Review: The Village

Originally posted by Freddy Lover
LEAVE ME ALONE YOU DAMN MOONWALKER PERSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!chair

ok get a life seriously if your gonna bash other members, ad if you are, give a reason, and stop with the caps

also, thank you Myth!!! but were there

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cretures, no right, it was just noah, but remeber the part when there lucious takes ivys hand in the front door and there runnig in slow-mo whic was so corny, noah was in the underground basment thing with them, and the creture was out side???

Thats what i was wondering, see

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Myth said that Noah was in the locked cottage, but what i want to know is WHAT WAS THAT in the underground basement thing..That was another creature wasnt it?

I think you guys completely misunderstood the movie which is adding to you disliking it.

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The main elder explains that it is them in the suits. They used the suits to scare the town into not leaving and there was more than one of the suits. There was one in that shack that they aren't allowed to go to, and there was one in the floor boards where Noah was locked, and there must be some others throughout the town as well. Anyway, it wasn't even Noah the whole time. It was the elders in the suits. Noah just found one of the suits and ended up stalking the girl in it when she left the village.

thnx myth.... 😄 🙂

no i got it completely and thats why i diddnt like it, i dun got tricked out my money SUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEYYYYYY. I mean that retard is really going to be smart enough to do whathe did, where in the entire movie he couldnt even comprehend a sentence, yet he can muster super human strength and break the floor board and miracously come upon what he did, and decided to go after her. how would he even know that the girl went into the woods in the first place? he was in the quiet room ? rememebr . dumba ass movie diddnt even try to cover up there holes, just deciede the trickery would be enough to get our money

he ripped throuh the floor, i thought there was a floor dorr opening? o well w/e, and true, how would noah even know she was in the woods anyway? and also

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why did he kill lucious?

yeah He cant possibly understand the concept of love

I have anger problems...somthing i can't control. I almsot killed my brother once because i get so mad...furiousI think i'm gonna get sick...Love Sick that isin_love

My mother explained it to me today what Myth just said. Now I understand it all.

so you understand how crappy it was?

Some good comments here; and some...not so good ("OMG TEH MOIVE IS DUM LOL", etc).

Just because I can, here is what I wrote in the OTHER "The Village" thread (the one in the "horror" section);

Why is EVERYBODY on this board trashing this movie? I loved it! Of course, I'm inclined to think that Jerry Bruckheimer's offerings are contrived pablum, so what do I know? 😒

Anyway, what I liked about it was that

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it DID occur to me that the elders were making it up before it was revealed. However...my first instinct was that ONE elder was behind it, like Mr. Walker (William Hurt). He was present when the creatures first howled, though, and I didn't think that it was a vast conspiracy amongst ALL of the elders. When Lucius's friend in the tower said something like "Why would you want to go beyond the woods; the elders have said...." that all but convinced me that the elders were behind it.

I even thought that

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it might be set in modern-day, when Mr. Walker is arguing with the elders about Ivy's sojourn, but I couldn't reconcile it with the fact that the children would have seen "strange, metal birds" flying overhead every day. M. Night tied that off nicely at the end.

I also noticed right off the bat that

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there was no hint of Christianity in their funerary or dinnertime rituals, although I chalked it up to M. Night's personal preferences. Still, how likely is it that the elders would all feel strongly enough to keep a sort of vague agnosticism in their community? That just screams fakery to the outside observer.

Finally, when

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Noah shows up as the "real" creature, I had no idea. I thought it looked cheesy, but then so did the aliens in "Signs". I didn't see that coming at all. Only when the elders approached their "secret box" did I manage to figure it all out (about 15 seconds before M. Night revealed it anyway. I'm so special.

There are parts that leave me scratching my head, of course, like

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why would the elders feel the need to be historically true to one era or technology? Making the women wear corsets, and letting seven-year-old kids die of TB or some crap that can easily be cured in the 21st centurY? It's insane to go into that kind of self-sustaining environment without planning for emergencies. There are all kinds of examples of closed-off communities (cults, the Amish, conspiracy-minded compounds, hippie communes, etc) that shelter their children to some extent, but even the elders should have allowed SOME modern conveniences to creep in. Of course, maybe that's kind of the point--that sheltering your kids from the real world doesn't keep suffering away. There's always disease, accidents, and the occasional homicidal retard.

Oh, and Ivy is a super-hottie. Way to go, Opie!

^ 🙂 ✅

yo dude, i agree with every single word of what your said...

yeah it wasnt that hard to to really think of ounce you put two and two together dont feel so special. It was just a dumb ass movie

Originally posted by moonwalker741
he ripped throuh the floor, i thought there was a floor dorr opening? o well w/e, and true, how would noah even know she was in the woods anyway? and also

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why did he kill lucious?

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He could have been out in time to watch her enter the woods and then he stalked her from there. And I think it was pretty obvious that he killed Lucious out of jealousy. And Rage, why couldn't he understand the concept of love? He's not THAT mentally challenged.

Round is Funny -

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Good points. Anyway, the reasoning I came up with for staying consisted with 1 historical era was so they didn't slip up with consistency. My friend asked the question of why they didn't bring regular clothes because it wasn't necessary to wear old fashioned clothing. I figured it was for 2 reasons. 1 is that they would have to have a fashion they can sew themselves and the other is that there is no loopholes in there stories. Something modern could draw a question that may bring upon false explanations and could get stories mixed up. The clothes they wore had a history to them so their stories would all match up if asked. I agree that it would make more sense to bring modern medicine, but most medicines expire anyway so they couldn't just bring it back with them. They should have brought a few things that time wouldn't change, but that would eliminate most of the things that they could have brought.

no it wasnt 🙁

Let me guess Rage, you wanted a horror movie or

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to see a monster movie

no i wanted somthin suspensful and well thought out like huis previous films. not just a ploy to trick a mass aduience into seeing a movie, it seems like your making up to many exscuses to like the movie anyway The movie relies on so much, and offered just so little. the last 30 minutes were pointless.

Making up excuses to like it? I just like it and have noticed that a majority of people who don't are angry for the reason that it wasn't "very scary" or

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"the monsters aren't real."

🙂 I might force myself to see it again, since i can make sense of it now, and maybe Ill enjoy it to make it to at least a 0 instead of a -1 of a rating

Myth, thanks for some good comments. In thinking about M. Night's planning for how he would

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explain about the retro-commune, he raised all sorts of questions that should be answered, and the fact that they weren't just smacks of laziness. For example:

1) Mr. Walker is the history teacher. The rest, presumably, have skills they developed during their time in the village or had already (e.g. the doctor). Assuming that the infant in Sigourney's arms is baby Lucius, everyone his age or younger is living in a world of the elders' creation. Why NOT set up your village's (world's) history to fit whatever history you want? The kids won't question it, and the elders are lying about it anyway.

2) Why haven't more of the kids developed a sense of wanting to fight the creatures? Even if their society is based on realism, if they give the kids any exposure to stories of heroism and fighting evil from history, some kids are bound to embrace a warrior's stance.

3) Remember what a fuss is made anytime a group of people want to be separatists (for any reason)? The government would have shut them down EARLY on, no matter how rich old man Walker was.

Still, I can't complain. Maybe some of these points will be discussed on the DVD.