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Monday, June 23   10:19 PM

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I saw The Happening last week. If you were thinking about watching it, I'd recommend waiting until it's on TNT on a Sunday afternoon and you've got absolutely nothing else to do. Only the bit parts seem to have been properly cast; the dialogue and the plot are literally unbelievable. There are a few nice set pieces — it seems like you can always count on M. Night Shyamalan for that — but not nearly enough of them to salvage the film.

And it's frustrating, because there's a better movie in there somewhere. I think it got left in the park.

There were some cool trailers attached to The Happening. I want to see the new X-Files movie because it looks good, and Wanted because it looks ridiculous. However, I'm not sure that I could see either movie in the theater without getting annoyed by my fellow moviegoers.

Library movie rentals are still free, so on Saturday I watched Man of the Century, which doesn't completely succeed either. But at least it had a cool premise (a 1920s movie character in a modern film) and some intentionally funny moments.



Dan, are you serious? Nothing is more scary than wind in trees with ominous music...nothing.



Not even Mark Wahlberg's interpretation of a science teacher?



Can The Happening be redeemed in anyway? Perhaps with excessive amounts of mockery and/or alcohol?



As a fan of "bad-good" movies and experienced drinking game creator, even I can't think of a way to make this movie half decent.

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