it was great! there are a few spoilers...

Rating: Null/10 (10 November 2004)

I was waiting for this movie for over 2 months, since the moment i heard of it and finally i watched it today!!! I must say it was a bit of a disappointment after all that waiting but i must admit that i even expected the disappointment! anyways, m night shayamalan is a GENIUS!!!!! all of his movies are excellent. i expected a reveal about something we all know about but couldn't explain, like ghosts and aliens, but it was different. a let down and a relief.. i expected it to be really scary, that was the biggest let down. i would have liked for the "monsters" to be real but that would have detracted from the story line obviously. it was still excellent and has kept me thinking about it all day, which is a sign that i enjoyed it!
to beloved1, your observations of the movie were so superficial, you obviously need to watch it again! with the clothes and language, why not?? Amish people wear clothes like that and thats fine.. and especially for us, we needed that typical shyamalan twist at the end! we needed to think it all happened long ago for the shock at the end and its all just so clever and calculated! the "blind girl" (ivy) needed to be blind so that she wouldn't see the real world to tell the rest of the village. and its totally possible for ivy to go into the woods, she wasn't supposed to be alone in the first place (until the road anyway). blind people are totally capable and I'm sorry that you don't even know that. the retard is a retard so all his actions are justified.. the elders have been in the woods before, hence the coming out of the woods to the village, so for them to go in and find noah is acceptable. they can say they just found him at the border. it all actually makes sense if you think about it carefully and logically.
only one thing i don't get, when luscious breetches the border just that one time and when ivy is in there, where do those "monster" sounds come from? my buddy says it was probably a tape recorder is that right?? please email me and let me know!!
i still think that it was great and i cant wait to watch it again.. so, don't expect too much, forget that its a m night shyamalan movie and you'll really enjoy it. especially if you like not too much suspense and an old fashioned romantic (",)