It’s been a while since we had a post about famous mobile phones, so here goes, as mobile phones have been spotted in the M. Night Shyamalan film, The Happening.
Oh, and I’ll warn anyone reading this, right now, this post does contain spoilers, although, to be frank, they won’t spoil your enjoyment of The Happening as much as actually watching the film itself will ruin your enjoyment of it…
That should give you an idea of my opinion on it…
Ever since I saw The Sixth Sense, I’d been a fan of M. Night Shyamalan, an opinion cemented further with Unbreakable and the masterfully-scary Signs. However, then, it came to The Village, and it all went a bit wrong. And now we have The Happening…
Is there any way I can unwatch it, please? Still, at least it had mobile phones in it. Well, an iPhone. Showing someone getting killed to death by lions. It’s odd, really, that I was sat watching a film, waiting for a mobile phone to show up, just to stop the tedium on screen. I didn’t even mind that it was a first-gen iPhone, and therefore couldn’t have received and played the video it did in the film, making a mockery of the whole thing…
The plot, in case anyone’s bothered, is that an unseen force, some kind of neurotoxin, starts affecting people, who then start topping themselves. About halfway through the film, we find out the agent of this catastrophe.
Not terrorists.
Not aliens.
Plants.
I shall hereafter call this film Revenge of the Daffodils…
To be fair, though, there could’ve been some mileage in that, with an invisible threat that could strike at any minute, and the sheer terror of people committing mass suicide. In the end, though, there isn’t, because it’s rubbish, plodding along at a pedestrian pace, with only the ‘ooh, look, mobile phones!’ moment to keep me engaged.
And that ending… the evil killer daffodils leave you alone if you all just get along and love one another?
Oh gawd, here come the hippies…
By some bizarre by-products of eating too many Twiglets and Starburst whilst watching it, Technical Markus has come to the baffling conclusion that the Revenge of the Daffodils apocalypse was actually CAUSED by the iPhone. He says to buy a Samsung i900 Omnia instead, lest the dandelions rise up and attack us.