the village rocks

[Jamdin]

I watched it earlier this evening and thought it was boring.

 

[demiurge1138]

I just rewatched it, and I still liked it. I do wish the monsters were real, though. The movie's other twists would have worked just as well. Still, it was a very well-made movie, with a good script, direction and cinematography. Most of the poor reviews, including some of those below, seem to be more of disappointment about the above spoiler.

Demiurge out.

 

[Krieg]

Finally watched it last night. All in all I enjoyed it, far from perfect but nowhere near the hackfast that it has been portrayed as.

It reminds me a lot of the reaction to Signs...most of the criticism seems to be directed at what it wasn't rather than what it was.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I also quite liked it, but I hadn't seen any of the commercials and so was under no wrong impressions. I think it would have been cooler had the monsters been real. I, like some here, noticed that it was modern early on (some of the ironwork and the fat man's tie).

 

[astralpwka]

I tried to make myself like it, but I failed. 3 out of 4 good movies by Night isn't bad I guess. I do think what sucked in the Village is that too many of us grew up with Scooby Doo, and Scooby Doo has his own movies, and doesn't need the Village to be Scooby Doo 3.

 

[Crothian]

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).

I figured the monster was fake but not who was responsible, and that it wasn't a period peice was something many people seemed to pick up on.

 

[Krieg]

I think it would have been cooler had the monsters been real. I, like some here, noticed that it was modern early on (some of the ironwork and the fat man's tie).

The few anachronisms I picked up I just glossed over in my mind as "typical Hollywood"....oops! lol

Although about 1/3 of the way through I looked over at my wife and said "Watch it'll turn out they're actually in the middle of Central Park" ....I was completely joking and almost choked on my pop-corn when Ivy bumped into the wall surrounding the compound.

 

[Mercule]

Just rented it last week, myself. My wife and I enjoyed it. Won't be buying it, but it wasn't a waste of time, either.

I think I actually benefited from rampant spoilerage, too. Some of the spoilers I heard were just plain wrong (

Spoiler

they're inmates in an asylum and the village is their shared hallucination???

-- yes, that's an incorrect spoiler that I'd heard and thought it was confirmed a couple of times). I thought I knew the twist, but spent most of the movie wondering how that could possibly work out.

 

[ssampier]

Finally watched it last night. All in all I enjoyed it, far from perfect but nowhere near the hackfast that it has been portrayed as.

It reminds me a lot of the reaction to Signs...most of the criticism seems to be directed at what it wasn't rather than what it was.

Darn. I wanted to see the Village. I hated Signs, so if it's anything like that*....


*This is where positive press worked against me. I saw the commercials for it, I thought, "That looks lame; crop circles???" Then I started to hear positive things about it. I rented it, hated it on its own merits, film at 11.

 

[Morrus]

I really enjoyed it. I found it to be good, solid entertainment; not as complex as I'd expected it to be, but a good watch, nonetheless.