The Village

[Bo]

Anyone seen it yet?

[G]

no, but i wanna :(

[RoXer]

no, but i wanna :(

[AareDub]

I can't stand M. Night Shamalamawhatever, so I wouldn't touch the movie with a 10ft pole. However, all of my friends that did go see have said that it is "utter garbage."

Aparently it's not really even a horror movie.

[Gonzo]

Heard it was garbage and wasn't even horrifying. Pretty much what Dub said.

[YOUR Hero]

Supposed to be physcologically scary. Like most (all?) of his styles of horror movies. I don't know if I'd trust the judgement of you young whipper snappers.

[G]

On some talk show they said it was half horror half love story.


:wtf:

[Gonzo]

M. Night Jagoff sucks. :y:

[mitch_h]

While I appreciated both the Sixth Sense and Unbreakable everything i've heard about this film has been negative. I hear the film revolves around a big twist at the end of the movie. And i'm pretty sure I can tell what that twist is based on Roger Eberts review as well as the commercials.

[Loose Cannon]

yeah, if you like that guy's style, then you will probably like it. I love his movies.

[El Santo]

I was pretty excited until Roger Ebert gave it just one star. Then I went over to AICN to check the controversial "twist" ending, and I'd have to agree... it seems like garbage.

[PapaGeorgio]

I saw the movie. It had a good start but then like half way through it just gets worse and worse. The big twist is complete garbage, you can easily figure it out just by paying close attention and not underestimating anyone.

[Triple A]

Just saw it. Fucking garbage. Not the "twist". That was fine, but the movie was so fucking boring. Nothing interesting happens and it just moves so slow. I didn't give a fuck about any of the characters either. Terrible. Just like Signs.

[Lara Emily]

Sixth Sense was good but overrated
Unbreakble was fantastic
Signs was funny and decent but the end abolsutely ruined it
The Viallge looks blah, the Trailer failed to impress me at all.

[Shaggy]

Sixth Sense was fantasic...loved every minute of it
Unbreakable was slow but got the job done and was very kickass
Signs was horribly slow..did good in some parts but the worst that he did so far
The Village...I dont think it will be as good as the first 2 movies he did but hopefully better than signs.

[Buzzkill]

I have seen a few previews, and I heard there was a twist, and I'm 90% sure I know what it is.

[FFD]

Yea, I saw it Saturday. I thought it was a waste of my time and money. Towards the middle I kind of had an idea what was going to happen. Wicked boring. Pissed me off.

[AareDub]

Could somebody post the "twist" here in black text or something. I want to see if I am correctly guessing the twist just like I did for the Sixth Sense.

[YOUR Hero]

Signs was a good movie. I really liked it's faith tie in and physcological aspects.

[PapaGeorgio]

Ubreakable is still my favorite, Six Sense was good but way overrated. I hated Signs, but I liked The Vilage over Signs even though they both suck.

[FFD]

Could somebody post the "twist" here in black text or something. I want to see if I am correctly guessing the twist just like I did for the Sixth Sense.
The twist is : That the Elder's were all tired of today's society so they created a new one. The creatures were the elder's. The "creatures were used to keep people from going into the woods and eventually venturing off into today's society and ruining their plan.

Some body correct me if I'm wrong or I missed something.

[AareDub]

The twist is

Thanks.

[PapaGeorgio]

There was a little more to your twist, but without seeing the character really doesn't matter to you people.

[Zelda]

I usually love his movies, but I was a bit deceived. I would have liked it if the focus was more on the creatures in the forest because the movie had some pretty long moments where nothing happened. However, I just loved Bryce Howard in her role.

[PoisonIvy]

Just read the spoilers at some other board. Glad I didn't waste my money. I especially lost interest after finding out what happens to Noah in the end. :n:

[Ninti the Mad]

I liked the movie.

I thought it was good for what it was.

I was kind of expecting that "twist" like that before it even came out.

I wasnt dissapointed although I dont hold movies to high regards so I guess I dont dissapoint myself like that.

[Eternalone79]

I thought it was pretty good...just that the twist got a little too obvious

[Smitty]

It was a decent movie, yet the whole concept was terribly inplausible.

