I really doubt M. Night meant this to be a joke. It's true that he's directed some amazing films, but he has the most hit or miss track record I've ever seen, and he also made The Last Airbender and After Earth. When I hear he's in charge of a new project I'm completely torn between excitement and dread 😂
I still watch his movies because at least he has "interesting" ideas even if the movie is not a big hit. Can at least get a laugh out of the absurdity 😂
“Mark Wahlberg admitted that he regrets working on this movie, but said, "You can't blame me for wanting to try to play a science teacher. At least I wasn't playing a cop or a crook."”
“At least I wasn’t playing a cop or a crook.” Both roles that would actually suit him considering his past with hate crimes. How does no one know about him nearly killing two people?
@@mellissaredman4243 I'm sorry, but is there anything remotely recent? Those things happened when he was a LITERAL TEENAGER in the 80s in BOSTON. Context fucking matters and people absolutely are different than they were after 20 years. If you have nothing recent to discuss, get a fucking life. You must not have any real problems of your own if you're pressed about others and have time and wherewithal to post about it online..
So the plants only attacked people who gave off "bad vibes" and the mood ring was to show you that Markie marks character gave off "good vibes". or so I read, also the hotdog guy said something about the plants knowing who is good or bad or something....not like this makes it make much more sense lol Edit: also I believe the bees disappearing was a sign that humans are destroying the earth hence why the trees/wind started unaliving people
So like that teenage girl on the phone who rambled to her mom about calculus was actually a b****? Or that teen girl in a car who was crying in terror at the dead people hanging from trees? Damn, what a menace. Plants are really unreasonable and judgemental.
@@frenchfryequeen I doubt plants would view each person through a moral set of values, just plant survival ones. He was nice to them, so should have lived...
As an ecologist I enjoyed this film immensely. Shamylan has also added a lot of known science, like ppants responding to positivity, plants being able to release communicative pheromones to signal to other relatives (look up acacia and giraffe), plants evolving to defend themselves or manipulate other species etc etc, I liked it, plants can fuck us up.
This. I think some of M. Night Shamylan's movies flop because he has a hard time communicating things that might not be common knowledge. They spoonfed a lot of info to the audience using the news but not the info about plants releasing stress pheromones to warn surrounding plants about a danger. You'd think it would be obvious that info would come from the nursery gardeners or the science teacher. The whole Convo about how plants can tell if you are a good person or not could have been converted to "I saw in the news a few months ago that...." And the whole movie would have made a lot more sense to people who don't read past headlines or science news (which is sadly the majority of people)
The thing I never understood about this movie is they act like you can just.... get away from air? As if being inside a house surrounded by woods saves you from the neurotoxin in the air? A little hole in your car means the air from outside is getting but if it wasn't getting in you would suffocate... make it make sense.
There is an article that was in Entertainment Weekly where Mark Wahlberg said that "It Was a really bad movie that I did." He said he didn't want to say what the movie was but then said: "The Happening, F*ck it. it is what it is. F*cking trees, man. The plants. F*ck it." He said he took the role because he wanted to play a science teacher.
@@Amused_Comfort_Inc Yep. It's a great example of a self-fulfilling prophecy; his performance ensured that he'd never be cast as a science teacher again.
@@Amused_Comfort_Inc literally the only thing he did related to being a science teacher was use the scientific method which I learned about in detail more than he even said in the movie in 6th grade intro to science so honestly he played an okay person & a shitty science teacher
I’m just thinking about all that trauma the little girl went through. She lost her mom and her dad and has to suffer having marky mark and Zooey Deschanel at adoptive parents.
People can make fun of this movie all the want but honestly, the scene where she walks up to Mark and says something to him and then she falls in his arms while they both cry…that shit gets me every time. That moment feels so genuine to me.
