The Village

[Triadcool]

Is The Village a good movie? My friend watched it and he said it was horrible. Has anyone else seen it, and what are your thougths on the movie?


Thanks.

[lee551]

its not a completely bad movie, its just way different from what you'd expect it to be.

its a little predictable, and not scary at all (if thats what you were hoping for, sorry).

theres a lack of dialogue and just a weird air to the movie that makes it difficult to digest.

i dont think it was a waste of time, but its not on my favorite movies list by far. :rolleyes:

[Rip The Jacker]

I thought it was a really good movie (as you can tell lol). I liked the story, and it kept me guessing the whole time.

Its not exactly a scary movie, more like a mystery. I saw it in digital with enhanced picture and sound, when the first creature passed by, that first glance... scared the shit out of me and most people, damn loud sound effects. I jumped a little. :P

Would I watch it again? Sure.

Originally posted by Spoilers. Highlight to read.
Did anyone else notice the police guard reading the newspaper? Who he was? :rolleyes:

EDIT: Typo

[primo]

It actually makes you think which is a lot different from most of the movies that are coming out these days

and i DID notice who was reading the paper ;) ;)

i thought it was pretty good... not amazing tho

[ofbz]

is there a good version of it on the networks???? (like not a cam version)

if not....is it worth it to see it on the crappy cam POT version???

i would go see it in the theather, but i don't have time lately..... f***ing job!!!


and finally....


Originally posted by primo@5 August 2004 - 21:44
and i DID notice who was reading the paper  ;)  ;)



who are you talking about???
tell me... i wanna know!!! i wanna know!!!

[Rip The Jacker]

Originally posted by ofbz+5 August 2004 - 23:09--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (ofbz &#064; 5 August 2004 - 23:09)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-primo@5 August 2004 - 21:44
and i DID notice who was reading the paper ;) ;)


who are you talking about???
tell me... i wanna know&#33;&#33;&#33; i wanna know&#33;&#33;&#33; [/b][/quote]
Watch the movie... you&#39;ll see. I don&#39;t know why, I just think its cool when directors do that. :D

You know what bugs me though? You never get to find out what Lucius&#39; color is. :(

EDIT: Also, ofbz, watch The Village in theatres, its worth it. Watching it at home, its just not the same thing, you know?

[ofbz]

Originally posted by Rip The Jacker+6 August 2004 - 07:30--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Rip The Jacker &#064; 6 August 2004 - 07:30)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Originally posted by ofbz@5 August 2004 - 23:09
<!--QuoteBegin-primo@5 August 2004 - 21:44
and i DID notice who was reading the paper ;) ;)


who are you talking about???
tell me... i wanna know&#33;&#33;&#33; i wanna know&#33;&#33;&#33;
Watch the movie... you&#39;ll see. I don&#39;t know why, I just think its cool when directors do that. :D
[/b][/quote]
stop doing that&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; now i wanna know even more&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; ahhhhhhhhhhhh

maybe ill use my old friend Google....

no&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; wait&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; maybe im not suposed to know till i watch the movie... it might ruin my interest on seeing it....

ahhhhhhhhh... why oh why did i read this thread&#33;&#33;&#33;

i would see it in the theather right now... but... its 4 am.... i don&#39;t think the movies are open this late... or early... (depends how you see it)


ahhhhhhhh :frusty:

[justin89]

it&#39;s not that hard, he just gave you the clue...M Night makes cameos in all his movies..

