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When people start shoving huge ponytail holder needles into their own necks, and dive-bombing themselves off skyscrapers, then it's probably safe to assume that something is "Happening." In this new trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's newest film The Happening, that's just what happens. People start committing mass suicide and dropping dead like flies, which causes Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off to remark, "There appears to be an event happening." This character is obviously gifted with keen powers of observation.
When people start shoving huge ponytail holder needles into their own necks, and dive-bombing themselves off skyscrapers, then it's probably safe to assume that something is "Happening." In this new trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's newest film The Happening, that's just what happens. People start committing mass suicide and dropping dead like flies, which causes Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off to remark, "There appears to be an event happening." This character is obviously gifted with keen powers of observation.Apparently the Earth's plants begin rebelling against mankind, and start releasing neurotoxins that cause everyone to go wacky and turn into lemmings. So all of that animal love and peace and harmony that vegetarians have been preaching to us for years will come back to bite them on the ass. Marky Mark takes his family on the run, runs into Zooey Deschanel while avoiding suicidal drivers, and there's undoubtedly some big twist at the end, like plants are sentient and have been screaming at us to stop eating salad for years. We just haven't heard them.
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I hope it's the screen adaptation of the Pixies song!
Say what you want about the twisty plotty twisties, but the man knows how to make a creepy movie. I wish he had made Cloverfield instead of the shakey-cam epileptic overcaffeinated guy. Whoever he is.
DAMN I had it all wrong, I thought it was the teacher who said "Bueller, Bueller, Bueller" and also appears in those eye drop commercials
I hope there's a scene where the plants figure out how to turn our own lawnmowers and juicers against us.... SPOOKY!
with a twiiist!
@simpsons-movie-ruled: That's "game show" host and former Nixon speech-writer Ben Stein.
"What a twist!"
I love "Robot Chicken"...
@92BuickLeSabre: Oh, maybe they will hire him for a spoof?wouldnt it be hi-la-ri-ous?(well considering all the spoofs lately)
And OMG! have yall seen the new "Superhero Movie" Trailer?Now that is Laugh Out Loud funny!
Why would the plants go after us in New York and not near a logging mill or on farms with big-ass threshers? Or does New York even make the plants crazy?
Dood, the plants of the world are the enemy? Awesome! Take that treehuggers!
I can't wait until Marky Mark saves the day by killing every last fucking flower on Earth.
Anything with Zooey Deschanel is worth a look. She was pretty much the only saving grace for Hitch Hikers.
@plutoboy: You underrate the amount of marijuana in New York City.
Fun fact: Yeast cells make noise. When it is made audible to humans, it sounds like a high pitched scream.
Maybe the plants HAVE been yelling at us, but we can't hear it.
I think I read a story like that. A guy made a device to listen to plants... and he could hear the screaming of the flowers being trimmed, the menacing grumble of the old oak tree... I think he died insane.
M. Night Shyamalan can never redeem himself in my eyes. Not even with Zooey Deschanel.
@Rockstar Ghede: That's a Roald Dahl story.
I keep giving M. Night Shymalamadingdong the benefit of the doubt, and he keeps fucking me in the ass. This is the first time I simply refuse to get excited about his latest movie.
Wouldn't it be great if the twist in this M. Night movie was that it was a straight forward movie with no twist ending?
I'd watch it for Zooey.
But, yeah, some of his "twists" don't do it for me.
I am one of those "waits for the DVD" skeptics when it comes to movies like this. Unfortunately, the "Twists" are usually spoiled by then so I don't bother to rent them.
The only things missing from his last two movies are bits of corn and peanuts.
At least Uwe Boll knows his a hack.
@kaosdevice: Isn't that the 'twist' in Lady in the Water? There's no twist in that. There's not much there too twist, mind you.
I thought the twist in 'Lady in the Water' was M. Night playing so against type as a 'brilliant, reclusive writier'. (And humble as well!)
I saw the poster and figured the big twist at the end is that this is The Rapture.
@Pope John Peeps II: I liked the camera work in "Cloverfield". I thought it was very inventive and well-thought out. Wish I could say so about the characters.
"There appears to be an event happening" appears to be the worst line of dialogue I have ever heard. M. Night needs to join a 12 step program for hackery.
Awesome: How could an M. Nut movie be made any worse? Add Zooey Deschanel and hey presto -- it's dungtastic! Maybe I'll post a YouTube video taken from my toilet cam on the day the movie comes out to celebrate.
@diverguy: I was thinking, word for word, the same as you.
"Earth First! We'll pave the other planets later!"
Damn vegans! I knew they'd be the end of us all!
I would like to say that this is the worst storyline I ever could have imagined for a movie, and that's only if I was capable of imagining such utter vomit.
