The Village

LadyLaraCroft · Aug 1, 2004

I saw it yesterday...was extremely excited, because I love Shyamalan and I think his films are easily separated from the rest of the horror crap out there. I am even a little hesitant in placing his movies in the "horror" genre. It seems like he incorporates horror into more realistic situations (not completely realistic, of course) and the fear he evokes from you is only overcasting the whole film's deep meaning. Before I see a Shyamalan film, I always, always expect something "different"; as in, it's not fully in-your-face-scary, and the plot ends up being something much bigger and more meaningful than just a freaky-looking monster. That's why I respect him so much. He provides a different view into the realms of fear.

For me, I can't flat out say, "the ending sucked"; or, "Why did I even waste money on this." It may not have been the best thing he could have come up with, but I loved the way he directed it. The plot was so-so...but the film as a whole was beautiful...Just like Unbreakable, whose story I didn't much care for, but the way it was rendered was nothing short of fantastic.

Shyamalan involves many elements in this film - a rather remarkable love story (as one can clearly see judging by the "porch scene" and the leading actress' actions), a sense of community, innocence, fear...But he always does that. Things are not always what they seem. I believe that this was definitely his most "realistic" film though.

Was I dissapointed in the twist? Yeah. Some will love it, most will hate it. Do I regret spending my time at the theatre watching it? Absolutely not. There were a lot of things in this movie that I just loved. And I can't wait for the next Shyamalan film.

Anyone else see it? Thoughts, opinions?

LadyLaraCroft · Aug 1, 2004

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/village/

So far the rating on RottenTomatoes.com is 45%...not surprising at all. People just are hating the ending. I haven't heard from one person who was satisfied with it, but perhaps Shyamalan doesn't want you to be satisfied...that would be more than a little boring. He wanted a reaction, and a reaction he got. Too bad the reaction has been more "dissapointed" than anything else...

LadyLaraCroft · Aug 1, 2004

Good review. I really agreed with what they said about the first half hour...and some of the mannerisms and dialogue of the characters seemed strained and, as the reviewer said, "eye-rollingly solemn." I disagree with his opinion of Edward Walker (William Hurt), the town leader. I thought his performance was very strong, I liked him a lot. Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, and Adrien Brody were simply amazing. Bryce really lit up the screen with her acting. She should be very proud of her first on-screen performance.

The Village

Reviewed by Mark Harris

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MELLOW YELLOW Director Shyamalan twists again with disappointing results

What an irony -- and a shame -- it would be if ''The Sixth Sense'' turns out to be the movie that first made and then ruined the career of M. Night Shyamalan. A filmmaker of superb technical facility and emotional control, Shyamalan floored audiences with the ending of his 1999 thriller, the rare film twist that was genuinely unexpected without being in the least dishonest. It's not his fault that the public has approached each of his subsequent movies as narrative piñatas that will spill forth their secrets if only they can be cracked.

But audience expectations alone can't be blamed for the fact that Shyamalan's movies seem increasingly to be mapped from their endings backward. Watching The Village, which follows ''Unbreakable'' and ''Signs'' in what may come to be known as the ''Gotcha!'' quartet, you may find yourself poking and prodding the narrative for its first half hour, mentally combing each scene in search of what's not being expressed. That's not a great way to approach a film, but in fairness, the surface of ''The Village'' does not, initially, offer many rewards. Set in a 19th-century Northeastern rural community, it's written in a style somewhere between faux Crucible and an elementary-school tour of Amish country. Benign town elders led by Edward Walker (William Hurt) preside over the village's business while the young ones frolic and go a-courtin', and a romantic quadrangle begins to emerge: Walker's impetuous daughter Kitty (Judy Greer) is in love with stoic, awkward Lucius (Joaquin Phoenix), who in turn is smitten with Kitty's blind sister Ivy (Bryce Dallas Howard), who's adored by mentally handicapped Noah (Adrien Brody, in his first role of any heft since winning the Oscar for ''The Pianist''). The tone is so chokingly wholesome, and the world Shyamalan creates is so quaintly ''simple'' in a way that urbanites often ascribe to the rural, that one longs for the other shoe to drop, if one exists. Since this is an M. Night Shyamalan film, prayers are answered in the form of an unseen presence -- terrifying creatures who are said to live in the surrounding woods, in an uneasy truce with the villagers that depends on neither species breaching the other's borders.

