Just ask Kirk Cameron how well that turned out.

Unless the twist was something like... all the fundies conspired to hide at the same time, in an effort to trick those who were ... "LEFT BELOW!!!"

Like "Signs" was Shy's personal take on "War of the Worlds", this movie is "Day After Tomorrow" but through one man's POV.

I love M. Night but come on, this poster sucks. And who the fuck was the dolt above that said "notice how most of the cars are headed towards the city"? Are we looking a bit too far into things maybe, Nicolas Cage?

The lady in the water was wide awake praying with anger when she saw the unbreakable signs with her sixth sense at the village.

I'm prepared to throw down again.

"Eventually the secret [...] is revealed. To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore.

And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets."

hilarious. and absolutely true. anyone satisfied by that ending probably thinks Britney Spears is a musical genius...

Seems to say a lot about his character actually.

I also have difficulty imagining people being angered by the movie. It was fluff, and unlike some of Herr Shyamalan's other fluff, it wasn't all that entertaining.

All these refeences to some kids show I never saw just because the titles have one key word in common. ONE person mentions the Supremes hit of the same title, but no one mentions that that song was the theme song from a 1967 movie called "The Happening," a tragic pseudo-hip comedy in which some aging hippies kidnap a Mafia Don who comes to realize that none of his associates are going to pay his ransom.

I assumed when I saw the headline that this would be a remake. Then I looked at the poster and i guess it isn't, unless an entire tribe of hippies kidnap an entire caravan of mobsters. Which would be a really messed up idea for a movie.

If this is about peole flee from civilization when nature revolts, why are the cars pointed towards the dity? Is urban sprawl a santuraly FROM nature?

And if this a remake of The Rapture, fine, as long as mimi Rogers does another nude shower scene. Her nude scene in "A Door In The Floor" was great - gray bush is hot. Google for it.

I love the way that Willis' coat becomes more like a costume as the movie progresses (Night explains in the commentary that there were several different versions of the coat worn throughout the movie so that it subtley gets longer and longer like a cape).

The reveal about what happened in the car crash is beautifully done; as is the great scene where Willis is reborn after facing his fear of drowning.

I hope that this is a return to the greatness of UNBREAKABLE for Mr. S as his last efforts which certainly weren't bad but could have been far better. I personally think that he is one of the best directors in Hollywood at the moment, even if his scripts don't always match up with his skills behind the camera.

It's good to know Shyamalan is appealing to the conservative Christians for his next movie. Maybe he can work with Gibson again.

I loved Unbreakable (yes, it gets better with each viewing), liked Sixth Sense a lot and don't mind Signs at all since I'm in the it's-not-an-invasion-movie-per -se contingent.

However.

The Village is absolutely ghastly. I couldn't believe what I was watching when I saw it. It's like a parody skit of a Shyamalan film that won't end. People who say they were surprised by anything in the narrative of that film are drooling, mouth-breathing idiots who let flies walk on their faces when they watch movies. There is no marketing approach in the world that could have saved that howling shitburger.

What makes The Village even more insulting is the shameless participation of high-profile actors who MUST have known how awful the script was but were desperate to be seen in the work of a flavor-of-the-month director.

I won't say anything about Lady in the Water since I haven't been able to get past the opening five minutes without heartburn.

Of course, we're still waiting for the students to rise up in revolt against the old dudes running the country. Although, of course, they could just die of old age and the students/young take over.

Anyway, for better or for worse, the Iraq war has neutralized the US's ability to do anything large-scale militarily for a long time to come. The Bush really isn't evil so much as it is a failure.

An hour and a half of not much happening.

And, by the way, to all you people that are wondering why he is perceived as such a dick- May I refer you to That 70s Venom post at 01:38:58. The very fact that he can't accept that the village had flaws and blames it on the marketing shows him as a scapegoat finding dickhead.

For the record- I was travelling and doing too many drugs at the time so actually missed all the marketing for the village. I saw it on the flight home and FUCKING HATED it.

A crappy, crappy film.