The other day I watched M.Night Shyamallamaperson's The Happening. Now very few movies have very literal meaning titles, and this is one of the very few. The key word here is "happening". You are going to be using that word a lot when you watch it. Those of you who have wasted your money watching it in the cinema, or those who cleverly downloaded it and watch it for free, would know what I'm talking about.

Let's begin.

First off, M.Night Shyamallamaperson has a very distinctive style in writing. His catch phrase is "What a twist :D!" Yes the giant grin at the end is part of it. Gives the catch phrase the UMPH when he says it after people read the story. He probably says it after he finishes writing. And he says it with pride and gusto to himself. Sad to say though, his stories are getting worse since his two great movies, The Sixth Sense and The Signs. There was a period of time in history called The Great Disappointment. Now, this was not as significant as The Great Depression. But still, it was a very disappointing time. This was during the release of the movie, The Village. It was such a let down when the "What a twist :D!" moment happened in the movie. Those of you who did not see The Village, I shouldn't spoil it for you but I will anyway -the monsters were the leaders of the village.

So on to The Happening. Basically the story is about this wind that comes and everybody stops what they are doing, and then they kill themselves. And the survivors are just running from the east of the country to the west which isn't infected. That is all you know through out the movie until the "What a twist :D!" moment. Remember me saying that you'll be using the word "happening" a lot while watching the movie? This is why. You'll be going "what's happening?" through out the entire movie. Some of you might think that M.Night Shyamallamaperson is a genius because then you'll be interested and captivated. But you'd be so wrong that you'd feel you have failed in life. It is annoying because you would just be confused and the person next to you would keep asking "what's happening?" At least in The Village there was a proper story built around the twist. So you would know what's going on, but you would still want to know about the monsters. If you are still thinking of watching The Happening because you like the warm feeling you get when you're confused and annoyed and also probably because you're those that need to watch the proceedure on how to fasten your seat belt on the plane, I wish you lots of luck in your life. Those that still want to watch it because you are a genius and can spare to lower your IQ, I advice you to watch the beginning bit , go off and do other stuff that you need to do, and come back for the end for the "What a twist :D!" because the world will need every IQ point you have to compensate for those that fall into the fore mentioned duhhhhhhhh criteria.

Or you can just read this spoiler - the plants are angry with the humans for destroying the earth and so they release a chemical into the air to make the humans kill themselves as revenge.


Also, the movie has made me realise that I wasted an hour and a half on it.







P.S. Why do all of M.Night Shyamallamaperson's movie titles have to be The something?







-not jacob (What a twist :D!)

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