Lady in the Water is what happens when a director's ego is allowed to go completely unchallenged. I was not expecting much going into it, but what I got was worse than I thought it could be. Not only is it a poorly-written mess of a movie, but it feels like M. Night Shyamalan wanted to make a movie about how awesome he is. Throughout the movie I just got the feeling that M. Night was positive that this was the greatest movie of all time and I just had to agree with him.
It's bad enough that the titular "lady in the water" is called a "narf" (Apparently Pinky was on the writing team). It's bad enough that none of the characters act in a remotely believable way. It's bad enough that none of the mythology is explained well and makes little sense. However, M. Night wasn't content to stop there, no, M. Night didn't think directing, writing and producing his movie was enough. No, he needed to also play a major role in it. The role of a character whose writing is so inspirational, it causes a young boy to one day become president.
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Otakon back in July was a ton of fun. I got see friends, film premieres, and awesome guests. There was something else there this year that was a really big surprise to me and that was the Art of Akira exhibit. Art of Akira is the brainchild of Joe Peacock, a man with one of the largest collections of art from the film Akira.
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