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M Knight sucks. Fact.

Harrison Ford will always be cool, even if they wimpified him in the "new" version of Star Wars. So, Harrison Ford rocks. Fact.

I knew the plot to The Village within the first 15 minutes. A horror/thriller/mystery it was not. Pretty, yes.
 
Wilde_Night said:
M Knight sucks. Fact.
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phooey, i say. phooey. support your claim

though, yes, i do agree: Harrison Ford rawks (and Han shot first!)
 
i like m night's movies...all of them that i've seen...i just don't like HIM in them HEHEHEH


and...saw narnia over the weekend....I almost cried at the butchery...I don't think i can ever talk about it...did the director even read the book?
 
I'm angry about it but getting over it...my husband just keeps saying "hun whenever you go to a movie that you've read the book beforehand and you LOVE the book you HAVE to go to the movie thinking -this is just going to be a good movie but it may have nothing to do with the book-" I just hate that....same thing happened for me with the vampire books....stinkin' holly wood
 
Mobius said:
¡piffle! fie on thee! how dare you impugn William Hurt, Joaquinn Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard! not to mention Adrien Brody, Brendon Gleeson, Sigourney Weaver! FAH! "The Village" was an intelligent, subtle discourse on the nature of self-delusion and the hubris inherent in mankind. ¡it was bloody amazing! and that's dismissing the impressive cinematography and nigh-Hitchcockian progression of the plot tension. ¡next, you're gonna tell me you didn't like "Unbreakable"!
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Less than fifteen minutes into the movie they gave away the big plot 'twist' by one of the 1880's dressed characters wearing tennis shoes.

Tennis shoes.
 
oooh missed the tennis shoes bit!!!

ya know that movie that was 6thsensish with tom cruise's exwife in that old house and they're really the dead ones but you're supposed to think they're just allergic to the sun?

my friend ALWAYS get those within 5 minutes!!!!! he always leans over and goes

The Village: "I bet they're really not 1880s settlers but part of some religious cult from modern times"

The Others: "I bet the kids and the mom are really dead"

so annoying...heheh
 
ooooh on ElCid at the end with the battle on the beach...one of the "christians" gets thrown off his horse and he's wearing LeviStrauss jeans...cool...
 
out-thinking the director at the beginning of the movie defeats the purpose of watching. it's like telling your Grandma, "Yeah, I know Goldilocks gets out alive, now bugger off and lemme sleep." the whole point is to move with the director through her vision of the story, see the world how she presents it. M Knight presents a very intentional, specifically focused vision of the world, he leaves nothing to chance - the poignancy and care with which he crafts his tale is what makes them unique and amazing

that the "plot-twist" figures so heavily in his movies is not because M. Knight is trying to trip up his audience with childish antics, but because all his stories are about how different the world is from how we nonchalantly perceive it, how existence is predicated on assumptions which are often false and usually blinding. his movies are about the epiphany moments when clarity and passion transform our world into something beautiful and magical; that you could see it coming a mile-away is immaterial. you don't watch "King Kong", "Citizen Kane", "JFK", or "Jaws" because you're particularly interested in the plot-twists, you do so to see how and why the get to the inevitable conclusion
 
i have to agree with mobius here. the m night movies i've seen were not MEANT to make me go "WHOAH WHAT THE HECK?!? I didn't see that coming" but more to show me "don't be so judgemental things could be totally different"

like in the Lady In the Water...the moment when you figure out who the guardian is...to me was SOOOOOOOOOOOOO intense!! its not for everyone I realize since alot of his stories are unrealistic and not likely to happen....but signs made me realize that Faith can overcome anything if you are positive and believe enough.....not that aliens are scary...
 
Wraith said:
Mobius said:
¡piffle! fie on thee! how dare you impugn William Hurt, Joaquinn Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard! not to mention Adrien Brody, Brendon Gleeson, Sigourney Weaver! FAH! "The Village" was an intelligent, subtle discourse on the nature of self-delusion and the hubris inherent in mankind. ¡it was bloody amazing! and that's dismissing the impressive cinematography and nigh-Hitchcockian progression of the plot tension. ¡next, you're gonna tell me you didn't like "Unbreakable"!
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Less than fifteen minutes into the movie they gave away the big plot 'twist' by one of the 1880's dressed characters wearing tennis shoes.

Tennis shoes.
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That could have been intentional, or it could have been a small error in editing. Every film has slip ups like that. I love watching for continuity errors and such, but after I've seen a film at least once.
 
you think it was him trying to give us a hint?
 
Absolutely. I haven't seen "Fight Club" in a long time, but I've been told there are little hints like that in the beginning.
 
fight club has weird subliminal stuff...very cool
 
I like how pulp fiction shows you aprt of the end of the movie at the very beginning.

Then there's Lost Highway where the beginning and the end of the movies are the same point in time, but from a different perspective. Time actually loops around. It's freaky.
 
i love that part telokh!! where the people are going into the apartment and i'm thinking Uhhh didn't wee see this? heheheheh like donny darko
 
In Donnie Darko he travels back in time and changes the past.

In Lost Highway time just loops. The past doesn't change.
 
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