Lady in the Water Predictions and possible spoilers

[Mistwell]

I am really looking forward to this film.

And, I do not think there is a twist in the end. I think people who are the most disappointed with his films are also the most obsessed with the "twist" ending issue.

He's a good film maker. His directing is very good. His actors tend to be very good, and he gets a lot out of them. His writing is compelling. I don't get why people cannot enjoy his movies without it being all about "the twist ending".

 

[frankthedm]

IMO Sham-bam has proven his twists can suck the fun out of a movie.

He's a good film maker. His directing is very good. His actors tend to be very good, and he gets a lot out of them. His writing is compelling. I don't get why people cannot enjoy his movies without it being all about "the twist ending".

I am primarily a horror fan, not a drama major, I can wait for the big reveal, but if my chain gets yanked and there is no monstrous payoff, i want blood in real life.

I go to movies that are in genres i like that use fantastic elements. If there is nothing out of the mundane, i will not watch the movie. A good twist to me is unbreakable's twist, it strenthed that worlds fantastic element. A bad twist is the viliage's twist, robbing the movie of it's fantastic element. It would be like if at the very end of the movie, Bruce Willis' character in Unbreakable was revealed to have a bone thickening cancer that would eventually fuse his skeleton in place.

Hell, If Shammy's DM-NPC had a few werewolf hinting features i would have not been anywhere near as PO'ed when i left that movie. If a trailer promises me Creatures of the forest, i want Creatures of the forest, not a tale to entertain people who's lives suck so much running off into the woods sounds like a good idea to protect thier kids.

A movie of a mother talking with her kids while putting them to bed. As they reminisce about recent happenings, it is eventually revealed that they live in a heavily armed anti establishment compound fighting off a government raid. That is a “what would you do to protect your children” movie I would be willing to watch. Not a Lifetime movie maquerading as a period peice.

If IcyCool's guess was on the money, I'd see Lady in the Water in a heartbeat.

 

[KenM]

I predict like MNS' other movies it will suck.

 

[Mark Chance]

Not to hijack this thread, but a movie that just came out on DVD that has some surprisingly good twists to it is Demi Moore's "Half Light".

If that movie was a road with twists in it, the run-up to each twist was a really long straight-away with several blatant warning signs along the way.

I'm looking forward to The Lady in the Water. All of M. Night's movies have been very well done in terms of writing.

 

[Banshee16]

Just saw the third trailer....that was no wolf. Unless it was the worst-rendered CG wolf ever created. Besides, it was clearly bipedal as it jumped at the end of the trailer. It almost does sound like maybe this could be about the Fey, or something...

Banshee

 

[Crothian]

Well, the CGI didn't look good on the trailers I've seen. But a walking wolf is not out of the realms of movie making.

 

[Eosin the Red]

I haven't done any looking but just from the title and the trailer, it would seem that somewhere there has to be a sword and a dude named Arthur.

 

[Bobitron]

I am anxiously awaiting the release. Big fan of his movies. I got a couple chills watching the latest trailer.

 

[Joshua Randall]

I haven't done any looking but just from the title and the trailer, it would seem that somewhere there has to be a sword and a dude named Arthur.

Why do people keep saying this? The Arthur stories involve the Lady in the Lake, not the Lady in the Water.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Why do people keep saying this? The Arthur stories involve the Lady in the Lake, not the Lady in the Water.

Its still just some watery tart lobbing a scimitar.