What’s Happening? “The Happening”. Ugh.

And the early award for most ambiguous, least affecting title of 2008 goes to: M. Night Shyamalan and his upcoming film The Happening. Due out this very summer (wow!), it stars Mark Wahlberg as a man trying to keep his family together during a natural crisis affecting life on the planet. That crisis apparently in some part involves turning people into lemmings. Here’s the trailer, go ahead and watch it, I’ll wait for you.

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Kind of reminds me of 2002’s Suicide Club (Jisatsu Saakuru), that Japanese horror film that opens with like 50 Japanese school girls holding hands as they all jump in front of a train. But maybe that’s just me. Either way, M. Night Shamalan gets a lot of grief from people, so I’ll cut him a break and say that Mark Wahlberg was a good choice at least. Oh, and that Zooey Deschanel too. Someone told me there was talk a long time ago about casting her as Harley Quinn in the The Dark Knight. That might’ve been a little too perfect for my simple mind to handle.

Anyways, while you wait for M. Night to wow you with another wild twist this summer or simply try to find some way in your mind to get excited about this film, why don’t you go watch The Sixth Sense or Unbreakable again and hope that M. Night manages something close. He’s trying to make you happy people, he’s really trying.