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The Happening ....it's movie review time!
17 years ago
As far as I'm concerned, The Happening should of never happened. I wanted to like this movie though, I thought okay M Nights first R rated movie ...what will he do? I loved Signs, Unbreakable, and Sixth Sense. The Village was a pile of shit too. I didn't think he could make a movie worse than The Village but I think he just proved me wrong.
The only thing I enjoyed about this movie, the opener. It starts off in a scientific conversation of questioning things you can't explain and how or why they happen. They made some valid points which caught my interest, little did I know that this served me a distraction for a movie that was about to suck.
No real gorey bits either, very vanilla when it came to the killings. I remember when I saw the trailer for the first time and it showed the guy lay down in front of a lawmower. When that scene came up, I felt myself peering closer to the screen wanting so bad to see something worthy and it was a total tease. No blood shed at all!
Not only this, but what the hell is the deal with movies like this always focusing the story on a group of people who are fucked up or just plain boring? The dialogue in some of the scenes just felt so pointless. Fuck your emotions, seriously ...I don't care. You use to be a couple, yeah we got it the first time ...no I don't want to see many examples of the ackwardness it created. Deal already and move on. You're fascination for lagging behind while everyone else is in rapid speed move to GTFO from whatever is happening never ceases to amaze me. They did the same thing in Cloverfield, so why not follow the trend. Yes something fucked up is happening, so lets just go as slow as possible to get away or hey better yet lets go TOWARDS it because we're a bunch of morons that have no concept of "we're gonna die".
In short, fuck this movie.
The only thing I enjoyed about this movie, the opener. It starts off in a scientific conversation of questioning things you can't explain and how or why they happen. They made some valid points which caught my interest, little did I know that this served me a distraction for a movie that was about to suck.
No real gorey bits either, very vanilla when it came to the killings. I remember when I saw the trailer for the first time and it showed the guy lay down in front of a lawmower. When that scene came up, I felt myself peering closer to the screen wanting so bad to see something worthy and it was a total tease. No blood shed at all!
Not only this, but what the hell is the deal with movies like this always focusing the story on a group of people who are fucked up or just plain boring? The dialogue in some of the scenes just felt so pointless. Fuck your emotions, seriously ...I don't care. You use to be a couple, yeah we got it the first time ...no I don't want to see many examples of the ackwardness it created. Deal already and move on. You're fascination for lagging behind while everyone else is in rapid speed move to GTFO from whatever is happening never ceases to amaze me. They did the same thing in Cloverfield, so why not follow the trend. Yes something fucked up is happening, so lets just go as slow as possible to get away or hey better yet lets go TOWARDS it because we're a bunch of morons that have no concept of "we're gonna die".
In short, fuck this movie.
The Happening, though? Weak, weak sauce. M. Night is a very accomplished storyteller and I was so disappointed here! The -story- of this one sucked. As did the characterizations. I rather liked Mark Wahlberg's character but we never get to know him on any level deeper than "slightly nerdy, intelligent, zen science teacher". And Zooey Deschanel, pff, don't even get me started. Why was she even IN the movie? She did nothing except stare and make vague comments the whole time! Maybe he was trying to portray her shock or something, but even if that's true he failed because the audience is never allowed to make that connection.
Blah. Would not see again. I don't think I'll even buy it, unless something happens to change my opinion by the time it comes out on DVD. :P