Was I the only one who thought Bryce Howard was like Dare Devil?, man she could get around for a blind woman.

[tucsonspeed6]

I haven't seen this movie, and I feel that from Roger Ebert's review that I don't want to see it, but many of the "reviews" I'm seeing in this thread sound about the same:

"DERF! Darez no m0nztrz N like stuf!!!!1! Itz noy a horer moovy!!!11!"

Seriously, though, not to step on anyone's feet here, but if you go to a movie to see scarey knife weilding dudes jump out from the darkness, you're probably not the best person to give movie reviews.

I'll break down M. Night's movies that I've seen for you.

Sixth Sense:

A bit over-rated for M. Night's first success. He has a deffinate knack for making characters that we could care less about, and this is probably the "dumbest" movie he's made. What I mean by that is that the underlying theme really wasn't there. It's the closest to a horror/thriller movie that one can get in a Night movie. I'm thinking this is why it sold so well.
Most notable for it's "artsy" use of color, the color itself doesn't really have any metaphore to it at all. It's more like Night wanted that post-modern film feel to it and added a "ghost metaphore", no pun intended. So what exactly did the red represent in the film? Nothing really...just something to catch your eye so you'd remember it later.

Unbreakable:

My least favorite movie of the three. Night thought he had the method for a blockbuster down, but he took all of the wrong aspects from his first movie. So now he has a movie where the characters are so bland that he expects you to be frightened by their eerie nature, but all we the viewers feel is boredom. This is also where we first see Night's true weakness: his lack of humor. He takes his movies so seriously that he expects us to be enthralled by characters that speak in monotone voices about things that we might find scary.....if we were paying attention that is.
This movie did have one of the best individual scenes in it of almost any movie I've ever watched: The train station scene. Here Night gives us our first taste of substance: a deeper look at humanity. Just by brushing against "innocent bystanders" we see the true darkness in the hearts of men, and it really makes us think about society.
More use of pseudo-artsy color, plus an added touch of pseudo-artsy camera work that add nothing to the film. (Filming an entire scene from the reflection of a blank TV screen is annoying, not enlightening. Likewise, if three-quarters of the scene's visuals are consumed with panning across a train's seatback, you've lost your audience's interest.

Signs: Tada! A movie that's actually ABOUT something...besides spooky crap. (BTW, if you wanted to see more scenes with aliens attacking, rent Independence Day...and if you think ID4 was better than Signs, you shouldn't invest much of your effort into movie reviews) Night's last movie (despite some people thinking it was wonderful :roll:....) didn't make a big box office splash. So he decided to actually give his characters...well, character! So now we have some characters who actually show emotion; add in a suprise ending twist that actually had something to do with the movie's theme (which was Gibson's reassessment of his faith when his wife's predictions made themselves clear, as opposed to "Suprise! You're a ghost!" or "Surprise! I'm your arch nemisis!")
There's a noticable lack of artsy crap, and for once we feel a bit of humor in the drama. This is Night's best movie as far as I'm concerned.

So now we have this new movie that returns to the melancholy droll of "who cares"ness that takes itself way too seriously, returns the artsy crap, and has a significantly less important theme. (I'm not too sure of this, but it has something to do with love, no?) So tell me this: So if Night's first two movies were wonderful, why is this movie, which returns to their same methodology, total crap?

Hmmm......

[SukkaChump]

i saw it, and man what a shitty twist at the end -.-

[The Outlaw]

No but I <3 your sig, Bo.

[MrMeJW]

I would sooner burn the $10 then pay to go see another M Night Shyamalan movie. I can't stand his movies, they are so pretentious

[Favre4Ever]

I just went to the see "The Village". I sat through a shitload of boring storytelling for no pay-off at all? Are you fucking kidding me? I want my nine dollars back.

[The Mackem]

I didn't know it was the guy that did Signs, Unbrteakable and Sixth Sense. Those were decent movies, especially Unbreakable. Saw a trailer today and I'm intrigued to know what the creatures are.

[Imagi-Nation]

This movie just came out here in Australia.
Saw it earlier tonight and all I can say is THAT WAS SO FUCKING SHIT

[Lara Emily]

I called the tiwst about 15-20 munutes into the movie.