Even worse than the horribly idiotic Lady In the Water - glorious!

Rating: 1/10 (18 November 2008)

I won't delve too terribly deep into the point by point idiocy of this most idiotic of movies - other commentators have done a fine job. I was stimulated to put my own brief comments down after seeing The Crappening, and even registered with the IMDb solely for that purpose. I think I need some kind of purging.
Not too terribly long ago I decided Lady In the Water had to be the worst movie I'd ever seen. Lady In the Water was a masterpiece compared to the moronic The Happening. Of course, we all know there are far worse films, but Shyamalan's bad movies are unique in their affect. One responds to them in a very peculiar way - what is it? Probably his blend of ballooning pretension with a directly inverse diminishment in his capabilities.
I went to the DVD Special Features for some kind of explanation of the goings-on, and found the Making-Of feature. Expecting everybody involved to demonstrate awareness of the film's idiocy, I was shocked to find everybody in complete earnestness, especially Shyamalan. But there were cracks in the edifice - in some takes of a scene in which Wahlberg grabs a shotgun barrel to force it away from the teenager who in fact gets blown away (which was blessed), you finally see that he knows this film is terrible, but it's too late to cut loose.
Only if Shymalan is satirizing himself are his films redeemable. But he doesn't seem to be - unless of course, to appear to no be doing so may be part of the genius.