If by now you're thinking that surely something else must be going on here, well, who could blame you, since the writer-director himself has conditioned you to tweeze every line and frame forensically? What really lurks within those woods is (fear not: no spoilers here) a very mixed bag. It gives nothing of the plot away to say that there's a fine line between an ''Aha!'' and an ''Oh, brother!'' Whether you feel ''The Village'' crosses that line may hinge on whether you think Shyamalan's screenwriting ability is beginning to lag behind his skill as a director. ''The Village'' offers genuine surprises and a few haunting images, thanks primarily to his exquisitely precise sense of pace, mood, and framing (the brilliant cinematographer Roger Deakins proves invaluable here) and his evident fondness for actors. As a director, Shyamalan gets fine work from Phoenix, whose ability to convey emotion with limited language serves the film effectively, from newcomer Howard, who brings steely resolve and dynamism to what turns out to be a pivotal role, and from stage veterans like Cherry Jones and Jayne Atkinson in small parts. Less successfully used is Hurt, whose abiding taste for inserting...random...pauses...into his lines feeds Shyamalan's biggest weakness as a director, namely, a tendency to treat his own dialogue as holy writ. With each moment directed and played to maximize a sense of portent, ''The Village'' feels airless (and sometimes eye-rollingly solemn) in ways that can't be pinned entirely on its isolated-and-surrounded plot; it has the hermetic quality of a talented filmmaker bouncing ideas off the inside of his own skull. When those ideas are great, the result is ''The Sixth Sense.'' When those ideas are ''Hey, maybe the alien invader could be allergic to water!'' the result is ''Signs.'' In the case of ''The Village,'' it's not fair to talk about the plot yet, but it is reasonable to suggest that, with the road into these woods threatening to turn into a creative dead end, Shyamalan may want to think about making his next movie with a twist beginning -- a new writer.

Note ''The Village'' was reviewed by editor-at-large Mark Harris from a print without final color correction after Buena Vista declined to schedule a screening for critics that would permit EW to run a timely review.

(Posted:07/28/04)
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Link: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/review/movie/0,6115,673379_1_0_,00.html

LadyLaraCroft · Aug 1, 2004

Also, for anyone who's interested, here's an article before the movie was released. It's really interesting, and touches on doubts of the movie's success...not necessarily at the box office, we all know it'll conquer there...but in the hearts and minds of the audience. They also said how Shyamalan's movies (especially Sixth Sense) has raised the bar and it's gotten more difficult to provide definite shock. Which Shyamalan still offers to us in The Village, but...yeah, the twist is certainly a twist, but it doesn't really receive a shock-and-gasp reaction from the viewers, including me. More of a dissapointed, guttural "Oh." Nevertheless, there's something about its subtlety that I admire. Anyways, enough blabbing from me Here's the article:

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Into the Woods
Can twist-master M. Night Shyamalan's latest, shrouded in secrecy, surprise audiences -- or will it succumb to bad buzz? EW takes a closer look at ''The Village'' by Josh Rottenberg

TORCHBEARER Not much is known about ''The Village'' (starring Phoenix, pictured), except that Shyamalan has included one (or more) or his patented twists

Hollywood is full of sideshow barkers, enticing audiences with hints of thrills behind the curtain. But M. Night Shyamalan, the 34-year-old director of ''The Sixth Sense,'' ''Unbreakable,'' and ''Signs,'' has no equal when it comes to the art of the tease.

His next film, ''The Village,'' opens July 30, and aside from his name above the title and some cryptic posters and spooky trailers, audiences have been told precious little about it. The air of secrecy around the film has been, depending on your viewpoint, either tantalizing or irritating, Masonic or Scooby-Doo-ish. What can be revealed without spoiling anything is...um, it was shot on celluloid. Want more? Okay, it's the story of a group of people living in an isolated 19th-century village who are terrorized by mysterious creatures stalking the woods around them. More? It stars Joaquin Phoenix, William Hurt, Adrien Brody, Sigourney Weaver, and in a showcase role, newcomer Bryce Dallas Howard, daughter of director Ron Howard. There's a love triangle (involving Phoenix, Brody, and Howard), loads of creepy imagery (slashes of blood on doors, skinned animals), and some cool Druid-style robes that look like they were modeled off a Led Zeppelin album. And yes, Virginia, there is a big fat twist -- maybe even more than one.

