I finally saw The Village this weekend

Well looks like I’m one of the few people that really liked and enjoyed this movie, that could partly be due to the fact that:

(a) I watched it “clean” ie: avoided virtually all pre-release publicity, ads, trailers etc so had no idea what to expect. This is something I do as standard practice for all movies now after the Sixth Sense was spoiled by some brainiac putting all the pivotal scenes into the trailer.

(b)Didn’t spend the whole movie trying to figure out the twist. Actually I thought that “They who must not be named” would be Indians attacking the village and messing with their heads.

In summary, more movies of this type please, that take at least a bit of a risk.

YMMV of course.

I vastly preferred the novel it shamelessly ripped off: Running out of Time.