Links to M. Night saying it was a B-movie

I guess it's history lesson time for the younger folks on the board. Once upon a time, when people like HeadRazz and I were young, we had a thing called "drive-in movies." You'd actually drive there, typically with a date, hook a crappy speaker to your car and watch movies after sundown. Generally, there would be a double feature.

 The first feature was generally a first run feature people would actually want to watch, while the second feature (the B movie) was usually a piece of crap that the studios knew no one was going to see (for example, your typical M. Nut Shamalamadingdong movie). By that time, either people left after the first feature, or they would be in the back seat with their dates.  Hence the term.

It is more or less meaningless now, because studios will release just about anything these days on the theory that a catchy trailer can lure a decent audience for at least one big weekend and they can pick up the rest of the production costs on rentals.

Typically, B movies tended to be bad sci-fi or horror movies simply because they were cheap to make and generally attracted schlock directors like Ed Wood and Roger Corman. That wasn't always the case, but it wasn't unusual.

Just to address one other issue for the benefit of moviewizguy. Horror movies are not automatically bad, or at least there was a time when that didn't necessarily follow. The Village was bad. It wasn't a romance, it was a crappy attempt at an horror/thriller and the only thing ambigious about it was why a lame script with a transparent plot like that ever got green lighted.

We don't repect your opinions on M. Night's movies because in your eyes, he can do no wrong and no matter what we say, you will still worship every movie he makes regardless if it's good or not. He was good when he made "Sixth Sense", but since then, his movies have gone down hill and have hit rock bottom.

Heck, I'm willing to bet money that if M. Night wrote and directed either "Watchmen" or "Wolverine", you would be ranting on about how they were the greatest comic book movies of all time and the critics and movie goers were so wrong for giving them bad or mixed reviews and not making them big blockbuster hits. And if you deny that, then you're just a liar.

Face it, you think that the nano-second the name "M. Night" is attached to any movie, that movie is an instant classic masterpiece.

If you've yet to come to the realization that I am, of course, an almighty God, horrors await you in the afterlife.

Nonetheless, it (The Village) was classified in the horror/thriller genre by the critics at Rotten tomatoes. It was classified in the suspense/thriller genre by the folks at IMDB whom you seem to respect. For the record, I also saw the movie. Quite honestly, there wasn't very much about it that was memorable, but what does come to mind has nothing to do with the films very minor romance elements. 

I'm not sure how much evidence you want, but out of curiousity, I went and read the review at Wikpedia. The 14 paragraph review, divided into 6 segments does not once mention the word "romance." Nonetheless, if you wish to think of it as a romance movie, more power too you. I'll just wander over the the burial site of Bill Shakespeare and collect millions when oil begins shooting out of the ground as the result of the poor guy spinning in his grave.

Wow, not a 7 out of 10! And yet you still defend the movie.

I rest my case.

"It's wikipedia"? We can say the same thing about IMDb and YouTube. Not one of those three site are controlled by "expert" critics. We can go back and forth posting links from sites claiming if it was horror or a romance, but either way, we'll just discredit them.

And why are you getting so bent out of shape if people consider it a horror movie? The romance was a SUBPLOT. The movie came out 5 years ago, people didn't like it, get over it.

Okay, THIS was the plot: a group of families were sick and tired of the modern day world and all the negative things in it. So, they formed an old world community so they could hide from the modern world and used the idea of monsters to keep their childern from wondering into the modern world that they feared and hated. THAT was the plot. Then, came the SUBPLOT, in which we have a love triangle nearly exposed the lies that the being hidden from the childern. In the end, is the concern whether the son will live or die? NO, it's if the secret will be revealed!

Again, ask anyone what the plot was to the movie (OUTSIDE of IMDb and YouTube!) and 9 out of 10 times the reply be about the families hiding in their fake modern world, NOT that it was about a love triangle. THAT is why it's NOT considered a romance.