Only a 'good' movie if you are a moron

Rating: 2/10 (10 October 2005)

I can not believe that so many people praise this movie. After the moronic Signs, this takes the cake for trying to make the Sixth Sense work for EVERY movie. Not to digress into Signs which still baffles me as to one of the worst endings in a big-budget movie ever, The Village REAKS of a quick fix ending as bad as a 'it was just a dream' wake up revolution/solution.
It's like a very short story dragged out in character over development to fill time. It could of been filled with some sort of believable explanation for the children in the beginning as to HOW they got in the situation, and sustained their lifestyle for any period of time. Nothing was done to give a sense of history of the village itself, leaving a huge gap to be filled in trying to make a viewer believe any of this. Have so many people lost their common sense to be able to enjoy this film in any way? Without giving history and making the town completely trapped by the 'people of which we do not speak' we have to believe: That somehow all of their clothes, glass, metals, paint, leather, candles, and lumber mysteriously materialize and come with a never ending supply with no help from the outside world. It is IMPOSSIBLE to sustain life as they do without resources far and beyond what we are shown in the movie. There are so many holes in this alone it is inexcusable. How stupid does he think we are?? There are no vast farms, or cotton, or iron ore mines or foundries, or glass blowers(or sand), or sheep, or, well, never mind, its numbing just thinking about it. Sharpening one blade does not give any history or atmosphere to this movie to make it even 1% believable. There are not nearly enough people in town to have any free time not producing the necessities of life. With some of the children being over 20 years old they would of MAYBE asked where the hell all this stuff came from, don't you think? Apparently the only LOGICAL way this town could ever come into being is that the town was entirely built, and endless food, clothing, candle, and metal supply stored somewhere, and then a handful of adults and a gaggle of infants dropped in and raised over a couple generations, with NO history. Who the hell built the boundary markers?(let alone not bright enough to add a FENCE). And where did the wood they gratuitously use come from if not the FOREST. The first time I saw this movie this was coming to light within the first hour, the second viewing makes it painfully obvious. Stupid.
Not to mention books, and if we are venturing to attempt to believe this possibly makes any sense, language. How did English speaking settlers get here? A 1 minute 'history' is attempted near the end of the movie, but it equates to a populous 'air drop' implied above. He also gives her a mission after telling his daughter it's a lie, yet we are supposed to be scared of the 'monsters', oh, and send the blind girl.... Why would she be afraid of now 'fake' monsters anyway? Come on.
And the ending??? whatever. Signs was stupid, this is beyond it if its possible. Take your brain out of your head and put it on the coffee table and watch the film, its the only way you can watch it more then once. If the movie had an 18th century 'end' it might of had a chance. The movie should of been named "Holes" or "stupid kids". Most adults can not out wit a 5 year old when it comes to getting into a car, 30 children just go along with everything they're told without question....This fallacy would last no longer with children then the easter bunny or Santa Claus. Face-Off involves much less suspension of disbelief. I would of given it 5 stars if it were just bad directing and editing, but only 2 because some semblance of 'intelligence' is attempting to be implied.
View it once its like wtf was I really THAT robbed of a conclusion? The second viewing reveals how utterly stupid this movie is.