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August 02, 2004

The Village

I have not yet seen the new movie by M. Night Shyamalan called The Village. However, a couple friends of mine went to see it on Friday night and when they got back, the following conversation went like this:

Me: So, how was the movie?
Friend 1: It was OK, but not great.
Me: Does it have one of those "surprise" endings like in Sixth Sense and Unbreakable?
Friend 2: Yeah, the ending is kind of lame.
Me: My guess is that the whole thing is nothing but a lot of actors and it's just a big sound stage, and the audience is not clued in.

Friend 1 looks at Friend 2 and says, "Well, he's not exactly correct but he's close."

Now I guess I have to go see the damn movie to see if I'm right. Roger Ebert, however, says it's a pile of festering crap. Posted by Cameron Barrett at August 2, 2004 03:45 AM

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Hey Cam,
Try and catch the Sci-Fi documentary about M. Night instead. Pretty darn creepy - despite being an elaborate hoax ...


Posted by: Simone at August 2, 2004 12:23 PM

Cam, Google knows all. I searched for "Shyamalan village spoilers" and found:

http://www.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=52;t=003953;p=1

One of the posts to that forum describes the "twist."

Heh, I just saved $8.50.


Posted by: matt at August 2, 2004 07:04 PM

Ebert is right.


Posted by: Marc Majcher at August 5, 2004 05:21 PM