There was a really cheesy 1977 Christopher Lee movie called Starship Invasions that involved a "suicide ray" that caused mass, worldwide suicides. It actually was kind of creepy and stuck with me all these years.
IMDB link to movie:
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The Day of the Triffids 2.0, anyone?
Still wishing M. would do a sequel to "Unbreakable."
*sigh*
man...here we go again. Hope it works this time...twist or no twist. what if the twist is that there wont be a twist?
Guess what, when Lady in water came in theaters, the local distributor put a ticker during the trailing asking people not to give away the ending. :D
@BONNIEGRRLL...hoping the same.
Oh, M. Knight Shalamahyamahanahan, when will you learn?
But, most importantly, when will the audiences learn to shun your movies?
For me, this is not storytelling. It's like having a co-worker tell everyone a tale of a young girl going to her grandma's with a basket of lunch, when a wolf happens upon her and decides to eat her; and then looking around with excitement in his eyes waiting for approval.
Dude, you bring nothing new to the table! Your "twists" only work with children. Also, a mature storyline cannot hinge upon a single element.
Point in case - "The Fight Club". Arguably a fine piece of cinema, that can be viewed from different angles depending on what knowledge you are privy to. But no matter if you've seen it before or not, it is still a good piece of storytelling.
Please people - you're money is your vote!
Reminds me of an old scifi book I read years ago called The Psychopath Plague where alien plants drive humans insane in order to have the planet to themselves. Looks like Nighties 20 years late :P Maybe he read the same book :)
Plants go nuts because we stopped giving them Brawndo.
"It's got what plants crave."
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He's getting ready to make a trilogy, ya know?
I wonder if that's three twist endings or just one at the very, very end.
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I have a fantasy where I take her hostage and she sings me to sleep every night.
Too much?
Revenge of the plants, huh? At least Audrey II could carry a tune.
Loved that Roald Dahl story. Tried to make a short film of it once, but it never got off the ground. Story of my life, actually.
"There appears to be an event happening." Isn't that true all day every day?
How many ex-hippies will go to a movie called "The Happening" thinking it's about some sort of performance art?
@Rockstar Ghede: What about a yeast cell that falls in the woods with no one 'round to hear it?
SPOILER ALERT: Everyone is seeing dead people because they live in a village of superhero ghosts separated from an outside world comprised of aliens who make crop-circles.
Oh I can't wait for this to ome out
SPOILER: The Virus dies due to WATER!
*come out
(Darn Keyboard!)
It's easy to whine about Shayamalan. It's easy to whine about anyone who actually does anything NEW, and advances his art. Once he's made his mark, all us pathetic do-nothings can sit around and pick him apart. Which we apparently do.
But if you were being honest with yourself, you'd admit that the man can make a movie. Sure, maybe his WRITING isn't top-notch, and The Village had an incredibly silly twist. But it's good enough to allow him to really film the images he wants to film, and capture the tension he imagines. And he's really great at that. And THAT'S what's magnificent about his films.
Whine whine whine as much as you like, but the secret to not being a pretentious twat is to recognize what people do well, as well as what they do poorly. There's room in art for extremely simple stories that are told with great elegance. For example - Signs. It's a nothing story. It has no story. But the way the whole thing unfolds on film... well - even if you predicted the ending, it's an interesting and surprising moment.
And by the way, are all you readers of Sci-fi literature, which traditionally WORSHIPS at the altar of shitty twist endings, actually criticizing a twist ending? Have you READ science fiction lately? It's like 75 years of bad twist endings....
@Pope John Peeps II: I have to say two things:
1) I generally agree with what you said.
2) I am surprised that it's you that gave this speech.
You may have...three points.
I'm going to be the first to ruin it for everyone and save you all your $10. The "twist" is that deforestation and the destroying of the environment is going to be the SOLUTION of the story. Ha! See, its a twist because global warming is "so hot right now..." (ba dump ching!)
"Those aren't ideas, Mr. Shayamalan. Those are twists!"
@Pope John Peeps II: New? Since when is making two hour, plodding Twilight Zone episodes new!?!
@Pope John Peeps II: So your argument is that good cinematography and production trumps poor writing. Umm, no. The story is everything.
Also, your little rant came across as more pretentious than any other comment on this thread.
@Imipolex_G-Unit: ...and then everyone starts shilling for American Express in a bizarre ripoff of a brilliant French filmmaker's work.
@extracrispy: False. If story were everything, we wouldn't need to watch movies; we could just read screenplays.
@Macloserboy: Writing movies is what he does only in order to allow him to DIRECT what he wants to direct. That's his focus. Look at the Sixth Sense. It's got about 20 whole minutes of dialogue in the entire movie, but the rest of it is shot beautifully, and paced incredibly well. He