M. Night is a huge disappointment to me, but I'm hoping he eventually comes to the light.

I adore Unbreakable and the 6th Sense. Both were great storytelling making 'important ideas' accessible.

He deserved the early 'genius' designation. I just wish he'd not gobbled up his own press and gotten so inflated. It's painful to watch his indignation over how misunderstood he is and how people just don't 'get' his grand vision. I absolutely got it...I just don't want to see him being so immaturely ego driven. I think his art suffers mightily for it.

The Key to Reserva.

It's a commercial for a Spanish champagne, but the idea is that Martin Scorsese is filming three-and-a-half pages of a lost Hitchcock script as Hitchcock would have done it himself. It's very nice and cute.

I don't know whether it's because I'm not paying enough attention, or Sci Fi's cuts, or if it's just really incoherent, but The Abyss has me totally confused. I have no idea what's going on in this movie. I shouldn't have to work this hard on a mindless thriller.

James Cameron's Abyss? No, I don't think it's incoherent. But I also don't think it's a mindless thriller.

Well, it's possible I just have the dumb.

Oh, I vote we blame Sci-Fi.

I believe that The Abyss would have been a far better film if they had cut the alien subplot altogether and made it a straight thriller.

I agree with Scola.

I just watched Notting Hill. I really think the scene with Bill Withers' "Aint No Sunshine" is, without a doubt, one of the best uses of a piece of music in a movie scene EVER.

Actually, it is better when you watch Cameron's original cut, which is almost 40 minutes longer, and hasn't had the alien subplot cut in half.

Specifically, it's the end half that's missing.

Even without Sci-Fi edits, there's a rather important half hour chunk that's missing from the movie, and it does make a big difference when you see it put back in.

I think, though, that the subplot of The Abyss is better than the main plot. If by subplot you mean "Cabin Fever 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" and by main plot you mean "Close Encounters of the Flipper! Kind." Watching an ordinary human go insane and his fellow humans react to it will always be more interesting to me than being preached at by space aliens.

And anyway, even with the 40 minutes missing, it's still way too long a movie. Probably what Jim Cameron should have done is just make two movies.