The Village

[DreamOfTheRood]

Shyamalan broke his own rules in this one. In his other movies, the supernatural things were real. You had ghosts in the Sixth Sense, superheroes in Unbreakable and aliens in Signs. However, in this movie, the supernatural wasn't real. He toyed with audience expectations, and the audience got screwed.

[MDRud216]

If you think about it that way then the rest of his career could have been setting it up for this movie. hope he does better in the future.

[tyjet3]

Actually, i think Night plays a doctor in the Sixth Sense.

 

No, he was difinatly the husband guy buying the ring. The doctor was a white guy. M. Night is like indian (from india).

 

 

I never saw Unbreakable... is it worth renting?

[DreamOfTheRood]

I never saw Unbreakable... is it worth renting?

Yeah, it's alright. It's kinda boring, but it's okay. You'll be able to spot the bad guy from way far away. Actually, he's in the foreground of the first or second scene. He's hard to miss, but he's definitely there.

[covenant2]

I thought the movie was ok I expected it to be really scary but a good thriller anyway ^_^

[valdir]

Shyamalan broke his own rules in this one. In his other movies, the supernatural things were real. You had ghosts in the Sixth Sense, superheroes in Unbreakable and aliens in Signs. However, in this movie, the supernatural wasn't real. He toyed with audience expectations, and the audience got screwed.

Are you saying that ghosts, superheroes etc... are real?

 

Okaaay then.

 

Signs was a terrible movie with plot holes bigger than the Titantic.

 

Why, if the aliens' weakness is water, do they come to Earth? Not only is water in the atmosphere, but a small percent of Earth is COVERED by water! [/mixed sarcasm].

 

I don't expect the Village to be very good, considering the reviews I'm getting from the internet and friends.

 

Then again, I never planned on seeing it anyways! >_<

 

My $0.02

 

~Val

[DreamOfTheRood]

Are you saying that ghosts, superheroes etc... are real?

No.

In the fictionalized worlds that M. Night creates, he treats supernatural beings as if they were real. In other words, his movies are based on fictional characters, just like every other movie.

In the set of rules within his previous movies, supernatural things were real, and that was alright. My inner geek celebrates that. However, in The Village, he threw out his own rulebook. Instead of creating a fictionalized world where these fictional creatures could exist, he created a world where these fictional creatures did not exist, effectively mimicking the real world. By doing that, he toyed with audience expectations. The audience was introduced to these creatures in red, and they expected these creatures to be real. However, Shyamalan tricked us by doing so; the creatures were not real, and our expectations were left somewhere alongside the burning ashes of a coherent plot.

I really like Shyamalan's other films, but The Village was a very disappointing film.

[tyjet3]

Shyamalan broke his own rules in this one. In his other movies, the supernatural things were real. You had ghosts in the Sixth Sense, superheroes in Unbreakable and aliens in Signs. However, in this movie, the supernatural wasn't real. He toyed with audience expectations, and the audience got screwed.

 

Maybe he did it because it would be even better then if the supernatural was not real... I think he did this for a reason.

 

You were expecting the supernatural stuff to be real based off of his other movies. He broke his pattern to surprise the audience even more!! I think it was a great move on his part and don't the think the audience got screwed at all.