Uzique The Lesser wrote:
ahahahaha. "if you enjoy m. knight shamalalalalalalaololman" should be one of those phrases that instantly generates canned-laughter.
he is one of the worst directors of all time.
Agreed 1000000%. (Someone screenshot that)
There were several scenes in The Happening that were bad simply due to bad directing, whats more, I had never seen bad directing be THAT obvious before. He actually made decent actors seem like their last gig was an inner city school play of Cats. There were two scenes that stood out in my mind.
The first being when the train stops and Marky Mark walks up to the conductors and asks them where they are and they reply "Filbert, Pennsylvania" to which Mark replies "WHY ARE YOU GIVING ME ALL OF THESE USELESS PIECES OF INFORMATION, JUST TELL US WHATS GOING ON!!!". It's like the two shots didn't go together or Shymamalamalan had cut out a scene where more dialogue had happened leading up to that out burst.
The second being when Marky Mark finds the abandoned truck in the middle of a field and turns on the radio to hear a journalist speculating that it could be a leak at a nuclear plant causing the deaths. The other people in his group are at least 50 yards away and couldn't have heard that radio, yet in the next scene when they are in the house Zooey asks him if he really thinks it could be a leak at a nuclear plant. How did she know that? If she didn't, why would she randomly bring it up in the NEXT scene. Bad directing.