(This week, we're highlighting some of our favorite Videogum posts / video-related moments of 2008. So that's why things look different, and are old, this week. And Happy Almost New Year!) Originally posted on Videogum on June 16, 2008. Lindsay... CONTINUE READING A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND BLOGS: THE 9 FUNNIEST THINGS IN THE HAPPENING»
Posted on December 29, 2008 in
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Tags: M. Night Shyamalan | Mark Wahlberg | The Happening | Zooey Deschanel
Here are three more of those "famous directors made ads for John McCain" spoofs. Diablo Cody/Jason Reitman, David Lynch, and M. Night Shyamalan this time. You know, I want change and everything, but this is getting exhausting. If I post... CONTINUE READING TO QUOTE BARACK OBAMA, "ENOUGH!"»
Posted on October 29, 2008 in ,
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Tags: David Lynch | Diablo Cody | Election 2008 | John McCain | M. Night Shyamalan
Does anyone care that The Happening came out on DVD today? The little movie that couldn't about vengeful plants that caused human suicide seemed vaguely relevant back in June but is totally silly now, and not just because of the... The Happening'">CONTINUE READING ENJOY: MARK WAHLBERG'S "COUGH SYRUP" SCENE FROM THE HAPPENING»
Posted on October 7, 2008 in
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Tags: Coachella | Faces Of Death | M. Night Shyamalan | Mark Wahlberg | The Happening | Zooey Deschanel
Look, it's no secret that I feel about M. Night Shyamalan the way that vampires feel about stakes being driven through their hearts. DO NOT WANT. (That meme actually came from vampires in relationship to getting killed.) But I'm really... CONTINUE READING SHYAMALAN TO PUT HIS HEAD UP SOMEONE ELSE'S ASS FOR A CHANGE»
Posted on July 22, 2008 in
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Tags: M. Night Shyamalan
This is not a spoiler, because it's in any cursory description of the film, but The Happening involves plants and the wind that connects them and nature striking back at man for overstepping his bounds. There are a lot of... CONTINUE READING WAS THE HAPPENING INSPIRED BY GRIZZLY MAN?»
Posted on June 17, 2008 in
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Tags: Grizzly Man | M. Night Shyamalan | The Happening | Werner Herzog
Lindsay and I went to see M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening yesterday. It was truly an epic FAIL, although to be fair, the people who turned around in their seats and yelled at us "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU LAUGHING... CONTINUE READING A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND BLOGS: THE 9 FUNNIEST THINGS IN THE HAPPENING»
Posted on June 16, 2008
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Tags: M. Night Shyamalan | Mark Wahlberg | The Happening | Zooey Deschanel
M. Night Shyamalan pulled on his gym shorts and pushed his socks down so they bunched at his ankles, just over the lips of his high-tops. He looked at himself in the mirror. Mesh tank-top, check. Leather choker with a... CONTINUE READING YOU CAN MAKE IT UP: M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN CHALLENGES ALFRED HITCHCOCK TO A GAME OF ONE-ON-ONE»
Posted on June 12, 2008 in
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Tags: Alfred Hitchcock | Basketball | M. Night Shyamalan
Entertainment Weekly has an interview with M. Night Shyamalan this week in the run-up to tomorrow's release of The Happening. The interview mostly focuses on Lady in the Water, and I mostly focus on this: But I love that movie.... CONTINUE READING SOMEONE SHOULD SET M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN'S HOUSE ON FIRE»
Posted on June 12, 2008 in
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Tags: Lady In The Water | M. Night Shyamalan | The Happening
Look, it's hard to make movie posters. It's probably the hardest job on Earth. People in Darfur are like "If I had to choose between suffering genocide and creating movie posters, I would defini-[gun shot]." What's happening in Darfur is... CONTINUE READING THE ONLY THING LAZIER THAN M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN'S FILMMAKING IS HIS PHOTOSHOP»
Posted on June 10, 2008 in
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Tags: M. Night Shyamalan | The Happening
Citizen Marketing is where we catalog our favorite baby-Banksy agit-prop defacements of public advertising campaigns. Please send your own Citizen Marketing to tips@videogum.com. THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TUMBLR'D! (via copyranter) We haven't received any Citizen Marketing in a few weeks,... CONTINUE READING CITIZEN MARKETING: THE HAPPENING»
Posted on June 3, 2008 in
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Tags: M. Night Shyamalan | The Happening
In retrospect, it's actually kind of funny how much I disliked M. Night Shyamalan without having seen Lady in the Water. Let's just say that the way that I hated him before was like a racist who'd never heard of... CONTINUE READING THE HUNT FOR THE WORST MOVIE OF ALL TIME: LADY IN THE WATER»
Posted on June 2, 2008 in
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Tags: Bryce Dallas Howard | Grammys | Lady In The Water | M. Night Shyamalan | Nicole Kidman | Paul Giamatti
In the lead-up to the release of his new movie, What's Happening?, M. Night Shyamalan battled his self-proclaimed press shyness to talk to the New York Times this weekend. The article is mostly about the infamous split with Disney over... CONTINUE READING M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN IS FREE TO BE YOU AND ME»
Posted on June 2, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Hollywood | M. Night Shyamalan | The Happening
As if I could get any more not at all excited about M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, now I see this: HAHAHHAHAHA. No, lady on the street, "this is not good." I'm glad to see that when critical reception to... CONTINUE READING M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN'S SPOOKY IMPROV EVERYWHERE RIP-OFF»
Posted on May 30, 2008 in
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Tags: Improv Everywhere | M. Night Shyamalan | Mark Wahlberg | Suicidal Ideation | The Happening | Zooey Deschanel
There's a new international poster for The Happening, you guys. I think all the sites that have been claiming that the surprise twist at the end is SPOILER ALERT a neurotoxin created by trees and nature to extinguish humans because... CONTINUE READING THE HAPPENING INTERNATIONAL POSTER IS GARBAGE»
Posted on May 21, 2008 in
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Tags: Lame | M. Night Shyamalan | Mark Wahlberg | The Happening | Zooey Deschanel
Just in case you thought M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening looked horrible, but might not be gross enough, red band trailer: I don't know why, but this red band trailer makes me laugh. "Claire?" It's spooky and gross and everything,... CONTINUE READING THE HAPPENING RED BAND TRAILER: CAN I GET A RIDE TO THE SUICIDE PARTY?»
Posted on May 19, 2008 in
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Tags: John Leguizamo | M. Night Shyamalan | Mark Wahlberg | Suicidal Ideation | The Happening | Zooey Deschanel
New trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, you guys: I know that it's really easy to make fun of M. Night Shyamalan, and that he's up in his mysterious mansion made of whispers and tin foil laughing at us... CONTINUE READING M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN'S THE SPOOKY WIND CELL PHONE DISEASE»
Posted on May 2, 2008 in
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Tags: John Leguizamo | M. Night Shyamalan | Mark Wahlberg | Spooky Mysteries | The Happening | Zooey Deschanel
In this clip from the new season of Reno 911! (via CC Insider), best comedian ever Patton Oswalt guest-stars as a film snob who, after getting hit by a car, spends what could be his final moments arguing with Dangle... CONTINUE READING PATTON OSWALT IS A FILM SNOB TO THE DEATH»
Posted on April 29, 2008 in
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Tags: Ben Garant | M. Night Shyamalan | Patton Oswalt | Reno 911! | Tom Lennon
