JAMES NEWTON HOWARD

Ah, sorry i got up at 7;30 this morning to go to work and i am still working and it's 1.15 a.m. Not exactly my best of states for witty-pun understanding!

Hehe, not really my friend.I found lady simply irritating, the plot was ridiculous and the Shyamalan's cameo and acting was pain-inducing

Only the opening and closing music from the lady in the water, namely the GREAT EATLON cue in particular are moments of pure film magic to me. The wholy with the moral talking of the neighbors and the lady chick in the shower towards the end made me want to punch the tv!

So, should I change the name of my Nanny McPhee soundtrack, since I bought the iTunes release before they decided to rename it?

<pained> I... agree...with...Gilles?

Must... get...
...pills...

To me, what you refer to as unintentionally laughable is actually why its so ingenious. The film works so differently depending on how you choose to approach it, that it's practically as close as you can get to having multiple films in one. Practically every scene works on multiple levels, and it's completely up to the viewer which level you watch it on. It can be a total comedy, or it can be very serious in an allegorical sort of way. So I wouldn't say the laughability is unintentional, I'd say it's deliberate. Designed to appeal to a broader audience, which is partly why it did so well at the box office despite scathing reviews AND an R-rating limitation. I think after Lady, which was brilliant but also extremely good at offending multiple demographics simultaneously, Night realized he had to expand his target audience, and managed to do so without abandoning the core elements of his style and personality as a film-maker.

I just came back from seeing the film. The score is, as with all the other Shyamalan-Howard projects, brilliant in context. What I guessed in the other thread about the main theme is indeed correct...those four notes play right across the main title, and carry through many major moments of the film, including the climax. I think Howard has been brainwashed by Christopher Nolan and thinks that films about heros don't deserve full-bodied main themes unless the hero has earned them ...and this was definitely a journey/becoming-the-hero type film.

The choir is not too different from the way it sounds on the album. I'm not as upset about its elimination after hearing the original version. In fact, I might not have even noticed the difference if I hadn't known about it ahead of time.

Yeah, good one.

That was a joke?

I think it's the closest thing to a perfect film that I've ever seen, but I am probably the only person in the world, above the age of 8, who will say that. It's specifically targeted at young children and both the writing and the underlying themes are painted in very broad strokes. I think the reason critics are hating the writing is a result of Shyamalan writing the script to be as easily translatable as possible, in order to be as universal as possible. I think it will be a huge success internationally, not so much in the states and europe. I don't think Shyamalan cares in the slightest what the critics think of him, he proved that in Lady in the Water. And as long as his films continue to turn a profit, he will keep getting to do whatever he wants. I think this one definitely will, despite initial appearances.

Shyamalan needs a hit ala The Sixth Sense, except for loyalty he could find JNH out of his price range.

Sounds pretty standard... not to say boring... I stick to "Last Airbender" and leave "Salt" (so far) pass by.

That kind of reasoning only applies to themes and characters audiences are already familiar with. It worked in Casino Royale because we knew it was a genesis story; we knew the character and his theme.

Try that shit with a new character and a new theme for a completely new movie, and it falls apart.

Seeking justice is serious.

Then why is The Dark Knight one of the highest grossing films of all time?

Generally when non-serious subjects are treated more seriously than they deserve, the result is a laughably pretension film, and those kinds of films do not become hits in this day and age.