Lady in the Water
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep 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. From TMDB
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60 of 117 · most liked firstI posit that if Del Toro made Lady in the Water it would have been a much more warmly received movie. I think that he has a sense of whimsy when it comes to modern fantasy that Shyamalan struggles with, and would have made the story appropriately charming
unlabelledView post →I also think Del Toro would have made the titular Lady in the Water a creature instead of a naked pretty lady, which would have improved everything about the movie
unlabelledView post →Really excited to have Janine on for this one, for the first time, talking about Lady in the Water. A deeply weird movie about almost nothing at all.
unlabelledView post →I woke up wondering if Paul Giamatti was hotter in Lady in the Water (a bad movie made tolerable by him being wet a lot) or Shoot ‘Em Up (a terrific cartoon satire of a film where he’s a sadist). Beards and little glasses in both! Hard to choose!
unlabelledView post →I have a few of these, but I think more in live action than anime. Every complaint people make about Lady in the Water is something that is actually meant to be funny in the movie, for instance.
unlabelledView post →TRIVIA: Despite being largely panned by film critics, 'Lady In The Water' ranked sixth in the influential film magazine 'Cahiers Du Cinéma' top ten films of 2006, above films such as Terrence Malick's 'The New World' and Martin Scorsese's 'The Departed'. (Wikipedia) 🖤
unlabelledView post →Lady in the Water. I didn't sneak into movies a lot when I was young but I snuck into a movie after Lady in the Water because I simply felt I had earned the right to watch something else after that. I just started ranting and raving towards the end, no one in the audience cared to stop me.
unlabelledView post →I was watching a short documentary on YouTube about realistic film animatronics and honestly, the animatronic endoskeleton for the Scrunt from "Lady in the Water" is so much more menacing than the final animatronic IMO. Really makes me want to see a film with evil robot wolves like this.
unlabelledView post →Episode 3 of the podcast covers a movie so bad your brain probably tries to forget it exists: Lady in the Water
unlabelledView post →27. the guy with one really buff arm and one normal arm in Lady in the Water. I watched this in high school and remember absolutely nothing about this movie except for this guy. i don't even remember why he had one buff arm and one normal arm but i've never stopped thinking about it.
unlabelledView post →I went into M. Night’s Last Airbender movie an M. Night apologist. I liked Lady in the Water, I liked the Village, I thought he was great. from the moment I heard how he decided Aang was pronounced I was furious. only time in a theater where a buddy and I were heckling and the crowd approved
unlabelledView post →At the end of the early press screening of LADY IN THE WATER, when the credits began, a voice from the audience exclaimed, "Worst film of the decade!" And no one disagreed.
unlabelledView post →Probably the Brandon Routh Superman. Just a baffling movie. The Happening and The Lady in the Water also felt like this but The Happening becomes a comedy if you let it.
unlabelledView post →I made this drawing for my mom because she loves the movie Lady in the Water (which you should totally watch) #fanart
unlabelledView post →Despite the M. Night Shyamalan movie being a flop, Paul's performance in "Lady in the Water" (2006) was just as magnificent as every other film (and TV series) he's acted in.
unlabelledView post →The Lady In The Water It gets a lot of hate, but it’s a really daring folklore/ fairytale movie with some very creative and allegorical storytelling. And it has a very profound and emotional message at its core, as well as some brilliant character performances. Fave.
unlabelledView post →LRT the scrunt is actually a creature from M Night Shyamalan's "Lady in the Water". the names in that film were a whole tier of stupid above everything else to the point where I can still recognise them on sight
unlabelledView post →I'm trying to think of movies where directors include characters expressly to take jabs at film critics. So far I've got Lady in the Water, Godzilla, Theater of Blood, Birdman, Bucket of Blood... can anybody name any others?
unlabelledView post →What's a movie that is wildly considered bad but you love it proudly? Lady in the Water is MY Shyamalan movie. Fully and unironically my favorite. I maintain it's one of the most beautiful movie of the aughts. Making a fairy tale out of both the mundane and the era's cinema J-horror slant.
