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Now that I think about it, I'm leaning towards giving it a 'good Bad Movie'-type review. Some of it is hilariously bad. There's a lot of stuff about 'The Shed We Must Never Go In', 'The Ones We Do Not Speak Of' and, perhaps my favourite exchange:
Blind Chick: "Do not fear. We have Magic Rocks ."
Random Guy: "Oh yeah? So why have we not heard of these Magic Rocks before now?"
I'm not spoiling myself; I'll judge for myself how I think the twist is. My current pondering is how M. Night managed to work himself into a cameo, cause an Indian guy'd be pretty out of place in nineteenth century rural America.
Better still:
"The shed was my favourite bit. The monsters, incidentally - and I have difficulty even typing this without giggling - the monsters are actually the Village Elders in homemade monster suits. "
And in fact:
"They keep the monster suits in The Shed Which We Do Not Go Into. "
Huh. This might be worth seeing even though I'm spoiled.
Maybe when it hits the cheapie theaters.
Oh dear.
I should also note that this has to be the biggest nature preserve in the world, if these poor dumb villagers never see airplanes far overhead, never find trash in the woods, and don't get muscled in on by illegal loggers. Actually, wait -- this whole movie is a live-action Ferngully, isn't it??
Funniest spoilage I've had in a while. Thanks, Jim, and my consolations to your acquaintances who saw the movie unspoiled.
I'm requesting more details. two of them have already self-administered lobotomies, though.
Wow.
Just...wow.
That sounds almost ridiculously bad enough to be a must-see.
On the other hand, I already put myself through Catwoman, why do it again?
On the other hand, I already put myself through Catwoman, why do it again?
To prove to yourself that nothing can be as bad as Catwoman?
By the way, Ty Burr's review of The Bourne Supremacy, one of the few summer movies I've actually been anticipating, is pretty good (I mean well-written, but also positive):
Best line:
Karl Urban of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Chronicles of Riddick," sporting his third radically different haircut in as many movies
To prove to yourself that nothing can be as bad as Catwoman?
Nah -- Sim0ne, The Messenger, and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman are all on my "worse than Catwoman" list already.
The Village just sounds like it might be really funny.