M. Nights next film "Lady in the Water' - Page 5

Mikah Cerucco · 06-29-2006, 08:00 AM

John, new movies come out all the time. I'm not sure how often you go, but what would it take for you to simply skip a MNS movie and go see something else?

I really liked The Sixth Sense. I really looked forward to Unbreakable based on my love of The Sixth Sense, but I didn't like it as much. That was my caution point. I didn't go see Signs in the theater, though I did watch it on DVD. I was glad I waited for the DVD. The Village was a complete letdown for me, though I suspected it'd be so and didn't go see it in the theater. I have no intention of going to see LITW unless I learn from reviews and threads like this one that it is better than I'm expecting.

If you feel compelled to go see it, maybe MNS's movies are working better for you than you realize. After all, there's many others you could go see.

Inspector Hammer! · 06-29-2006, 08:17 AM

Mikah, it's not that I didn't enjoy a majority of his films, loved The Sixth Sense, liked Unbreakable, loved Signs but utterly despised The Village. My apprehension comes from reading so mch about MNS and how often he gets compared to Hitchcock, I got the sense with The Village that he was starting to believe his press and that he was sort of becoming a bit pretentious.

That may have been a knee-jerk reaction to my hatred of that film and I may have been wrong about Knight, but it's something about the way he spins things in his films and the way he markets them that really disturbs me on some level that I can't fully articulate.

He's a very strange man and his films are, in turn, very strange as well, but, that's not necessarily bad. He's a great director, he's just, well, weird.

DavidPla · 06-29-2006, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Jason Birzer

or you get trailers that spell out in bold letters what a movie is about.

Ah, Robert Zemeckis!!

Lou Sytsma · 07-12-2006, 10:55 AM

ComingSoon gives it a 8/10 - http://comingsoon.net/news/reviewsnews.php?id=15352

Holadem · 07-12-2006, 11:59 AM

I am puzzled by the claims of dubious marketing of MNS's films.

Outside of making the movies looks more kinetic than they actually are (a standard Hollywood practice), I just don't see it:

Sixth Sense - Extremely succesful marketing which can be summed up by the now iconic phrase "I see dead people". The premise of the film was very clearly conveyed by the trailer.

Unbreakable - Again, the premise was clear: Guy walks out of a deadly catastrophe without a scratch... Intriguing, makes you want to know more.

Signs - Crop signs, aliens invasion. Short of giving away the ending, I am not sure how you would have marketed this one. Save for the last 5 minutes, the movie was about an alien invasion.

The Village - I don't really remember the trailers to be honest (I pprobably avoided them on purpose), but it was common knowledge that the film dealt with a village surrounded by mythical monsters.

So where is the shady marketing?

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Zen Butler · 07-12-2006, 12:25 PM

Yeah, even as an MNS critic; I felt all the trailers were spot on. Intriguing to say the least.

DavidPla · 07-12-2006, 01:17 PM

I think it's only really the trailer for "The Village" that pissed people off. The trailers made people expect scary monsters attacking the village ala. Signs with aliens attacking the farmhouse and that wasn't what the film was about at all.

Inspector Hammer! · 07-12-2006, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidPla

I think it's only really the trailer for "The Village" that pissed people off. The trailers made people expect scary monsters attacking the village ala. Signs with aliens attacking the farmhouse and that wasn't what the film was about at all.

Yep, that's it.

I disliked The Village in a way that actually made me angry, and that's rare for a film to have that effect on me. I felt cheated and manipulated by a man who, IMO AT THE TIME, was developing a bit of an ego about himself and his films.

I just felt, again, at the time, that he thought that he could make his films as slow and as strange as he wanted to and he would still get the headlines of "MNS is the Next Hitchcock".

Was I mad when it was revealed that

Spoiler:

Your damn skippy I was.

The ads for 'TV' were enough to make me pause when trying to accurately evaluate his films from that point on, I just plain don't trust him when it comes to advertising his films.

The Lady in the Water sure APPEARS to be a scary movie, but with M. Night, that could be misleading.

I'll find out when I see it.

Josh.C · 07-12-2006, 03:35 PM

I'll say this about Night's films. I always come out of them saying "I didn't have any clue it was going to be about that". I never know what to expect going in, which is sometimes a good thing (I might be the only person on the forum that enjoyed the Village), and could be a bad thing. We will see w/ Lady in the Water. The preview I saw at the movie's showed a much scarrier movie than the commercial trailers I've seen.

JC

DavidJ · 07-12-2006, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Josh.C

(I might be the only person on the forum that enjoyed the Village),JC

You are not alone Josh.

Greg Kettell · 07-12-2006, 04:14 PM

I liked The Village also. More than Signs, for sure.