unlabelledView post →I'm the last surviving "Lady in the Water" (2006) fan. I don't think it's a good movie but it was weird in a way I like.
unlabelledView post →Introduce yourself with 1 TTRPG, 1 book, 1 boardgame, 1 movie & 1 TV show. King Arthur Pendragon Chronicles of Amber DC Deckbuilding Game Lady in the Water Blake’s 7
unlabelledView post →Yes, I watched Lady In The Water for the umpteenth time. I wanted some comfort and it’s one of my comfort movies. It’s a movie I know is not very good but it’s one I still love knowing that. Everyone has those. Also, the hype over Casablanca is legit #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →469.) Lady in the Water (2006) Not as bad as its reputation makes it out to be. A perfectly fine if flawed fairytale. The infamous film critic death scene has only gotten better with the rise of CinemaSins.
unlabelledView post →My wife & I got a chance to see it early & we both enjoyed it. This movie totally has an Amazing Stories whimsical kinda vibe to it. So does @mnightshyamalan.bsky.social "Lady In The Water" if that helps. ...That copula looked gorgeous btw. @mikeflanaganfilm.com @neon-rated.bsky.social
unlabelledView post →Remember Lady in the Water? I just saw a letterboxd account where it is listed as their favorite movie and I completely gasped like I got jump-scared in a horror film.
unlabelledView post →Happy 20th birthday anniversary to (1) Ugly Betty Hannah Montana The Simpsons: The Mook the Chef and the Wife Superman returns film John Tucker Must Die film Little Miss Sunshine film Monster House animation film Lady in the Water film My Super Ex girlfriend film
unlabelledView post →Lady In The Water is a great movie actually
unlabelledView post →social media platform but you have to post at least once every five minutes or a guy comes to your house and starts sliding frames of M. Night Shyamalan’s 2006 feature length film “Lady in the Water” under your door
unlabelledView post →Lady in the Water was a weird movie for me because i really vibed with the whole "eclectic bunch of misfits realizing they have roles in this grand story playing out" but i was also uncomfortably aware that it was basically 110 minutes of M. Night Shyamalan masturbating straight into the camera
unlabelledView post →If this were Post-Unbreakable M. Night we were talking about, this ridiculous rumor might have had some legs... BUT THIS IS POST-LAST AIRBENDER M. NIGHT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE Hell, you KNOW Disney ain't returning his calls after Lady In The Water... #FizzVsComics
unlabelledView post →"Ophelia" is a famous historical painting done by some guy to promote the upcoming film Lady in the Water by M. Night Shyamalan.
unlabelledView post →Tonight's background movie got arting is Lady in the Water. Yeah, that one got a lot of hate but you know what? I fucking love this movie. It's actually a nice comfort movie.
unlabelledView post →#AdlerOnLetterboxd: Lady in the Water (2006) NARF! boxd.it/ee92cT
unlabelledView post →Lady in the Water, I think. Don’t remember a film that thought the audience was that dense.
unlabelledView post →First time I saw the trailer, I can’t remember what movie I was seeing, but once “Produced by M. Night Shyamalan” came on screen the entire theatre burst out laughing. This was right after the horrid run of Last Airbender, The Happening, and Lady in the Water. Devil is fucking great though
unlabelledView post →This was a wild movie, and Manolo really had an honest and surprising affection for Lady in the Water that I did not come around, but really shows how much your expectations can influence your experience of a film.
unlabelledView post →"This movie is like 25 minutes too long." (Andrew) "Wait, how long is this movie?" "An hour and 45 minutes." (Andrew) "That’s how too long it is." -Lady in the Water
unlabelledView post →I'll be here if you'd like to discuss why LADY IN THE WATER is Shyamalan's best film and what could have been if Arvydas Sabonis played in the NBA during the Magic/Bird era. #film #nba
unlabelledView post →Three come to mind. First is Rise of Skywalker, which killed my love of Star Wars. Second is Lady in the Water, which I watched literally alone in the theater. Third is Transformers 2, which is the only movie I've fallen asleep in the theater during.
