I know a lot of you are not fans of all three of M. Night Shyamalan's movies but chances are you like at least one ( or if your like me you liked sixth sense and LOVED Signs and Unbreakable ) anyways his new film "The Village" is going to be a horror / love story which is pretty cool I have been waiting and waiting for the trailor and finally the teaser is here!!!

http://bvim-qt.vitalstream.com/TheVillage/TheVillage_Trailer1_1500.mov

what do you guys think?

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Mike Jones
Green Sky Productions

ok hmm its not on the server n e more im pissed o well maybe it will be back on later

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Mike Jones
Green Sky Productions

ok here we go
http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2004/STUVWXYZ/Village,The/trailer-page.html

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Mike Jones
Green Sky Productions

Not trying to rain on your parade, but...

The script for The Village is getting horendous reviews. AICN thought it was so bad that it might have been a fake, but it wasn't. I hope this is good, but im not counting on it. M Night have been on a steady decline since The Sixth Sense.

Cammo

I think he's mediocre at best.

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JSW Films | Films Abroad

I do admit, the evidence has always been growing that The Sixth Sense was a fluke...a pretty damn good fluke, though.

That plot line seems way to similar to "signs". Common Night, cant you think of anyting else.

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Alex Conway
Mind-Trip Films

I didnt know he was working on anything and find this to be a bit of a surprise. When he made Signs he said he probablly wouldnt do anything for a few years. Apparently The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs were all concepts he had been working since his NYU days. As such he was simply out of ideas (With the exception of a movie dealing with Magicians but he said the conscpt was "Too much like The Sixth Sense" and needed alot more work.

I continue to enjoy his films. Unbreakable was brilliant save the ending which seemed to be ubrupt because he was afraid it would come acros as to contrived.

Signs was deffinently his weakest but I enjoyd because it was an Alien movie that WASNT about aliens.

He still writes strong dialouge. Not Tarintino strong but let's face it, people dont talk the way they do in Tarintino/Smith/Williamson films. Night manages to write dialouge that feels real which is often harder than it sounds.

I have not yet seen this trailer and probablly wont for a while but already even I am skeptical. We shall see.
R. Michael

"Luck, is when opportunity, meets preperation." "There are 3 sides to every story. Yours, mine, and the truth, and none of us are lying" -Robert Evans
Tizzy Entertainment "Redemption" Hi-Def trailer

Whoa whoa whoa Time out Craig T. Nelson. Tarantino writes how people talk. I find myself in conversations where I swear I'm in a Tarantino movie because of whats being discussed between me and my friends (or what I overhear)....whether it be about a piece of knowledge they have aquired (THink Royal with Cheese) or perhaps a certain food they don't eat ("I don't eat Pork") and one day me and my friends were talking about the meaning of a BEach Boy's song (Like a Virgin is about a girl who digs a guy with a big dick) Crap like that is everywhere. In a Tarantino book I have (I can't recall the name, and I don't wanna get up to check) Tarantino talks about some of the inspiration for his dialogue, if you could recall the "I'd F*ck Elvis" monologue ion TRUE ROMANCE, a FRIEND of Tarantino actually talked with him about that.

Yes, some lines may be "movie" or something, I dunno....but I think his dialogue is the closest to real life as were gonna get before BORING ourselves to death.

AS for this new movie by M. Night Shamalamadingdong, I dunno, I heard too it has a bad script.....something to do with Elves or some crap? IT could be pretty tripy, but I'm not a fan of M. Night's directing style, I think Signs did a crappy job with that....it tried to hard to be like JAws...he seriously could've busted out with some crazy assed Alien movie with eerie cinematography and sound.

I liked Unbreakable though.

-TacoWagonProductions

that's all.

i think that the stuff tarintino characters talk about is stuff we talk about in real life, but the way its worded isnt (like the royal scene; something wed probably talk about, but the dialogue definitly sounded scripted)

and m night shamalyayadingdong handles suspense really well, so ill watch his new flick for just that reason. who gives a crap if its original or not. he makes the kind of movies that are really good the first time through, but arent really worth a second viewing for a while, because the suspense is gone.

if youre looking for a witty signature, youre looking in the wrong place.

