The Happening - (it's never happening, but talk about it if you want)

[MatthewJamesMcNaughton 11]

I bet you anything that if we made a topic on Zooey's site hellogiggles she would come on the show and trash this movie.

[wakefresh 689]

It looks the people have spoken! The Happening is crushing it right now on FYI. Damn, y'all really hate this movie.

[seanotron 2307]

It looks the people have spoken! The Happening is crushing it right now on FYI. Damn, y'all really hate this movie.

 

I feel like The Happening really hated its audience, so turnabout is fair play.

[BagguhMcGuirk 104]

I think this has already been suggested but now that it seems like this is definitely going to happen I'd like to repeat it, Werner Herzog has to be the guest. I know they don't do characters on HDTGM but it seems like all of Herzog's podcast appearances have been leading up to doing this movie.

[KokiSuperFairyGodmotherPicos 12]

Look I don't know if you guys heard about this article in the New York Times about honey bees vanishing...but I just watched this movie because it's doing really well on FYI and if you guys don't do this one than I just watched the Birdemic of wind for nothing.

 

Did Mark Whalberg always have the acting skills of a porn star or was it just for this movie?

[BagguhMcGuirk 104]

 

Did Mark Whalberg always have the acting skills of a porn star or was it just for this movie?

 

In the right hands Marky Mark can be a pretty good actor, Boogie Nights and The Fighter being the best examples, but in the wrong hands you get his performance in The Happening. While Wahlberg deserves some of the blame the director is usually responsible for this type of performance. Hayden Christensen is a good actor but if you only went by the Star Wars prequels you'd think he was a no talent hack and it's all due to Lucas not understanding how human beings interact with eachother.

Same goes for this one, M. Night must have liked what Whalberg was doing and when you're not that great of an actor as long as the director is happy there's no reason to change anything.

 

I recently looked at the top critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and saw a number of them mentioned what a good performance Marky Mark gave, does anybody here think he did a good job?

[PhillipMedoc 648]

In the right hands Marky Mark can be a pretty good actor, Boogie Nights and The Fighter being the best examples, but in the wrong hands you get his performance in The Happening. While Wahlberg deserves some of the blame the director is usually responsible for this type of performance.

I agree with you that most of the responsibility lies with the director but I've never seen Mark Wahlberg act in any role other than slight variations of Marky Mark. This is perfectly acceptable in something like Boogie Nights but I'm not willing to say that he's a good actor. Christopher Plummer is a good actor. Shit, Ron Perlman is a good actor. I think even Vin Diesel is a better actor than Marky Mark.

 

And he sucked in The Happening, although all parties are at fault there.

[seanotron 2307]

The only thing I ever liked Mark Wahlberg in was I Heart Huckabees, which is a movie most people hate.

[PhillipMedoc 648]

The only thing I ever liked Mark Wahlberg in was I Heart Huckabees, which is a movie most people hate.

I saw that in the theater and legit liked it. I thought Naomi Watts was great in it. Worth seeing for Dustin Hoffman's hairpiece alone.

 

Tension was pretty fuckin' high on that set, apparently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMVILMo1Cq0

Skip to 2:00 if you just want to see David Russell going full on asshole mode.

 

Huh, I just realized he's directed Marky Mark several times. But again, all variations on a theme.

[BagguhMcGuirk 104]

I agree with you that most of the responsibility lies with the director but I've never seen Mark Wahlberg act in any role other than slight variations of Marky Mark. This is perfectly acceptable in something like Boogie Nights but I'm not willing to say that he's a good actor.

 

And he sucked in The Happening, although all parties are at fault there.

 

After I made my post I almost deleted that I thought he was an alright actor. You're spot on with why he was fine in Boogie Nights and I think Bale's performance in The Fighter made me like Wahlberg's performance more than I normally would have. Another role he was alright in because it's a Marky Mark type role is Basketball Diaries.

 

As far as M. Night goes, I can't wait to see what kind of performance he gets out of Jaden Smith.

[seanotron 2307]

I saw that in the theater and legit liked it. I thought Naomi Watts was great in it. Worth seeing for Dustin Hoffman's hairpiece alone.

 

Tension was pretty fuckin' high on that set, apparently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMVILMo1Cq0

Skip to 2:00 if you just want to see David Russell going full on asshole mode.

 

Huh, I just realized he's directed Marky Mark several times. But again, all variations on a theme.

