Critics All Wet on Shyamalan's WATER

Like that headline? If I was a newspaper editor, my favorite part would be coming up with clever-sounding headlines.

Basically, I want to know what you thought of this highly unusual film from one America's most intriging directors, M. Night Shyamalan.

As you can guess from my headline, I liked the movie...or at least I didn't hate it as much as most film critics did. It was a very strange film...a clumsy film in many respects. But it was also an ambitious film, a film that tried very hard to be something special. This is not a cynical film, nor is M. Night a cynical filmmaker. I think that's why I liked it more than I hated it. M. Night is a "believer." You'll hear me say that word a lot this year. I may even ask you what you believe in. When I do, I'm trying to get at what you love...what you're passionate about.

M. Night is passionate--I think--about outsiders and misfits. He thinks that there are big, important things worth believing in. And he loves a great, mind-bending tale...and knows how to use the language of cinema to tell his stories.

He and I have a lot in common, I think.

How about you? What did you think of LADY IN THE WATER?

And what do you believe in?