This is how I felt after watching Old.
I want my 5.99 back! I'm not going to sugarcoat it- I've never really cared for this guy's work and when I tell you the one and only movie of his I really like and keep in my collection, you'll probably leave the blog. The Village, there, I said it. I just always thought the idea of a bunch of people that had been through traumatic experiences starting their own thing in the middle of the woods was brilliant but the looney dialect they gave all the characters was also annoying. Still, I'd rather listen to those blubbering idiots any day compared to the oafs that inhabit the beach in Old.
Not only did I not care for any of these characters, practically every line in the script is devoted to supporting or explaining the premise. What ever happened to leaving in a little room for imagination to connect the dots? Instead, we get a lesson in the theory of relativity from a bunch of morons we could care less about. I don't know, I just don't get it. Nor most of his films since the early days. I wasn't even that crazy about Signs, especially the casting. And don't even get me started on Lady In The Water, very possibly one of the worst movies of that decade, if not all time.
Don't mean to be crass but the only thing I found entertaining in Old was the bikini's. 1.0 stars/5
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