SAST Wingees » gikks http://www.sastwingees.org Knowledge is Scrumptious Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:09:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en The Village - a let down http://www.sastwingees.org/2004/08/13/the-village-a-let-down/ http://www.sastwingees.org/2004/08/13/the-village-a-let-down/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:14:00 +0000 gikks http://www.sastwingees.org/2004/08/13/the-village-a-let-down/ I had read the review of The Village in the WSJ a couple of weeks ago. When it comes to ... ]]> I had read the review of The Village in the WSJ a couple of weeks ago. When it comes to seeing movies, I stick by the Wall Street Journal Friday Edition. He is always right on the money and disrecommended The Village. However, my wife would have none of it. She insisted that we pay our due respects to our beloved countryman-MNS. Off we went, leaving our kids to watch another movie in an adjoining theater.

The coke was good, the popcorn was crunchy, but at the end of it, we realized that we had been cheated - not by the 4$ popcorns and 3$ cokes, but by M. Night Shyamalan.

The Village was too slow for a suspense thriller, the music was contrived and the dialogs were so so. The movie was about a settlement of people that wants to keep itself away from towns people - don’t know why. It winds it’s way through a shattering incident in the village’s life, which leads them to question their beliefs.

Positives:- Adrien Brody shines in his role as wacky character, once again. Another positive is Bryce Dallas Howard.

So, unless you have nothing better to do, go see The Village. I was tempted to move to Princess Diaries 2, that our kids were watching. We did see the last 15 minutes of Princess Diaries 2 and that was more fun than the previous 90 minutes of The Village. 

PS: Anyone seen the Bourne Supremacy yet? I loved the Bourne Identity.

-krish

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