I don't understand The Village hate

[kainedamo]

The Happening is a god-awful movie. It's laughably bad. Mark Walhberg is atrocious, but I don't know if it's down to Shyamalan's directing. The concept is okay, sort of, SOME moments had a little tension. But the drama and dialogue were awful.

Why are a few individuals placing this above The Village? The Happening belongs with Catwoman and Batman and Robin, while The Village I feel is a great movie.

Firstly, the acting in The Village is superb. Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody - they all gave amazing performances. The characters they play are captivating, I think. The direction and cinematography is great. The suspense is almost unbearable on the first viewing during certain scenes.

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Like when Ivy Walker is taken to where one of the "monsters" is being kept and shes reaching out to touch it. Or when the movie has you second guessing, thinking maybe there really is a monster, and it's following Ivy. When it turns out to be her brother in a costume, did general audiences find this cheesy? It was ****ing moving. He lay at a bottom of a pit and died when he only wanted to play a game. The chemistry between Joaquin Phoenix and Bryce Howard is good. The movie has a really nice love story behind it.

The music is also amazing. I could listen to the soundtrack over and over.

Do people hate on the "twist" or "twists"?

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When it turned out these people were living in modern times, did people think it was silly?

Are an amount of people simply unable to appreciate slowly paced films? Do some prefer The Happening simply because it's got a faster moving pace and more dead bodies?

 

[Mr. Credible]

i liked this movie a lot more than signs, but i hated signs with a fury, so...

i did like the twist in this movie, a lot, but i would have liked it a lot more if i didn't see it coming half an hour into the movie.

and i find shamalyhoopla's films to be just so.... boring. there are so many scenes in all of his films that just draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag and draaaaaaaaaaag, i mean, building tension is one thing, but being long winded and just flat out boring is another.

plus, shamyliblahblah is such a pretentious ass in real life it's hard for me to like anything he does. lindsey lohan could give the award winning performance in a critically acclaimed movie she wrote and directed, but it's still lindsey lohan, and she's still a huge pile of suck and fail, so it's hard to like anything about her, same as "m night" (even his name is pretentious, geez)

 

[Poeman]

the movie grows on me alot...especially recently. I decided to put it in after watching The Happening and I have to say it was really good. The story and characters are great...

 

[Mr. Credible]

yeah, the one thing i can't hate on is the story. it actually is very smart, and super-original.

it's just the execution (acting, pacing, performances) i have a problem with.

 

[oakzap425]

This movie was so predictable, the whole crowd (and mind you, the theater was packed. no seat was left open) started a ****ing "what's gonna happen next game".

Seriously. One person would yell, what's gonna happen next, then some random other person would say something, and if it were true, the whole crowd laughed. At the end, it got boo's and wtf's every where. That movie ****ing sucked.

 

[Gilpesh]

It also sucked when you find out the creatures are fake... then they try to cover their ass by a throw away line about them basing it on real creatures... so you could get a little bit of a scare when tardo boy shows up in a costume that looks different from the others.

Lame.

 

[Drizzle]

It's not so much a hate for the actual movie as much as it is hatred for M. Night Shaylaman.

 

[chaseter]

The ending was dumb and the monsters were dumb. It had potential and was pretty good until Night decided to do a lame twist that had everyone going...WTF!? He can make some pretty good tension in a movie but his resolution of his characters just suck.

 

[Episode29]

I agree that the Village is an film undeserving of the excessive bile directed towards it. While it is inferior to Shyamalan's previous films, and somewhat flawed, it is still an entertaining and stylish film. It is very well directed in parts, and Shyamalan's ability to instill dread and suspence is first rate. I do think that revealing the falsity of the monsters halfway through and then attempting to re-con the audience was a questionable script idea though... Still, enough great performances and atmosphere to deserve mention.

It is amusing how much better it looks after sitting through The Happening and Lady In The Water, though. I wonder if he'll ever make something terrible enough to make us re-evaluate our thoughts on those two...

 

[kainedamo]

This movie was so predictable, the whole crowd (and mind you, the theater was packed. no seat was left open) started a ****ing "what's gonna happen next game".

