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"What "The Happening" is actually about"

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Blogger Danindc said...

Saw it tonight- so bad...

6/21/08, 1:02 AM

Anonymous tommy said...

Am I the only one has yet to see a Shyamalan flick they liked?

6/21/08, 1:14 AM

Blogger Danindc said...

Ok- this is fairly funny- I had a platform on a national sports radio show when The Village came out....The host gave me time and I started out by saying, " I saw The Village today loved it and i don't want to spoil anything but it takes place in the present day and the monsters are fake...

6/21/08, 1:33 AM

Blogger rec1man said...

Incidentally Shyamalan is a SIB
I have not seen this film, but his earlier films were good

6/21/08, 8:55 AM

Anonymous travis said...

The odd thing is that the denouement had almost nothing to do with plants. I think Shyamalan is more concerned with a phenomenon that you have noted -- white yankees have stopped having babies. I thought this review at i09 was spot on about Shyamalan's intent.

6/21/08, 10:08 AM

Blogger kurt said...

Consider the possibility that both allergies and asthma, like autism, are due to Mercury (Thimerosal) poisoning. This is the operating premise that led me to try chelation therapy with Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) for 18 months.

Guess what, my asthma is completely gone (I mean completely) and my allergies are much reduced (but not completely gone).

I would say that my operating premise turned out to be correct.

6/21/08, 11:35 AM

Blogger Ron Guhname said...

With "Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable" I thought this guy might have a bright future, but the last four films have been duds. True talent can only be shown over time.

6/21/08, 3:27 PM

Blogger albertosaurus said...

Shyamalian is an example of the Movie Birth Order Effect.

Take any director or actor's total output. Approximately one half to two thirds will be good and one third or more willl be bad. Go to Rotten Tomatoes and enter any dirctor or actor's name. You will find that almost all of them have been in critically sucessful movies at around the 50%-66% rate. The exception is comedy. Eddie Murphy and Chevy Chaze have much lower approval rates - about one third.

A typical movie hero like Schwarzenegger is likely to have made his big hits early in his career. Later the averages catch up with him ans his later movies are less sucessful.

We can see this trend because ex post facto we can judge all the pictures but the decision to fund the next movie is made marginally. This means that if Arnold had made End of Days first he never would have gotten a chance at Terminator.

Similarly Shyamalan is a worse than average writer/director who was lucky enough to create the best movie he was capable of first.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/m_night_shyamalan/

6/21/08, 3:47 PM

Anonymous David Davenport said...

Consider the possibility that both allergies and asthma, like autism, are due to Mercury (Thimerosal) poisoning. This is the operating premise that led me to try chelation therapy with Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) for 18 months.

Guess what, my asthma is completely gone (I mean completely) and my allergies are much reduced (but not completely gone).



Correlation does not prove causation. Read "Fooled By Randomness" or "The Black Swan," by Nassim Taleb.

( Taleb's OK. He's from Lebanon, but he's Christian. )

6/21/08, 5:17 PM

Anonymous Peter said...

Shyamalan burbled, "One of the things that I guess was in the back of my mind was that one in six emergency room cases for the United States is asthma-related.

Sounds dubious ... I'd like to see actual statistics.

6/21/08, 6:17 PM

Anonymous SKT said...

That review above about Shyamalan being an "avowed Christian" trumpeting intelligent design is bogus. Shyamalan is a Hindu, and has never pretended or wanted to be Christian to make white people in America happy (unlike Bobby Jindal).

That said, he did go to Catholic schools and stuff, so he may have been influenced by that.

6/21/08, 7:12 PM

Anonymous SKT said...

You guys have to admit, Sixth Sense was good and Unbreakable was also pretty good. A lot of people also liked Signs, though it was a bit slow for me. I agree though that Lady In The Water was God awful, but the Village was a decent film. I have not yet seen his latest movie.

Overall Shyamalan is a pretty conservative guy who stays away from sleaze/filth in his movies, and avoids the Hollywood party set by remaining close to his friends/family in his hometown of Philadelphia. He's also pretty well assimilated, and isn't grinding an axe against his adopted country. Maybe he's no Hitchcock, but he's no weasel like Spielberg either.

6/21/08, 7:21 PM

Anonymous tommy said...

David Davenport,

Correlation does not prove causation. Read "Fooled By Randomness" or "The Black Swan," by Nassim Taleb.

"Fooled by Randomness" was okay, but forget "The Black Swan." The latter book is chalk full of ridiculous nonsense. "The Black Swan" would have been funny if Taleb's pomposity wasn't so unbearable.

skt,

You guys have to admit, Sixth Sense was good

I'll admit nothing of the sort.

6/21/08, 9:27 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

albertosaurus,

Shyamalan hasn't done himself any favors by writing all of the movies he directs. Its a common phenomenon for a talented director to sabotage himself by directing scripts they've written when they'd be better off filming the best scripts they can find, even when its written by someone else.

Joe Carnahan is the same way. Smokin' Aces was a wonderfully filmed movie, but the script was just stupid.

One of the actors in Smokin' Aces, Ben Affleck, has a similar problem. He spent 10 years trying to be a movie star when he should have quit acting years ago and focused on directing (Gone Baby Gone was the best movie of last year).

6/21/08, 10:47 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Most (but obviously not all) outdoor allergies are caused by so many modern humans being cooped up indoors throughout their whole lives, never being exposed to pollen, etc. while they were growing up and thus never developing an immunity toward allergens.

6/22/08, 2:42 PM

Anonymous beowulf said...

I was the anonymous who mentioned Joe Carnahan and Ben Affleck above, I forgot to log in.

I should add that The Movie Spoiler site already has The Happening summarized. So if you have no interest in seeing it, you can skim the play by play.
http://www.themoviespoiler.com/

6/22/08, 7:14 PM

Anonymous Martin said...

It did have a punchy theme song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A53t5rM3N8

But, I don't know, as remakes go, it was a big departure. The original was much funnier:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061748/

6/23/08, 7:02 AM

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