The Happening

Saw it, and man. It sucked. Horribly. Not much more to say.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Will

Funny, this is the same way I felt about Indiana Jones. I'm still convinced that it was intended to parody itself.

As opposed to the other Indiana Jones movies, which took themselves seriously and weren't a tongue in cheek homage to a genre?

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Originally Posted by KrelEN

I knew this was going to be the worst fucking movie of the year as soon as I saw the trailer. With memorable-for-all-the-wrong-reasons lines like "WE'VE LOST CONTACT" / "WITH WHOM?" / "EVERYBODY," and "THERE APPEARS TO BE AN EVENT HAPPENING," I'm surprised it's not subject to more online piss-taking than it already is.

Pointing out that M. Night is a shitty filmmaker isn't really, you know, fun. Taking the piss out of something should at least be entertaining. But everybody already knows he's awful. It's a given. You know it going in. It's a matter of how it's going to suck. What specific bullshit plot is he going to reach for. Now, The Happening is so dull and uninteresting that it just isn't really worth talking about. It's been a few flicks. M. Night has even lost his ability to make mocking him fun.

It's like poking fun at Goldfish for his shitty taste in music. It's not fun anymore. The guy is just tedious.

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In summation:

Ava thinks the world should work this way: If you don't like something for a while, you shouldn't like it ever. When I was younger, I didn't like Gabriel Garcia Marquez. At all. Found his work boring and dreadful. But people kept telling me he was worth time. So I kept going back, and as I got older, and my palate expanded, I found him one of my favourite writers.

You also said escargot was an acquired taste, so why should someone keep ordering it if they don't like it? Well I imagine it would be to acquire the taste, no? Escargot has a lot of delightful flavours to it, and is quite fantastic, so it's worth the acquiring of taste for it. Maybe by ordering it repeatedly, for instance. Great metaphor.

You're tilting at windmills here, mate. The only person in this thread who seems to be especially pissed off is you. Sass is baiting you, and you keep chomping at the hook. It's sad, actually. Your position boils down to "You didn't like it yet, why the hell would you like it now?" Do you realise how asinine that is? I mean, just dwell on that for a second. Just think about how incredibly childish that outlook is. Do you still not eat string beans or the crust on bread because you didn't like them as a kid? Are you really that boring a human being that you've never been pleasantly surprised to discover something you've never liked before suddenly wasn't so bad? If you're truly that static, I pity you and your dull, uninteresting existence.

GFF was never a nice, soft place to get hugs. You want people to respect your opinion? Well, try having an opinion that isn't rubbish and utterly indefensible.

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But see, you're the one prescribing anger to people's reactions. I think it's much more apt to chalk it up to frustration than to anger. No one is saying M. Night does everything wrong all the time forever. I think most people can at least pick out one point in one of his movies that was truly interesting. It's sort of like reading an author who clearly has natural talent, but isn't polished. The edit is rough, and as such, you can't really enjoy the piece because, much as there are impressive aspects, they're overrun by the other qualities that are less savoury.

No one is mad that M. Night isn't a good filmmaker, they're frustrated that he never seems to improve. It's like he's still making his first couple movies.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Matt

What the hell was he thinking?

But then again, Mark Wahlberg is the best actor to cast in what's supposed to be a B-movie. He's like the defining B-actor in his generation, hands down.

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Originally Posted by Matt

Not only that, but Bruce can act if he has to.

Unlike Mark.

What? No he fucking can't. You're joking, right?

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Originally Posted by Sassafrass

In fairness LeHah, the movie was pretty clearly trying to be a B-movie, albeit not very well. Had you seen it, you'd know what I'm talking about.

And LeHah's point is that you can't set out to make a b-movie. It's not a genre to be tackled. It's something that happens when you set out to make a normal movie.

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Originally Posted by Sassafrass

So how many times exactly are you going to spam up the thread? You already said "what Deni said."

Whether or not he was "successful" (he wasn't) or whether or not you can intentionally create a B-movie (you can't), it's clear that he tried. Which is his major flaw when it comes to the "best B movie of all time" argument Shyamalan tried to make.

I would argue M Night's biggest flaw in claiming to have made the greatest anything is that to make the greatest, one must first be, you know, good at something.

Jam it back in, in the dark.