Advance buzz on ''The Village'' swings wildly between amped-up anticipation and knives-drawn skepticism. Speculation about the twist ending flies fast and thick in movie-nerd chat rooms, where Shyamalan is as polarizing as Michael Moore in a den full of politicos, with some revering him as a genius storyteller and others dismissing him as a P.T. Barnumesque egomaniac. In May, rumors emerged that the cast and crew of ''The Village'' had reconvened to shoot a new ending -- rumors that were met by official denials. Clouding things even further was the phony controversy whipped up over a documentary called ''The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan,'' which ran July 18 on the Sci Fi Channel. The program was billed in advance as an exposé of Shyamalan, uncovering secrets from his personal life so shocking he reportedly pulled out of the project. Two days before it aired, the Sci Fi Channel admitted the entire thing was an elaborate hoax, with Shyamalan in on it from start to finish.

It doesn't take a conspiracy nut to wonder how much of the marketing of ''The Village'' has been a carefully orchestrated game of misdirection and disinformation. Shyamalan talks about ''the sell'' with as much enthusiasm as he does the film itself: ''I walk down the street and people are like, '''The Village,'' man! Can't wait to see it!' And we haven't told them jack s--- about it! How great is that?''

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M. NIGHT MOVES The director was blown away by Howard, his pick to star in ''The Village'' despite the fact she'd never carried a film before

In 2002, around the time Shyamalan was wrapping up ''Signs,'' Twentieth Century Fox approached him with an offer to write and direct an adaptation of ''Wuthering Heights.'' The project itself didn't interest him; such a 10th-grade-English-class homework assignment was too familiar. But the sweeping emotion of Emily Brontë's world appealed to Shyamalan's sentimental side, and he realized it might be fun to combine that 19th-century romance with a monster-in-the-woods thriller. ''Fusing those two things together,'' he says, ''it sounds weird, but hopefully it doesn't feel weird.''

Shyamalan spent eight months working on the script -- the longest it's ever taken him -- and didn't crack the story until he made one momentous decision: Instead of focusing on the brooding Lucius Hunt (Phoenix), he would make Ivy Walker (Howard), the blind daughter of the village's leader, the film's central heroine. ''That felt very risky and more unique,'' he says.

Early on, Shyamalan sought out Kirsten Dunst to play the role of Ivy, but the actress dropped out after deciding her schedule couldn't handle the intense period of preproduction -- weeks of ''boot camp'' rehearsing the film and learning 19th-century skills like candle making, sheep shearing, and butter churning. Producer Scott Rudin urged Shyamalan to consider the 23-year-old Howard, whom he'd seen starring in a New York stage production of ''As You Like It,'' for a supporting role in the film. In May of last year, Shyamalan went to the play one night with his wife, Bhavna, and on the spot decided Howard would be his Ivy. ''It was like the first time I saw ['Sixth Sense' star] Haley Joel Osment,'' he says. ''I was looking around going 'She's amazing!'''

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CLOAK (AND DAGGER) Howard and the rest of the cast were charged with keeping the plot details under wraps

As with all his films, Shyamalan -- born Manoj Nelliyatu Shyamalan in India and raised in suburban Philadelphia, where he still lives with his wife and two daughters -- decided to shoot in his home state. In the town of Chadds Ford, he had an entire 19th-century village painstakingly constructed, down to the type of glass in the windows. Aside from the odd bit of bad weather, the biggest challenge was trying to keep the story under wraps. The screenplay was treated like a classified CIA report. ''My agents weren't even allowed to read the script,'' says Brody. ''To this day, they haven't read it.''

Of course, keeping a big secret from a curious public is not so easy in the 21st century as it was in the 19th. The first postings about a supposedly leaked script for ''The Village'' actually surfaced on the Internet last summer, before production even began, when the film was still titled ''The Woods.'' (The title was later changed because another thriller called ''The Woods'' was in production at United Artists.) For the most part, these early assessments were fairly negative, calling the ending unsatisfying and the dialogue stilted, and even making fun of Shyamalan's allegedly poor spelling.