unlabelledView post →M. Night Shyamalan’s 2006 movie “Lady in the Water”
unlabelledView post →My ★★★ review of Lady in the Water on @letterboxd: boxd.it/dg1gN
unlabelledView post →I'm confident he would have made an entirely different movie, more like Lady in the Water, since that was a passion project movie of his, whereas The Last Airbender was simply a phoned-in remake. But back to the original point, a piece doesn't have to be a "felt compelled to make" piece to be art.
unlabelledView post →This was actually the worst movie I’ve ever seen. I turned it off 3/4 of the way through. So bizarre and uncomfortable. It sucks considering M. Night has made one of my favorite movies: Lady in the Water. Underrated film imo.
unlabelledView post →😆 I hated my last moviegoing experience 20 years ago. Phones ringing, people talking and hyperactivity. All that plus the movie being bad (Lady in the Water) ended my moviegoing.
unlabelledView post →Honestly, filling in the gaps in my canonical bad movie knowledge has been one of the real joys of the podcast. Just last week, it gave me the excuse to finally watch Lady in the Water and I'm so glad I did!
unlabelledView post →You ever watch the movie Lady in the Water? There was a character that tested this theory
unlabelledView post →Because half of the moviegoers are trash! They don't respect others. They talk to people, including on their phones. They yell and laugh obnoxiously. And I have my own home theater that's not full of germs. The Lady in the Water was the worst movie I've ever seen, and the moviegoers were no good.
unlabelledView post →as if LADY IN THE WATER was anywhere near the worst film of that year. Also not a great "look" for film-critics (Village Voice in this case) to have a public pop at a picture where a film-critic is presented in a mockingly negative light.
unlabelledView post →my knowledge stems largely from a morbid curiosity at this point; there are, as you said, some interesting ideas in here but also things that are frankly alarming in light of the author's politics a bit like how Lady in the Water is a much different movie if you know that it's by M. Night Shyalaman
unlabelledView post →I watched Lady in the Water last night. Bryce Dallas Howard is excellent as a sea nymph. Paul Giamatti gives a typically heartbreaking performance. The script is tight and the story is clever. And then M Night Shyamalan shows up in his own movie and WON'T GO AWAY. Unbelievable.
unlabelledView post →I wrote about Lady in the Water, a movie that doesn't deserve the shit it gets. It's a part of our very fun (imho) M. Night's Always Had It series that published this morning www.polygon.com/what-to-watc...
unlabelledView post →man contrast with Shyamalan's Lady in the Water where the self-insert Writer is a great man of history and a mean film critic who is perpetually wrong is murdered by a monster lmao
unlabelledView post →My M Night love is definitely movie-based but also super due to Servant. Of his less loved movies, I feel like maybe I should see Lady in the Water? Feels like it has the most going for it despite being consensus not very good.
unlabelledView post →Name an underrated film The Lady in the Water by M Night Shyamalan
unlabelledView post →Wasn’t this Bob Balaban’s role in “Lady In The Water”? Shyamalan was so pissed that people didn’t get “The Village” he has him play a villain who’s also a movie critic.
unlabelledView post →And if Tom Cruise really thinks critics are the reason the money paying public arent going to see his dumb movie then he's reached M Night Shyamalan 'Lady In The Water' butthurt event horizon.
unlabelledView post →#TheLastHouse ...aka "Lets make an M.Night Shyamalan movie without M.Night Shyamalan". Seriously, "The Village" and "Lady in the Water" was better than this movie, and those are his weaker movies.
unlabelledView post →I think Lady In The Water is a good movie.
unlabelledView post →Signs is pretty solid too. Lady in the Water however is maybe the worst movie I've ever seen.
unlabelledView post →Wow just like that guy from the mega hit movie Lady in the Water.
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