yeah. I should have mentioned that this was for me personally. I am not saying there are not other possible good candidates, but Zach Braff is the only one in recent times that I have not been constantly reminding myself throughout the film that he was the director. I don't know if that makes sense. But, it does in my own head.

Good. Glad to hear it isn't as terrible as billed.

While I'm glad you liked it, I have to say it was one of the most inane, impossible films I've seen in a long time. I liked Unbreakable, loved Signs, hated The Village (loved Bryce Dallas Howard & Leaf Phoenix, hated the story & obvious twist), but this movie made absolutely NO sense at all. It was the first movie I've seen that I was actually looking around at the other people in the theatre, saying, "You BELIEVE this fucking guy?" I don't want to go into spoilers, but holy shit was this bad.

but why is it inane? I think I left the movie feeling like I enjoyed using my imagination. I think the only complaint I have about it really, besides the fact that M. Night is a main role, is that there was not a good balance with actual "happenings" vs. sit around close up dialogue. THere were too many moments of them trying to "get it" and not enough scrunting. That statement should be vague enough to not be a spoiler.

I thought there were some really good scenes and special effects plus on top of the general story there was a lot of good themes, which I could go into but won't because of the already mentioned spoiler issue. I was entertained. I felt like it couldn't decide if it wanted to be a kids movie or a sort of suspenseful eerie adult horrorish movie. It needed to go one direction but it limbo'd between the two. My personal thoughts are that if it had been made and marketed as a kids movie it would have been better. I think "adults" have too difficult a time getting back to using their imagination and feeling like a kid again.

I would see it again. And, I'd pay the movie theater cost to see it again too.

Scrunting? Ony times I've heard that word it meant a broke person.

Like my Uncle Charlie going "Don't be such a scruntin' quakebuttock and get yer ass off the coach"

I liked the movie, too. I didn't think it was nearly as bad as the critics said. I think it failed a little bit in that it seemed like M. Night was trying to be a little more whimsical and lighthearted, but he couldn't help trying to insert some scary or suspense building scenes. The 2 vibes didn't always go together well.

I felt like he was going for a "O Brother Where Art Thou?" kind of feel and ended up half way between that and a typical MNS movie.

The plot of course is ludicrous, and I won't get into it. I think that's why critics blasted it, though. His movies require a good dose of willful suspension of disbelief. This one more so than most, and I think that most critics are jaded and don't want to do that. Which is probably why there was all the stuff about the critic in the movie.

and is probably why shit movies like Crash get nominated for Oscars.

I just saw this and quite enjoyed it. I don't understand all the hate but i've liked all his movies and the moods they set.

I rather enjoyed it as well, but I didn't see it until it hit DVD and I blindly bought it. Perhaps all the bad press led me to expect the worst. In any event, it certainly isn't my favorite of his films, but I enjoyed the fantasy aspect of the film. Its unfortunate that he's been pigeonholed so badly. When I look at The Village, I think of that as a drop in quality. A complete waste of my time. With this in mind, Lady In The Water was a masterpiece. Oddly enough, I haven't talked to anyone with a negative attitude on this film.

He's writing He-Man:Masters of the Universe for next year. Apparently every Dolph Lundgren film is destined to be re-filmed.

another m night shamalamadingdong movie?

watch out for the PLOT TWIST*



*obvious foreshadowing of said twist strewn throught the movie