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randall 
"I like to watch."
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 Posted - 10/10/2008 : 11:31:03
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Just saw it on DVD. There are some unsettling moments in New York at the top, but when Zooey gave this vapid Stepford reading to a ludicrous line that her character would never say, something like "This could be the end of life on earth," at about :30, I gave up hope. Not even Betty Buckley could save it. Unlike the underrated THE VILLAGE, Night's reveal here was top-loaded. There was nowhere for the movie to go.
Congrats to him from a production standpoint, though: the monster's special visual effect required nothing more than a big fan.
I agree with my Brit friends who protest the cut. But take it from me, there was no net effect to the [fairly tame] bits of graphic violence; you would have walked out of the theater feeling exactly the same way about the picture. It's THE BIRDS, only ham-handedly executed. |
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The Happening -spoilers
