The Village
 

http://membres.lycos.fr/igcq2003/cine/the_village.jpg

http://thevillage.movies.go.com/wall...paper6_800.jpg

http://images.killermovies.com/v/the...age_teaser.jpg

http://hometown.aol.com/scifitalk/images/village.jpg

http://nexbase.net/albums/Village%2C..._The.sized.jpg

"Covington Pennsylvania is a nice quiet town surrounded by a beautiful forest where strange, and unseen creatures live..."

sounds very interesting! Actually....it sounds scary as hell but I'm gonna see it none the less ;)

Check out the trailers at www.imdb.com

I went to college with Judy Greer, and this looks like her biggest movie role to date (she's been a "side" character in a lot of other movies)

it reminds me of the blair witch project

why do people think that M. Night Shymalan is such a great director? He's only made a handful of movies. Sure, he made Signs and The 6th Sense, but didn't he also direct Unbreakable? And wasn't Unbreakable a total piece of crap?

I liked Unbreakable :(

This movie will probably scare the majority of western movie goers... But unfortunately nothing produced by hollywood scares me anymore.

The crazy scary japanese/korean/chinese movies i've watched lately have raised the bar to a new level

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368447/

I find every commericial saying "M. Night Shamalan's" very annoying, though.

It's so as to distinguish it from all the other "The Village" movies out there. ;)

I really enjoy seeing the direction taking on an artistic sense, especially in the symbolism of color. Sixth sense was red, Unbreakable was blue, Signs was green, and The Village is yellow. I can't wait to see it, but need someone with me for moral support to justify jumping out of my seat :)

I certainly want to see this movie - looks awesome.

I think everyone says M. Night Shyamalan is a great director because he is. All of his movies have been great so far. And he's only released a handful of movies so far because he writes and directs them himself.

My wife and I were talking about this film last night...

She mentioned that our son asked her if she wanted to go and see, "M. Night Shaymalan's The Village..." Not The Village but rather M. Night Shaymalan's The Village. She said no, it looks too scary and he said, me neither. Too scary.

1) My family is populated by scardy cats. I only hope my daughter, when she is of age, likes scary films as much as I.

2) Since the success of the Sixth Sense, every M. Night Shaymalan film has been marketed as, M. Night Shaymalan's... I too find this annoying. M. Night Shaymalan as a brand. I mean, his films are OK. Kind of creepy, and definately have a certain vibe to them but who do they think he is... Hitchcock?

M. Night Shaymalan is one of the best directors in recent memory. Even unbreakable was a good movie. Anyhow, I plan on actually finding a sitter for my little one and heading to the movies for the first time this year.

This is exactly what I mean. Too many directors are full of themselves.

What big director doesn't do that? Or producer? Doesn't advertising for Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Jerry Bruckheimer, John Woo, Clint Eastwood, Ron Howard, etc. etc. movies throw their names around too? This is hardly reserved just for Shymalan!

Almost every trailer has the voice over guy saying "M Night Shylaman's".....gets old fast.

I find nothing wrong with them stating his name, I actually like it. What makes the director any different from the actors? EVERY SINGLE MOVIE hypes of the actors, they all get that distinction, and the director, IMO, is much more important anyway.

And as far as the movie goes, I love Shymalan, and I cannot wait to see this film.

I disagree...

Where in the latest campaign for The Terminal is it called, Steven Speilberg's The Terminal... yes Speilberg is used as a marketing tool in that they do interview's with him and "they" let it be known he is the director, etc... but my issue is in the actual title of the film as a marketing ploy.

I think they just like the name M. Night Shaymalan because his name itself is kinda spooky.

I don't know that he is too full of himself... in his defense I can see that the studio's marketing department would cook up this name in the title ploy.

Until I hear that he is responsible for it I will give him the benefit of the doubt.

I do like his films, I just find the way they are marketed rather annoying is all.

I remember way back when when a movie called Dead or Alive starring Rutger Hauer was coming out. THey had commercials on TV saying "Rutger Hauer...Wanted: Dead or Alive". Being relatively young, I'd never heard of Rutger Hauer (although it turns out I'd seen him in a couple of things up to that point). I told my friend that we ought to go see "Rutger Hauer...Wanted: Dead or Alive" that Friday. He told me I was a jackass.

I just saw it.

It was entertaining...there's some good thought provoking elements in it. Night is doing all his stuff old school very much like Hitchcock using pacing, music, color, imagination all to make the movies he makes more scary.

I actually had much more fun watching Harold and Kumar.

Just saw it too. I think a lot of people will be disappointed. I definitely was

I seriously doubt it's Shyamalan's ego that is the reason his name is being plastered over everything he does. His name sells movie tickets probably almost as much as Quentin Tarantino, plain and simple, like it or not. The Disney marketing machine knows that, and uses it.

I loved Unbreakable, probably my favorite of his films. I HATED Signs though, and thought Sixth Sense was excellent. I'm looking forward to The Village, but I'm not holding my breath for it. I agree with Booray, I think alot of people will go in expecting alot more than they get.

