June 15 at 1:43 am
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"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." - Steve Isaacs
I heard it was bad, too - but it does seem to me like a neat concept (gaia's immune system deciding to treat humans like the disease we are..) - Anthony Citrano
Yes, but by making us commit suicide? As if that's all that easy to do? What rot. - Rick Powell
And BTW, I heard Shyamalan on NPR's Science Friday, saying that Wahlberg's character was inspired by no less than Albert Einstein. Shyamalan also insisted that Einstein started out as an atheist but later in life began to believe in God - which is absolutely not true (and host Ira Flatow called him on it.) - Anthony Citrano
There's a smug conceitedness to Shyamalan that makes it especially fun to crave his demise. He never seems able to admit he was wrong or capable of anything less than artistic originality and genius. If he flicked the chip off his shoulder I think the world would start to root for him again. - Wm Scott Rees
Damn. I shouldn't have opened FF today. I am going to go see this movie and I was hoping that it wasn't going to have some half-assed explanation for the madness. Damn damn double damn. Guess I'll go see it anyway to experience the disappointment first hand. When I first saw the preview I thought someone had made a movie of Stephen King's Cell. Many variations on this theme lately. Guess all the movie folks have the end of the world on the brain. - Yolanda
Maybe you're right Wm, but until I heard him on that NPR interview with his hollow claims of scientific awareness, the research he did, Einstein's "religion", and so on, I had no reason to dislike the guy... the interview bugged me though. - Anthony Citrano