THE VILLAGE Reviewed!

By Charley July 28, 2004 5:50 PM

Ain't it Cool News has posted a couple of reviews of "The Village" written by two very disappointed M. Night fans. ?These are definitely fan reviews, but those are sometimes more important than the professional reviews that get printed en masse. ?Caution: ?Spoilers present! ?Nothing too specific, but definitely some major giveaways.

"The Village" hits theaters across the country this Friday.

The Reviews!!!

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The Village   reply

Posted by Loath (loath@dtheatre.com) on July 30, 2004 3:07 AM

I saw this movie today and was terribly disappointed. The audience couldn't help but burst into laughter in many of the "serious" scenes. The Village may have been alright if Shyamalan had just accepted the fact that it was a predictable script with cheesy dialogue, and just made it a damn horror-comedy. Also, what was with the boom mikes being very visible in numerous scenes?

Here's a message for M. Night:
WHAT THE HELL WHERE YOU THINKING?! YOUR CAREER IS OVER!

One of his best!   reply

Posted by mullet160 (No Email) on August 1, 2004 7:38 AM

I loved this movie!  Anyone who thinks themselves a true M. Night fan will love this movie.  It had everthing.  From M. Night's popular jump-in-your-seat scares to his witty dry humor.  The symbolism was amazing.  I also just couldn't get over, after all was said and done, how much it made you think.  M. Night always has an underlying theme to his movies.  The theme for this one is incredible. The key to enjoying M. Night's movies is not to go in with any preconceived notions on what the movie is about.  My wife even loved this movie, and she hates M. Night's movies.

RE: The Village   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 1, 2004 3:15 PM

Says one geek sitting all alone in his moms basement.

your here to watch my bach WATCH MY BACK   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 1, 2004 7:27 PM

I bet you M. Night is a big Twilight Zone fan.

YUP M. Night Is a Thief   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 1, 2004 7:29 PM

M. Night ripped the Twilight zone episode in titled The Monsters Are Due At Maple Street which instead of an Old English style town it was an ordinary tpwn in suburbia.

The Sham of  The  Village   reply

Posted by jhd (Joycedistler@aol.com) on August 2, 2004 6:10 PM

May I just have my money back please? I should have walked out in the first 10 minutes like I wanted. But I wasn't there alone. Did anyone see M Night's 1st attempt at a movie at age 12? (Think Blair witch-) Well, The Village is on par with those. This was by far the worst movie I have ever subjected myself to. I recommend no one see's this sham of a movie. M Night connived a money making scheme here in 'The Village', and I was taken for a ride. I want to shout from the mountain tops "People! Do NOT waste your time nor your money. I left feeling totally bambazzoled, angry and used. (like there isn't enough of that in life as it is? M.Night now jumps on the bandwagon to take my hard earned money) It's all a fraud. The hype did not live up to it's magnitude. Its not set in 1897, but 2004 outside of Philadelphia in a game preserve. This was not a horror movie, as it was believed to be. Don't expect to be holding your breath in fear, it was nothing more than a badly written attempt of a philosophical love story. Expect to sign often and yawn even more from boredom and discontent. It was a mindless farce, set around a bunch of rich, pompous, selfish outcasts who hide their children away from society in the woods, in the guise of 'protecting them. ' It was a droll, dull, lackluster, uninspiring, amish like love story in a cult, movie, so boring and ho hum a spectacle, so completely lacking in unforseen plots, it deadened my brain, and ground away at my patience. The 'elders' were the most selfish people I had ever seen. (And they pretented society was bad) Their only concern was their own personal, idealistic, cult-ish views. 'The monster in the closet really pissed me off! The only 'monsters' in the movies were the elders! They acted in such an ugly pompous manner, all at the expense of, and with no consideration for their children and or their future. Scare the children with monsters!? Talk about psychological child abuse! And what kind of parent sends a young, blind girl out into the woods alone? If they so feared society, what the heck was he thinking sending her out there? Give me a break .With a father like that, there is no need for monsters. And the dead, skinned animals lying around and the red slashes on the doors? What were these people smoking? It was incest of the brain, some one call a doctor! The acting itself was so extravagant in language and style, their grandiloquent manner turned my stomach from the get go, leaving me feeling suspicious with a nasty, vile taste in my mouth. It was so slow and boring , with unmoving characters, but for Joaquin Phoenix and 'Ivy', who obviously gave their best performance. The best one could do with such an idiotic lame script, that lacked in plot and point. The dialogue was stilted and unmoving at best, wooden and amateurish, I gritted my teeth and grimaced as I sat in my seat. Let's just say that perhaps, if there was anything good about the movie, it was the suspenseful musical score. But then again, forget I said that, because it led you to nothing, but a dark meaningless void of tedium. It was easy to know exactly what would happen in the next long winded scene, very predicable, no suspenseful plot twists here. The anti climactic ending was the most disappointing, as if the movie before that wasn't disappointing enough. The whole movie leads you slowly by the hand, promising something, beyond your wildest dreams at the end, to simply dropping you off a cliff and saying ?Sorry about your luck?. I was like 'What? What happened to the ending?" He led us to one point and then BAM! Movie over. I quietly moaned "Boo' as I exited my seat. I was a huge fan of M. Night , but being fraudulently mislead as I was, I will be hard pressed to be taken in again. It was advertised as a scary movie, the only scarey thing was that I actually sat through the whole thing like a mindless drone with all the other theater goers. Shame on you M.Night Shyamaylan. As for the DVD and an alternate twist? How about an alternate movie?

RE: The Sham of ?The ?Village   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 2, 2004 10:39 PM

Acually, "droll" means amusingly odd or comical.  So droll might have been an improvement.

RE: The Sham of ?The ?Village   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 21, 2004 12:39 PM

Well, you are entitled to your opinion, and I can see where you are coming from. That being said, I actually thoroughly enjoyed this film, and thought that it contained a lot of clever, thought provoking ideas, whilst being very entertaining in parts. Ok, so the threads holding the plot together were a bit shaky sometimes, but could you think of a better way to put a fairly decent story into context?