{"id":43,"date":"2008-06-16T23:08:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T03:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/?p=43"},"modified":"2008-06-16T23:10:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T03:10:38","slug":"the-event-happening-was-an-assault-on-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/2008\/06\/16\/the-event-happening-was-an-assault-on-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Event Happening was An Assault on Acting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to like the Happening.\u00a0 I liked Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, while I was luke-warm on the Village and didn&#8217;t care much for Signs.\u00a0 I heard rough reviews of The Happening, but thought that might help.\u00a0 Usually low expectations help me a lot with movies.<\/p>\n<p>My number 1 problem was the acting.\u00a0 Most reviews I&#8217;ve read point that problem at Mark Wahlberg, but I think Zooey Deschanel was at the center of this acting storm.\u00a0 Everyone in this movie was 1-dimensional and stereotypical. The one character with 2 dimensions was full-on schizophrenic (the old lady).<\/p>\n<p>Ebert&#8217;s review of this made the case that there wasn&#8217;t enough action for Summer movie-goers, but he liked it anyway.\u00a0 I like movies with simple settings, and low action.\u00a0 But cheesy dialoge and no-character depth?\u00a0 This was the ugly love-child of War of the Worlds and Cloverfield.<\/p>\n<p>The one sequence I liked (I&#8217;ll try to write this in a spoiler free manner&#8230;).\u00a0 The news conference, to the personal events in Philedelphia, to the sequence in France.\u00a0 I thought this was a pretty clear message about people&#8217;s reactions to the &#8220;Event&#8221;, and what the consequences of those reactions were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to like the Happening.\u00a0 I liked Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, while I was luke-warm on the Village and didn&#8217;t care much for Signs.\u00a0 I heard rough reviews of The Happening, but thought that might help.\u00a0 Usually low expectations help me a lot with movies. My number 1 problem was the acting.\u00a0 Most reviews [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}