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     Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 80.5.8.49 |
Just watched M Night-Shyamalan's "The Happening". flawed but a wonderfully brooding, unsettling film. I believe this movie bombed when it was released and that the poor guy has lost all the credibility he gained with "Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable". A shame because I genuinely liked this story. It reminded me very much of a small press apocalyptic tale, the oddness of the actual disaster itself, the focus-in on a few characters. No cgi or overwhelming special effects. Just story and characters. Oh, suits me sir. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.39.71 |
I've seen this, but can remember nothing about it! | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.239.243.241 |
I thought it started well but just sort of meandered after that. The ending was atrocious. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.239.243.241 |
He lost all his credibility with The Lady in the Water - starring himself as a writer who would save the world with his writings in a piss poor story about badly cgi'd monsters and some kind of amnesiac mermaid. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.247.212 |
I liked it Terry. More than any single element it had atmosphere and dread. And yes, a dreamlike strangeness. (The gore in the lion scene was a mistake, though - I think it was done to attract people to the dvd after the cinematic response) | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.233.148.17 |
I remember it. That was the one when they had to run away from wind. Antimetheus! I just re-watched the ALIEN prequel. There's no story and very little atmosphere to compensate for that. ALIEN had both story AND pointless, enjoyable grace notes. A genuine oddity, that one. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Coincidence: I actually just for-the-first-time watched Prometheus, Proto. So okay, it's fun to see what led up to Alien... and there was a number of threads here, I felt—it had the feel of a series of vignettes, compactly put together. I loved that it was so thoroughly scifi, both in its world-creation; and without apologies as it tells its story, eschewing traditional Hollywood-ish arcs/formats/character development/etc. But all in all, no be-all/end-all. Oh, The Happening? Meh. A lot of intriguingly interesting set-up that then gets boring when it goes to stay at a farm for most of the pic, if I remember it correctly—like Looper? Also, a meh. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
And can someone explain why Guy Pierce was in that role? His lousy old-man make-up took me completely out of the movie, second only to the lousy look of the "Engineers." What, they couldn't find a real old guy to play the Weyland Corp. founder? (Peter O'Toole would have been inspired!) | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.24.62.55 |
I'm dying to see 'Prometheus' again with all the promised extra footage on the DVD. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.24.62.55 |
The only Shyamalan film I really enjoyed was 'Unbreakable'. All the rest of his "famous" ones are heavily flawed and nowhere near as clever as they think they are. 'Signs' was probably the worst of those I've seen. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
I loved that PRO was an unapologetic sci-fi film. I just wish it was a good one too. The medpod scene still works very well, though. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
I think you're right, Craig, about sci-fi having a major resurgence on the big screen. There's such a wealth of untapped ideas in the literature. DECADES of thought, all sitting òn silent yellowing pages, just waiting to ignite again. |