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The Happening - +
Easily Shymalan's most underrated movie so far; I mean this movie gets so much crap for no reason, to me at least. I loved it, sadly I think I'm in the minority with this one. There were some things that I didn't like, for example some parts seemed too rushed. Like the: "we lost contact with everyone" line, I mean that had real potential to be a very ominous feeling line; even though I still think it was, it was sort of ruined by a quick cut to another line by Julian. This really does have one of the best, if not the best, ominous feeling score that I've ever heard. The score really added a lot to this, some scenes wouldn't have nearly been as great without James Newton Howard's score added to it. It's like that for quite a bit of Shymalan's movies, actually most of them wouldn't be nearly as great without Howard's score.
One of the main complaints that this movie seems to get is from the acting. I personally think it's pretty great, at least for the main actors, the minor character's could've done better. Wahlberg, Deschanel, and Leguizamo did a really great job for the most part. Leguizamo especially, I mean right when he was leaving the rest of the group to go to Princetown, when he's saying goodbye to them, his acting really seemed to shine. There were some characters that I wish would've been in the movie more, like the real estate agent for one; I mean the dude seems to just disappear and he's never seen in the movie again, and never really implied if anything ever happened to him. This movie is truely shocking for what it shows though; I mean the stuff that they show in this could happen at any time. Which is the main thing that freaks me out about this; for all I know, something like this could suddenly happen tomorrow, with the way our enviroment is looking. Shymalan made a crisis that's going on now, and made a movie to show what could possibly happen beacuse of it, and I get it. This movie is truely great, and I honestly don't see why people just seem to automatically hate it so much, but then again, a lot of people just seem to hate Shymalan in general for some reason. Personally, he's one of my favorite director's, probably in my top 3.
Easily Shymalan's most underrated movie so far; I mean this movie gets so much crap for no reason, to me at least. I loved it, sadly I think I'm in the minority with this one. There were some things that I didn't like, for example some parts seemed too rushed. Like the: "we lost contact with everyone" line, I mean that had real potential to be a very ominous feeling line; even though I still think it was, it was sort of ruined by a quick cut to another line by Julian. This really does have one of the best, if not the best, ominous feeling score that I've ever heard. The score really added a lot to this, some scenes wouldn't have nearly been as great without James Newton Howard's score added to it. It's like that for quite a bit of Shymalan's movies, actually most of them wouldn't be nearly as great without Howard's score.
One of the main complaints that this movie seems to get is from the acting. I personally think it's pretty great, at least for the main actors, the minor character's could've done better. Wahlberg, Deschanel, and Leguizamo did a really great job for the most part. Leguizamo especially, I mean right when he was leaving the rest of the group to go to Princetown, when he's saying goodbye to them, his acting really seemed to shine. There were some characters that I wish would've been in the movie more, like the real estate agent for one; I mean the dude seems to just disappear and he's never seen in the movie again, and never really implied if anything ever happened to him. This movie is truely shocking for what it shows though; I mean the stuff that they show in this could happen at any time. Which is the main thing that freaks me out about this; for all I know, something like this could suddenly happen tomorrow, with the way our enviroment is looking. Shymalan made a crisis that's going on now, and made a movie to show what could possibly happen beacuse of it, and I get it. This movie is truely great, and I honestly don't see why people just seem to automatically hate it so much, but then again, a lot of people just seem to hate Shymalan in general for some reason. Personally, he's one of my favorite director's, probably in my top 3.