I see "The Happening" so you don't have to
It was cloudy and overcast this morning and the AMC Renton theater has an am screening with $4 ticket prices. That is my excuse for taking in The Happening on its opening weekend.
M. Night Shyamalan is a strange example of a filmmaker who is getting demonstrably worse with each successive movie. Fortunately for him, no one can take the brilliance of The Sixth Sense and about 98% of Unbreakable away from him. Unfortunately for him, the writer/director of those long ago films is largely absent from The Happening--in fact, he's been on some sort of extended vacation every since the crappy ending to Signs back in 2002. I won't spoil the movie for those that want to see it, but will only say that M. Night should probably look up the word "interesting" in the dictionary. I do not think it means what he thinks it means. Watching 90 minutes of people committing suicide is just not the whiz-bang emotional wallop that I think he was hoping for. There were some genuine moments of real cinematic creepiness, but overall....meh.
My biggest thrill of the day was the startling realization that M. Night Shyamalan had written the screenplay for the first Stuart Little movie. Buried in the DVD extras is probably the deleted scene at the end where Stuart kills his parents after having heard "Little-high-Little-low" sung at him one too many times. It would make more sense than The Happening.
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The New Republic has a hilarious, spoiler-full review of the complete dumb-nasity that is The Happening (via John Moe). I commend you for taking for the team
that's taking "one" for the team. Sofian was playing grab-laptop with me and I rushed that last comment.
Yay, Sofian is blogging already!
That TNR review was hysterical. And quite apt. After reading it, truly there is no reason to see the movie except that sometimes it's fun to keep beating the same dead horse over and over again.
I've been looking for good blog reviews of this movie and found none. I give up... and so should Mr.Night already.
Let me know if you come across anything, zeroediting. Show me a positive review of "The Happening" and I show you a retarded child hitting letters by accident on the keyboard.
I think the politically correct analogy would be 1000 monkeys hammering away for 1000 years.
Barbara
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