{"id":1022,"date":"2008-06-14T09:03:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T14:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:32","slug":"it-simply-aint-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"It Simply Ain&#8217;t &#8220;Happening&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what the critics are saying about M. Night Shyamalan&#8217;s latest movie <em>The Happening<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a &#8220;woeful clunker of a paranoid thriller.&#8221; <em>&#8211;The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>&#8220;The Happening<\/em> deflates from its grisly, early promise to repetitive images of people running through fields, the unlucky ones suddenly stopping, then searching about for convenient ways to do themselves in.\u201d <em>&#8211;The Associated Press<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Shyamalan\u2019s throwback horror flick plays like <em>The Birds<\/em> meets <em>The Blob<\/em>; it\u2019s beyond good and evil. It&#8217;s dumbfounding.&#8221; &#8212;<em>The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWhat a bunch of nonsense\u2014effective nonsense, chilling nonsense, occasionally wrenching nonsense, but nonsense nonetheless.\u201d <em>&#8211;Village Voice<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cHere\u2019s a movie trivia game I wish I didn\u2019t have to play. Is there any major director who has made six consecutive films, each one markedly inferior to the one before? A case can be made that the answer is M. Night Shyamalan.\u201d <em>&#8211;Time<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;It pains me to say this because I have always been an M. Night Shyamalan fan. Heck, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=250\">I even defended him on <em>Lady in the Water<\/em>.<\/a> But here&#8217;s the  &#8220;inconvenient truth:&#8221; This movie totally reeks. It&#8217;s a flick that <em>only<\/em> Al Gore could love. The plot fizzles and falls flat after the first intense 15 minutes; I was ready to leave, but I was concerned that people would think I was scared (I wasn&#8217;t&#8211;I was bored out of my gourd).  The scenarios are implausible, the dialogue is wooden and stilted, and Mark Whalberg&#8217;s                 flat, expressionless performance is an insult to geeky high school science teachers                                         everywhere. Please, if you value your hard-earned money whatsoever, save the $9                         and go see <em>Kung Fu Panda<\/em> instead.  If M. Night Shyamalan was hoping to resuscitate his flagging reputation with this film,                 I&#8217;ve got news for him: It simply ain&#8217;t &#8216;happening.'&#8221; &#8211;Mike the Eyeguy, <em>Ocular Fusion<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p><!--014763951a74f58ea64360077d6439be--><br \/>\n<!--014763951a74f58ea64360077d6439be--><br \/>\n<!--ed9f7ab4cf29affa8e0d3d790a64b6c6--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what the critics are saying about M. Night Shyamalan&#8217;s latest movie The Happening: a &#8220;woeful clunker of a paranoid thriller.&#8221; &#8211;The Wall Street Journal &#8220;The Happening deflates from its grisly, early promise to repetitive images&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-the-happening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9393,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/9393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}