Is it better than his previous films? Unbreakable was really good and Sixth Sense wasn't bad but the rest of his films were so sloppy that he ruined them. He needs a good editor or someone to at least point out the parts that don't make sense.
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I think I like this one the most --Sixth Sense is good, but once you've seen it, it's done. I've watched it a couple times with friends who'd never seen it before, and what I really watch is their reactions; I've never just sat down and watched it by myself since the first time.
The Happening is different, though, and I've watched it twice already. The acting is very simple, but perfect for the movie, and ultimately very honest--almost like not-acting; actors doing and saying things real people might do or say.
This movie got a bad rap before it ever premiered--which is always strange to me, that a movie can be generally reviled or laughed off before the general public has had a chance to even see it. It's a little irritating to feel compelled to be embarrassed because I like a movie I'm supposed to hate :-\
In the end, you either like this kind of movie or you don't--there's probably not a lot of middle ground.
You ENJOYED the Happening? It was easily one of the worst movies I have ever seen, fit for ripping into pieces after you're halfway through a six pack. My friends and I regularly refer to it as The (there's nothing) Happening. Come on, you can clearly see the boom mike in EVERY SHOT!!!!!
Wow. Talk about different strokes for different folks.
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You ENJOYED the Happening? It was easily one of the worst movies I have ever seen, fit for ripping into pieces after you're halfway through a six pack. My friends and I regularly refer to it as The (there's nothing) Happening. Come on, you can clearly see the boom mike in EVERY SHOT!!!!!
Wow. Talk about different strokes for different folks.
Was this the pan and scan/full-frame version you were watching? 99% of visible boom mikes are a result of showing a widescreen movie as full-frame, and is just one of the many reasons that watching widescreen movies in "formatted for TV screen" movies creates an inferior experience.
I loath all his movies.
The Happening.
So-so.
I've seen worse.
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You ENJOYED the Happening? It was easily one of the worst movies I have ever seen, fit for ripping into pieces after you're halfway through a six pack. My friends and I regularly refer to it as The (there's nothing) Happening. Come on, you can clearly see the boom mike in EVERY SHOT!!!!!
Wow. Talk about different strokes for different folks.
Obviously, you're joking--nonetheless, I scanned through the movie again--there are no blooper shots like that; no boom mikes or cables or power cords.
I'm in a losing battle the last couple weeks--I've recently learned that most of the movies I like, others don't:
The Mist
Wickerman
Dawn of the Dead
The Village
Something Wicked This Way Comes
True Lies
...and the list goes on and on and on...
:-(
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You ENJOYED the Happening? I'm in a losing battle the last couple weeks--I've recently learned that most of the movies I like, others don't:
The Mist
Wickerman
Dawn of the Dead
The Village
Something Wicked This Way Comes
True Lies
...and the list goes on and on and on...:-(
True Lies, the original Wicker Man, and both versions of Dawn of the Dead all have a lot of supporters, so you're not completely alone. I think each of those are pretty good, though I worked for one of the producers of the new Dawn of the Dead while it was in production, so I'm kind of biased there.
I haven't seen The Happening, but I'm planning on checking it out soon.
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Reminds me of that T.V. Show with "Rerun", "What's Happening!" Anyway, the film was not a real bad one, nor was it a real good one. I think "Signs" delivered the goods that "Sixth Sense" had also cleverly packaged. I did like "The Village and Unbreakable" but this director must stop when it comes to giving us punch lines at the end of his films. Sometimes it doesn't "ring" so clever. Its like you expect the answer to the mystery at the end of every one of his films. Of course, this didn't really happen in....the happening. Of course, this didn't really happen in....the happening. Of course, this didn't really happen in....the happening.
Happy Halloween
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I think it's interesting that The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, as well as many of Hitchcock's greatest films, all more often than not deliver the exact same formula MNS writes into his movies. Yet, we hail Serling and Hitchcock as geniuses, and MNS as a fraud and hack. I had a creative writing professor who told us, something to the effect of, "TZ was awesome in 1961, but that kind of hackneyed cop-out writing doesn't make the cut nowadays."
I guess he was right. :-(
I liked Dawn of the Dead. I didn't like the village. I had hoped it would be something creepier- for instance if they made HP Lovecraft's Dunwich story into a movie and called it "The Village", and they did a good job of it. Well that would have been a cool movie. I haven't seen The Mist, Wickerman or Something Wicked comes this way.
You ENJOYED the Happening? It was easily one of the worst movies I have ever seen, fit for ripping into pieces after you're halfway through a six pack. My friends and I regularly refer to it as The (there's nothing) Happening. Come on, you can clearly see the boom mike in EVERY SHOT!!!!!
Wow. Talk about different strokes for different folks.
Obviously, you're joking--nonetheless, I scanned through the movie again--there are no blooper shots like that; no boom mikes or cables or power cords.
I'm in a losing battle the last couple weeks--I've recently learned that most of the movies I like, others don't:
The Mist
Wickerman
Dawn of the Dead
The Village
Something Wicked This Way Comes
True Lies
...and the list goes on and on and on...:-(