The Village

Snake · Post by **Snake** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 8:50 am

I know this movie has been out awhile, but I was wondering, since I have not yet seen it, what people thought of it.

ScS of the Fraternity · Thu Oct 14, 2004 9:26 am

Me, I loved it. It was easily one of the best movies I have ever seen. Naturally, this kind of period horror is the genre that really turns my crank, so maybe I'm biased. Nonetheless, it was a great movie that had me, and the audiance, jumping.

I think that The Village is one of the most Ravenloftian movies of all time. It easily embodies the life of the common folk of the demiplane. As far as Gothic Earth is concerned, the Village has a little less impact, though the movie might describe backwoodsy folk of isolated areas.

daffy72 · Post by **daffy72** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:32 pm

hi Snake
this actually has nothing to do with the movie the village but with the image in your signature

are you interested in doing Ravenloft in the NWN setting?
are you part of the Ravenloft PW or a free agent?

If you are a free agent, are you familar with my group- RLCore?
we have been working the last 18 months converting NWN to the Demi plane of Dread setting and are close to launch.
You can join our guild at:
http://nwn.bioware.com/guilds_registry/ ... l?gid=3369

anyway just wanted to pass on the info since i saw that image.
~andrew

Snake · Post by **Snake** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:39 pm

Definetly interested, I'll PM you with some questions Daffy; thanks. Also, I recently just saw this thread in another board by you SCS, so I appologize for posting it twice, thank you for the info though. Knowing that, I am really interested in watching the movie.

ScS of the Fraternity · Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:26 pm

Interested in watching the movie?

As in "Haven't already seen it?"

Bah! I command you to see the Village now!

Snake · Post by **Snake** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 3:26 pm

Interested in seeing the movie and helping out Daffy.

YokoburiKinura · Post by **YokoburiKinura** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:16 am

Finally got to see it this evening. Another Shayalaman movie for me to love.

Too tired to do spoiler tags right now, so I'll just say that concepts like the isolation, the society built on silence, the 'truce' and the closely-kept perimeter, and the concept of love and pure hearts being things the darkness can't overcome are all great concepts (especially if we're talking about what can be mined for a RL game).

Dr Bloodworth · Post by **Dr Bloodworth** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 9:47 pm

I could see it in PA, but not the region near Philadelphia. I could definitely see it upstate somewhere, though.

volksfrei · Post by **volksfrei** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 6:59 pm

I liked it, but to add something (not necessarily bad) I would like to say that I thought the ending was stereotypical Shyamalan. Not that that's bad, heck it's better then a Spielberg or Stone ending. Anyways, I went to see it just cause I'm an Adrien Brody fan, but I really liked it, one of the bettter movies this year.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:04 pm

Very good movie, if a bit predecible... but yes i think it get into the feeling of Ravenloft and Gothic Earth.

Montalve

Catman Jim · Post by **Catman Jim** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:20 am

So I'm alone in disliking The Village? I was enjoying it just fine up until the ending. I felt so ripped off, as if the movie was all atmosphere without any real substance to it. Maybe that is the reaction MNS wanted us to have, but I just felt p**sed and would never care to see it again.

Jester of the FoS · Post by **Jester of the FoS** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:05 am

No, I hated it too.
The last five minutes were total <bad word I cannot say in possibly mixed company>. As great as the directing and mood and environment was that 'twist' killed it.
The plot holes, the unresolved mysteries and general obvious predictable plot twist made it painful. I loved it up until then and enjoyed all his previous movies, even the much maligned Signs. Which makes it all that much harder to completely pan that movie.

After all that build up, that suspense over the 'others' do you what would have been better? ANYTHING!

I always advise people watching it to stop when whatshername plays the 'game' in the woods and then make up their own ending from there. Some little twist as to why the truce was broken.

ScS of the Fraternity · Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:34 am

Bah! Blasphemy!

I shall someone the "One's who Watch" to take you both away.

Drinnik Shoehorn · Post by **Drinnik Shoehorn** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:02 pm

I liked the Village, I even liked the twist, but it's not a patch on "The Others" with Nicole Kidman.

Joël of the FoS · Post by **Joël of the FoS** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:46 pm

Watched it tonight. Very interesting for the atmosphere. Worth watching for Ravenloft DMs.

The end twist (which I'm not going to say for those who haven't seen it) is quite weird but impressive, IMHO. It was a good movie idea. I was wondering why they send the blind girl, but in the end, it makes sense

Joël

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