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Not much happening (Night & Day, 18 Jun, 2008)
I was delighted that this did not turn out to be a zombie movie, like I originally thought. In this movie, people were killing themselves, not each other. This is far from the typical slasher flick where people go crazy and kill a set group of people one person at a time. When people kill themselves, it's never for personal gain. Clearly. That's what makes this movie so scary, it's not so typical.
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Not much happening (Night & Day, 18 Jun, 2008)
I completely agree with Shannon: "Nowadays you don't come across films that actually require you to think.
The American audience demands spoon-fed movies . . ."
Unfortunately, this one doesn't require you to think either, and it doesn't spoon feed you mindless entertainment either.
I am a big Shayamalan fan. His movies are some of the few that appear as if a bit of thought went into the writing and producing. They actually engage your mind, not just dazzle you with special effects or shock you with gore.
This movie however, required no thought. It required nothing but the patience to actually sit through the blandly written script. And the gore -- it just seemed cheap and over the top!
It was like those pathetic shows that use an over-abundance of sex or nudity because the producers know that is the only thing that will keep anyone interested. Shayamalan is above having to use such measures, and yet he cheapened himself and the movie by stooping to include such gruesome violence (the shotgun and the kids in particular).
Overall, I found this movie to be nothing but a propaganda piece and a huge disappointment. The script was dull, the plot was bland, and the overall effect left much to be desired.
I expected so much more from such a talented man.
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Not much happening (Night & Day, 18 Jun, 2008)
DISTANT AND BIZARRE, BUT GREAT..
OK, OK, enjoying this movie requires a little bit of an open mind.
The opening scene can only be described in one word, I guess two words, but hyphenated words -- bad-boy.
It was well done, and the style of dialogue carried out through the whole movie was so strange and distant. People would often make some random comment,like "You'd better not be eye'in my lemon drink" and then make awkward eye contact, then just stop.
So much of what was said seemed so unnecessary and random, but it just made the movie so much more mysterious and kept me guessin'.
Everyone seemed so distant. So many times, I just wondered, "What is that??"
A joke? Poor script-writing?
Does Shamalan intentionally do this? The Sixth Sense or Unbreakable was nothing like this, but wait, wasn't SIGNS??!.
Maybe the worst part was waiting unsuccessfully for Mark Whalberg to start bustin' faces, and instead we just got him talkin' in a little baby voice.
I didn't know breaking the type-cast meant being a little sissy.
Anyways, maybe it's not for most people, but this movie is worth checkin' out.
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Not much happening (Night & Day, 18 Jun, 2008)
It's a great movie!! Thought-provoking!!
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Not much happening (Night & Day, 18 Jun, 2008)
The movie did not really require any thinking on the part of the audience. The entire plot was very predictable.
It also moved at the pace of a snail.
I do not recommend this movie. It is reminiscent of a late-night horror rerun.
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Not much happening (Night & Day, 18 Jun, 2008)
Good overall movie. Coyla's comments are true -- to enjoy it, you have to think.
I did think some parts were too much like King's movies. It could have been done without the gore and blood. The twist was not as dramatic as other Night movies.
To have a quick flash or taste of what the people saw would have been interesting if done right, but now we all have to use our own minds to fill that hole.


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Not much happening (Night & Day, 18 Jun, 2008)
I loved this film. I think it was a great interpretation of the rapture. Very creative.
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Not much happening (Night & Day, 18 Jun, 2008)
I enjoyed the film. I don't feel it's ever fair to be over critical of one man's perceived threats, which this film is clearly about and is trying to awaken us to.
I enjoyed the idea as well, and that is usually the concept which appeals to me most in terms of enjoyment. I feel there is still a future for Shyamalan.
Perhaps Miss Shimp is being a little over-critical because he has never lived up to the perceived hype of the Sixth Sense. I feel it is unfair to repeatedly compare people to previous successes, as people will want to try different things and ideas.
Good film, which was overly criticized.
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Not much happening (Night & Day, 18 Jun, 2008)
This movie was terrible. The whole audience laughed at the stupid dialog the whole time. When people actually died, you couldn't take it seriously. The movie was centered around global warming in the most idiotic form of propaganda. If you think about it, hints to global warming are spread all thoroughout the movie besides the plot; in the background of a farm is two big silos pumping out exhaust. At the very beginning, the teacher asks about dying bees. When the main character turns on a radio he only listens to "you know, it might be caused by nuclear power plants, they have those everywhere in the backeast"

