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2008-06-15 Home Front: Culture Wars
The Happening -- "The Most Morally Abhorrent Film Ever Made"
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Posted by Mike 2008-06-15 08:37|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 I see washed up directors...
Posted by john frum 2008-06-15 10:57||   2008-06-15 10:57|| Front Page Top

#2 I hope so, but we won't be that lucky.
Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-06-15 11:44||   2008-06-15 11:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Green Fascists want to solve the Jewishhuman question.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-06-15 11:55||   2008-06-15 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 I've never been able to endure any of this joker's flicks. By the way, how bad must his first name be, if going by the middle name of "Night" is preferable?!?? I think his parents hated him, now he hates himself (and everyone else).
Posted by Scooter McGruder 2008-06-15 12:10||   2008-06-15 12:10|| Front Page Top

#5 we'll either have to manage our population growth

It's called Socialism. Shown remarkable success in reducing population growth. In fact it has shown the ability to depopulate future projected tax serfs tax bases.
Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-15 12:13||   2008-06-15 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 The toxin is first emitted in Central Park,

Ie n ot that far from Ground Zero. Am I the only one who thinks this is one of those "Why they hate us?" or "Jihadi good, America bad" movies.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2008-06-15 12:34||   2008-06-15 12:34|| Front Page Top

#7 I saw "That Happening" Friday night.

It ain't "Happening."
Posted by badanov 2008-06-15 12:40|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org]  2008-06-15 12:40|| Front Page Top

#8 By the way, how bad must his first name be, if going by the middle name of "Night" is preferable?!??

His actual name is
Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan

Posted by john frum 2008-06-15 12:54||   2008-06-15 12:54|| Front Page Top

#9 I thought "Unbreakable" was awesome. An allegory for the unused and hidden talents we all have within us.

Everything else? At best, a meh.
Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2008-06-15 13:51||   2008-06-15 13:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, mine was mistranslated from Tibetan into English, for the longest time. They couldn't figure out whether it meant "big-ass monster" or "big-assed monster."
Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-06-15 14:14||   2008-06-15 14:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Entertaining review, but I never planned to see the movie (or any horror/slasher-type movie) anyway.

I've had the living bejesus scared out of me for free more than once - I'm sure not going to pay someone to do it.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2008-06-15 14:31|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2008-06-15 14:31|| Front Page Top

#12 To get entirely serious for a minute, I am extremely tired of this dirty little religion that MNS and the other Hollywierdians have been pushing on the country and the world for what seems to be my entire lifetime.
Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-06-15 15:12||   2008-06-15 15:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Whatever man has done to the environment is vastly overshadowed by natural phenomena such as the ice Age(s), etc. do. There is a kind of arrogance in the environmental movement regarding the influence of man. There is also a kind of self-loathing in the environmental movement that tends to denigrate man.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-06-15 18:07||   2008-06-15 18:07|| Front Page Top

#14 What did you guys think of Cloverfield?
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-06-15 18:08||   2008-06-15 18:08|| Front Page Top

#15 The number of new movies I've seen in the last decade could be counted on the fingers of both hands with some spares. I'm so disgusted with Hollyweird and their damnable leftist idiocy I simply can't stomach watching most of it. The sooner those bastards go bankrupt, the better, because they're truly hurting our country.

It's even worse in the eyes of the rest of the world. If all I knew of America was what I saw from U.S. movies and TV, I'd hate it too.
Posted by Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707 2008-06-15 18:22||   2008-06-15 18:22|| Front Page Top

#16 I haven't seen the movie myself, but I'd talked wid a familiar adult restaurant patron whom had and claims he wasn't impressed by the film. He personally rated the movie a "C" or "C-", and proclaims the best part was a scene where a man wilfully layed himself down on the ground and was run over by his own 4-Wheeled grassmower.

PROMO FOR THE NATIONAL VOLUNTEER SUICIDE MOVEMENT???

I would like to compare THE HAPPENING wid the original MATRIX [Keanu Reeves], aka WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE EARTH LOSES GRAVITY [K.jumping building to building, Windows, Walls, etc. like Superman].

D *** NG IT, WOMAN, THE GIRL'S IN LOVE WID A DEAD PLANT [man]!
Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-15 19:23||   2008-06-15 19:23|| Front Page Top

#17 Supposedly, Joe, the suicides were caused by a neurotoxin emitted by trees and carried by a convenient dramatic wind.

I think this bodes ill for Shyamalan's next movie.
Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-06-15 19:31||   2008-06-15 19:31|| Front Page Top

#18 Are the makers of THE HAPPENING trying to tell OWG MADONNA + GOD that when the Japanese torpedoed Madge's Daddy and the Battleship OKLAHOMA at PEARL HARBOR, THE JAPANESE = NAGUMO'S PLANES TORPEDOED A FARTY/GASSY FLOWER PLANT!

W *** T ** H*** IS GOING ON IN THIS WOT!

Not unlike LAW-AND-ORDER's JACK MCCOY = SAM WATERSTON thinking its a GENERATIONAL THINGY when his ADA Charater finds RAP MUSIC
"INCOMPREHENSIBLE" as perLW episode, THIS WOT IS GETTING HARDER TO COMPREHEND EVERY DAY???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-15 19:35||   2008-06-15 19:35|| Front Page Top

#19 I'm sorry, the new translate button didn't help with the latest post.

Can someone help, or pass it around?
Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2008-06-15 19:42||   2008-06-15 19:42|| Front Page Top

#20 They aren't making films entirely for the U.S. market any more, JosephM, but for the rest of the world. Their last several anti-war films bombed horribly here, but I don't know how they did abroad. If poorly, then market reality will catch up with the unthinking idiots in Hollywood. If well, we'll be subject to more such nonsense.

On the other hand, we saw Don't Mess With The Zohan last night -- very cute, very silly, and very pro-U.S. and the American Dream.
Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife  2008-06-15 21:31||   2008-06-15 21:31|| Front Page Top

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