When asked about these postings and the frenzy of speculation over them on the Internet, the normally gregarious Shyamalan turns subdued and looks wounded. ''My hope is that you don't even write about any of that, because right now it's just a geekfest,'' he says. After a long pause, he says, ''I would find it hard to believe that they could have gotten the script.''

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'VILLAGE' COUNSEL Brody and Hurt, along with other cast members, attended a boot camp to learn 19th-century ways of life

Later, when pressed about unmistakable similarities between the finished film and the postings about the script, Shyamalan admits it's possible that an early draft got out. ''My slip, information-wise, was because we went after some actors earlier, there were more people talking,'' he says. ''I don't want to point fingers at anybody's camp, but if any details came out it was during that stage.'' Still, he emphatically insists that it's ''physically impossible'' that the last 15 pages of the final script were ever leaked and even coyly suggests he may have planted fake material on the Internet to throw people off the trail.

This spring, reports that the cast and crew had returned for a week of reshoots ignited speculation that Shyamalan had been disturbed by the Internet leaks and decided to film a new ending. Shyamalan denies this, saying that it was simply a matter of waiting out the winter so they could get some shots that required springtime weather. Yet Hurt contradicts him, claiming the film's ending was, in fact, reshot. ''Night said that he looked at the end and just said, 'We've gotta reshoot it,''' the actor says. ''I loved the other ending, personally.'' Rudin backs up Shyamalan's story, while Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook vaguely says there were moments added to the ending ''for clarity.''

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SHADES OF GRAY It's unclear why ''The Village'''s ending was reshot -- but Shyamalan denies it was because of an Internet leak

Some have advised Shyamalan that he should change things up soon before he becomes a victim of his own success. ''The thing he's wrestling with is that the audience is waiting for [the twist],'' says Rudin. ''You can ask, could he make 'The Sixth Sense' now? The minute the kid says 'I see dead people,' would you immediately go to 'Bruce Willis is dead'? Every one of these movies raises the bar higher and makes it harder to deliver any kind of sleight of hand.''

Shyamalan's next movie will be another original project with a supernatural bent, the details of which -- in a shocking twist -- he declines to share. After that, he'll strike out in a new direction with an adaptation of Yann Martel's best-selling novel ''Life of Pi,'' the protagonist of which is an Indian teenager from Shyamalan's birthplace of Pondicherry. Still, he'll always be drawn to the stories with an element of the ''not normal'' that keeps audiences guessing. ''That combination of things just feels good to me,'' he says. ''That's my accent. Maybe it's not the most wise thing to do, but it's better to stumble being yourself.'' He shrugs. ''Only time will tell, right?''

(This is an online-only excerpt of Entertainment Weekly's July 30, 2004, cover story.)
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Wow, great read. I wonder what that other ending was...It will haunt me for days

BluesMan · Aug 1, 2004

Damn you LLC, I haven't even seen Signs yet .

Got to rent it soon. I also want to make a list of all his movies and go back and watch the ones before he was famous. I think it would be neat to see how he has evolved as a director.

LadyLaraCroft · Aug 1, 2004

Oh, you definitely should. I loved Signs. If you find other ones besides Sixth Sense, and Unbreakable, tell me please! I would love to see his other works.

BluesMan · Aug 1, 2004

He has a few out there besides Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. They listed them on the Hoax special "The Buried Secret of Shyamlan" on Sci Fi. I didn't write them down, but you should be able to find them on his site. I would think so anyway.

Welll, gotta run and get the kids to bed. Was good seeing you

*big hugs*

LadyLaraCroft · Aug 1, 2004

Woo! Awesomeness.

I never did get to see that Sci-Fi thing...It looked so good too ah well, maybe they'll have it as a rerun? *crosses fingers*

So good to talk to you again Blues Hope the kids and everybody's doing well. *biiig hugs!!*

MrPewty · Aug 1, 2004

LLC, I don't know of any others by Shyamalan, but if you want to rent a decent movie in the same vein with a great twist at the end, try "The Others", with Nicole Kidman.

EDIT: I just noticed that when I read my own post. No pun intended, honestly.

LadyLaraCroft · Aug 1, 2004

Hey Mr. Pewty *hug*

ahah! I've seen that one. I really liked it. In fact, I didn't really appreciate the end till some time afterwards, I guess I was pretty shocked, hehe.

