The late Charles Brosnan was arguable the best man in any revenge movie.

in regards to The Village...i have no doubts it will be awesome.
however, i was hanging around a chat room and some jerk gave away the ending....which ruins the movie somewhat

however, i still intend to enjoy it....

I went and seen it tonight...

All I can say is simply this... I don't like M.N.S anyways, so... this is no surprise, but... the movie was crap! The ending was a joke! I couldn't beleive that this was the ending he went with, opposed to the other ending floating around.

All I can say is this... It was boring, slow paced, predictable at almost every turn and the explantion of the "things beyond the village or whatever" was so damn stupid it wasn't even worth the time.

I coined the ending about 65 to 70 minutes into it... and... I was right.

LAME... really LAME...

For any who want to save a few bucks... I'll let you in on it if you'd like.

well don't do that....i enjoy MNS....he adds some creativity and good ideas, that are unbelievably unique, to the whole film world....

like unbreakable....man....genius

I think M. Night Shyamalan is a good filmmaker, but he needs to get over the surprise twist ending.  He is in a funk, though, if he makes a really good movie, and it has no surprise ending, it just has a good, satisfying ending, (like Lord of the Rings) than everyone will say the movie is bad, but, if he does another twist ending, it won't be too good, because everyone goes and expects the twist, so because they expect it, the ending is getting easier to pinpoint and figure out.

I don't know, I only liked the first of the LOTR trilogy, coz the third wasn't very good imo ;( prolly because we all know what happens, and I'm just staring at the screen, and I'm like... ok... dull

I thought all of the LOTR trilogy were phenomal.

Movies to go down in history.

oh...well in that case baltis, i take back what i said...
it's certainly a twist ending...as usual, that some people may not find..appealing?

Also -- are we talking about the late great Charles Bronson?  Or is Charles Brosnan his mysterious twin brother?

Yeah.  Death Wish great.

Note to AmericanSyCo, I've moved this back to the movie reviews section.  Apparently this page was indexed by Google ( http://www.google.com/search?s.....alan%27s+The+Village ) and when it was moved, I was getting  a ton of errors on the site.  So, I moved it back here.

Don

Well I'll be adding a review on this movie tomorrow night or Wednesday morning

I saw the village.  I can't see why people hated the ending.  I can honestly say that I really liked this movie, and i can't really say that about a lot of movies I've seen this year.  I thought the twist at the end was pretty good, and it was different from a lotta other movies.  I hate it when the audience dis likes a movie because it tricked them, i think that's just crap.  The ending, however, reminded me of a book I've read called RUNNING OUT OF TIME, the similarities between that book and the ending of this movie were remarkable, and that's how I predicted the ending when the woman told what happened to her sister the FIRST time.  not the SECOND time, that's when I knew for sure that was the ending, but she said "alley" and i started thinking...  I think that in people's reviews, they take the fact it's a Shyamalan flick when considering the movie.  People shouldn't do that.  If this was Shyamalan's FIRST movie, would people like it?  It's a fun thing to think about....

Well after tonight I'll tell you, I do like Shyamalan's films very much but I am always an objective viewer especially when I sit in the front row and can barely hear when i'm done

Trust me if it blows it will still blow no matter how much I like his films

I went to see The Village, got there exactly when the film started and missed the previews but I got there

Now there may be spoilers ahead so if you're going to see the film don't read on

I was expecting maybe a fight between the ones they don't speak of and the village people but they tricked me and never even had any bad guys. It's really a drama with a thriller plot, the love story and all the talk about it

I didn't figure out if Ivy was really blind till halfway through the film, she's pretty good for a blind person. The ending wasn't the greatest ending possible because you don't really know if he dies or lives and they get married, that said it's a good enough ending

A few parts that made the crowd and myself jump, probably cause it was so loud but you never know. If you look at this as an M Night film I'm disappointed but if you just look at it as an overall film it's great.

4 out of 4 for this film, it had a story and it had a village what more do you want?

Quoted from Paula-Hanes, posted July 12th, 2004, 3:44am at here Movies are always a window into what is going on in a particular society at the time. The thematic trends especially paralell the fears of that society.

This may be true some of the time, and even a lot of the time, but some films are just pure entertainment.

Since we are talking about the thriller/horror genre, I offer Evil Dead and Re-animator as evidence.  Brilliant films, but utterly without underlying theme.