Has anyone seen The Village, i've just been to see it then and i thought it was amazing. True it drags a little but it's one of those films that doesn't need action and so on. I just thought it had so much depth in it.
The ending was great, i mean i could of watched the film before that point 10 times and still not figure out what was about to happen next and be right. That was definately without a doubt that was his best film yet IMO, I wont say what happens at the end incase any one's going to see it.
What did you all think?
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I hated this movie.
I thought that The Village was a good movie, i EXPECTED IT TO BE A REALLY SCARY MOVIE BUT IT WAS STILL A GOOD THRILLER.
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It seems like people either really liked the movie, or really hated it. Personally, i thought it was great. What i thought really stood out was the cinematography.
I love the writer of this story. He always comes up with good stuff. M. Night Shamalan is the same guy that did Signs and the Sixth Sense. Plus he plays a part in all of his movies... Did you know that?
Spoiler Alert!
Sixth Sense
He plays as the husband of the woman that wants to buy the very expensive ring.
Signs
He plays as the guy that killed Mel Gibson's role's wife. The guy that fell asleep at the wheel.
The Village
He plays as the "cop" reading the newspaper at the desk
Spoiler Alert!
Sixth Sense
He plays as the husband of the woman that wants to buy the very expensive ring.
Signs
He plays as the guy that killed Mel Gibson's role's wife. The guy that fell asleep at the wheel.
The Village
He plays as the "cop" reading the newspaper at the desk
Actually, i think Night plays a doctor in the Sixth Sense.
You're right.
Edited to not make myself look so stupid.
Edited to not make myself look so stupid.
Sixth sense,dream....not the village, i meant that comment to go to tyjet 3 when he said Night was buying a ring in the Sixth Sense
I saw the movie and I was bored throu most of it because it spent too much time on showing you how the people lived rather then caracter development ( that only happened in the last 20 mins. of the movie and then with only one of the caracters) and the twist at the end was too much of a twist and sent the movie on an alltoether path were the first 2/3rds of the movie ment nothing other then to get you disgusted with the actions of the elder. I honestly did not like the movie in any aspect and would not concider it a thriller but more as a social comentary. To call it a THRILLER baced on, what 5 total mins., is seriously misleading and it misses the whole point of the twist.
SPOILERS IN THIS POST, skip if you havent seen The Village for yourself
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I was looking foreward to this movie so much, and up until the ending it was great!
Unfortunately in the end I enjoyed the preveiws more than the actual movie. I was quite dissapointed as I was expecting some weird awsome mythological or supernatural culture of *things* in the woods of something really freaky like that, but we all know how it turned out. old men in suits, though I have to admit the "creatures" looked awsome. But a suit, oh no, special found one of the suites we kept under the floorboards so he went and attacked his blind fwiend in the woods who had been journeying for half a day minus the weight of the heavy material hides and bones a suit would have benn made of.
And did anyone else notice the preveiws gave you different footage then the actual movie, the effect was that it looked horribly scary and supernatural. Isn't that false advertising or something?? jk.
oh well, you have to give him credit for cleverness but lets hope is next movie has the spirit and suspence that his pevious movie did. Signs is up there in my top 5, most definately.
SPOILERS
SPOILERS
I was looking foreward to this movie so much, and up until the ending it was great!
Unfortunately in the end I enjoyed the preveiws more than the actual movie. I was quite dissapointed as I was expecting some weird awsome mythological or supernatural culture of *things* in the woods of something really freaky like that, but we all know how it turned out. old men in suits, though I have to admit the "creatures" looked awsome. But a suit, oh no, special found one of the suites we kept under the floorboards so he went and attacked his blind fwiend in the woods who had been journeying for half a day minus the weight of the heavy material hides and bones a suit would have benn made of.
And did anyone else notice the preveiws gave you different footage then the actual movie, the effect was that it looked horribly scary and supernatural. Isn't that false advertising or something?? jk.
oh well, you have to give him credit for cleverness but lets hope is next movie has the spirit and suspence that his pevious movie did. Signs is up there in my top 5, most definately.
Shyamalan broke his own rules in this one. In his other movies, the supernatural things were real. You had ghosts in the Sixth Sense, superheroes in Unbreakable and aliens in Signs. However, in this movie, the supernatural wasn't real. He toyed with audience expectations, and the audience got screwed.
If you think about it that way then the rest of his career could have been setting it up for this movie. hope he does better in the future.
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| Actually, i think Night plays a doctor in the Sixth Sense. |
No, he was difinatly the husband guy buying the ring. The doctor was a white guy. M. Night is like indian (from india).
I never saw Unbreakable... is it worth renting?
| QUOTE (tyjet3 @ Sep 2 2004, 01:05 PM) |
| I never saw Unbreakable... is it worth renting? |
Yeah, it's alright. It's kinda boring, but it's okay. You'll be able to spot the bad guy from way far away. Actually, he's in the foreground of the first or second scene. He's hard to miss, but he's definitely there.
I thought the movie was ok I expected it to be really scary but a good thriller anyway 
| QUOTE (DreamOfTheRood @ Sep 2 2004, 12:58 AM) |
| Shyamalan broke his own rules in this one. In his other movies, the supernatural things were real. You had ghosts in the Sixth Sense, superheroes in Unbreakable and aliens in Signs. However, in this movie, the supernatural wasn't real. He toyed with audience expectations, and the audience got screwed. |
Are you saying that ghosts, superheroes etc... are real?
Okaaay then.
Signs was a terrible movie with plot holes bigger than the Titantic.
Why, if the aliens' weakness is water, do they come to Earth? Not only is water in the atmosphere, but a small percent of Earth is COVERED by water! [/mixed sarcasm].
I don't expect the Village to be very good, considering the reviews I'm getting from the internet and friends.
Then again, I never planned on seeing it anyways! >_<
My $0.02
~Val
| QUOTE (valdir @ Sep 9 2004, 10:58 PM) |
| Are you saying that ghosts, superheroes etc... are real? |
No.
In the fictionalized worlds that M. Night creates, he treats supernatural beings as if they were real. In other words, his movies are based on fictional characters, just like every other movie.
In the set of rules within his previous movies, supernatural things were real, and that was alright. My inner geek celebrates that. However, in The Village, he threw out his own rulebook. Instead of creating a fictionalized world where these fictional creatures could exist, he created a world where these fictional creatures did not exist, effectively mimicking the real world. By doing that, he toyed with audience expectations. The audience was introduced to these creatures in red, and they expected these creatures to be real. However, Shyamalan tricked us by doing so; the creatures were not real, and our expectations were left somewhere alongside the burning ashes of a coherent plot.
I really like Shyamalan's other films, but The Village was a very disappointing film.
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| Shyamalan broke his own rules in this one. In his other movies, the supernatural things were real. You had ghosts in the Sixth Sense, superheroes in Unbreakable and aliens in Signs. However, in this movie, the supernatural wasn't real. He toyed with audience expectations, and the audience got screwed. |
Maybe he did it because it would be even better then if the supernatural was not real... I think he did this for a reason.
You were expecting the supernatural stuff to be real based off of his other movies. He broke his pattern to surprise the audience even more!! I think it was a great move on his part and don't the think the audience got screwed at all.
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