I’m so upset that they wanted to die together but faced each other so when the happening happened they would be walking away from each other. Just face the same direction. Of all stupid things they did this bothered me the most
Fun fact, I'm in this movie. At 8:37 where the students are evacuating I'm the one with that obnoxious pink backpack! Lol I loved this video. You're awesome
@@cristianacevedo178 it got banged out in a day, but we all had to be there veeeery early in the morning. But it felt very low stress. Pretty much just nailing the shot of everyone going down the stairs
It’s 1987 on a Friday night. My family has rented a bad movie like this one, and a pizza with snacks from the grocery store. Someone plunks the vhs tape into the vcr and we proceed to immensely enjoy ourselves. That’s what these kind of movies are made for!
You would be drunk within the first 5 minutes of this video if you used "The Happening". What would "happen" is you would hugging a toilet by the end of the video.
When I watched this movie I was so confused, but as soon as the guy said “Cheese and crackers!” I was convinced this movie was actually a M. Night Shyamalan version of a comedy. And it makes sense because all of the actors have been in some really funny comedies. It even funnier that it’s so serious lol. I can’t be convinced otherwise.
@@TarynRMartin was it for real..?! Now I'm like, ohh okay I loveEe parodies esp dark, kinda super smart and biting social commentary types ya know? But THENNN: wait what is this parodying? Climate change & that kinda jus happening orrr ha I'm LoSt I'm bouta slip into the rabbit hole if Jamie doesnt tell us what's HAPPENNNNIINGG here by the end lol 🤞🏽
I just found this channel today because I was watching the latest upload from one of my favorite TH-camrs, Nick DiRamio, and someone recommended a possible collab between him, and Jamie in the comments. So, I decided to check her out, and boy am I glad that I did. She is great, been binging her stuff for hours now, love how she edits herself into the movies. I hit that subscribe button less than five minutes into the first one. Great stuff. * If you're into a 20 something year old, NYU film school grad, reviewing everything from "365 Days", to "Camp Rock", or "Halloweentown", to Lifetime/Hallmark movies, then you definitely need to check him out. I promise, you won't regret it.
I absolutely LOVE the movie Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny. I thought most people liked it as well. Turns out it's considered a bad movie. Me and my son both love it. Also...Burlesque is also up there on my favorites. Apparently it's considered bad as well. I had NO idea...lol. If you think The Happening is the best...then it's the best. Keep enjoying it
No reason to be embarrassed. People get to like what movies they like. No apology, no regret. Life is much sweeter that way. You can also enjoy the movie, and also a funny review which shreds it… all at the same time. It’s like the pineapple on pizza fight. There aren’t food police. Eat what you like, and be pleased for others to do the same. 😊
My mom and my aunt went to see this when it released. They legitimately forgot the name of the movie after seeing it and have called it “It’s Raining Men” ever since.
Did you see that funny clip with the song edited into the beginning scene?! I accidentally clicked on it and died when it came to that part. I think of it every time I see it now. 😆
I get the whole bee thing! The reason that bees have been dying out is the use of neurotoxins on crops which is why they put that in there to parallel what is “happening” xx
I’m going through a very hard time right now. Severe depression. Your videos have gotten me through it when I feel most low. This is one of my favorites and I watch it a lot. It always makes me laugh. Thank you for your content.
I don’t know what you were going through but I hope it’s been getting better. I’ve been going through alot too and Jamie’s videos have been a comfort to me. You’re not alone in coming here to be with your goofy online best friend that can make fun of movies with you ❤️
When it first came out I went to see this in theater and there was a fly walking across the projector the whole time and it took us way too long to tell if it was part of the movie or not.
You did NOT just say ''died laughing'' when thousands and millions people die for real... Overusing this expression in times of pandemics is CRINGE AF, almost as the Happening
I read somewhere that Wahlberg said he would ask for directions about certain scenes and his character, but M. Night would say to just act serious and nothing else lol, I think that explaines a lot
There's this channel on here run by a biologist who breaks down different movie sicknesses and things like that and he actually did a pretty in depth explanation of what may be Happening. It's a pretty interesting video! The channel's called Roanoke Gaming and he also thought it was a really stupid movie XD
@@Amused_Comfort_Inc how is "large swaths of bees are dead" not a metaphor for the plants killing off large swaths of humans. As in, by misrepresenting colong collapse disorder as "mysterious" it hints at nature producing a mass death event that will be used on humans. Not saying it was done well or incorporated properly but it's there.
