Don't judge a book(movie) by it's cover(preview)

Rating: Null/10 (5 August 2004)

The Village could have been far worse. I for one thought it was a great movie. Yes the previews made it seem like a different movie but don't judge a book by it's cover. Lots of movies are made out to be something different by their previews, but who's to say that the director wants his/her movie to be seen in that light and it's not the movie studio that did that to the film. So the movie wasn't about monsters and about people and love instead, big deal(cry about it). If you go into the theater and find out that it's a completely different movie then what you expected then judge the movie on that, not on what some previews lead you to believe, or what some lame ass review told you. If you've seen it once then see it again...or wait till it come out on DVD, and judge it as a movie about what it is, not what you thought it was gonna be. As for the previews giving you a false sense of what it was gonna be...the studio did what they had to...they got their number one movie and their 50 million dollar opening. As for the actors in the film, I thought Bryce Dallas Howard was excellent(although I want to know how a blind woman has a race up a foot hill). Adrien Brody was fantastic as Noah(I wouldn't be surprised if he gets a nomination for best supporting actor). As for the rest of the cast they were all great. M. Night Shyamalan did a great job.