I think one of the...most disturbing (I guess that's the word for it) endings I've ever seen in a scary movie was from the film They. Have you seen it? I dunno, it's weird, I have a love/hate relationship with it. The entire film was crap though

LadyLaraCroft · Aug 1, 2004

MrPewty said:

LLC, I don't know of any others by Shyamalan, but if you want to rent a decent movie in the same vein with a great twist at the end, try "The Others", with Nicole Kidman.

EDIT: I just noticed that when I read my own post. No pun intended, honestly.
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Wow I'm blind Sorry, what did you write?

MrPewty · Aug 1, 2004

LadyLaraCroft said:

Hey Mr. Pewty *hug*

ahah! I've seen that one. I really liked it. In fact, I didn't really appreciate the end till some time afterwards, I guess I was pretty shocked, hehe.

I think one of the...most disturbing (I guess that's the word for it) endings I've ever seen in a scary movie was from the film They. Have you seen it? I dunno, it's weird, I have a love/hate relationship with it. The entire film was crap though
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No, I never saw that one. I just went and googled the trailer. I'll give it a miss.

MrPewty · Aug 1, 2004

LadyLaraCroft said:

Wow I'm blind Sorry, what did you write?
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I don't know of any others, so try The Others.

I liked it, but it was unintentional.

LadyLaraCroft · Aug 1, 2004

Don't rent it or anything, wait till it's on HBO or something, if you're bored one night. If you don't see it, you're definitely not missing anything lol.

LadyLaraCroft · Aug 1, 2004

MrPewty said:

I don't know of any others, so try The Others.

I liked it, but it was unintentional.
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LOL

I like that!

billH · Aug 2, 2004

Tried to see The Village yesterday, couldn't get in so went to The Bourne Supremacy. Very thoughtful script for an action thrill a minute flick. Better than the Bourne Identity. Reminded me a little of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. Damon was good as was the veteran cast. I'll see The Village next weekend.

fleppen · Aug 2, 2004

I see there's a whole lot of watching for me to do, eventhough neither The Village nor The Bourne Supremacy (which I'm definitely going to see) is out here yet. Thank god for the internet

I've seen Signs and tbh didn't like it at all, the aliens allergic to water? yeah right, there's so much water in the air, on the ground etc it's just not very plausable at all. He should've thought about it a bit better imo

LadyLaraCroft · Aug 2, 2004

fleppen said:

I see there's a whole lot of watching for me to do, eventhough neither The Village nor The Bourne Supremacy (which I'm definitely going to see) is out here yet. Thank god for the internet

I've seen Signs and tbh didn't like it at all, the aliens allergic to water? yeah right, there's so much water in the air, on the ground etc it's just not very plausable at all. He should've thought about it a bit better imo
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AHH SPOILER!!!

careful people...

hehe btw *hug* flep

fleppen · Aug 2, 2004

heh, my bad my bad

I just got up (because of my musquito infested room, damn those pesky little bloodsuckers ) so I'm not yet really awake.
Time for more coffee I guess

oh and *hug* LLC

Sgt. Tibbs · Aug 2, 2004

billH said:

Tried to see The Village yesterday, couldn't get in so went to The Bourne Supremacy. Very thoughtful script for an action thrill a minute flick. Better than the Bourne Identity. Reminded me a little of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. Damon was good as was the veteran cast. I'll see The Village next weekend.
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I can't make myself see either of the Bourne movies...if only because Matt Damon is so freaken stupid someone needs to hit him with something. He has NO IDEA they're both books, or that there is a third one (he said in an interview I saw that he normally hesitates to do a movie sequel because they're usually not as good as the first one, but this was such a good script he did it anyway). It's not a movie sequel like he claims in his interviews, it's a BOOK SEQUEL. Not only that, but the books were written several years ago, not just for this series of movies. (Bourne Identity was published in 1980, Bourne Supremacy was published in 1986, Bourne Ultimatum was published in 1990).

Sorry for the hijack/rant. Stuff like that bugs me a LOT.

billH · Aug 2, 2004

S'Okay Sarge I've got a few triggers myself. Like: Disney movies; I really, I mean REALLY, hate when the title of a film says: "Disney's 20,000 leagues Under the Sea." I may be wrong but I think a guy named Jules Verne wrote "Leagues" not Uncle Walt. Or, "Disney's Cinderella" - folktale. or "Disney's Peter Pan" - JM Barrie or "Disney's Alice in Wonderland" - Lewis Carroll, etc. Grrr.

