What’s (the) Happening? Not much :( at iconogeek

M. Night Shyamalan’s summer flick ‘The Happening’ came out this past weekend. If you’ve been keeping track with us over here (slackers I know) we discussed this movie a few weeks back and the scare the pants off you red band trailer that was on line.

I had high hopes for this. I like M.N.S. and most of his movies. I like the approach and the feel. I liked that this seemed to be going edgier, with his first R rated production. The first trailer had me intrigued, the red band trailer had me sold. I bought my ticket, alongside enough others for it to rake in a very respectable $35 million or so on its opening weekend.

Here’s the big twist with this one. How did a trailer with so much awesome result in a movie with so much suck? I could go into a myriad of reasons why this movie failed to deliver, and I am pretty much the most forgiving movie critic in the world. I like just about every movie I see ( except Diary of the Dead, my new favorite ‘most horrible movie ever’) and even I had trouble finding redeeming qualities with this movie. It did have a good sense of dread, had some decent creepiness… but when/if you see it, your response will probably be something like this.

“Seriously??!?”

{internal dialogue}
Something else must be coming…

“Really?!!!???”

“Oh C’mon!”

End Credits

Save your money, thank me later.

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1 Response to “What’s (the) Happening? Not much :(”

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1 Dube
June 29, 2008 at 11:32 pm

I saw it also and was really disappointed. Awful. Nothing like what I hoped from the trailers. It just fell flat.

*spoilers below? maybe*********

The mystery was solved in the first 30 minutes. Where’s the big M Night twist we all want to see? Absolutely no twist. Plenty of times I thought he was dropping hints of a twist. But maybe THAT was the twist. That none of his hints ended up being twists.