| Posted by: psycheoutsteve at July 1, 2008, 10:01 pm | | Topic: The Happening Forum: JoBlo | | This film is made more disappointing for me because I know Night is capable of delivering a brilliant script with well written dialogue. The Happening seems like it was written by a middle schooler who was rushing his creative writing assignment. Usually, all of Night's movies have at least one or two scenes of standout acting or dialogue. For instance, in Signs there is a scene where Merril and Graham are talking in the dark after a shocking television broadcast and the message of the movie is embedded in the dialogue. I thought the dialogue in that scene was thought provoking, emotional, and funny when it needed to be. It gave me chills just listening to it, as did almost every scene in the Sixth Sense. It indicated that a clever man with a talent for film making was pulling the strings behind those movies. This man seems to have disappeared during The Happening because all the heart and talent from his previous films have vanished. What's even more disappointing is that James Newton Howard, who usually delivers brilliant scores for Night's films, has his talent wasted here on a pathetic B-movie without any heart to it. He isn't able to conjure up anything memorable because he isn't given much to work with. Revisiting Night's previous works only emphasizes this point because each score was so different, yet equally haunting and emotional. The scores reflected Night's captivating filming style. I'm not sure if he was nominated for best score at the Oscars for any of those films, but he should've been. Night needs to concentrate on directing other people's scripts until he finds true inspiration again and is able to give us another movie that digs deeper into the human soul than The Happening. It just sucks because The Happening could've been a decent flick with a good message/premise to it, but Night's effort was slapdash. I was so angry with this film at first because I waited patiently for 2 years for Night's next film. Now I'm just disappointed, but calmed and still waiting patiently for the Night's next original work. It's going to be a longer wait this time... |
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