Lady in the Water
Movie: Lady in the Water (2006)
Watched with: My mom
This movie isn't great or anything, but it's gotten way more shit than it deserves.
It's pretty, and interesting, and often (intentionally) funny. The cast of characters is diverse (racially, but I mean more in personality) and entertaining, and I like the way the whole community comes together to help with the problem.
It's a little bit stupid. "Narf" is not only a stupid name for a mythological creature, but also an obviously non-Asian one, so it sounds weird and wrong being pronounced by the heavily-accented Chinese (I think?) girl. Some of the plot twists were obvious or silly.
But it's also engaging and neat. M. Knight's cameo is not the masturbatory spectacle some have implied. He's a decent actor and the character isn't (to my eye) intended to be representative of the real M. Knight. He's a heroic writer, but he's a political theorist, not a "storyteller" as M. Knight seems to consider himself.
After the travesty that was The Village, Shyamalan really could only go up. But Lady is a neat movie in its own right, and people should really stop giving it such a hard time.
Watched with: My mom
This movie isn't great or anything, but it's gotten way more shit than it deserves.
It's pretty, and interesting, and often (intentionally) funny. The cast of characters is diverse (racially, but I mean more in personality) and entertaining, and I like the way the whole community comes together to help with the problem.
It's a little bit stupid. "Narf" is not only a stupid name for a mythological creature, but also an obviously non-Asian one, so it sounds weird and wrong being pronounced by the heavily-accented Chinese (I think?) girl. Some of the plot twists were obvious or silly.
But it's also engaging and neat. M. Knight's cameo is not the masturbatory spectacle some have implied. He's a decent actor and the character isn't (to my eye) intended to be representative of the real M. Knight. He's a heroic writer, but he's a political theorist, not a "storyteller" as M. Knight seems to consider himself.
After the travesty that was The Village, Shyamalan really could only go up. But Lady is a neat movie in its own right, and people should really stop giving it such a hard time.
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