"The Village" Official Spoiler Thread

[Rhydant]

Shit.... i just read the same thing on AICN... god damn....

I'm not even sure what to think.

Must find torrent.

[Despair]

Man, Ebert hated this quite a bit. He gave it 1 star, and does some funny commentary on it, and its flaws

http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert...illage30f.html

Just read the "twist" description, and its just sounds really, really, realy STUPID.

"Amish Matrix"

Well, This again shows that Mr Nights is overrated. He is a great director, but please keep him away from writing and acting.

[Mzo]

That review is pretty harsh =X

[Korly]

M. Night shows that writing is not one of his better qualities since the dialogue just becomes laughably bad and i called the twist a mile away.

The dialogue being bad is one of the clues. In the very beginning, it's more pronounced and you're thinking "something isn't quite right here".

Also, I think all of you who read what was in this thread before actually seeing the movie, just ruined a really great film for yourselves.

There is a moment in the film, after the monsters are revealed to be fake, when it starts to look like maybe they werent really fake afterall. Lots of tension in that scene.

Regardless of what Rico says, I think the acting (especially from the main character) was really good.

Yes, I called the twist about halfway through the movie, but just 'cause I guessed at it, doesn't mean I wasn't still wondering all the way up until it was revealed.

Fuck the haters.

I guarantee this movie is gonna go down like Blair Witch. I started hearing about Blair Witch about a year before it came out. The stuff was treated as news, not as a movie. Then, closer to its release I saw the internet site, and of course the documentary thing (the one that looked like a film you'd see in school). Then, the movie got it's limited release (just 13 cities) and that's when I saw it (at the historic Charles Theatre in Baltimore). Blair Witch is one of my favorite movies ever.

BUT...

Once everyone found out about the hoax of it, it just tore everything down. And most people heard that it was fake way before they saw it. Going into it knowing it was fake, ruined the whole point of it, and then people ripped on the movie.

I fear the same thing is going to happen to The Village.

[Despair]

Fake or not fake, wouldnt help Blair Witch. It was friggin boring, and people overhyped the hell out of it.

In case of the Village, the most of the movie might be good, with great atmosphere and all, but come the said "twist" people would feel cheated, and that pretty much might kill any liking for the movie, even if you were enjoying it before.

Oh well, I will see it for myself anyway, spoiler usually dont bother me much anyway, and if its done well, it will be unsettling even if I know the story. Signs was like that for the first half, even though I knew about Aliens and the ending.

[sethsez]

The problem is that M. Night builds his movies entirely around the twist. Unbreakable wasn't as dependant on it, and The Sixth Sense didn't need the twist to BE a twist (the story was about a dead man who doesn't know he's dead... M. Night just decided to hide it from the audience as well), so both of those turned out okay. But Signs... the little girl's quirk was just stupid and existed solely to set up the ending.

But with each of those movies, at least the twist fell in with the movie's theme. Sixth Sense was still a ghost story, Unbreakable was still a superhero's origin, and Signs was still about an alien invasion. The Village pretends to be a period horror piece, and it isn't.

M. Night needs to make a movie that doesn't rely so heavily on a last-minute twist. It was great in Sixth Sense, but in every movie since then it's felt more and more like a cop out, and eventually he's going to have to branch out a bit or risk losing the public's interest. Since he's so fond of Hitchcock and Serling, he should realise that even they didn't put a major twist in every story they did. Sometimes, it's just not needed.

[Drewbacca]

That's the funniest Ebert review I've ever read. The guy is hilarious, using gaboling and slyly shortening Those Who Have No Names name with , etc. This is why he's such a brilliant critic.

[sethsez]

Just got back from seeing it, and I think it's the most pompous piece of trash I've seen in a long time. Twist be damned, the only good thing about this movie was the direction. I guess I'd say the acting was good, too, but the dialog is so awful that I had to constantly stifle laughs.

And whatever happened to the Shyamalan who was able to write compelling characters in Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs? I didn't care about a single character in this movie, and most of them were just a single personality trait.

[Korly]

This is why I stay out of Cinemania.

I don't agree with any of you, and I don't care about it enough to argue.

[sethsez]

You stay out of cinemania because people disagree with you? Whatever.