The Village Movie Ending… Explained!
When The Village hit theaters in 2004, audiences expected another shocking twist from M. Night Shyamalan. Instead, the film’s …
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When The Village hit theaters in 2004, audiences expected another shocking twist from M. Night Shyamalan. Instead, the film’s …
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I saw The Village when it came out in theaters. I thought it was brilliant. I have it on Blu Ray.
I don’t hate this movie by the same time I didn’t love it. It was just a little whatever to me.
Ivy is one of my all time favorite women roles, right along side Ripley from Alien
This was a Great movie!
I liked this movie when it came out and absolutely love it today.
To me, the big twist has nothing to do with what time period the story takes place in, but the fact that after about halfway through the movie, easily the biggest star of the movie, the guy just recently coming off of Gladiator and Signs, Joaquin Phoenix, had ZERO LINES for the rest of the movie. And total unknown (aside from who her father is) Bryce Dallas Howard completely took over as the lead role. That takes some real guts to sideline one of the hottest actors of that time.
Furthermore, this movie is much more of a love story than a creature/horror movie. It's about how far someone will go for those they love, from the elders creating an entirely isolated village, to Ivy, while blind, willingly going into the forest towards the "other towns" she's been told her entire life are totally evil, plus there's these creatures that initially she "knows" to be fake, but then encounters one, seemingly totally real! But she will stop at nothing to try and save Lucius.
Oh, all that…plus the violin in the soundtrack. Just mesmerizing.
I mean aren’t you basically born knowing not to give away your stories secret half way before it’s over and then expect the audience to still be invested.
To this day I don’t understand why he did this.
I didn’t even remember a viral campaign happening on sci fi
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Has always been on my movies I love list since I saw it in theaters. And the porch scene is one of the most romantic love confessions ever in my opinion.
I will never forget this absolutely true story because it's why I only ever saw The Village once. About 15 minutes in, as we watched this on day of release, my buddy leans over to me and discreetly whispers the following throwaway joke in reference to Des Moines' local past period recreation attraction,
"Dude, how funny would it be if the twist is they're just, like, at Living History Farms?"
We stifle our shared chuckle before it was right back to watching. Mah dewd had no idea that he just correctly predicted the "big twist." The other handful of people there had to wonder what we were smoking after the reveal in the fiim made us turn to each other with jaws agape for only an instant, before flying into a fit of uncontrollable laughter, I mean just HOWLING like a couple hyenas at something intended to be met with stunned silence.
I saw it in theaters and was pissed.. ill now revisit it thanx
Good overview.
Well done.
I didn't see the twist coming really enjoyed it when I saw it in the theater… still enjoy it now
If I were to fabricate a world, as the elders did, the uncomfortable period costume they chose wouldn’t get a look-in.
M Knights movies are polarizing you either really like him or you hate him. He really doesn’t have middleground type of movies I feel and I actually think that’s a good thing. Most people try to play it safe at least he tries to give us something different and unique. I really like this movie.
Excellent movie! Great storyline and back story. Not as good a Signs but few films are. A lot of intensity regarding the possible creatures and when Adam Brody charges at Ivy!? Yeah I jumped! It still bothers me 🙂
I will never be convinced. I saw it in theaters walking out disappointed and out right felt ripped off. Never has nor will ever watch again.
I liked the time period rwist but still prefer the monster being real
Shamaladingdong only got us once, everything else Shamalamadindong did is is jus re iterating the same crap, be real.
I wonder if later on the kids are gonna re-make his films?
1:52 How did I not know that Roger Deakins shot The Village?? I guess this isn't talked about much when it comes to his filmography. Deakins is the GOAT …I might watch it again just for this reason. He's the master when it comes to lighting
Let's play a drinking game. Let's all take a shot every time the narrator says the word, " absolutely ".
