No Sex, Please.
June 15th, 2008 by screenwriterguy
So a group of friends and I go last night to the premiere of the new M. Knight Shyamalan movie, The Happening. In my mind, each of his movies has been successively less worthy than the last, but I figured he hit rock bottom with Lady in the Water, so how bad could it be, right? Plus, the trailers looked pretty cool.
At last the trailers end, but the projectionist has cued up the wrong movie. Empire State Building, sure, the movie starts in New York, but instead of the suspenseful music we’re expecting, we’re greeted by a familiar, stylized Latin rhythm…
They’re playing the Sex and the City movie instead. Normally, no big deal, they fix the movie and order is restored, and all I’ve lost is ten minutes of my life. Hell, I can make ten minutes go away surfing back and forth between a few informercials. However, I don’t want to see the Sex and the City movie, because I haven’t watched the series yet. And what is the first ten minutes of the movie? Backstory from the series! My best la-la-la-la fingers-in-ears couldn’t sufficiently keep the dolby surround from revealing that someone decided to be Jewish and marry a bald guy, and somebody has the man she’s been chasing show up in a limo. Booooo.
By the way, The Happening was weak. It’s time for M. Knight to focus on his directing, because his writing is going to ruin his chances of making any more movies.
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