A neuro-toxin could, I guess, effect each person differently. Since each person is different in how their nervous system is wired. But I like how the plants seem to be actively attacking humans. I mean…the concept is fun.
Saw this in theaters and remember at the time people didn't even realize how bad this was until later on. At this point in Shamalon's career people were still very optimistic about his talent bc he hadn't reached full on whacko yet, but was getting there. We all for whatever reason gave him the benefit of the doubt and took this for what it was, even if the ending "reveal" was utterly ridiculous.
Not in the US. There are other pollinator insects that can take over the bees niche. The honeybee is actually invasive and was brought over from Europe. There are over 4,000 species of native bees and many many species are not affected by the bee die off. But friendly reminder: don't use pesticides & while you're at it, don't use fertilizer. Fertilizer because it harms amphibians who breathe through their skin.
Ok, but when Mrs Jones was all ‘you’re gonna murder me in my sleep’ abs Mark was like ‘what? No,’ it reminded me of some of the reactions I’ve had with my confused, older patients. They’ll be like ‘you’re gonna stab me with a fork!’ And I’m like ‘what? No…’
same oml. like ik they teach us not to engage with someone in the throes of dementia, but i try to dignify with SOME response. idc if they forget right after; our job is to make them comfortable and safe, and i don't want anyone left to steep in frankly terrifying delusion & no reassurance for ANY amount of time
I absolutely 100% remember seeing a clip during filming where Wahlberg is questioning Shyamalan about why they are going in houses if the food is likely tainted (or something like that) and Shyamalan snaps about “canned food” or something but it was ages ago and I can’t find it anywhere 😭 Something tells me Marky Mark knows stuff was sounding a little stooopid
My dad showed me this movie when I was about 8 years old (I used to watch horror movies all the time from a young age-) and honestly I still love this movie. It's shitty, sure, and weird, but it has so much nostalgic value for me lmao
Tbh, this movie really freaked me out as a kid😆 It used to pour rain where I lived, & you could literally watch the grass stand back up once the rain stopped. Some would pop up faster than others, & some would have a slow ascend. It was weird to witness, so when this movie came out, I was in total belief plants could say f*ck you guys, & release a chemical to f*ck with us. Now that I'm older, I feel like this could've been executed 100x better.
I actually remember reading an interview with Shyamalan back when this movie came out. He said he wanted to make a bad B-Horror movie, like the ones from the 50s. So, he wasn't necessarily trolling, but this movie is exactly what he wanted it to be. I feel like, because he had already made Signs and Sixth Sense and The Village, etc, people thought he was taking himself really seriously with this movie, but he wasn't.
Makes sense. But didn't he direct it himself? I figured it was meant to be more melancholy and super dark. Either way the art direction and post prod totally screwed it up.
He was lieing he did this movie to precondition society with what's to come. .. the "plandemic" and "social distancing"... I.e. gov't tyranny and total control i.e. social conditioning society for what's to come
I saw this movie in theaters with my husband and some of our friends when it first came out. We were all talking about it after we left the theater, saying how ridiculous it was and how nothing made sense. One of our friends said he didn’t get what it was supposed to be about, my husband and I tried to explain, but then our other friend said the stupidest thing: “it’s about friendship. Their friendship fixed the happening.” And he was totally serious.
This is genuinely one of my favorite scary movies of all time. Because the concept is very new and has never been done before, and there are bits and pieces of truths in it via how plants communicates and how plants are sentient.
