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Don't got see "The Happening" *spoiler alert*

You don't really need to know anything else.

But, really, dont go see it.

It's awful. Just awful.

All the excitement you see on the trailers come across as bland and silly in the movie.

Even the lawnmower rolling over a guy comes across as cheesy and not the least bit scary.

Mark Wahlberg delivered his ridiculously sub-par dialogue with less enthusiasm than Corey Feldman on a reality TV show. (and I like Markie Mark! Or at least I did.)

And, for reasons I have yet to understand, you can see the microphones in almost all of the scenes of the movie. I'm sure this is some sort of statement, I just haven't been able to figure out what the statement is.

The movie itself is a rather obvious political statement: We are killing the planet, so, in essence, we're killing ourselves.

The main characters are stuck in the middle of Pennsylvania. And it was sort of interesting that they were on their way to Harrisburg, but they never made it to York, which would've been sort of cool.

The most horrible part about this movie is that I wasted 20 bucks and two hours sitting through it.

And, for the record, I am NOT hard to please. My favorite movies are "Goonies" and "Ghostbusters."

Enough said.


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