The Happening?
More like, What the fuck Happened, Shyamalan? Pull your head out of your ass! You are not the next Hitchcock! You're movies are predictable and each gets worse (not to mention worse and worse lead actors). I still don't know if the whole thing was just a ham, or if the camp was 'Hitchcockian' - excuse me - 'M. Night Shyamalanian' (yeah, like that's going to catch on).
And the worst part? (No not the fact that people are attacked by trees - but close) Is the fact that you not only ripped off The Birds (you should have called it The Plants - grandmothers and gardeners everywhere would have paid and they probably would put it up with their other favourite movies, Driving Miss Daisy and Calendar Girls) but the fact that it stinks of ideology. (Warning, deeper analysis) For example, when does the terror end? When the father-figure (Marky Mark) reasserts his union with the Mother- (Zooey Deschanel - what are you doing in this movie?) and child-figures. The implication, of course, is that only the willful preservation of the family unit can halt terrorism. Oh, and a hammer-to-the-head message about environmentalism. Is that what Hitchcock was about? No, the union of the family 'unit' in The Birds precedes the bird attacks and is never resolved.
My conclusion? Fuck off, Shyamalan! Your movies tend to be weak and transparent!
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1 comment:
speaking of laughing ~
good stuff!
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