There seems to be a lot of people who like this film in these comments, but I am not one of them. 😂
I saw this one in theaters and like the previous ones, I liked it. Unfortunately, this one we knew there was a twist ending and saw it within ten minutes of the start. This diminished the movie as a whole. It's not a bad movie but since we expect a surprise ending, we find the surprise ending very quickly so, the fun of discovering the twist is gone and we just get a banal movie. It's good but fails to be great because the twist is expected and obvious.
A one parlour trick? Odd way of referring to that expression. Anyway, the Village is a fable. Of course it doesn’t play logically. Plus the music is great. It’s also very similar to a Ray Bradbury short story called Jack in the Box. That was about a boy brought up in an isolated house by his mother after his father has been killed.
What a cast. Probably one of the strongest casts one could put together.
Shot by Sir Roger Deakins… Even more worthy
I love this movie because I walked through the woods a lot as a kid
Loved this movie. Hit close to me growing up as a JW kid, snd leaving it in my 20s. Could relate a lot to this movie
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The twist was funny to me when I watched it because of William Hurt sort of ominously going "I was a history professor.." This came out right when I graduated high school, and my major in college was..yup (didn't go into teaching don't worry, you're not living in a simulation)
The movie is actually great.
This movie along with Catwoman, House of the Dead an few others, are 💩 movies I wish i didn't see in theaters!🤦♂️🤮
My friends and I still laugh about this, at the time we were watching it at the theater, we jokingly said "watch it all be a fake village closed off from the modern world" as a joke, and it ended up being true! It was the best "told you so" moment we all laughed about.
I pretty much like all of Shyamalan‘s movies. Everything he makes isn’t a masterpiece, but they’re usually fun and entertaining enough. I think a lot of his hate comes from the pop culture concept of “he’s about to have a dumb twist in the movie, let’s all go watch it then talk crap about it“. I genuinely don’t think people dislike his movies as much as they pretend to.
Why does he have to have a twist everytime. Why can't he just make a great movie with no twist or anything else. People are missing out looking for a twst and never seeing the great movie in front of them.
"The Village Movie Ending… Explained!" Another clickbait title from JoBlo. If you need the ending explained, you didn't actually watch the movie.
I watched it without the expectation of a super-mega-uber shock twist, and I think its a very good film.
I watched this in the theater and thought it was great. I still don't understand what people's problem with it is. I didn't love much he did after this, but his first four movies are solid
I fucking love this movie! It's probably my fave Shyamalan movie… I bawled at the end – watching the love story between Sigourney and William Hurt was so sad, they were in love but never touched throughout the whole film…
now make the most confusing movie of all time
I always said The Village was the only good movie Shamallamadingdong ever made. Everything else was just garbage. For example… Space aliens that die when they touch water decide to land on a planet that is roughly 70% water? That's not a twist that stupidity. His movies are overrated, and his plot twists are lame. The end of the first Saw, THAT'S a good plot twist.
Nah, it's still stupid
i have always adored this movie (the hatred was reeeeal lol) and thought it was one of the most unique visual styles of cinema….then i saw Roger Deakins in the first minute of the video behind the scenes and now it clicks to why. M Night is also prolly one of the most disrespected and underrated directors of our time. His duds are even epically bad!
I must have watched this movie more than 200 times. No lie. One year I watched it like 20 times.
It's the beautiful music and the atmosphere that I can't get enough of, I guess.
I liked this film & i would Not appologize its the only movie of his that ive seen that i didnt figure out Before the ending is revealed.
I missed all the drama and build up. I saw The Village years later on cable. I knew nothing and thought it was a good flick! I couldn’t see why people were so upset about the movie. 😂
How did we go from Sixth sense to this…….👀🙄🤦🏻♂️
I loved this film in the theater and was bummed that I appeared to be the only one. It’s nice that it’s starting to get some appreciation.
Now, let’s do LITW… 👀
I actually love this movie and feel like it has aged well
You can only enjoy a shamalon movie once. The surprise is lost once you know what it is. It just becomes a favorite scene kinda thing. Sixth sense has the best.