18 scenes from ‘The Happening’
June 16th, 2008
Sometimes it isn’t enough to just review a film:
The Movie Review: ‘The Happening’
by Christopher OrrM. Night Shyamalan’s latest movie, The Happening, is not merely bad. It is an astonishment, so idiotic in conception and inept in execution that, after seeing it, one almost wonders whether it was real or imagined. It’s the kind of movie you want to laugh about with friends, swapping favorite moments of inanity: “Do you remember the part when Mark Wahlberg … ?” “God, yes. And what about that scene where the wind … ?”
The problem, of course, is that to have such a conversation, you’d normally have to see the movie, which I believe is an unreasonably high price to pay just to make fun of it. So rather than write a conventional review explaining why you should or shouldn’t see The Happening (trust me, you shouldn’t), I’m offering an alternative: A dozen and a half of the most mind-bendingly ridiculous elements of the film, which will enable you to marvel at its anti-genius without sacrificing (and I don’t use that term lightly) 90 minutes of your life. [...]
[Via The Morning News]
June 17th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Elliot and his wife, Alma (Zooey Deschanel, whose luminous blue orbs are the best thing in the film)
I bet they could have gotten a PG-13 rating if they’d gone with a tasteful luminous blue.