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As a standalone film maybe it can be called semi-decent but after all the marketing and hype of it being a horror film, and because of Shyamalan's brand name behind it, I went in expecting a solid horror film (I am a huge, huge fan of Unbreakable, loved The Sixth Sense, and Signs was more than decent too, IMO).
Imagine my jaw dropping in sheer surprise, and that followed by seething anger the moment the "twist" came in midway through the film! What followed from the "twist" onwards is well-known by now that it wasn't horror in the REMOTEST of senses. It was a cheap gimmick to draw audiences to the theater, the film nosedived on itself because it went on to take itself WAY too seriously, and I am sure Shyamalan learned a lesson or two about falling down from his high horse. People don't expect to be taken for a ride - advertise something, show something else. That was the day Shyamalan's name didn't hold any good anymore, specially for me. The film was a joke, an example of how you can make a viewer seem like a total jackass.
Since that very bitter viewership experience, I would gladly take a baseball bat to any/every copy of the film I could lay my hands upon.
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Honestly that's the first understandable reason anyone's ever given me towards their dislike of The Village. Although i don't think it's fair to judge a movie based off its advertising. If Shyamalan was going around saying it was a horror film, then i could understand your misgivings and maybe he did i dont know but if it was only the trailers alone then thats not really the movies fault.
Besides advertising i don't get your reasoning behind why you thought it would be a horror movie. Up to that point the only real horror movie Shyamalan had done was The Sixth Sense. You cited Unbreakable but thats more of an action movie/drama then it is a horror movie and after that he made Signs which is more sci-fi/drama. I get the advertising made it look like a horror, much like it did for Lady in The Water but his name being attached shouldnt make you automatically think its a horror movie since like i said two other movies (One which you said you are a huge fan of) were not in fact horror movies.
Anyway you have every reason not to like it and like i said you're the first person to give me reasons i can understand, i've just always loved that movie and thought the twists were really well done. I will agree though that it would have been a lot better had the advertising not made it look like a horror movie.