M. Night Shyamalan's new film - "The Village"

The site doesn’t show too much yet… just a teaser trailer and a short synopsis of the story.

Still, this makes me happy. I love The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, and I thought Signs was pretty good, but with a disappointing ending. Perhaps he’s learned his lesson for this new one… and anyway, the premise is intriguing, full of all sorts of possibility. I get a very Shirley Jackson sort of feel from it, and that’s a good thing.

The only problem with Signs was that the aliens were obviously from planet Moron in the Retard Nebula.

I went to see Cold Mountain last night (good picture, BTW) and I saw the preview for The Village. I’m a big M. Night fan myself, and this movie should be a good one, if you consider the cast - William Hurt, Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver and Adrien Brody.

But I don’t think it’s coming out for awhile??? They did that with Signs, too. Big build-up before the release date.

I’ll definitely spend $8 to see it. I’ve enjoyed all of his movies so far, and the acting is generally quite good.

So are they retards or morons? Or are you saying retards are morons?

This was talked about at great length in earlier threads, but I’d like to reiterate a basic point: you’re assuming they were aliens. It’s never proven what they are; in fact, they mostly remain a mystery, which is fine since the movie isn’t really about them.

Speaking of Shirley Jackson – I know Shyamalan likes to write his own movies, but he’d be good to do a film adaptation of Jackson’s novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Just a thought.

Oh – and why do you think Mormons are retards? That’s just bigoted, man. You gotta let go of the hate to make room for the love.

Wel, they’re obviously retarded to attack the planet earth, 2/3’ds of which is covered by a substance they fear terribly, inhabited by people that don’t care about them one way or the other, naked. Oh yeah, and their poison can barely kill an asthmatic kid. And, if they were attacking naked so as not to provoke humans into not using our big bombs, they’re morons, since we’d use them anyway if they made any real gains. A group of these advanced aliens couldn’t roll over a bloody unarmed farmer for god’s sake. Inner-city gangs have more firepower than the whole alien army. I could hold off a whole platoon of these brain-dead fools. Copmpared to them, drunken fratboys are equal to Albert Frickin Einstein.

They started out as retards, but then firmly embraced the path of moronhood as fanatical religious cult.

That is one nice looking movie (aesthically). That alone makes it worth seeing for me (I also happen to like M. Night Shyamalan’s movies which doesn’t hurt anything).

Wow, I just had a rush of memory. That was my favorite book for a long time when I was growing up, but I hadn’t thought about it for decades. Has anyone ever filmed it, for television or anything?

I agree with your first paragraph, btw.

Alright, fair enough, but if they’re not aliens, then what? Being aliens makes things remotely make sense (crop circles, etc.), but what else would even come that close to explaining it? No matter who or what did it, they’re obviously morons of the highest (or lowest?) caliber.

Whaddaya mean they’re not aliens? Hello, they arrived in soqaceships, they were allergic to water (which does indeed make them morons for invading a watery-rich planet).

M. Night Shymalan’s movies all have a Big Twist a la The Twilight ZoneBruce Willis is a ghost; Bruce Willis is a superhero; God uses the aliens to restore Mel Gibson’s faith. I accidentally found out The Village’s Serlingesque revelation, and it’s really, really stupid, so dimwitted that it makes Signs look like The Third Man.

Here it is, so if you DO NOT WANT TO KNOW, don’t look:

The village is not living in 1897, but in 2004, and the unseen “beasts” are outsiders logging the forest where the villagers live.

Again, the creatures in Signs are a mystery. Yes, I could come up with a scenario that would explain all their behavior, but the uncertainty and lack of solid knowledge are an essential part of the movie in order for the viewer to emotionally share the family’s experience. But yeah, I would like to sit down with M. Night Shyamalan for about half an hour to talk about it.

I can’t see the new trailer. Why? Because don’t have the very latest version of Flash. Will I download the latest version of Flash? No. Why? Because every time I try to, the download not only fails but locks my PC so that I have to unplug it in order to reboot. Apparently a lot of people are running into the same problem.

Didn’t Stephan King already write this story? It probably won’t be anything like IT but it does sound a little similar.

Gobear – what makes you think those were spaceships? Of all the things that bright objects hovering over a city could be, why leap to spaceships? Again, just an assumption. The people in the movie leap to all sorts of speculations, but they don’t really know. And what happens at the end could simply be a coincidence; that’s what I would think, but the pastor-farmer reacts by regaining his faith, because that’s his nature. I don’t have any faith myself, but it’s a powerful theme.

No, thanks, I’m not gonna read your spoiler. Oh, and you’re mistaken about what the “twist” is in Unbreakable. And the end of Signs wasn’t really a twist. In any case, those movies work (or don’t) regardless; seeing The Sixth Sense a second time, I enjoyed the story in a different way, knowing what I hadn’t before.

Oh fuck why did I look…lol. Hopefully I’ll have forgotten by summer.

Gobear – okay, I read the spoiler. Curiosity will kill me someday. The “twist” you describe really would be moronic, but I’ll bet you money your information is mistaken.

You mean Samuel Jackson being the bad guy?That’s just part of the spoiler I mentioned. Maybe you see it differently.

And shiny objects in the sky says “spaceships” to most people. The folks in the movie regarded the invaders as aliens, and IMO, any other reading lacks supporting evidence.

And the spoiler for The Village comes from someone who saw a work print.

My favorite theory about the creatures in Signs – I dunno if it was discussed in previous threads – points to the following things:

  1. They don’t seem to have any technology worth noting;
  2. They seem to exist for the purposes of restoring the faith of one man, in a Joblike parable; and
  3. People in the Holy Land are the ones that figure out to use water against them.

These things are not aliens; they’re demons.

Watched that way, the movie makes more sense.

Daniel

And in any event, the aliens in Signs are just a cheap device to shpw Mel Gibson’s character that God exists and is active in the universe, which is a load of theistic propaganda, if you ask me.

I think it’ll be worth it for the cast alone; I adore Brendan Gleeson.