(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
gabe: How can Mark Wahlberg be destroyed? lindsay: Mark Wahlberg cannot be destroyed. lindsay: He has been so hardened by the mean streets of South Boston. gabe: he is invincible! gabe: he should have been destroyed so many times gabe:... CONTINUE READING FRIDAY FIGHT: WHAT COULD DESTROY MARK WAHLBERG?»
Posted on October 10, 2008 in
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Tags: Bonnaroo | Boogie Nights | Donnie Wahlberg | Fear | Mark Wahlberg | Nine Inch Nails | The Happening
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
When it comes to goofs (which is what IMDB calls movie mistakes), The Happening is a special case because the entire movie makes no sense. IMDB's goofs tend to be about visible boom mics and unsubstantial continuity errors, which are... CONTINUE READING THE GOOFS ARE IN: 5 LOGIC MISTAKES IN THE HAPPENING OTHER THAN THE ENTIRE PREMISE»
Posted on June 19, 2008 in
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Tags: The Happening
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
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 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
The early review on of M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening on collider made the blog rounds yesterday in no small part due to this comparison: The closest comparison I can draw is to Neil LaBute's Wicker Man and, like that... CONTINUE READING M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN, AS WITH EVERYTHING SHITTY HE DOES, WEARS HIS CHOKER UNAPOLOGETICALLY»
Posted on May 16, 2008 in , ,
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Tags: M Night Shyamalan | Mark Wahlberg | 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
