasin · Jul 20, 2006

I thought it was a little off the first time i saw the previews.

JEDI · Jul 20, 2006

Originally posted by: Platypus
It seriously baffles me how seriously he takes himself. His AMEX commercial is so pretentious and narcissistic that you can't help but laugh in his face. All of his movies have been long winded text-book art school dropout style films that all have the same exact plot device and desperate attempt at symbolism over and over and over again.. how Paul Giamatti actually agreed to do this film is beyond he, he's far too good for something so hilariously terrible.

symbolism in 6th sense, unbreable, and villiage?

what r they?

aphex · Jul 20, 2006

I don't understand why critics (and people for that matter) hate him so much? When i read some of the reviews, it seems to me like they came into the moving hating him.

lokiju · Jul 20, 2006

Well I liked Sixth Sense and Signs but Unbreakable was horrible and The Village was just meh.

I'll wait until it comes out on DVD and rent it if anything.

Platypus · Jul 20, 2006

Originally posted by: JEDI

Originally posted by: Platypus
It seriously baffles me how seriously he takes himself. His AMEX commercial is so pretentious and narcissistic that you can't help but laugh in his face. All of his movies have been long winded text-book art school dropout style films that all have the same exact plot device and desperate attempt at symbolism over and over and over again.. how Paul Giamatti actually agreed to do this film is beyond he, he's far too good for something so hilariously terrible.

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symbolism in 6th sense, unbreable, and villiage?

what r they?

Unbreakable used colors much like a lot of his other movies to show what was good and what was evil, I stopped watching the Village after about 20 minutes, sorry I can't comment on this one.

6th sense takes place during Halloween, he uses shadows and reflections a lot almost ad nausem.. we get it. He uses the color red all over the place. The scene with the red balloon going up the staircase towards the light.. come on, textbook. The use of doors and windows all over the place. If you rewatch the film and notice all the things that are red you'll seriously begin to laugh at how primitive his storywriting is.

Excelsior · Jul 20, 2006

I will definitely go out of my way not to watch this film, or any of his work.

QED · Jul 20, 2006

The color red was a sign that something bad was about to happen... if anything I liked its usage in The Sixth Sense-- for the most part, it was something you never even noticed, yet subconciously you did.

It created a bit of drama more efficiently than a lot of movies which simply play creepy music to tell you how you should feel...

ruffilb · Jul 20, 2006

It looked terrible.

Queasy · Jul 20, 2006

Originally posted by: anxi80
greatest. review. ever!

Shyamalan clearly wants to make a parable about the importance of faith (territory he already mined in his far superior Signs) and the value of a community working together toward a positive goal.

If Signs is far superior....ouch!

CrackRabbit · Jul 20, 2006

I liked his movies up to The Village, it was awful. I figured out the twists part of the way through and got bored.
I have no interest in seeing another one like that.

mzkhadir · Jul 20, 2006

2 more reviews -

spoiler ahead --

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23916

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23901

UglyCasanova · Jul 25, 2006

I've liked most of his stuff and I absolutely hate horror movies. I dunno. I loved Signs and The Village, and Sixth Sense was pretty good imo. Unbreakable his worst to date, but I still enjoyed it though. And I refuse to watch regular horror movies such as Hostel and sh!t like that.

SirStev0 · Jul 25, 2006

i dont know how to feel after seeing it tonight...

NFS4 · Jul 25, 2006

I was actually diggin' Signs right up to the point where the alien appeared for the first time...then I was like WTF is this SH!T.

I forced myself not to like it from that point on.

getbush · Jul 25, 2006

I thought signs was really good, I was freaked out the first time I watched it.

getbush · Jul 25, 2006

Originally posted by: anxi80
greatest. review. ever!

if you read one review of this movie, make it this one!

oogabooga · Jul 25, 2006

his movies aren't hard on the eyes, just the head

I like how that review called signs the most beautiful dumb movie you'll see.

McGyver · Jul 25, 2006

enough is enough, we should just give him a phony oscar and tell him to make movies for bollywood.

PingSpike · Jul 29, 2006

Man, I don't know why everyone rags on unbreakable. Thats my favorite one of his movies by far.

kb315 · Jul 29, 2006

Originally posted by: aphex
I don't understand why critics (and people for that matter) hate him so much? When i read some of the reviews, it seems to me like they came into the moving hating him.

QFT

I've never been a big fan of his movies. Although I liked unbreakable and the 6th sense. I never really had any desire to see the other ones but always look at reveiws for most new movies and it always struck me as people jus hate him.

misle · Jul 29, 2006

Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
I liked his movies up to The Village, it was awful. I figured out the twists part of the way through and got bored.
I have no interest in seeing another one like that.

I watched the Sixth Sense and liked it, but I have no desire to re-watch it. I finally made myself sit down and watch Unbreakable on TNT the other night. It was an interesting movie, but slow and could have been so much better. Signs was just bad and very anti-climactic.

When I saw the trailer for The Village, I told a friend what the twist was going to be. I then asked a co-worker who saw the movie if I was correct, and I was. (I'm being vague to not spoil it for anyone who hasn't figured it out.)

This Lady movie looks terrible. No desire to even watch the commercial.

I guess the real question is: Who's worse: Michael Bay or MNS?

OrByte · Jul 30, 2006

Originally posted by: kb315

Originally posted by: aphex
I don't understand why critics (and people for that matter) hate him so much? When i read some of the reviews, it seems to me like they came into the moving hating him.

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QFT

I've never been a big fan of his movies. Although I liked unbreakable and the 6th sense. I never really had any desire to see the other ones but always look at reveiws for most new movies and it always struck me as people jus hate him.

People hate him, so they hate this movie. No surprise.

I just saw it tonight, and I thought it was great! a great story made by a great storyteller.

ArJuN · Jul 30, 2006

I'm not going to lie, it's the best movie I've seen this summer. Kicked that ****** ass super man movie in the ass.

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