SPOILER ALERT!!! I just saw "The Village"... I HATED it and LIKED it...

[battleknight24]

SPOILER ALERT...

If you plan on seeing "The Village," do not read this post.

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I just saw this film... and I both hated it and liked it...

>I hated it because...

-The dialogue was terrible... I thought to myself "did people really talk this awkwardly back then?" ... little did I know...

-The houses looked way too modern (I know... keep reading...)

-I didn't realize the damn girl was blind until midway through this f*cking movie...

-It seemed to drag on and on... by the time the blind girl was in the woods, I was hoping that either the person in the red bird costume would kill her or she would trip, fall, hit her head on a rock and die.

>I liked it because...

-I realized why the dialogue was so f*cking bad... it WASN'T the late 1800's...

-I realized why the houses did look a little modern...

-I realized why the guy sent the BLIND girl into the woods...

-Although it dragged on, I became interested when the TWIST occured (for a few seconds, I thought that "The Village" was some kind of asylum or mental institution...)

-I (usually) like movies with twists at the end... even if they are really bizarre.

No, I didn't guess the ending... Yeah, I know... I'm, a fucking idiot.

What did you guys think?


Peace,

[REVOLT823]

1. I saw it yesterday and agree with pretty much everything you

said. By the time the girl was in the woods, I was thinking, "can we just get to the damn point already?" Was a great twist at the end andfinally explained why you would send a blind girl into the woods, but was too drab and overextended throughout the first part.

[battleknight24]

2. (OPH) People in the theater, including myself, laughed...

... when the bird (Adrien Brody in the costume) was chasing her and trying to scare her or kill her.

Was that part supposed to be funny?


Peace,

[SeanOhio]

3. Indeed

So, the "elders" were actually a group of people who were personally affected by violence/problems in 1970s society, right? What was the deal with Adrien Brody, too, especially at the end?

The creatures were a hoax in order to keep people from wandering out--I suspected it was a hoax but did not expect the whole modern time deal.

[Nevernose]

4. A cheap means of adding a real scare

I though for hours on the symbolic ramifications of this movie, and am still thinking about them. Adrien Brody getting whacked on the stump wasn't, as best I can tell, symboilc of anything except a cheap thrill. THen again, I've been drinking, so what the hell would I know?

[bowens43]

5. I didn't like it very much.

It was so sloooooowwwwwwww.

What really bothered me were the gaps between words in the sentences. It they would have spoken with out the gaps the movie would have been about half an hour shorter.

[slutticus]

6. I sort of figured it out...

....I was really expecting them to take a cell phone or a PDA or something like that out of that box where they kept the old pictures....that would have been great.

I thought the movie was a bit slow at the begining....but I liked it overall.

[battleknight24]

7. That's what my brother and his girlfriend said!

... they sort of guessed that the movie really wasn't set in the past... they joked around that they thought there was going to be a cell phone in the chest.

For a few seconds, when the blind girl Ivy climbed over the wall, I thought that the "Village" was really an asylum or mental institution...