[lee551]

read (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368447/) some of the imdb reviews. and now it&#39;s rating has dropped to like a 6.4 from a 6.8 or 7 a few days ago :lol:

its not really bad, its just disappointing from what you&#39;d expect. <_<

[Rip The Jacker]

Originally posted by ofbz+6 August 2004 - 00:03--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (ofbz &#064; 6 August 2004 - 00:03)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> stop doing that&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; now i wanna know even more&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; ahhhhhhhhhhhh

maybe ill use my old friend Google....

no&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; wait&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; maybe im not suposed to know till i watch the movie... it might ruin my interest on seeing it....

ahhhhhhhhh... why oh why did i read this thread&#33;&#33;&#33;

i would see it in the theather right now... but... its 4 am.... i don&#39;t think the movies are open this late... or early... (depends how you see it)


ahhhhhhhh :frusty: [/b]
Calm down. :lol:

<!--QuoteBegin-Spoilers Hightlight to Read
In the movie, it shows the cop reading the newspaper in first-person view, so you can&#39;t see his face. If you look closely, at some point you can see his face in the reflection, and the cop is...
M. Night Shyamalan.[/quote]
No big deal really, I just think its cool when directors do that. :D

[Rip The Jacker]

Some of my favorite parts:

Originally posted by Spoilers. Highlight to read.
When the first creature enters the village, and starts roaming around. Everyone goes indoors exept Ivy, she stands at the door holding her hand out. Right then the creature was really really close. That part really got me into it, I was thinking "Oh my god&#33; Get inside&#33; Go you stupid ass&#33;" :lol:

And then when she was walking in the forest with the camera up close, showing her from the waist up. She walks for a while, then suddenly stops. The camera zooms out, and you see that she is standing in a feild of red berries. I thought to myself, "Oh shit." You could hear other people saying "Oh no&#33;" in the crowd in the theatre. And when the creature started to chase Ivy, man that was crazy.

[ofbz]

Originally posted by justin89@6 August 2004 - 13:20
it&#39;s not that hard, he just gave you the clue...M Night makes cameos in all his movies..
ohh yeah.... just like in "signs" he plays the dude that killed the priest&#39;s wife....

yeah.... no big deal.... gonna see it anyways

[amir_amir151]

:01: :01: thx

[SingaBoiy]

Damn it, im pissed. When I was extracting the movie I accidently saved the 2nd part twice. So when I started to watch it, I wached the ending first :angry:

:frusty: :frusty: :frusty:

[Cheese]

Spoilers, highlight at own risk:

I didn&#39;t know they had cop cars in 1897, it was quite a revelation to me.

[SingaBoiy]

EDIT: Fixed spoiler. Dont highlight my post unless you want to be spoiled :lol:


QUOTE=Withcheese,8 August 2004 - 06:55 -
didn&#39;t know they had cop cars in 1897, it was quite a revelation to me. /QUOTE
Did you happen to pay attention to the movie :blink:

[morningview123]

Am I the only one that is having trouble downloading this movie? There&#39;s all these different versions of the movie but none of them seem to have a (1of2) and (2of2) after it. So, what&#39;s the name of the real file on Kazaa that is the actual movie. thanks.

[lee551]

dont trust anything on kazaa man. they&#39;re all fakes :rolleyes: :lol:

i got mine from torrentbits.org B)

[Rip The Jacker]

@Withcheese
Good morning. :)

[leeferdude]

Judy Greer is hot

[Cheese]

Spoilers:


Originally posted by Rip The Jacker@9 August 2004 - 06:29
@Withcheese
Don&#39;t ruin the movie for people who havn&#39;t seen it yet. Put "Spoilers" or something before you post things like that.&nbsp; ;)
No.

You mentioned police guard in your post which pretty much gives the game away. So feel free not to tell me what to do in future.

[Rip The Jacker]

EDIT: Fixed all my posts.

[Cheese]

Alright, sorry, didn&#39;t think you&#39;d take it so personally. :unsure:
I&#39;m grouchy in the morning.... :lol:

As an offer of truce I&#39;m gonna edit my posts to something more suitable.

[Rip The Jacker]

Yeah I edited all my posts too, you could have removed the "So feel free not to tell me what to do in future" part, but OK, that works too. :D

[Cheese]

Originally posted by Rip The Jacker@9 August 2004 - 07:18
Yeah I edited all my posts too, you could have removed the "So feel free not to tell me what to do in future" part, but OK, that works too. :D
Might as well leave it so people can know what we&#39;re going on about. :lol:

Back on topic: I liked the use of colour in this film. Most of the time it was pretty bland (purposely I think) but that scene where she is dressed in the protective colours and the camera pans back and she is surrounded by the banned coloured berries was pretty awesome.

