Now, Em Knight Charlatan is renown for making a world class movie named The Sixth Sense, and since then his films have gone from bad to worse.
Take his latest offering: The Happening. Now, being born in 1970 I'm too young to know the ins and outs of Hippies (oo-er!), but as far as I'm aware 'a happening' is where a bunch of hippies get together for free lovin' and drugs and psychadelic prog rock moonbeamery.
And not a single hippy is present in the film! Well, you could at a push include the Hot Dog goofball as a possible contender as a super-dense proto-hippy, but there's no trippy out happening at all!
I guess there is a bit of a hippyish undertone to the movie, albeit an unbelievably laughable one. Still, the comments from those around were bountiful - ranging from "well, that was shit" to "well, that was shockingly shit".
After watching "The Happening", it places "Signs" and "The Village" into the category of being Really Good.
S'pose I'll just have to get my fix of free lurve from www.Hippies-On-The-Job.cum
Or something...
