SPOILER...One Gimmick After Another

Rating: 1/10 (1 August 2004)

After seeing 'The Village,' I would like to raise a few questions to those who saw it and perhaps try to show why it was not a good movie:
1. What is the point of the movie? To show that the world is full of terrible things and that we should go live in the 1800s where the only thing to fear is some cattle skinning monsters?
2. How in the world were 'the elders' able to build houses, give birth to at least 30-35 kids who in turn gave birth to even more, become expert farmers, and maintain being the monsters in the forest in the time of about 20-25 years? (as the photograph of them at the counseling center suggests)
3. How did Noah, first of all, think to look under the floorboards of the room just this one time since we know he's been there before, know exactly how to use it, and run into the forest undetected?
4. Why didn't William Hurt go through the forest instead of the blind girl (Ivy)? (He wouldn't have had to tell her about the truth of the monsters this way)
5. How come the elders didn't think to bring some good medical supplies with them? What if someone had been impaled by a tree branch? Plus if they can hide a photograph of themselves in the secret ALUMINUM box, they can hide some supplies.
-The only thing I can say that's good about this film is that it strikes up conversation, other than that it is highly irrelevant.