The Interweb works fucking fast, we all chew ’em up and spit ’em out. Yesterday Collider wrote an early review of scary director M. Night Shyamalan’s latest fright-fest “The Happening,” and now that film officially has bad buzz. The perception is set in stone and nothings going to change that short of a miracle (see “The Incredible Hulk” and how they steered the negative buzz rather effectively in the last few weeks, though it’s not clear if the film is out of the woods yet).
So in what looks like a counter-programming move, a bunch of “The Happening” scenes have been released to Yahoo trailers to perhaps correct the negative trajectory of yesterday. The movie clip itself is terrible and laughable, but what’s even worse is M. Night himself has to fucking introduce the clips and his giant-sized ego grates and grates as he pontificates away on how awesome he and his idea are and how very-scary his new film is.
I’m a genius and you know that other brilliant idea I was writing? Well, this one is even better!: “It’s a movie that came to me all at once with this horrific end of the world idea. And it felt so exciting that I immediately threw out what I was writing and I starting writing this new movie!” he says off the top clearly pleased with himself. We should all be so blessed.
He compares his own work to “The Godfather” and “The Exorcist,” or at least this is what he was aspiring for. “I’m making my first R-rated movie – it’s the scariest movie I’ve ever made,” he says with that, “No, seriously,” look. What the hell is going to say, “It’s actually not quite as scary as I hoped.”
Apparently, there’s a “lot of taboo” in the film (??) and you’ll seriously shit your pants according to the director of the film who in no way is a biased about the genius work he’s just created. M. Night walks you through exactly how you’re going to feel. After all he knows…
“There’s a lot of taboo in the movie which really is a very scary moment to see that you go, “I’m not really going to see this am I???’ and then you see it! And you’re just shocked, you’re mouth is hanging open! When we screened it for the first time people came out of the theater so shaken and they just stood outside holding their arms. And I was like, ‘This is good!’ ”
Thanks, buddy. We feel soooo connected to this film and what it’s all about now, we feel like we don’t even need to see it!