The Happening

I'm a HUGE fan of M. Night Shyamalan. I've liked every one of this movies I've seen which are ...

• The Six Sense
• Unbreakable
• Signs
• The Village
• Lady in the Water
• The Happening

I'll see Wide Awake as soon as it's available on NetFlix. I've also seen Stuart Little but I don't really include it. It feels like when Kevin Smith did Mallrats after Clerks just to make the studio happy so he could go onto make the films he wanted.


I only saw one trailer for The Happening and it did not reveal how everyone was dying. That was the big draw for me ... the big mystery I wanted to solve. Although this movie is like 20% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, I still loved it. I disagree with the reviews and thought this movie was very scary and liked the performances.




I was creeped-out big-time for about a week. One of the reasons why I this movie was so scary for me was because I kept putting myself in their place while watching it and wondering what I would do. If the toxins hit me, how would that feel and how would I kill myself? Of course that would depend on what I was doing at that moment.







This movie kind of reminded me of the comic book "Y The Last Man" where all the men die on Earth by some mysterious sickness. I was reading that comic when I saw the movie but in the movie, everyone on Earth is affected. No one is immune.





I'm wondering if it would be possible to save someones life if they were affected by the Toxin. Maybe the toxin would wear off after time. I'm reminded of that scene in Million Dollar Baby where she tries to kill herself by biting her tongue off and bleeding to death. Even if you were to immobilize someone, they still have that option. You would have to put them under sedation.

But it would be interesting to talk to them to see what they are thinking. In real life there are people that hate certain body parts and want them removed like this man who destroyed his own leg so it would be removed.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1299501.ece


If our brains can hate a body part, certainly they can hate the entire body and want to die. People get suicidal so it's not so far fetched that we could make a chemical that would make someone suicidal.

I saw this movie over a week ago and I'm still obsession over it. It really got to me. The world would be a scary place if this thing were ever real in any shape or form.

Iron Man

I collected comics from like age 10 to 20. Beyond age 20, I stopped collecting but to this day I still buy and read comics. I was never into Iron Man although I did collect Iron Man from about 1980 to 1982. During those years, I mainly remember that Tony Stark gave up being Iron Man and his friend Rhodey Rhodes took his place. So it was a weird time to get into Iron Man since the only time I saw Tony Stark was passed out drunk in a hotel somewhere. He was pretty much useless.

A long time before the movie came out, I discovered that Iron Man was the favorite super hero of my friend. He told me about the upcoming movie and told me why it was so cool. He slowly pulled me into being an Iron Man fan for the first time.


The one thing that excited me about the upcoming Iron Man movie was perhaps seeing different versions of the suit and how each version was flawed and how Tony Stark would upgrade and improve. Some of my favorite scenes is when Tony Stark is alone in his lab testing his suit. I love when his bickering with his AI fire extinguisher and when he accidentally flies over his expensive cars.






One that that really impressed me is how Tony Stark is drilled into that suit. You get the impression that if something goes wrong, he's not getting out of that suit without a lot of help. And without power, there is no way he could move that suit. It is HEAVY DUTY! I never got that impression from the comic book. It always seemed so light weight in the comic but I'm sure it was heavy duty in the early days of Iron Man and evolved into a light weight suit.

In reality, the technology to create such a suit does not exist. It could never fly as far as it did. The propellant needed would weigh thousands of pounds. Somehow this new power source he's invented powers the suit and we have to suspend disbelief and just go with it.

I'm a big fan of Robert Downey Jr. Although I saw Weird Science, I didn't notice him just like I didn't notice John Cusack until later. He was on SNL, but again, I missed him. I love the movie Back to School, but I don't remember him in that. The first time I really noticed him was in the movie Less than Zero where the movie seemed to parallel his real life. His performance really stuck with me. He did a bunch of movies after that I missed then he was amusing in Air America with Mel Gibson. I missed is next few movies then I saw in Chaplin and he was brilliant. I saw Short Cuts but I don't remember him in that. Then he blew me away in his performance in The Natural Born Killers. Later I saw him in US Marshall's which was good but the performance that totally blew me away was in Wonder Boys. That is my favorite performance of his.

I used to watch Alley McBeal but I stopped before he joined the cast. I don't remember him in Gothika. Then he was in Iron Man and had a cameo in The Hulk. I saw a preview for Tropic Thunder and he looks brilliant in that.

I look forward to Iron Man 2 and 3 as well as the other super hero crossover movies he might be in as Tony Stark.


I want to see Iron Man a second time before it leaves theaters. I think it's funny how the plot of Iron Man seemed to parallel the Hulk in that they both had a Nemesis that was like them but bigger and stronger.

I'm happy that Robert Downey Jr. got his act together. I honestly thought he was going to be dead by now from a drug overdose. He was certainly heading in that direction and it seemed like he kept going back to rehab and could not kick his drug problems. If he died, I'm sure he would be replaced by another actor for Iron Man but nobody can fill his shoes.