[Cheese]

After I watch a movie I usually check out the reviews on IMDB, this thread had me PMSLing:

Major spoilers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368447/board/nest/10570256

[Rip The Jacker]

Originally posted by Withcheese@8 August 2004 - 22:46
After I watch a movie I usually check out the reviews on IMDB, this thread had me PMSLing:

Major spoilers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368447/board/nest/10570256
Man that is one looong thread. :lol:

Why? Whats everyone ranting about?

[Cheese]

Originally posted by Rip The Jacker+9 August 2004 - 07:51--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Rip The Jacker @ 9 August 2004 - 07:51)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Withcheese@8 August 2004 - 22:46
After I watch a movie I usually check out the reviews on IMDB, this thread had me PMSLing:

Major spoilers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368447/board/nest/10570256
Man that is one looong thread. :lol:

Why? Whats everyone ranting about? [/b][/quote]
Spoilers:

It&#39;s the same old internet pissing contest, dweebs trying to convince everybody that they got the plot twist long before anyone else did.

"I predicted it psychically before Shyamalan was even born. So there&#33; " :lol:

[Rip The Jacker]

SPOILERS:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368447/board/flat/10715709

Nice review by SamAndJoon there.

[Rip The Jacker]

Originally posted by Withcheese+8 August 2004 - 22:54--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Withcheese @ 8 August 2004 - 22:54)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Originally posted by Rip The Jacker@9 August 2004 - 07:51
<!--QuoteBegin-Withcheese@8 August 2004 - 22:46
After I watch a movie I usually check out the reviews on IMDB, this thread had me PMSLing:

Major spoilers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368447/board/nest/10570256
Man that is one looong thread. :lol:

Why? Whats everyone ranting about?
Spoilers:

It&#39;s the same old internet pissing contest, dweebs trying to convince everybody that they got the plot twist long before anyone else did.

"I predicted it psychically before Shyamalan was even born. So there&#33; " :lol: [/b][/quote]
Yeah after a little reading I figured it out. People like that are kind of annoying. "Yeah I knew there was going to be a twist, it was sooo obvious&#33; I&#39;m soooo smart&#33;" :lol:

[DanB]

Originally posted by Withcheese@9 August 2004 - 07:46
After I watch a movie I usually check out the reviews on IMDB, this thread had me PMSLing:

Major spoilers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368447/board/nest/10570256
What a bunch of arses :lol:

[Wolfmight]

*warning: spoilers below*

I&#39;m really into paranormal movies and adventure as well. They can be on the move from danger, or looking for hope whilst guarding the majority of the towns people from the unknown beyond the walls.

I thought this movie was overated from what the previews show. I noticed Mr. Shyamalan tends to turn another direction in alot of his movies and sometimes is very good too. (The Sixth Sense was one of his best, and Unbreakable wasnt too bad either) But then sometimes it get&#39;s a little goofy. Letting people know that the man who runs the whole village is the cause of the pain. Then when you find out it&#39;s the "20th century".. the tables have turned again. The village isnt just haunted by some werewolf-hedgehog-thingamajig who is a retarted man, but modern life outside the walls have not once set foot into that village. I was expecting atleast 3-4 of these beasts to pop up sometime in the movie knawing on a corpse. I thought they mighta been warlocks at first. How about an encounter of a cloaked/transparent man?

Heh, it&#39;s also funny how references to the 20th century appear throughtout the movie such as one or two men wearing modern day suits-n-ties. They looked a little too clean if anything.

Anyways, the ending scene was something that kills the audience.
"OoOoOo now she knows the truth, maybe that policeman will climb over and try to rescue the people living in the old lifestyle.... woop fell into that damn hole&#33;"


I am not to criticize Shyamalan, since his other films were much better than this one. From what people say, this is the lineup of his styles:


The Sixth Sense: Friendship
Unbreakable: Discovery
Signs: Faith
The Village: Discovery (some people also said "love")