Bonesnap

Ok, I went and saw the  M. Night. S.  movie the other night: The Happening. I was on a forum where people were bashing him because this movie didn’t live up to his other movies (a.k.a. the kick ass ending). 

He’s made some good movies in the past and to be judge by those movies is kind of unfair.
Each movie is different in its own way and a director (and writer) can’t guarantee that his movies will be a hit. Just ask Tarintino about his last movie endeavor. It blew.

Anyway, I’m a big movie buff and seen all of his other movies except Lady in the Water (but I will). I didn’t rush to the movies to see this flick. I was told it was scary by some friends so I decided to see for myself.

For the first few minutes it was pretty intriguing. Then, like the SAW flicks, it got old. Don’t get me wrong, creatively coming up with way to off one’s self I guess is a daunting task. Yet…it get’s old.

So, I wasn’t a big fan of this movie. It could have been a lot better. It was more like a sci-fi original movie fodder. It was painfully slow, way to much ‘emotional’ crap between the actors, and stupid decisions like “Here watch my kid because I care more for my wife than my kid. I know my wife is old enough to take care of herself and my child isn’t yet I’m going to abandon her to your care anyway. Also, since I’m a mathematician I know that I have a %68 chance of finding her the next town if I don’t die a horrible death first.”

Well, it wasn’t quite like that but dang near close enough.

Now, if the rude old lady (Betty Buckley) was causing it… that would have been cool. There were way too many subplots and just plain weird people.

I am going to make a generalization here, women in general find anything scary. The women who I talked to said this movie was totally scary and they had to cover their eyes the whole time. You watch it and be the judge; I thought it was kind of soft myself.

In the past two weeks I’ve seen this movie twice. Not because it’s a good movie (which it was) but because I just had the opportunity to go twice. I really like the movie. It and Ironman, so far have proved to be very good Marvel movies. The story is not related to the Hulk movie that was produced by Ang Lee. This movie story line is a variation of the T.V. version The Incredible Hulk. It even had cameos by Lou Ferrigno and Bill Bixby even though I didn’t see the cameo spot by Bill Bixby. Over all, Bruce Banner is hunted by General Ross so he can exploit the power of the Hulk. Along the way, a new threat is introduced: The Abomination. Which leads to a fantastic fight in N.Y.

I have to give the director credit, he was able to show so much feeling and emotion through the facial expression of Bruce Banner and the Hulk that you didn’t need sit through a dance number like in Spider Man 3 or listen to constant whining. It was well directed movie and worth the money for a ticket.

On a side note: if my memory serves me correctly; Betty Ross (Banner’s love and the General Ross’s daughter) was a strong willed woman in the comics. In the movie they made her sappy cry bag. However, I guess it had its place since it would piss the Hulk off enough to help her out.