12 October 2010
Cast: Adrien Brody, Brendan Gleeson, Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt
Script: M. Night Shyamalan
Genre: drama
7 Comments
For this year’s RIP challenge Carl has suggested that as well as reading horror-ific books we might also watch some suitable films and to get the ball rolling on my RIP films I decided to rewatch M. Night Shymalan’s The Village.
I quite enjoyed it the first time around. I don’t seem to recall having been all that surprised by any of the so-called twists or reveals, but it was an enjoyable film.
17 June 2008
Cast: Ashlyn Sanchez, Betty Buckley, John Leguizamo, Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel
Script: M. Night Shyamalan
Genre: sff
7 Comments
IMDb ; Other reviews I just don’t know. I really wanted to like this film. The few trailers I saw really seemed to hint at an interesting film. And despite the low-key opening weekend I was expecting some form of … Continue reading
17 August 2006
Cast: Bob Balaban, Bryce Dallas Howard, Cindy Cheung, Freddy Rodríguez, Jeffrey Wright, Paul Giamatti, Sarita Choudhury
Script: M. Night Shyamalan
Genre: sff
5 Stars
3 Comments
This is an odd film. A very odd film.
Ever since The Sixth Sense Shyamalan has been known as the “twist guy” for his film endings; I don’t think that is a fair description. And while you can say that Unbreakable, Signs and The Village all had twists to their endings, the twists weren’t all that important. The films were stories about people, truth, and finding out who you are. The Lady in the water continues in this vein, but at the same time it is a very different type of film. As Shyamalan has said, it is a bedtime story. A fairy tale, for children. So it is, of course, going to be more simplistic and yet at the same time it is more complicated than that.
8 April 2006
Cast: Adrien Brody, Brendan Gleeson, Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt
Script: M. Night Shyamalan
Genre: drama
6 Comments
Its been two years since this came out in the cinema, and I’m finally getting to see it. Given that I’ve liked most of what Shyamalan has done, and given that Joaquin Phoenix is a star I’m a little surprised that it has taken me this long. I really enjoyed The Sixth Sense, and loved Unbreakable, but I did hate Signs. Continue reading
17 November 2003
Call no: 1 Star
Cast: Abigail Breslin, Joaquin Phoenix, Mel Gibson, Rory Culkin
Script: M. Night Shyamalan
Genre: horror, sff
Setting: Pennsylvania
1 Star
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I found this to be a very disappointing film. I had enjoyed Shyamalan’s films and had hoped for something equally as good. It wasn’t even a twist that I was looking for seeing as a friend had figured out the twist to The Sixth Sense after seeing a trailer and guessing it. Once I started watching Sixth Sense what she had said well, it was pretty obvious. Continue reading