Tarentino writes the kind of off the wall conversations about strange things that real people talk about. But by and large people don't talk like that. I know no one I know talks at that speed with that many pop culture references.

"I'm superfly tnt, i'm the guns of the navarone"

I know I hear that daily.

Cammo

Pulp Fiction ....fluke, I could give two candy f*ck sh*ts how two people swap convo...I watch movies to "WATCH" movies...Pulp Fiction should have been a f*cking book....so much damn talking in that movie I felt like I was watching a crappy play...at best...it still didn't make sense...speaking of sense.

Six Sense....masterpiece...I'm sure more are on there way. You don't just write a script like that and disappear into the darkness of the Hollywood sign. Matter fact "SIGNS" was a great story, and the characters were charismatic and round.

I think the new movie looks dope.

Hi...I'm back btw

HOODIE PRODUCTIONS......"making it happen"

i'm so going to see it, i love joaquin phoenix...and adrien brody (he is in it no?) and really, not to be rude to anyone, but if all of you naysayers can write a better story DO IT! if your story is more original PROVE IT! because if you can't do better, there's really no reason any of you should be able to gripe.....ok, stepping off soapbox now....

I've seen all of his movies in the theater... without knowing they were the same person. They all had one thing in common, I didn't like them. I don't know why but I didn't like Signs, The Sixth Sense, or Unbreakable... Maybe the sixth sense a little bit but just a little bit

- C. Davis
President, Alabama Film Club
Owner, Yellow Hammer Films

I am with the Next_Nicole_K. Criticism has its place and I like reading these reviews, but it is so easy to be a critic but to be an active agent in your own life... that is something entirely different. M Night inspires me. At the least in his work, there are echoes of questions that keep me awake (not if there are ghosts or aliens or whatever, but if there is eternity? or is this "as good as it gets"?) Great art should reflect great questions/ observations, etc. And, yeah, be fun to watch...

by the way, hes done five movies, not three, so far. his first two were praying with anger and wide awake, of which i have seen wide awake. i thought it was pretty good too. neither are anything like what hes been doing though...

if youre looking for a witty signature, youre looking in the wrong place.

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and really, not to be rude to anyone, but if all of you naysayers can write a better story DO IT! if your story is more original PROVE IT! because if you can't do better, there's really no reason any of you should be able to gripe.....ok, stepping off soapbox now....

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thats stupid. Mabe we can write a better story, maybe we can't. IT doesn't matter. I hate that arguement, "Oh, then make something better" Cause its just stupid. We have the right to an opinion, if we think the story sucked, we think it sucked, end of story. We don't need to be able to support our opinion of it sucking by HAVING to make a BETTER story.

Thats stupid.

-TacoWagonProductions

Saw the trailer... liked what I saw.

I have this odd feeling there are no creatures though and it is something the powers that be used to control the villagers. The whole "The truce is ending" line suggests otherwise though. I love creepy stories like this though, and a period piece makes it even better.

As to the bad script. M. Night has been getting paid top cash for his scripts (Unbreakable sold for more than any other in history) so I wouldnt be one bit surprised if he made a dummy script and only a few key people had access to the real deal... but who knows.
R. Michael

"Luck, is when opportunity, meets preperation." "There are 3 sides to every story. Yours, mine, and the truth, and none of us are lying" -Robert Evans
Tizzy Entertainment "Redemption" Hi-Def trailer

And don't forget he wrote the screenplay to Stuart Little. Oh well a guys gotta eat.

M. Night is at least a true autuer, something you see less and less of. He's in there with Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, The Coen Bros ect, true writer/directors who present a clear style. Pick up the script to The 6th Sense its amazing how he presents the story and the shot descriptions.