Seriously. One person would yell, what's gonna happen next, then some random other person would say something, and if it were true, the whole crowd laughed. At the end, it got boo's and wtf's every where. That movie ****ing sucked.

Sounds like a terrible audience. Back when I worked in the cinema I kicked people out for less than that.

 

[Erzengel]

During the funeral in the beginning, I deduced what the "twist" was.

It's a decent movie and if I had to rank the movies it'd be.....

Six Sense
Unbreakable
The Village
Lady in the Water
Signs

However it's not as good as his first 2 movies.

 

[Dark Donnie]

Sounds like a terrible audience. Back when I worked in the cinema I kicked people out for less than that.

Agreed....

Anyway I really enjoyed the film and like you really can't understand the hate. I loved the twist personally, especially the reveal.

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My favorite scene of the film is when Brody's character stabs Phoenix's....the whole scene was shot great. It got a real gasp from the crowd I was with.

 

[dark_b]

i liked this movie a lot more than signs, but i hated signs with a fury, so...

i did like the twist in this movie, a lot, but i would have liked it a lot more if i didn't see it coming half an hour into the movie.

and i find shamalyhoopla's films to be just so.... boring. there are so many scenes in all of his films that just draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag and draaaaaaaaaaag, i mean, building tension is one thing, but being long winded and just flat out boring is another.

plus, shamyliblahblah is such a pretentious ass in real life it's hard for me to like anything he does. lindsey lohan could give the award winning performance in a critically acclaimed movie she wrote and directed, but it's still lindsey lohan, and she's still a huge pile of suck and fail, so it's hard to like anything about her, same as "m night" (even his name is pretentious, geez)

how? how did you know?

 

[Telekinetic]

this movie makes my top 5 list so i hate it when people diss it cause i think this movie was amazing. watching lady in the water afterwards was the biggest letdown

but most people went into watching this movie thinking it was a scary movie, and when they walked out, they forgot about the amazing storyline and characters.

 

[Erzengel]

For me it was the cemetery scene in the beginning with the monuments and I thought they were kinda new looking which sparked the thought, "Watch this is actually in the present."

 

[shapeshifter]

It's not so much a hate for the actual movie as much as it is hatred for M. Night Shaylaman.

I have a healthy amount of hate for both the movie and M. Night. The movie was, in my opinion, lame and anticlimactic. The premise was, like most of his, good at the core, but executed poorly. His characters are flat, and stereotypical. He is trying to be the new Hitchcock, and to be honest, he is falling quite short.
His movies have become a search for a way to shock an audience waiting for a shock. Its like bringing a water gun to a public pool.
Thats my opinion.

 

[Texas Zombie]

I laughed so hard. This is from Happening.

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" I see you Eyeballin' my lemon Drank."

I half expected her to say " I'm Old Greg!" or "Im Gonna hurt you real bad when we get outside(says in low voice)."( Watch Old Greg and The Crack Fox.)

If you want a solid movie with Mark W. in it go rent Four Brothers or Shooter.

 

[dark_b]

i think bruce wills fits very good in hes movies. hes calm and afraid voice really fitswith hes style.

 

[Figs]

The first time I saw it as I was leaving the theatre I liked it but felt letdown at the same time.

I was expecting him to make an actual monster/boogeyman type of movie and when it turns out it wasn't real I was a bit disappointed.

The second viewing was much better as I accepted it for what it was and really love the film now.

 

[GhostPoet]

I don't like The Village at all. It was extremely predictable. I mean, I knew the thing wasn't a creature practically since the beginning of the movie. And I also knew they were in the modern world before they even showed it. meh.

 

[dark_b]

i still dont know how people knew that this was set in modern time.

 

[Erzengel]

I gave my example.

 

[dark_b]

I gave my example.

aha.ok.

 

[Telekinetic]

I gave my example.

which cemetery scene ? was it at the very beginning ? i cant
remember it

talking about itjust makes me wanna re watch it now t:

 

[Erzengel]

The scene where one of the Elder's children died in the beginning which is one of the reasons Lucius tries to get permission to leave the Village.