The Village
The Bourne Supremacy
Once again I was able to watch two movies yesterday. The first movie I watched was The Bourne Supremacy. It was very forgetful and I think it would be a waste of my time to talk about it allot. I don’t know how the movie scored a 7.4 on IMDB. It was better then Be Cool and Kicking & Screaming but not better then the second movie I watched, The Village.
The Village
Two days ago McArabian suggested I should watch the movie The Village starring Joaquin Phoenix. So I downloaded it and watched it last night and it was a really good movie. It’s not one of the best movies I’ve watched this year but not every movie has to be the best movie ever to be good. Here is the plot summary from IMDB:
In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods: the townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays true for many years, but when Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from the towns beyond the wood, the pact is challenged. Animal carcasses, devoid of fur, begin to appear around the village, causing the council of elders to fear for the safety of the village, the pact, and so much more.
So the movie starts off very quiet and “normal” but by the time you get to the last 30 minutes everything changes, you just sit there and go no fucking way, no fucking way. I like movies who can do that to me. McArabian was also right when she said that The Village is a good Phoenix movie. Since I watched Ladder 49 and now this, my views on Joaquin Phoenix have changed a lot and all for the better. Adrien Brody and Sigourney Weaver also star in this movie. I personally think she should stick to fighting aliens, it doesn’t suit her to be an old mother in a village. So if you readers can watch this movie I would definitely recommend it.
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1. McArabian | October 12th, 2005 at 10:16 am
I’m glad you liked it! Not Shamlyan’s best work but a good movie nonetheless.
A good Sigourney movie is ‘Galaxy Quest’ - a sci-fi comedy that pokes fun at Trekkie fans. Surprisingly witty for something with such an unpromising premise.
Best Adrian Brody movie for me is probably ‘The Jacket’ - same premise as Kutcher’s ‘Butterlfy Effect’ (time travel), but there’s something about Brody’s preformance that makes this infinitely more appealing to me than ‘Butterfly Effect’.
If you watch any of those, I’d like to hear your reviews :)
2. Mark | October 12th, 2005 at 10:20 am
yeah i watched galaxy quest when it was in the movies years ago, it was pretty funny but mostly because of Tim Allen who I was a big fan of back then.
The Jacket I didnt think of too much but I did like Adrien Brody’s acting. I actually did a quick review of it here
http://www.248am.com/mark/kuwait/movie-bonanza/
3. Patrick | October 12th, 2005 at 10:54 am
Get Takashi Miikes “Audition” if you liked how the story for the Village was told with the last 30 minutes being all “crazy”.
4. Purgatory72 | October 12th, 2005 at 11:02 am
The village sucked.
5. Mark | October 12th, 2005 at 11:06 am
Downloading Audition now. Better be good cuz I would hate to sit for 2 hours “reading” a movie and then have it turn out crap.
6. Nat | October 12th, 2005 at 12:21 pm
The pianist and Harrison’s Flowers are also 2 good movies Adrien Brody was great in.
7. Delicately Realistic | October 12th, 2005 at 1:42 pm
The Village was a great movie purg!
I love Shamlyan’s work, he used a whole new style of film making in that movie. You should watch Unbreakable as well.
8. Mark | October 12th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
ah interesting. i didnt know who shamlyan was until i clicked on his name in IMDB.
9. muscati | October 12th, 2005 at 3:22 pm
Man The Village sucked ASS. It was the lamest most predictable movie ever. Not even half way through it I had already figured out ****REMOVED BY ADMIN****. Only good thing about the movie was the soundtrack and that girl’s acting. This movie is definitely not of the same standard as The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.
On the other hand I thought Bourne Supremacy was an excellent hollywood blockbuster, way better than the average action movie. Only thing that bugged me in it was the crazy quick editing which got really annoying towards the end.
10. Mark | October 12th, 2005 at 3:26 pm
Sorry muscati had to edit your comment to remove the spoiler.
11. Purgatory72 | October 13th, 2005 at 11:09 am
no village is a terrible movie, waste of time.
12. mike | December 26th, 2006 at 7:57 am
this movie sucked my harry balls!
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