Lady In The Water - A Quick Look - By sjp1966@hotmail.co.uk

Cleveland Heap is a building superintendent for an apartment block with a sad past. After slipping and knocking himself semi conscious and falling into the apartment complexes pool he is rescued by a lady called Story.

Story is about a Narf, who is a character from an old bedtime story and she is trying to get back home, before she can do so various criteria need to be met. One by one Cleveland gets his neighbours to help and they attempt to get Story back home.

She is however hunted by a Scrunt which logged like a hyena made out of grass. They need to defeat the Scrunt before Story can return home.

I don’t normally like M. Night Shyamalan movies, I liked Six Sense and that’s it so I really thought this was going to be poor. However I have to say that I really enjoyed the film, it was close encounters vs. an X-Files episode and despite its faults it was a film I enjoyed watching.

Paul Giamatti was good as Cleveland and I found his back story believable, Bryce Dallas Howard was great a Story, her unusual looks lending an air of authority to her character. Sure there were a few times when I was like “huh, no-way” but this is a movie, “huh no way things are supposed to happen.

It wont be the greatest film you ever see, but you can certainly do worse that to sit down and watch this for the evening.

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I think it was around 1979 when I tried to sneak into the local Odeon cinema to see Ridley Scott’s Alien that I started to become more aware of movies and finding out what I liked in terms of genre. But somewhat surprisingly even at that young age I was enjoying some of the older films such as Forbidden Planet.

It was not until I was given my first DVD that the bug hit me. And it was all down to a mate giving me a Region 1 version of “The Matrix” as his player was only a region 2. From there it has been a mainly constant purchasing process to increase my collection which currently sits at 1000+ individual movies and television episodes; although invelos which only counts per barcode shows it as 485.

I have been on the Digital Lard site since its earlier incantation DVD Lard, and after a period of time took the plunge into doing reviews and this is what I currently do.

My favourite genres are mainly Action/Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi and Mystery although I do like films from other genres too.

Ten of my favourites film are (in no particular order) Alien, Aliens, 12 Angry Men (1957), Forbidden Planet, The Thing, Jaws, Blade Runner, 300, Full Metal Jacket, Forrest Gump, Although there are plenty more movies that I could list here.

Favourite actors at the moment would be Christian Bale, Christopher Walken, Johnny Depp, Basil Rathbone, Samuel L Jackson, Favourite directors are David Fincher and Ridley Scott.