Ooh, It’s A Trailer For The Happening By M. Night Shyamalan!
Chances are if anyone asks you about films you're looking forward to seeing in 2008, you'll say Iron Man or The Dark Knight or even - if you're weird - A Quantum Of Solace.
What you probably won't say is "that M. Night Shyamalan film about the plants that make people kill themselves." But tough shit, because here's a trailer for that movie anyway. It's called The Happening, it opens on Friday 13 June, and there's no way on Earth it can be as bad as The Lady In The Water, right?
Well, let's just hold our horses about that, shall we? The trailer for The Happening shows a bunch of people committing suicide for no reason - which just happens to be a fairly similar scenario to what we all started doing when we heard that M. Night Shyamalan was making another movie.
What evil spirit is causing all these deaths in The Happening? Well, it's plants, obviously. The plants are doing it. Hopefully that's not the big M. Night Shyamalan twist in The Happening, otherwise we've spoilt it. But, yeah, it's the plants.
To me, “Lady in the Water” is one of the best films of the last decade. Because. As an adult fairy tale it tells truth about our lost human social capacities which we need to regain if mankind is to survive.
The title would appear to be a dig at the people who saw Signs and hoped, justifiably, that he would be banned from making any more films, orat least appropriately punished if he did.