 

Yeah, that set fight was infamous. There's another video where they're all in a car and O'Russell & Tomlin are going to town on each other while poor Dustin Hoffman looks like he just wants to crawl under a rock and hide.

 

Though Tomlin said later she'd still work with him again so no hard feelings I guess.

[seanotron 2307]

This is the one

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4uTGvTFzyQ

[robinsbruce 4985]

This is the one

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=n4uTGvTFzyQ

 

GEEEEEZ. Poor Hoffman. Literally in the middle of a shit-storm. That's hard to watch.

[JustinL 216]

What the hell? Around the time that video was released, Michael Showalter and Paul Rudd did an homage on The Michael Showalter Showalter.

 

[BorisMelvin 5]

Birdemic had a more coherent environmental message than The Happening.

[KokiSuperFairyGodmotherPicos 12]

 

In the right hands Marky Mark can be a pretty good actor, Boogie Nights and The Fighter being the best examples, but in the wrong hands you get his performance in The Happening. While Wahlberg deserves some of the blame the director is usually responsible for this type of performance. Hayden Christensen is a good actor but if you only went by the Star Wars prequels you'd think he was a no talent hack and it's all due to Lucas not understanding how human beings interact with eachother.

Same goes for this one, M. Night must have liked what Whalberg was doing and when you're not that great of an actor as long as the director is happy there's no reason to change anything.

 

I recently looked at the top critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and saw a number of them mentioned what a good performance Marky Mark gave, does anybody here think he did a good job?

 

I had to ask, the only thing I can remember Mark Wahlberg in was The Italian Job and Four Brothers. Everytime Mark spoke in The Happening, I got uncomfortable...you know like when porn actors speak.

 

Also, I think Zooey Deschanel is very pretty but in this movie she just looked disgusting.

[BorisMelvin 5]

Why was M. Night ever allowed to direct another movie?

[PhillipMedoc 648]

Why was M. Night ever allowed to direct another movie?

Domestically he's been going down but worldwide he still makes dollah dollah bills.

 

 

I guess Lady in the Water was a real piece of shit. Someday I'll have to check it out. I remember working at Borders at the time it came out; he also wrote a children's book to accompany the movie that was also -- coincidentally -- a total piece of shit. He put himself in the film as a fucking magical genius Mary Sue artist, as well as creating an asshole film critic who immediately was killed as a "fuck you" to all the bad reviews he got for The Village.

[JustinL 216]

He put himself in the film as a fucking magical genius Mary Sue artist...

 

An artist who is informed he will be martyred just for expressing his beliefs.

 

 

...as well as creating an asshole film critic who immediately was killed as a "fuck you" to all the bad reviews he got for The Village.

 

Who no one mourns for or even notices is gone.

 

Petty, masturbatory crap.

[sillstaw 414]

creating an asshole film critic who immediately was killed as a "fuck you" to all the bad reviews he got for The Village.

 

My favorite part about that (which I think I identified in a thread for "Lady in the Water") is that everybody blames him for misassigning some role or something, but all he did was identify the roles that needed to be filled, and really it was Paul Giamatti's character who misassigned it. Giamatti, of course, gets no blame and lives happily ever after.

[NikoEstevan 5]

Paul: "And as always I'm joined by cohosts June Diane Raphael"

June: "Hey Paul!"

Paul: "And Jason Manztoukas"

Jason: "What's happening..."

 

EVERYONE: THE HAPPENING

[inactiveuser501 168]

5 pages in and not a single soul has talked about John Leguizamo's character? UNACCEPTABLE.

[wakefresh 689]

I saw that in the theater and legit liked it. I thought Naomi Watts was great in it. Worth seeing for Dustin Hoffman's hairpiece alone.

 

Tension was pretty fuckin' high on that set, apparently:

Skip to 2:00 if you just want to see David Russell going full on asshole mode.

 

Huh, I just realized he's directed Marky Mark several times. But again, all variations on a theme.

 

Damn, he's raging hard on her. I wonder if he was like that on the set of "Three Kings"? Cube would've lit his ass up.

[robinsbruce 4985]

Clooney apparently almost got into a fist fight with him on three kings set. Check the interwebs for better detail.

[wakefresh 689]

 

GEEEEEZ. Poor Hoffman. Literally in the middle of a shit-storm. That's hard to watch.

 

 

Though it is funny when she told Hoffman and Huppert to go fuck themselves. I smiled at that.