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Originally Posted by The Villain
Your hatred for The Village is well known although i don't understand it. Honestly though i'm probably in the minority of people who like that movie. Most people seem to hate it.
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As a standalone film maybe it can be called semi-decent but after all the marketing and hype of it being a horror film, and because of Shyamalan's brand name behind it, I went in expecting a solid horror film (I am a huge, huge fan of
Unbreakable, loved
The Sixth Sense, and
Signs was more than decent too, IMO).
Imagine my jaw dropping in sheer surprise, and that followed by seething anger the moment the "twist" came in midway through the film! What followed from the "twist" onwards is well-known by now that it wasn't horror in the REMOTEST of senses. It was a cheap gimmick to draw audiences to the theater, the film nosedived on itself because it went on to take itself WAY too seriously, and I am sure Shyamalan learned a lesson or two about falling down from his high horse. People don't expect to be taken for a ride - advertise something, show something else. That was the day Shyamalan's name didn't hold any good anymore, specially for me. The film was a joke, an example of how you can make a viewer seem like a total jackass.
Since that very bitter viewership experience, I would gladly take a baseball bat to any/every copy of the film I could lay my hands upon.
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Originally Posted by metternich1815
This is really weird, especially since I defended Thirteen Ghosts. I think I would like to remove my backing (if that is okay) because there are some better films from this period that I would like to give a chance.
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Sure you can.
Adjusting the list accordingly. Our count of finalised films for the 00s now goes down to NINETEEN.
THREE more need to be finalised now.