I’m alone this weekend and I was trying to decide if I should go and see that tonight - so glad I didn’t bother. If it’s rubbish and you see it alone you have no one to complain to! Glad I stayed in and watched The Witches of Eastwick. “Have another cherry.” Awesome!
My wife and I saw this Saturday afternoon, and the matinee ticket price was too much for this stinker.
The set-up? Okay, I get it. Cool. I can roll with that. Some of the images? Okay. Cool. Rollin’ along. Sure, I saw all the best visuals in the trailer, but okay, that’s cool . . . keep it comin’ . . . give it to me, M. Night . . . Give it to me . . .
Honestly, ‘The Happening’? what a terrible title, sounds like something Garth Merenghi would write. Since most of his films were either horrible, plodding narratives wrapped around a big stupid twist, or laughably egotistical vanity projects, this comes as no surprise to me. I wonder what Shamalamalam’s response will be to the worldwide critical lambasting of The Happening? Probably to put his fingers in his ears and go ‘LALALALALALALALA I AM THE NEXT SPIELBERG LALALALALALALALA I AM THE NEXT SPIELBERG LALALALALALALALA…’.
I wonder what Shamalamalam’s response will be to the worldwide critical lambasting of The Happening? Probably to put his fingers in his ears and go ‘LALALALALALALALA I AM THE NEXT SPIELBERG LALALALALALALALA I AM THE NEXT SPIELBERG LALALALALALALALA…’.
That’s f-ing hilarious! I like the Sixth Sense and I’m one of three people in the world who liked the village, but I think Shamalamadingdong (as I like to call him) has an ego that has been inflated to ridiculous proportions! He is talented, but his continued effort to make his movies “important” is just annoying. Perhaps if he stopped doing that he might make another film as good as The Sixth Sense.
Lady in the Water was…weird. I liked the performances from Bryce Dallas Howard and Paul Giamati, but putting yourself as an important character in a movie (when your not Simon Pegg of course) is just plain narcissistic.
Don’t even get me started on Signs – I don’t know why, but I hated that movie. What a pile of c**p!
Tis true, but he was the only person I could think of to compare Shamaladindong to. He is supirior in everyway in my opinion and he probably kick his ass at directing too…if he ever did it.
I would take a Uwe Boll movie over a M. Night anyday. I think M. Night drugs his actors so they not only act bad, but they do it incredibly slowly. At least Boll’s madness is fast paced.
I have to say when I saw the trailer Wahlberg’s delivery of his lines to the train driver (or whatever) were just aweful - I’m definately not waisting my time going to see this movie!
I have to say when I saw the trailer Wahlberg’s delivery of his lines to the train driver (or whatever) were just aweful - I’m definately not waisting my time going to see this movie!
At first, I was trying to give Shyamalan some credit, thinking that he was going for some deliberate style that I just wasn’t getting. I thought maybe the acting was a throwback to cheezy 50’s sci-fi, then later I started thinking maybe it was supposed to be something more dream-like. But as the movie wore on, I realized there wasn’t enough consistency stylistically to be anything other than crap, and then I…..
...oh forget it. I’ll admit it. I was just disappointed to find out that The Happening wasn’t the movie version of the TV show What’s Happening. I spent the first half of the movie pissed off that they had white actors playing Raj and Dee, and the second half sad they killed Rerun. And John Leguizamo as Dwayne? I don’t think so.