This movie did not require you to think. It gave away the plot minutes into the movie, and there were no surprises. It sucked. The acting was horrible, the script was too corny, and the overall plot was unbelievably stupid.
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Not much happening (Night & Day, 18 Jun, 2008)
This is not his best movie, but it's not quite the horrible mess the critics are saying it is either.
I am still disappointed, though. I think it could have been done better. I think that the concept is extremely compelling and thought-provoking.
And it had the potential to be so much more than we ended up with.
While Night did quite well with some of the suicide scenes and building suspense and all that, it just plain wasn't acted that well. It was as if the people in the film were trying to escape the chicken pox or the flu as opposed to certain death.
If something like this really happened, my godness people would FLIP OUT.
It would be so much more chaotic, confusing, and desperate in real life. The script really kept things in a weird place, sort of like they were running away from a swarm of bees -- scary, but as if there was no risk of dying. I kept thinking of the Village, at the end; one guy was dying, and there was so much passion and angst in the actors' faces. I would expect at least the same amount of emotion in this film, but it didn't ever happen.
But it was still not too bad in the end.
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Not much happening (Night & Day, 18 Jun, 2008)
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."
Albert Einstein

Quoted 04.12.07 23:37:24

Einstein did say that quote. i think this movie had a good message -- we as humans ARE destroying the planet, and we should learn to love the planet. It is a gift to us, but obviously not many people care and yet no one will understand the meaning of the movie.
I believe it was a bit bland as for there was no logical background about why all of a sudden the killing took place, etc., but then again, it portrayed a message -- be more kind to the earth.
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Locals react to anti-Muslim sketch (News, 11 Jun, 2008)
My last comment, "I personally do not agree with the posters' message, but they have every right to express it in private places wishing to let them or in public forums," is the best lesson we should all draw from this.
Ahsan Aslam, if you still follow these posts, I have some questions for you.

1. What do you think about freedom of speech? Do you think people should have the right to say whatever they want to?

2. If you feel qualified to answer, how does the Czech Muslim community feel about freedom of speech?

3. How important is freedom of speech to democracy and what negative impacts are there to limiting speech? What positive impacts?

I hope these questions are fair and not too numerous for you. Feel free to send responses or questions my way as well.
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Not much happening (Night & Day, 18 Jun, 2008)
Either this was a pathetic attempt to lure us all into being better stewards of the earth or join MOVEON.org, or this was Shyamalan's expression of disdain toward the subject. In his other films, he wowed us with inventiveness and his ability to capture us with the land of make believe.
One could suggest, then, that Shyamalan is suggesting that the earth's response to man and this kind of idea is equally preposterous as the idea of mythical underwater girls with magical powers.
One of the explanations is smart and imaginative: the other, unfortunately, is worthy of praise only from the likes of Al Gore and the rest of the extreme left-wing eco-fanatics.
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Not much happening (Night & Day, 18 Jun, 2008)
Grades
Action: C
Dialogue: D
Screenplay: C
Plot: C+
Verdict: Depress fest for the bloodthirsty population of boredom. This movie can be added as Al Gore's "or else" backup to the Global Warming DVD (which was more interesting than The Happening by the way).

This movie is a Class A gorefest for all who love to see blood gush and limbs get shredded right in your face.

The Happening can be related to The Mist. After watching The Mist and how wretched it made me feel, I can say that The Happening movie succeeded in that as well.
The Happening is a movie that does make you think, but it never gives us a solid answer as to what went on.
The only credible evidence the movie gives us was from the scientist on the news. His statement was along the lines of "we know everything about it, but actually don't know anything about it."
Is that good or bad? You decide. I found it to be bad, because I kept wondering, what if this movie was just a film of a worldwide flash mob (not a serious statement)?
This has to be the 10th recent movie this summer that in some way bashes American society.
I applauded movies for calling out America to open our eyes to greater issues. But I think by now I understand that there are a lot of issues going on; one more movie is not going to change people's minds about much, especially not this one. The only decision I am making after seeing this one is not to go see another one of Shyamalan's movies.
But I found Signs to be a pretty good movie.
In The Happening, I found the dialogue to be very poor, and in a few scenes, you could see the microphone at the top of the screen.
If you want to see a bunch of morons get owned by a bunch of plants and teenage boys get blasted by bitter rednecks, watch this movie. I'm not a fan of movies that show every inch of detail on how someone has just been killed. The party of 10 that I went with all found the movie to be very random at various moments. One scene the couple and the little girl were in the house hiding, and the next minute it says 3 months later, and the kid hops on a school bus like it never happened. EVEN after that, it shows a European atmosphere of people walking in a park, as the same horror is about to strike there.
I am aware that we as humans are not doing a good job in taking care of the planet, but I don't think seeing a man throw himself to the lions is going to encourage me to "go green". I don't recommend that anyone see this movie, just because of the horrible images it leaves in your head after you walk out. It sure did ruin a good Friday night for me, after the movie, I didn't want to do anything, but freeze and mumble random things to get a laugh out of my friends.
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Not much happening (Night & Day, 18 Jun, 2008)
This movie may have sounded the death knell for two careers: Shyamalan and Walberg. Aside from the painful dialog the movie was preachy. Plants attack? Come on...

