bad thing about The Happening is the part of Zooey Deschanel , she made her part way too cute for creepy condition..

remember when the cellphone rings ans she just stared at it with funny big eyes??? She disturbing me with all that expression.

Wrong actress, that is.

All he has to do is get some humility and not insist he write the screenplays. He’s a good shooter but was a one trick mule as a writer with the twist ending.

Agree! Shyamalan is an excellent Director, but a piss-poor writer (except for Sixth Sense, of course). He just too proud and rich to admit it. I saw ‘The Happening’ and it was pretty bad. The dialog itself killed it!

I too like Unbreakable the best — as an origin story of a superhero (ahead of the curve as it turns out, since Batman Begins and the latest Superman flick came afterwards) it’s not been bettered.

Both the original Batman & Superman (the Michael Keaton & Christopher Reeve versions, respectively) came out way before Unbreakable. However, Unbreakable scores major points as the story of a non-comic book based superhero. Sam Raimi’s Darkman (1990) is the only other one that I can think of, though it is arguable whether Darkman is a superhero.

After the disaster that was Lady In The Water, I will watch Happening only on inflight, when I can’t do much else & I don’t need to spend money on the movie. It is his first R rated movie so airlines may not even show it Also, the R might explain the movie’s good BO performance (male 18-34 demographics apparently love violence & gore on screen!).

Peter Bradshaw of Guardian compares Night to Ed Wood Jr. Now that’s scary!

Also OT, I was recently thinking of Night’s The Village when reading about Somini Sengupta’s story on a gated community in Gurgaon in NYT where contact with the outside world of servants & tradespeople have been severely curtailed.

The discussion about the mysterious death of bees is actually an interesting topic in itself and which I guess probably motivated Shyamalan to make this movie (?). In any case it is now being debated in academic circles that the death of Bees is probably due to an alien virus.

Latest news indicates that Shyamalan’s inspiration was scientist James Lovelock’s research work

Scientist James Lovelock first published the outlines of the “Gaia” hypothesis, which suggests that Earth’s flora and fauna are interlocked to systematically moderate conditions in Earth’s atmosphere to make the planet more hospitable, a controversial idea best known from his 1979 book, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth

the New York Times was just positive enough

This movie was too beyond that NYT’s movie critic to properly review it.