I’m sorry, my suspension of disbelief just flew right out the window when I saw that these supposedly kindly, well-meaning, avoiding-cruelty villagers
Sent a blind girl into the woods all by herself. I mean, they sent two guys, but when they saw the two come back, they just sat there?]
I mean, WTF?
I just found out the young blind girl is the daughter of Ron Howard. Did she receive any Oscar Nominations?
The point is, SHE WAS BLIND!!!
She was the only person who couldn’t report what she saw.
The elder gave her ample directions.
I know, I got it. It still seemed needlessly cruel. SO many other things could have happened to her in the woods other than just being eaten by the fake monsters.
There’s so much disbelief that you’ve got to suspend in that movie that it was hanging from the rafters in the theater and dripping down on the people watching it.
I don’t think you need to use spoilers for a film out this long, but
So does The Village keep a bunch of fighter planes in the air at all time to shoot down any stray aircraft that fly over? I know that planes aren’t supposed to fly over, but c’mon. You mean no airplane is ever going to go off course a bit?
Ol’ M. Night was reachin’ with this one, IMO. I bought in to the creepy feeling (the mist at night was reeeeaalllygood) and the love story in the first part of the film, but, rather than a pay-off as in his other films, I thought it was more of a fake-out. I felt cheated. If he could re-write that movie, take out the ending and focus on the love- story somehow, I think it would be fantastic. Overall, I place this film last, waaay last, among his films and I really liked his others.
heh…I liked Unbreakable, but The Village just bleh me away.
would have made for a good Outer Limits ep. Not so good for a feature film.
Of course, I also HATE William Hurt. I have no idea who decided that he was an acceptable actor.
I go to M. Night movies solely to support my peoples (well, considering the original author of this thread, our peoples, yay Desis who go into something arty, not all of us need to take over the AMA) but yeah, this one, bleh. That said, I loved some elements of this movie-the colours, the pacing and the scene on the porch between Joaquin and the Howard girl was awesome.
Bravo! I agree whole-heartedly. This “actor” has ruined more films for me than any other.
Ugh!
The rich guy paid some people off to make the area over the reservation a no-fly zone
Right, but do you really think it’s plausible that
NO plane (or other modern flying apparatus) ever comes close enough, being off-course or in ignorance of the no-fly zone, to been glimpsed at all? Or even heard? If I heard the roar of an engine somewhere overhead or nearby I would be intrigued.
To me this was just the latest of Shyamalan’s dreck. I disliked Unbreakable and The Sixth Sense, loathed Signs with a passion…but I think The Village might be the worst of them all. I was so happy when I saw that The Village only made about half of Signs’ gross…at that rate pretty soon no one would want to finance Shayamalan’s projects. I can only hope the trend continues.
I saw it recently and thought it sucked. I had figured out most of the “surprise ending” as soon as I saw the date on the gravestone in the first few minutes. And, yeah, Bill Hurt was pretty bad. He needs to stop taking qualudes everyday he’s on location filming. Ron’s daughter was pretty good, but she couldn’t save this dog of a movie.
Why didn’t one of the original settlers go? That was always my question.
The original settlers had made the decision to never go back.
I still don’t think you can buy enough land and bribe enough people to keep all the planes away.
It’s Pennsylvania! It’s not like they were hanging out in rural Montana!
Oh, I was spoiled the second I saw the on-line trailer. I thought the markings on the doors looked like spray paint so I figured “Oh the twist will be…” Now, I don’t really know if there were weird marks on doors that looked like spray paint for not because I haven’t bothered to see the flick. I mean, why bother, I considered myself spoiled. Then I read spoiler that said I was right about the twist.
Hurt always manages to sound like he’s bored to death. It really doesn’t help anything.
You know, I think I would’ve liked the movie a whole lot better if the key premise wasn’t so similar to that of this book that I read when I was younger. (Warning–clicking on that link will reveal the twist).
That happens a lot to me, though. The whole real world not being real thing from the Matrix was something I’d read about first in this YA novel.
What irritated me the most was the way they talked…
… did the Village Grammar Board ban the use of contractions? Is that an important ingredient in creating an environment of “older times?” The actual effect was to create an environment that favored irritating the living shit out of me.
And that’s why I don’t like the way they talked.