I’ve read all sorts of explanations about the allegory going on in here, but it doesn’t quite ring true for me. I don’t care that it’s unlike Sixth Sense or The Village: LitW is a charming fairy tale, but rather than telling it as such, there’s too much ‘knowing nodding’ for my liking which takes away from the atmosphere. The pace/solutions become a bit too fast-paced and simply reached.

M. Night Shyamalan – always one for cameoing in his movies – gives himself a much bigger role here. In fact, if you didn’t know he was also the director, he does pretty well just as a part of the cast. However, the whole piece does come across as somewhat self-indulgent.

First there was The 6th Sense, Unbreakable and Signs which were great. Then came the Village and Lady in the Water which has me questioning if I’ll watch any more of M. Night’s movies. I really can’t recommend this movie to anyone who is looking for the same satisfaction that they got from M. Night’s earlier movies.

I wasn’t a huge fan of the Village or Signs- but I LOVED this one. Great movie for me!

i love Signs, i love the Village, and i thought this movie would not be nearly as good but i was wrong. This movie is incredible. i loved the humor, loved the story, felt for Hess, and was trying to guess what was going to happen next the entire the time. Shyamalan still has the ability to keep me guessing and amaze me with how touching and thought provoking and lovely his films are. i cannot wait for his next project.

I became a M. Night Shyamalan fan after watching The Sixth Sense. Since then, I’ve tried to rent everything he’s ever made. I just watched Lady in the Water just this past week. Not something I would normally choose to see, but I really enjoyed this movie. Maybe it’s the suspense factor that I enjoyed so much. I was surprised that there was no twist at the end (a Shyamalan trademark). It was just as the movie played out. A grown up fairy tale.

the description of this movie as “a fairy tale for adults” is pretty much right on. very cool movie, deep inside it made me wish that i would get caught up in a real life fairy tale of my own.

dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb movie.

so cheesy so stupid.

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