Comments on: Lady in the Water (2006)

By: Sean Ledden

Sean Ledden — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:24:14 +0000

I agree with you on the neat creature designs. And overall the production quality is quite high. Which makes it all the more frustrating that the script is so awful. One reason I hate movies like this, is that I too love the idea of a mystical fantasy that takes place in our ordinary world. Given the resources and talent this movie had at it’s disposal, it could have been great.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:13:02 +0000

This movie did have problems. For example, why do we need to be talked down to from the start, saying that we’re all a bunch of greedy child-like humans who can’t listen to the enlightened water people? And, I mean, its not like a war was never fought on or near the ocean. Where were the water people then? All of it reminds me of the South Park global warming episode, “we should have listened!!!!” It could have been a better movie if some of the premise was changed. What I do like is the creature design, the score is fanatastic. The music playing during the final scene is so epic, it’s worthy of a Batman film. And really the entire idea of a fantasy/mystical event taking place in ordinary modern society is an idea I like. It just should have been done a little differently.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:28:09 +0000

I would have rejected the script for $49 million! – And thinking about all that wasted money, I’m guessing that they built the entire set for the movie, and that Shyamalan spent months shooting miles and miles of footage. Then more time was spent putting together a “first draft” cut that was probably 8 hours long. THEN more time was spent editing the movie down to a commercial run-time. All thru this process truck loads of money were being driven to the public dump.

Thanks for the comments!

By: Randy Landers

Randy Landers — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:14:36 +0000

$75 MILLION??? They must’ve bought that building with the swimming pool. Hell, they could’ve given me $50, and I would’ve read the script and rejected it for the studio.

By: Randy Landers

Randy Landers — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:13:14 +0000

Fair and accurate review. I loved SIGNS, I really did. Liked SIXTH SENSE. But haven’t seen M. Night do anything close to that level of work since. THE VILLAGE was as predictable as you can get. LADY IN THE WATER caught my curiosity but when all the characters were suddenly revealed as not being whom they were thought to be, I just started laughing. Out loud. Well, DUH…or in this case, DUD. Throw in THE HAPPENING, and well…

I see dead careers all around me…

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:32:04 +0000

You and me both! Thinking about “Lady”s price tag, it would be fascinating to see a record of how it was all spent.

By: guts3d

guts3d — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:39:48 +0000

75 mil!!!??? I gotta get a different job…. Nice review, Sean!