There is Nothing Happening *spoiler*
To be completely honest I wasn’t expect much when I walked into the theatre.
I got exactly what I expected. Now M. Night has produced a few notable movies, Sixth Sense, Unbreakable - those movies were different. Then he tried to be to different and repeat the success with Signs (boring), The Village (Predictable), and Lady In The Water (Fairytale, frankly I liked the over characterization of the players, but once he stepped in as himself to save the day it was over).
My Happening circumstance started with a preview for the movie inter-cut with Mr. Shyamalan talking about the movie from his perspective and how this is the scariest one yet. Well that blows it for me…any time a director has to be put in his own preview and tell the audience to see his most mind blowing film ever you know there is something up. Fast Forward A couple days.
Enter theatre.
Opening credits roll…cheesy cloud loop with equally cheese ball text
Great…when did I get to the Sundance Film Festival?
Cut to Central Park, NY
Everybody stops in their tracks, girl stabs herself in the throat while her friend stares horrified.
Next up…skyscraper being built and all of the sudden bodies start the falling and bouncing thing…It made me chuckle.
In steps Mark Whalburg actor and underwear model extraordinaire. Sweet…he knows about bees.
More people die.
I’ll save the blow by blow to Nights career.
Basically there comes some extremely distasteful stuff, like showing a little girl a video on an iphone (marketing anybody?) of a man offering himself to be mauled by a big lion. Then these two boys…instead of committing suicide they get shot with shot guns for no real reason by some people ‘protecting their house’. I was done by this point.
But no it keeps going.
Drag it out, more people die…then BOOM it’s over and we don’t really know why except the annoying ‘scientist’ on TV is visibly shaking with…passion? over the whole issue saying plants evolved the ability to kill humans for doing what ever it is their doing to the planet.
Cue LARGE eye roll here.
no no no let’s not give a scientific reason…(as if there would actually be one) lets throw in the word evolution and make it cover all of science.
All in all there were a lot of detached scenes, that either didn’t make sense with the whole or didn’t play in to the rest of it. The characters really weren’t lovable…heck…I was wishing they would have all died by the end. Way to much humor to be a serious scary movie (COMMIT TO A DIRECTION AND GO WITH IT). Oh and it wasn’t scary…I think i counted one real *jump* moment.
Positive moment…M. Night Shyamalan didn’t make a large cameo. SURPRISE!
It was semi entertaining from the aspect, I sat and picked at it the whole way through. So if you’re looking for a good way to beat the heat and pick apart a production then hack away!
