Post by DTH on Aug 20, 2008 10:01:21 GMT -5
Ay up
My girlfriend and I went to the flicks to see Hulk and as we were walking in to the cinematorium, we noticed the Happening was playing.
Since it started exactly the same time as Hulk, I figured we both really like most of Mr Shyamalan's (save for Lady should have been drowned in the water), this was preferable to me "owing the missus one" for seeing a man turn green with rage...
We sat down to watch the film and pretty much from the get go, there was an entire theatre of people searching frantically for their jaws: no one could believe what they were seeing.
It was truly, truly awful.
I would never have believed it and it wasn't until I said this outloud that it occurred to me: the film was supposed to be like this.
It was exactly like an 80s "horror" tv movie only made 20 years too late. Hammy acting? Check. Bad dialogue? Check. Outrageous concept? Check. Low budget? Double check.
Mr Shyamalan has excelled himself in making an homage to those 80s horror films that inspired him to get in to the business himself.
If Quentin Tarantino can do that with Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 and then with Grindhouse, there's obviously a place for such artistic endeavours.
And yet, where Shyamalan went wrong was actually doing the job too well. He went so far as actually making an 80s horror movie, which, in 2008, is never ever going to fly.
Where Tarantino succeeded (with Kill Bill at least), Shyamalan failed and quite spectacularly too. For starters, Quentin, chose a medium which has a massive cult following anyway, so he was always going to find a market. Secondly, he did it with style.
Shyamalan made a movie that was badly acted, had cheesy dialogue and looked like it had $0.02 spent on it. Just because this was his intention from the get-go doesn't actually change the fact that its a bad film...
Like Kyle says, don't see this movie.
My girlfriend and I went to the flicks to see Hulk and as we were walking in to the cinematorium, we noticed the Happening was playing.
Since it started exactly the same time as Hulk, I figured we both really like most of Mr Shyamalan's (save for Lady should have been drowned in the water), this was preferable to me "owing the missus one" for seeing a man turn green with rage...
We sat down to watch the film and pretty much from the get go, there was an entire theatre of people searching frantically for their jaws: no one could believe what they were seeing.
It was truly, truly awful.
I would never have believed it and it wasn't until I said this outloud that it occurred to me: the film was supposed to be like this.
It was exactly like an 80s "horror" tv movie only made 20 years too late. Hammy acting? Check. Bad dialogue? Check. Outrageous concept? Check. Low budget? Double check.
Mr Shyamalan has excelled himself in making an homage to those 80s horror films that inspired him to get in to the business himself.
If Quentin Tarantino can do that with Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 and then with Grindhouse, there's obviously a place for such artistic endeavours.
And yet, where Shyamalan went wrong was actually doing the job too well. He went so far as actually making an 80s horror movie, which, in 2008, is never ever going to fly.
Where Tarantino succeeded (with Kill Bill at least), Shyamalan failed and quite spectacularly too. For starters, Quentin, chose a medium which has a massive cult following anyway, so he was always going to find a market. Secondly, he did it with style.
Shyamalan made a movie that was badly acted, had cheesy dialogue and looked like it had $0.02 spent on it. Just because this was his intention from the get-go doesn't actually change the fact that its a bad film...
Like Kyle says, don't see this movie.
