Posts by GrayFox

OMG!!! I just found this review of The Village (and pretty much all the Shyamalan films) and it's saying the EXACT same thing that I've been trying to say.

I deleted all the spoilers and plot/acting stuff.

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TNight_1 so far as I can see is the only reviewer got it right. This IS Shyamalan's best film to date. Shame only one in 200,000 people have the mental resources to tap into it.This never was a horror-film, any more than SIGNS was about aliens. (I have incidentally received over 300 emails worldwide asking me to explain what really DID happen in SIGNS)

Shyamalan is evolving as a precocious talent in all facets of film-making and if he continues at the rate he is...he may even have fifty fans by the end of 2005. I don't know why he bothers. To collar the collective lame-brain reviews that his films do, is merely evidence of how far down the intellectually-appreciative time-line the average viewer is!

As for the one-dimensional viewer seated there, ingesting handfuls of stale popcorn between his Diet Coke, waiting to be scared witless by the forest-creatures.....I have little sympathy for your ultimate disappointment. You had no clue about SIGNS either....what were you thinking? maybe you got intelligent overnight?

Despite those who claim to have seen the 'twist' in THE SIXTH SENSE coming a mile off, (yeah right!) the MENSA graduates who 'figured out' UNBREAKABLE during the first quarter, and now the hordes of cerebrally-challenged patrons who see in THE VILLAGE a 'boring,' 'wooden' film with a 'cop-out' ending, there is thankfully a minority group who grasp what they see. That doesn't include the reviewer so interminably stupid, he even writes he 'didn't know' what the end meant!

Far from the laughable perception that Shyamalan is running on empty with his last couple of films, he is metamorphisising into a Director par excellence. His is the big picture, most critics it would seem, can't even agree on the suitability of the frame!

The only thing I don't 100% agree on is the second sentence.

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That was the genius part.

It's the same with The Village. Most people totally missed the whole underlying meaning of the movie. It's not about spooky monsters in the woods, but about the fact that you can control people with fear. I think it was M. Night's statement about the state of American society today. That's what I saw anyway. And I loved it.

The between-the-lines message is why I like M. Night's movies. The fact that his directing technique and camera work is just simply beautiful is an added plus.

Thank god there is someone like you here

Whatever... it's a matter of opinion.

I think that over half of the ppl that see it are not going to like it. Only a few do get Shyamalan's movie making style.

Some say that Signs was a horrible movie 'cause the story was naive or silly. That doesn't make the acting any worse or the directing any less artistic and unique. People kind of forgot the real point of the movie as they got distracted by the alien stuff, which is not what the movie is really about.

The Sixth Sense is a exception because it's not that challenging. Don't get me wrong, it's still a GREAT movie... one of my favorites I might add.

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"The village" is trash? :-?

It is not.

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Best would be 'Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind' and 'Big Fish'.

Both are great movies.

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People don't know anything about movies here...

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The last worst movie i saw was Duel

You mean the Spielberg classic?

People don't know anything about movies here...

there are three visible cuts

If someone has a DVD-rom and Return of the King DVD could you please send me pictures (1024x768) of this scene:

[Blocked Image: http://www.kolumbus.fi/eric.larsson/rotk.jpg]

Take multiple shots but after the light "impulse".

Thanks.

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The kitty is dead and yes it was Pulla. The very last picture I took and the very last day I saw him.

Was he sick in that picture?

Yes but the question remains...

Is that Pulla in the last picture??

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i love the thing it says when u complete the demo:"the most intense and authentic ww2 game ever created"

That's what every game developer says...

But we all know it's gonna be THAT good... right?

I don't think that's CG...

it's kinda funny that we can't tell the difference between CG and in-game graphics anymore.

not one of these again...

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the logo is butt-ugly, transparency is really screwed up.

Yeah, I'm kinda glad that I'm not a featured artist.

That's sad...