Lady in the Water Predictions and possible spoilers

[Joshua Randall]

My prediction is that this movie will do very poorly in theaters, but will make up for in DVD.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I predict she holds forth a sword and presents it to some guy named Arthur.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

I predict she holds forth a sword and presents it to some guy named Arthur.

Hey- I kind of like that one. That would be a cool twist.

Based on the trailer I saw before Superman last night, though, I am thinking predictions of her being evil/Unseelie may be true, though.

 

[KaosDevice]

I would just like it to be a straight forward story with out a twist. I think that would be the biggest mind frell that M. Night could give the viewer at this point. (I had the Village figured out halfway through, so his little bag of tricks is getting a tad played out).

 

[Dreeble]

Heya:

I had thought that the "twist" for the movie (

Spoiler

The people living in the apartment complex around the pool are themselves characters in a story and eventually become aware of this

) had already been revealed. Were people not aware of this or is this considered common knowledge and can't possibly be "the" twist?

-Dreeble

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Wow- never heard that one, Dreeble.

(Then again, like I said above, I haven't really been paying attention to. Sounds interesting, and might be enough to make me want to check it out...)

 

[Darth Shoju]

Heya:

I had thought that the "twist" for the movie (

Spoiler

The people living in the apartment complex around the pool are themselves characters in a story and eventually become aware of this

) had already been revealed. Were people not aware of this or is this considered common knowledge and can't possibly be "the" twist?

-Dreeble

That was news to me. All I know is that when I saw the first trailer for this movie I thought he was getting away from his "suspense/horror" genre roots. It seemed like a more fairy-tale like movie and even labeled itself as a "betime story" in the trailer. Now the latest stuff I'm seeing make it seem like a horror/monster/suspense flick. What is the deal with this thing anyway? And the people are in a story? Huh?

 

[trancejeremy]

Hmmmm, according to IMDB, the plotline is

Spoiler

Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep (Giamatti) rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world

If what Dreeble says is true, then presumably the twist is that the people in the apartment are the fictional people, not her.

 

[trancejeremy]

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". (Just finished watching it so thought it worth a mention. I had heard it was good, and it actually was. That's another twist - a good Demi Moore movie...)

 

[Bront]

That was news to me. All I know is that when I saw the first trailer for this movie I thought he was getting away from his "suspense/horror" genre roots. It seemed like a more fairy-tale like movie and even labeled itself as a "betime story" in the trailer. Now the latest stuff I'm seeing make it seem like a horror/monster/suspense flick. What is the deal with this thing anyway? And the people are in a story? Huh?

Apparently, this was inspired by a bedtime story he was told as a child. or at least that's what he told one of the Magazines I read in a waitingroom.