Jamiko · Aug 2, 2004

billH said:

S'Okay Sarge I've got a few triggers myself. Like: Disney movies; I really, I mean REALLY, hate when the title of a film says: "Disney's 20,000 leagues Under the Sea." I may be wrong but I think a guy named Jules Verne wrote "Leagues" not Uncle Walt. Or, "Disney's Cinderella" - folktale. or "Disney's Peter Pan" - JM Barrie or "Disney's Alice in Wonderland" - Lewis Carroll, etc. Grrr.
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I don't know, I always took that to mean "Disney's Version of" instead of "Disney wrote this".

mr_flea · Aug 2, 2004

I didn't like it very much, but at least it was original instead of a copy off something else...

MrPewty · Aug 2, 2004

fleppen said:

I see there's a whole lot of watching for me to do, eventhough neither The Village nor The Bourne Supremacy (which I'm definitely going to see) is out here yet. Thank god for the internet

I've seen Signs and tbh didn't like it at all, the aliens allergic to water? yeah right, there's so much water in the air, on the ground etc it's just not very plausable at all. He should've thought about it a bit better imo
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He should have made them allergic to Hank Williams

cindysnoopy · Aug 2, 2004

I didn't read this whole thread, because I didn't want to spoil it for myself, but I'm going to see it tomorrow night with some friends. One of my friends already saw it once and is going again with me. She said she really enjoyed it. Said that it wasn't as scary or suspenseful as she expected, but she enjoyed it none-the-less.

PS - Hi LLC!! *hugs*

Maxwell · Aug 2, 2004

Confused. Is this a remake of "Village of the Damned"?

cindysnoopy · Aug 3, 2004

Maxwell said:

Confused. Is this a remake of "Village of the Damned"?
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No, it's an original movie.

I really enjoyed it. I think I'm glad that I knew it wasn't going to be all that scary ahead of time. It helped me to not expect more and then be disappointed. It was really thought provoking for me.

On another note, the new Batman movie is being filmed here in Chicago. I think we actually happened upon it tonight on our way home just a couple blocks from our house. Finding parking was a nightmare between that and street cleaning tomorrow morning (which they probably won't really do, but they'll still give out tickets none-the-less (stupid city)

We drove by, but didn't see anyone famous or anything. Couldn't get too close in the car. When it comes out, I'll be sure to tell you all which scenes were shot right in our neighborhood

ICeMaN · Aug 4, 2004

cindysnoopy said:

No, it's an original movie.

I really enjoyed it. I think I'm glad that I knew it wasn't going to be all that scary ahead of time. It helped me to not expect more and then be disappointed. It was really thought provoking for me.

On another note, the new Batman movie is being filmed here in Chicago. I think we actually happened upon it tonight on our way home just a couple blocks from our house. Finding parking was a nightmare between that and street cleaning tomorrow morning (which they probably won't really do, but they'll still give out tickets none-the-less (stupid city)

We drove by, but didn't see anyone famous or anything. Couldn't get too close in the car. When it comes out, I'll be sure to tell you all which scenes were shot right in our neighborhood
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SWEEEET!!! I can't wait to see that one... if it's another Batman-camp job I'm gonna personally hunt the director & screenwriters down and subject them to countless hours of the most horrific thing I can find on a dvd. Batman & Robin

ColonelAngus · Aug 4, 2004

People are disapointed in the Village because the Trailers and Commercials for the movie advertised it as very scary when it is not. It is more thought provoking than scary. It is a supenseful thriller.

I saw it two days ago. I thought it was slow paced just like Unbreakable and as a result it made the movie boring to sit through.

The ending wasn't much of a surprise to me. I kinda' figured it out before the final twist was revealed.

I would still recomend it to people who want to see a good movie. Although the ADD generation may not be able to sit through something slow and intelligent.

JonJonMcKay · Aug 4, 2004

I haven't seen this yet, but the commercials did not really interest me. Some of my friends saw it, and didn't really enjoy it too much .. so I will probably only see it if I have some extra time and money.

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