I think I'll go see it today, looks good, I've always liked his films

Every movie they announce the starring actor... What's wrong with announcing the guy that runs the show and made the entire thing up? He deserves more credit than any of the actors. Although he obviously needs them to put out a good performance.

I feel like I was robbed. It was entertaining, but I kept thinking, "Get to the twist, get to the twist." Then we get the twist and it was crap. Overall, not a waste of money, but better left for cable TV.

I was SOOOOOOOOOOOO disappointed. I loved all the other three films of his, but.....I don't even know what to say.....I was so disappointed by this one. I don't think you can really talk about it without ruining it, so I guess I'll spoiler tag the rest...

Spoiler: This film's main problem is that it's marketed as a film that it is not. It then attracts an audience between 15 and 25 that is so disappointed. If you were going into this movie with no clue what it's about, never having seen a trailer or anything, you may enjoy it. Otherwise, this movie doesn't deliver. 99% of the audience going into this film wants to be scared and on the edge of their seat the whole time. I've never seen an audience that was so obviously upset after a movie. One guy threw his soda at the screen. You can't really blame Disney for marketing the film the way they did. There's no doubt this movie will do well. But, if they think that people are going to walk out of this film satisfied then they are NUTS!

I was possibly concidering looking into thinking about going to go see this movie. I was hated SIGNS and figured this couldn't be worse. My friends went last night but i didn't go with them. I hate movies like this that have to use the cheap ass scares from old school days. You know, where the music drops to low heart beat type sound, the WAAAAA a loud ass noise to make you jump. Crap like that pisses me off because it gets me every time, and it's just cheap. I want a movies to acctualy scare me, get into my head and mess with it. Thats what made Blair Witch such a good movie.
Friends of mine said those cheap scares it never affects them, but i have seen them jump a lil when it happens. When my friends got back from the movie, i asked them if there were those cheap ass scares, they said yep. Glad i didn't go. I'll probly check it out when it comes to video.

Saw it last night, I thought it was good, although I was a bit disappointed at the end.

I just saw it and I enjoyed it. I loved the ending.It was predictable but still a good film.

While I really enjoyed the movie, I definately agree with Fader Monkey's spoiler comment (although, I'm not sure I would consider it a spoiler). They shouldn't have marketed it as they did.

It belonged on a tv show like the outerlimits or the twilight zone than as a stand alone movie.

For those of you who have seen it: would you say it was his worst movie? So far I have liked all his movies, some more than others, but not one would I rate less than an 8/10.

Did anyone here laugh more often than they were scared?
Spoiler: The scene where one girl confesses her love to Lucius and he just stares blankly at her back.


Note: Joaquin Phoenix's son in the movie Gladiator was named Lucius. Food for thought.

I thought it was brilliant. There were plenty of disappointed morons all around me, because they were tricked into sitting through a movie that made them think instead of one where they put forth no effort and have the experience wash over them. I'll probably see this one again.

Beautiful photography, brilliant pacing, brilliant character development. Remember, the name of the movie is "The Village," not "The Things That Live In The Woods And Scare The Shit Out Of Everybody."

The only thing that didn't work for me was the way the Elders talked. If you think about it, it doesn't make any sense for them to talk that way.

This was the most contrived, far-fetched, pretentious, unbelieveably ridiculous movie I have ever seen. It seemed to have so much going for it and then, absurdly, it jumps in your face and screams: "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT HOW CLEVER I AM! YOU DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING, DID YOU?" And you're sitting there, staring stupidly at the screen, saying, "Uh....no, man. Sure didn't. By the way, are you serious?"

Give me a break. I cannot express the utter lameness of this film.

I think I was the only one in our group that enjoyed the show. It wasnt' marketed correctly so it's attracting the wrong audience, but it's still good. Makes you think about your present situation and what you really want out of life and what lengths you will go to reach it.

the scary movie part aside, I thought the the social commentary about society was brilliant.

as far as the way the elders spoke, given the location of the movie, it was all part of the immerssion.

I thought it was good. I could've done without all of the loudmouthed teenyboppers sitting in the front three rows laughing at innapropriate times and generally being obnoxious. I didn't think it was that scary, though.

Interesting on the thing about 'Gladiator' and how the kids name was also Lucius, but wasn't the kid in 'Gladiator' his sisters' kid, not his?

And, to keep to the thread, I just got back from seeing this movie. I won't go in to details but I give it 6.5/10.

You are calling this a movie that makes you think? You must be kidding, I got the whole thing right away. It was so obvious. How could anyone have missed it? That was the worst idea for a movie ever. Man it makes me so upset that I wasted my money on this stupid movie. Ya it was a social commentary on society, a commentary on how our stupid society could still put up with crappy movies. Do not waste your money on this trite display of 'art'.

And dont say that it was too deep or something, because believe me, it was not.

Spoiler: Spoiler: You cannot tell me that any of you for one second believed that those poorly made 'monsters' were anything but fake.