short attention spans need not apply

Rating: Null/10 (5 August 2004)

i think the biggest reason people did not like this film is they have very short attention spans. if you need the entire point of the plot explained to you and excitement happening in the first 3 minutes of a film, stay home and watch commercials.
if you want a film that doesn't spoon feed you every second with exactly where it's going, has interesting characters and complex relationships between them, raises many questions and doesn't spoon feed the answers to you (or shove them down your throat), and gives you a lot to think about (i saw it last night and i've been thinking about it non-stop ever since), then see the village.
i agree that it was mis-marketed as a horror film, and that most people probably went in expecting something they did not get. i was expecting to be very scared, but i will say this: the movie disturbed me, even though it wasn't in the way i expected. i'm not going to go on and on about the themes and the morals of the films - i think people should decide for themselves what a story means to them, but many people can't be that individual, they want to know "the answer". if you want a movie that gives you "the answer", don't see this movie.
i don't particularly care if night was "commenting" on something "currently relevant". i saw some comment on here somewhere that said this was an attack on bush - yeah, well, so is everything else these days, to people who are willing to see that everywhere they look. it's an interesting story with many interesting implications and interpretations. i say, see it and make up your own mind.
i also think that, like other movies i've enjoyed, and indeed like night's other movies, you will see something different the second time you see this movie - but it will still be INTERESTING to watch. i liked it, the more i think about it the more i like it, and i plan to see it again.
i love to be scared, but i think Shyamalan has a great talent for storytelling, regardless of scares. He writes excellent and complex characters, and he asks interesting questions. i hope that will come to stand on its own without everyone waiting for him to make "the next sixth sense". i love that movie, but as endless generations of horrible sequels to great movies should tell you, some things just can't be replicated. move on.