Anyone here seen "The Village"....???

[truebrit71]

Saw it for the first time this past weekend and much to my surprise I rather enjoyed it....

How about you?

[havocmom]

1. Interesting but I had it figured out WAY too early in the film

Ron Howard's 'little girl' is gonna be fun to watch in more films. She has a gift too.

[Shell Beau]

3. She was good!

[truebrit71]

6. I hadn't figured it out at all....

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[Shell Beau]

2. I saw it in the theater and I was hugely disappointed.

It could have been good, but he went the wrong way with it!

[caty]

4. Didn't like it.

I was very disappointed in it. :thumbsdown:

[tedoll78]

5. Nyah..

It was so-so. Adrian Brodie (sp?) was great.

The anti-Bush imagery didn't get past me one bit.
Danger colors.. the name of the village's leader.. control via fear.. etc..

[ghostsofgiants]

7. I tried watching it

Didn't like it. I forget why now, but I just didn't enjoy it. My hatred of M. Night Syamalan didn't help either, haha.

[blueknight]

8. my son seen it,

said to "save your money":shrug:

[tjdee]

11. I hate him too!

Why do YOU hate him??

[ghostsofgiants]

20. It all started with The Sixth Sense...

Everyone and their dog was going on about how brilliant it was and that M. Night was a genius and all this shit. I saw it and was thoroughly underwhelmed. Then when I started familiarizing myself with ACTUAL film geniuses (Lynch, Polanski, Kubrick, etc.) I began to realize just how overrated he was.

[Heddi]

9. I was able to figure it out in the first 30 minutes or so - SPOILERS

I could have come up with a much better ending, that really would have been a surprise.

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when they were going on about 'the project' or whatever, I KNEW what was going on. There was something else earlier--I think when they were against "red", I was like "hoookay. What not-so-surprising twist is this going to be? They're living in modern times, right?"

See, for me, the movie would have been better if they never let anyone "in" on the deal so early in the movie. Don't show the pictures or the voiceovers from the therapy group. Just have the people afraid of red, afraid of the beast, and the girl goes into town to get the medicine or whatever.

Then, last scene of the movie, she walks out of the woods, comes across the road, and a car passes by. End. Roll Credits.

[tjdee]

10. M. Night Shymalan and his crappy egomaniacal....ARGHHHHH!!!

He gets in the way of his own movies, IMO. As a director, he actually has some talent, and I have to say I enjoyed Signs a LOT and liked the Village too. But I had to overlook the tired script devices and dumbass cameos.

"Me just like Hitchcock, me want be in all me movies!!" I swear to jeebus he spent more time on his fucking clever cameo than the friggin script. It really, really irritates me.

As a writer, he's ridiculously overrated. Ridiculously. I didn't figure out the Village, but I did figure out the Sixth Sense right after the shooting. In fact, I thought the Sixth Sense had crappy editing, until I saw the end. He forces the ending, regardless of huge plot holes (gee, aliens never heard of water before??) and he does it in such an obvious way as to be very stupid if not executed properly by the right actors.

He is, though, fortunate to have very good actors in his pictures. I think all the actors in The Village did a great job.

[Greyhound]

15. Another Rich Kid that bought a career.

Although Sixth Sense was good.

[Scottie72]

12. totally hated it

I figured it out so long before the end and thought it was totally stupid plot.

[hyphenate]

13. I found it decent

as well. I came away with a lot of questions that were unanswered at the end, however.

[GR]

14. I Liked It...It Was Much Better Than The Reviews...

IMHOP...

[everythingsxen]

16. I felt it should have been rated "D" by the MPAA...

for Dumb.

Just did not care for it.

Of M. Night's movies, the only ones I like (so far) are "Sixth Sense" and especially "Unbreakable".

"Unbreakable" is one of my all time favorite movies.

[Shell Beau]

18. I just recently bought Unbreakable w/o ever having seen it.

It was a decent movie. Sixth Sense was my fave of his though!

[China_cat]

17. Funny, just watched it last night.

Ron Howard's daughter was good in her role but the movie as a whole was just plain predictable.

[pdx_prog]

19. Yeah....was dissapointed....