The shame of it is, this could've been a good movie. It was a little bit 'War of the Worlds' and a little bit 'Legends'. Too bad Shyamalan couldn't reproduce the magic from Sixth Sense and Signs.
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Not much happening (Night & Day, 18 Jun, 2008)
I think Julian is Joey.
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Canada sees an influx of Roma immigrants (News, 18 Jun, 2008)
The Roma don't want to integrate into any society. They want to pass down their talent for stealing, especially pickpocketing, to the next generation.
They want the government to give them handouts because they are generally too lazy to work. When the government in Slovakia built them housing complexes, within weeks the Roma had systematically dismantled the entire complex, selling all of the windows, hardware and lumber.
They are the scourge of Europe, and no one wants them. Canada should cut them off before the crime wave begins.
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The Pittsburgh Agreement at 90 (News, 18 Jun, 2008)
This article skews the facts and makes everything seem very orderly and patriotic, neither of which were true regarding the Pittsburgh Agreement.
The fact is, that the Pittsburgh Agreement stated that Slovakia would have its own Parliament, judicial system and cultural autonomy.
Precisely these points where never fulfilled by Masaryk -- hence, Czechoslovakia was doomed into non-existence from the very beginning.
This is also why Slovaks even today dislike Masaryk and his creation of the Czechoslovak First Republic.
A politician who does not fulfill his signed agreements is a bad politician. This is the "dirty Czech secret" that no wants to talk about yet on the contrary puts Masaryk on a pedestal and into cult status.
As Pat Buchanan writes, "True nations are not created by treaties, as Czechoslovakia was in 1919 and Bosnia was in 1995. They grow organically, out of a people's history, traditions, faith and culture..."
Even though I am not a Pat Buchanan fan, on this one he is 100 percent correct. The creation of Czechoslovakia was idiotic and the people that did so were naive and ignorant of the realities of Central Europe. From a Czech point of view, the most logical things that should have been done after World War I was: A) Not to give approval of the Versailles treaty. (This treaty was the raping of Germany and only beckoned for another war.) and B) Strive for the federalization and democratization of Austria-Hungary. A large democratic entity in Central Europe would have eliminated the expansionist tendencies of the Germans and the Russians. Even in the late 1880s, Palacky warned that without Austria-Hungary, Russia would be a threat to the Czechs.
This scenario played out exactly as was predicted by him. Of the 70-plus years that Czechoslovakia existed, close to 50 of them were as a non-democratic proxy state to a dictatorial power having absolutely no freedom for its citizens.
Is that a successful establishment?.... By no means, it's something that we Czechs should put behind us as soon as possible. Czechoslovakia was a failure, and its glorification is a mind-boggling stupidity.
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Not much happening (Night & Day, 18 Jun, 2008)
This movie makes me want to never go to the theater again. The only thought it provoked was why I spent $9.75 to watch this garbage. I was ripped off.
The point being made in this movie, if any, was discarded because of how bad the script and acting were.
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Not much happening (Night & Day, 18 Jun, 2008)
I enjoyed this movie. I was tense throughout the entire flick, and I cannot stop thinking about it.
I get so irritated with critics. My friend had read some reviews prior to seeing the movie and then moaned throughout the entire film, basically repeating the same thoughts that critics have been saying.
Think for yourselves, people!
Although I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't wrapped in a nice little box at the end, I still think it was a success.
I agree also with Coyla.
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