Stop Village Bashing!

Rating: Null/10 (8 August 2004)

I'm a film major at Penn State and I would just like for everyone to stop bashing The Village.
Obviously everybody is familiar with how M Night makes movies by now. There are ninety minutes of movie time where the characters develop, the plot builds up, and a few suspenseful moments happen. Then there is close to a ten minute ending where a twist occurs and it is supposed to invoke a "Ohh now that makes sense" reaction.
Instead of looking for a twist, simply go and see the movie. When you look for a twist, you miss out on important character development and plot structure. I did this with Unbreakable, and I regretted it later on.
Throughout the entire movie, other than the brilliant people that saw it coming and predicted it and posted it on this website, nobody thought that the twist had to do with the setting, and everyone thought it was with the creatures.
All I ask is that when you see a movie of his, do not try and measure it up to The Sixth Sense. That is his golden movie, and other than Spielberg and maybe Elia Kazan, most directors have one golden movie and then a bunch that don't measure up. The Sixth Sense is probably one of the top ten best made movies of all time, and to compare everything he does to that is not fair. Nobody compares "1941" to "Schindlers List" and that is why all of his movies turn out great reviews.