the village rocks

[lotuseater]

so i watched the village last week. i really enjoyed it, even though i know it got such terrible reviews and didn't do well at the box office. in fact, the more i think about it, the more i enjoyed it. better than signs and unbreakable, in my opinion. but i expect it's not to everyone's taste. too bad, becuase i'd like to see more movies like it that value acting, unique characters, and subtlety.

what do other people think?

 

[Krieg]

Try these threads:

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=96950&highlight=village

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=96117&highlight=village

 

[frankthedm]

I felt it was a deceitfully advertised [well made though] episode of Scooby-doo designed for those people whose lives sucked enough to identify with with the character’s actions from the movie.

 

[The Serge]

I thought it was a well-presented, well-thought out movie that was poorly advertised because M. Night Shyalman has sort of boxed himself into a corner. Furthermore, too many people went in not to watch the movie, but to try and find the "twist."

 

[WayneLigon]

The more I think about it the more I hate it.

 

[Captain Tagon]

The more I think about it the more I hate it.

Seconded there. My friend STILL makes the comment after seeing any bad movie, "Well that was lame, but not as bad as the Suckage." (Suckage is his name for the Village.)

 

[Crothian]

I never saw it, but considering that the "twist" was obvious from the previews it didn't seem good at all.

 

[Chain Lightning]

I never saw it, but considering that the "twist" was obvious from the previews it didn't seem good at all.

The twist was obvious from the previews? Geez louise...that's some awesome detective skills there. Actually...sounds like border line clairvoyance.

I admit I figured the twist out about a third into the movie (yah, I can easily see that)...but I'm trying to imagine how the heck the trailers gave you enough info to figure the twist.

Unless there is some extra long trailer that showed more that I didn't see. But come on! Figured it out from the previews? I can see if you made a wild guess and it happened to come true...but to see the previews and say "oh yah...its about this" ....I dunno man.

Or maybe you saw the cast and director talk a lot about it on talk shows and figured the twist out from there? That I can maybe believe.

 

[Crothian]

I don't watch talk shows, or read cast interviews. There were more then a few different trailers, and maybe it was a leap of logic, a wiuld guess but it seemed to make sense and then once people started spoiling it I leraned I was right. I wasn't the only one to do this, I've talked to mre then afew that figured it out without seeing it.

 

[Eosin the Red]

I am not sure that I understand -

Spoiler

you got that a retarded fella had picked up his parents monster suit to caper around the woods? How in the world did you get that from a preview?

Or did you get that it was not a period piece - it only very, very superfically appeared to be one?

I can buy the second but the first seems to rank you up there with John Edwards (not the political one).

Overall, I liked the film. It did not knock my socks off but it had a great love story between two very non-mainstream people, it had good acting but goofy language, and a really thought provoking story. It does have some dry spots - some of them rather long - but so did Bridges of Madison County