From aicn, [excerpt] "Is this movie actually being released?" Those were my first words when the lights came up after seeing M. Night Shyamalan's latest, THE HAPPENING. And the question was in no way rhetorical. I truly could not conceive of a world where anyone would allow a film this poorly made to be released. I know that Shyamalan is everybody's favorite punching bag of late; the writer-director had the misfortune of having his first three films (THE SIXTH SENSE; UNBREAKABLE; SIGNS) be very popular and varying degrees of great. How dare he. And while I'm far from a Shyamalan apologist (I liked THE VILLAGE; I tried and failed to appreciate LADY IN THE WATER), I think the man has talent. That being said, the man who made THE HAPPENING is a stranger to me. There's no way this can be the same guy who skillfully creeped me out time and time again with his work. I am truly and without exaggeration baffled by THE HAPPENING in ways that I'll attempt to explain, but I may simply fall forward from exhaustion trying.
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My office is being painted today so my ability to get online will be extremely limited. I want to comment on the music that I've heard so far but it might take me a bit to get to that.
That comment makes me wish I could effectively write in a way that repeats JPX's words in a mocking whiny tone. "Mehhh. My office is being painted today so my ability to get online will be extremely limited, mehhhhhh." (Bangs head on wall like Gary Coleman.)
I'm just saying that because that's how I feel right now. Slept like a log two nights ago because I was exhausted. Last night I was less so and this couch's shortcomings are making me all cranky.
That said, it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm definitely GLAD that The Happening sucks. I've been cranky and angry at M. Night ever since I had to sit through the meglomaniacal Lady in the Water. Reading this review, I was at first disappointed that there weren't more details about exactly why it sucked, and I wanted all kinds of spoilers to completely neutralize any curiosity I have (and I do have a little based on the suicide scenes from the commercials).
Having seen Lady in the Water, however, I bet I can provide my own answer: by every little touch it reveals layers of self-indulgence and pretension so unbelievable you eventually wouldn't be more insulted if M. Night crashed a Dodge Charger into your Bar Mitzvah reception, then jumped out and started dry humping your wheelchair-bound grandmother while screaming "love sausage!" over and over.
I wouldn't be surprised if he casts himself as the man who singlehandedly halts the evil Happening phenomenon, riding down from the sky on a golden cloud, wearing a chest-revealing tunic, carrying Gandalf's staff in one hand and Rambo's M-60 in the other.
God, I hated Lady in the Water.
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