It seems to me that each subsequent M. Night Shyamalan film has gotten progressively worse. The guy is probably just a victim of his own success… after all while we all like the idea of starting out on top of the world, the problem is that there’s nowhere to go but down from there.
Hey started out amazingly with The Sixth Sense and followed up with Unbreakable, which really split people down the middle (personally I loved the concept but wanted more at the end). But after that came Signs (a movie about aliens that are deathly afraid of water trying to invade Earth, which is 2/3 covered in the stuff), and then The Village, another split opinion movie.
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But to me Lady in the Water was the worst of the bunch. Not only did I not like the movie with it’s weird cast of characters, but (and you may call this minor but to me it’s inexcusable) there must have been more than half a dozen scenes where the boom microphone dropped into the frame, bobbing around as if it was an intentional joke. The audience actually laughed as it became a regular occurrence throughout the film.
So now we have a new movie with an apocalyptic them: The Happening. He seems to crank out a new film every two years so I suppose we’re due. Here’s the poster:
I’ve gotta tell ya, the inclusion of eye-roll inducing taglines referring to his previous films does not start this off on the right foot for me:
We’ve Sensed It.
We’ve Seen The Signs.
Now… It’s Happening.
Are they kidding? Yeesh. Why not just go all out?
We’ve Sensed It.
Can It Be Broken?
We’ve Seen The Signs.
Now… It’s Happening.
Not In Just A Village, But Everywhere.
And Only One Lady Can Stop It.
If you’re going to do it, go big.
The Happening open on June 13, 2008
Source: Coming Soon via First Showing
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32 Comments
If I would have known this was evolutionary I would have changed my mind years ago about seeing this movie.
I see dead extras…(Homer Simpson voice)
Yeah Elliott, so were the disease, the audience, you and me, all of us the Problem!
Nice message MkMight Shamilanski.
Extreme anti-human behavior. Allmost like he’s telling us, “Hey I’ll kill you all, better start liking my movies, or this is you man!!”
That’s just how I see it.
LOL “Hey I’ll kill you all, better start liking my movies, or this is you man!!”
790… That’s top shelf! LMAO
Haha.
I’m totally calling his bluff………;-)
LOL … What a twist ….:-))
(Just saw a new trailer for The Happening) couple things.
One thing it has going for it, the story touches on bio-warfare against the population.
One thing it has going against it, the film is chock full of people killing themselves with whatever is nearby.
I can’t see this as a family feel good hit or a film you want to see again like Iron Man….
Ok so I know why the tagline is the way it is. In the Signs special features on the dvd he said he did not like putting down other films that he made cause he thought people thought that meant that it was another of that kind of movie. Also, if anyone has noticed, the happening name is taken straight from signs who’s quote at the bottom of the dvd is “it’s happening”. So the aliens have to take part in this somehow right? So for the release throw all of these actors out the window and get me some Mel Gibson!
Is the disease featured in “the happening” the same thing as the “Andromeda Strain?” Seems like it
What gives with all the alien invasion movies lately. Is Hollywood trying to tell us something? Like their fed up with all the invasions of their own privacy?? Tabloids, coworkers, all the cameras in public places, the government.
Look for the boom mic in The Happening in the model home scene.
Yea ,,, the happening was crap and there were MANY MIC BOOM Scenes manyyy!!!
iT MUST BE HIS IDEA OF A FUNNY m. nIGHT SHAMALAMADINGDONG THING. I THINK IT MAKES A MOCKERY OF FILM MAKERS WHO ACTUALLY CARE!!!!
The boom mic was as much a character in “the happening” as Marky Mark. It was all over the place and the audience was laughing like mad.
I mean, we go from a shot of a guy feeding himself to a lawn mower to a dancing boom mic scene, then two kids get offed by a shotgun with extreme closeups. kapow.
maybe it’s his (SHAMALAMADINGDONG’s) way of not taking the story too seriously. like, “hey everybody, this is kind of gross and really scary, but it’s just me making some money. er, a movie.”
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