M. Night Shyamalans "The Village"

[KenM]

Signs wasn't really about aliens, it was about Mel Gibson's character.

Thats what bothered me about it. it was not promotated like that at all in the trailers/ ads. So I was expecting something different then what I got.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

I was really surprised when I read one article/interview thing back when Shyamalan had just started work on this movie and it mentioned albatwitches in it. Now, unless the legend is much bigger than I realize, AFAIK the story of albatwitches is a strictly local one here in town. The name is supposedly derived from 'apple-snitch' somehow, and they're these little monkey/gnome guys that live in wooded areas. The name comes from what's supposedly one of their favorite foods to steal. Really neat I thought that he'd pay attention to a tiny little legend from a little putz town like here.

 

[WayneLigon]

Thats what bothered me about it. it was not promotated like that at all in the trailers/ ads. So I was expecting something different then what I got.

You get that occassionally, when a marketing department or advertising company either drops the ball or decides to intentionally misrepresent the film. Remember the trailers from Dead Poet's Society or Kindergarten Cop, which portrayed both films as comedies? Wholly unlike the tone of the film. Now, go look at the two Thunderbirds trailers that are now out. Second one tells a great deal more about the film than the first one, and it changes your expectations 180 degrees (from 'nostalgic action movie' to more of a 'Spy Kids/Clockstoppers-esque teen action movie').

 

[Taelorn76]

IIRC Arachnophobia with John Goodman was promoted as a comedy and it was very far from it.

Same thing could be said for The Haunted Mansion with Eddie Murphy.

I couldn't resist.

 

[Crothian]

his movies are not near as clebver as he seems to think they are...they are okay at best.

 

[Frostmarrow]

You get that occassionally, when a marketing department or advertising company either drops the ball or decides to intentionally misrepresent the film. Remember the trailers from Dead Poet's Society or Kindergarten Cop, which portrayed both films as comedies? Wholly unlike the tone of the film. Now, go look at the two Thunderbirds trailers that are now out. Second one tells a great deal more about the film than the first one, and it changes your expectations 180 degrees (from 'nostalgic action movie' to more of a 'Spy Kids/Clockstoppers-esque teen action movie').

Good marketers make several different trailers, each with different clips. That's why you get kissing in dusk, and bombs at dawn in the same movie.

My guess is that the first trailer was aired late at night and the second one in the late afternoon.

 

[Azlan]

Hmm... From viewing this preview, The Village appears to be very similar to a movie I saw, back in the '80s. It was titled Eyes of Fire. It was set in the American colonies, in the mid-18th century. It presented an eerie, atmospheric tale of settlers who encounter the supernatural in the form of a forest's resident evil spirits. And that seems to be pretty much the setting and the premise of this new movie as well.

 

[John Crichton]

his movies are not near as clebver as he seems to think they are...they are okay at best.

I don't think he is trying to be clever. I think he is trying to be stylish and moody which he does well.

But then again, I loved his last 3 films and they were not just about the twist, they were good because of the experience.

To each his own.

 

[Mistwell]

Watching the 7 minute preview of this movie during the Unbreakable showing on TV. It looks really good. Spooky, dark, carefully detailed, lots of historical touches to keep the movie immersive, and well acted.

 

[Berandor]

Unbreakable is one of my, if not my favorite superhero movies. So I'm gonna watch it, unless he really, really drops the ball (and has Bruce Willis turn into a house wife from the '50s).