Movie Review:Lady in the Water and Cool Link: Chaucer’s Blog
Cool Stuff, Movie Reviews September 11th, 2006I guess they finally got internet connections in the spirit world. A friend of mine showed me that Geoffrey Chaucer has set up his own blog over at blogspot. It’s called Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog, and it’s a very clever idea, if you ask me.
Of Geoffrey’s most recent posts, he asks his readers to please vote for him over at Hot or Not with this plea: “Plese uote for me and saye that ich am hotte.”
Afterward, he reviews the new stageplay “Serpentes on a Shippe.”
(Caution, the following paragraphs may contain a slight spoiler for Lady in the Water, not that it matters much, since the movie kind of spoils itself.)
In other news, I watched Lady in the Water over the weekend. While it wasn’t a total waste of time, and had a few touching moments, over all it is a strange little movie too heavily laden with symbols and coincidences (think the coincedences of Signs on steroids).
I was worried about Shyamalan acting in one of his own movies since I didn’t think he was very good even in his bit parts in the others. To his credit, he does a decent job with his character in Lady in the Water. In other words, his acting wasn’t annoying. However, I do wonder what he’s trying to say by casting himself as the writer who will write one of the most-important books in the history of humankind.
September 12th, 2006 at 6:43 am
Did you watch Lady in the Water all the way through? I was only able to sit through about a half hour of it.
September 12th, 2006 at 10:47 am
Yeah, I did watch it all the way through. I talked to my brother last night. He also walked out of it. He wanted to know the ending. Well, if you watched the beginning credits you will know what happens at the end. It wasn’t very surprising, original, or entertaining.