The New Republic senior editor Christopher Orr calls The Happening “[A] film is so bad that I feel compelled to make a spoiler-laden list of its most laughably terrible parts…which will enable you to marvel at its anti-genius without sacrificing…90 minutes of your life.” Harsh, hysterical and, from all the friend anti-recommendations I’ve gotten, spot-on.
My wife just had to see it. And she just had to take me a long. After I’d read that review.
It’s now in my worst-ever list. Not quite “Battlefield Earth” bad, but definitely fighting with the “Final Destination” movies for a low spot.
said Daniel
at 3:05pm on Tuesday
Wow. I’ve heard this movie was bad, but I couldn’t anticipate it being that bad. I mean come on!! “I can hear the wind outside.”? Are you serious?!
I had worried M. Night was a hack after his third film, “Signs,” in which a violent race of aliens, whose fatal weakness is water, attack a planet consisting of 6 billion people and roughly 75% of its surface is composed of water. For beings that have mastered intergallactic travel, they were pretty stupid.
Considering how big of a pompous self-righteous prick M. Night has become, a few good failures and a deflated ego will serve him well. He was much better as a humble filmmaker (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable).
said DJ Wilson
at 11:13am on Wednesday
Josh, great call on how bad this film was. I think if M. Night could sell sh#t on a stick and try to convince us there was a twist at the end, he would. I think Midori (my wife) said you had moved back to Greenville, but I could be wrong. Keep up the blogging man! Ryan
My blog is http://underdogs.wordpress.com/
I’ve just started updating it again, mostly yarns about Yoda, the Hulk, Barack Obama, etc. Hopefully the humor will hit home, keep up the great work on this site.
said Ryan Roseberry
at 2:06pm on Thursday