This was always my theory too. Like some people just got real ding-y and weird and others started self harming/dying. I felt like it was a precursor to the actual "happening"
Even if you select the air recirculating switch, some amount of air from the outside will get into the car. It's useful if you're passing by a pig farm and you don't want the smell. But it's not a biohazard protection system 😂😂
In college, I did a series of experiments with 2 botanist involving plants. There have been lots of these experiments through the years, and the findings are usually the same. We gave our plants the same amount of food, water, and light. However, for half of them we played nice music, we talked to them, and said nice things, and for the other half, we yelled at them, and said mean things to them. The ones we treated like crap, died, and the ones with all the positive reinforcement thrived. So the premise of this movie was good, but the execution wasn’t great. It wasn’t the worst movie in the world! The thought of a species rising up against us, because we treat it like crap, is not only terrifying, but not completely improbable. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@shanac5536 We don't even ignore them, we murder them to make paper. But all the other trees are just chill with that I guess? I often wonder if some of these "we talked nice to the plants" experiments don't account for differences in sunlight, since if you're yelling at one plant it can't be placed close enough to the other plant for the "loved" plant to hear the yelling, right? Not saying I don't believe it, but I'd like to see it replicated with trees and other types of flora. Maybe only some react? Maybe non-trees react because they have a shorter lifespan? idk.
u think that maybe unconsciously u were just genuinely taking better care of the ones you were being nice to, and it was u receiving the positive reinforcement?
@@astroboystanI assume that a college professor can manage to make sure the plants are physically treated equally (same amount of water, plant food, pH, whatever…) and such. If it was a homemade experiment, that seems fair enough to ask, but I assume that a professor educated to teach full grown adults these subjects can manage to set a schedule and get measuring cups.
PS, the heavyset woman in the blue shirt in the group scene (when they’re on the phone with the girl who sees in calculus) was Christina Crawford as a little girl in another absolute classic “Mommie Dearest”. Which would be AMAZING for you to do Jaime!!!
there is a really cool pod cast called “how did this get made” thad dissects bad movies. My husband and I watch bad movies based on this podcast on a regular basis. I have seen some doozies!
The mood ring is a nod towards the plants are effected by the mood of those around them. I feel like M.Night ws trying to make an English Teachers cream in their pants movie. All this symbolism that is an absolute reach.
I love when you insert yourself in the film, its my favorite. Especially when it takes me a minute to realize it's not in the movie, that's you! The hot dog scene made me belly laugh! " I even drink the water"
You should do a review of the movie Christine. It's literally about a car that falls in love with its teenage owner and then tries to murder his girlfriend. It's great lol
christine.. the book.. is EPIC. the movie is okay.. would have been great at the time. jaime would probs like it cause of the behind the scenes on how the car was done etc
Stephen king is my favorite author the fact that they completely ruined the movie still irritates me the book was so much better thats why with his stuff I'll always prefer the book over the movie
It's the middle of the night and I'm nursing my baby who is sleeping and I keep laughing at this video and scaring the crap out of her... Thanks Jaime! 🤣
The Happening was like a turning point for Shamalan's career I think. Before that point he was mostly well regarded, and while Lady in the Water wasn't great, it was at least more low key about its badness, and it was more the weird that stood out in that movie which acts as a bit of a smoke screen. People who still wanted to think he was a good director could dismiss it as just being too weird for them, rather than bad. With The Happening it was all bad, and in your face with it, no excuses. The premise, the presentation, the acting, everything was bad. And then from that point Shamalan wasn't seen as a "good but a bit strange" filmmaker anymore. Even his older stuff was viewed with more criticism after that point. And then not long after, The Last Airbender permanently solidified his status as a Bad Director to most people.
@@rachel-lou3318 YES. You get the MVP award for the day!! And I feel ashamed because Twister is one of my favorite movies ever, but his character's name always escapes me!! Thank you!!
Jaime inserting herself into the movies always has me dead 🤣🤣🤣 you need to check out They/Them by Wes Craven.. my cousin who was terrified of scary movies actually laughed at the first one. Total waste of our time!
I have watched this so many times. Your commentary in this has become like a comfort watch. And if TH-cam just randomly starts playing it after another video I watched, I can’t help but finish it. My kids love it, too. We joke a lot about eyeing lemon drinks. :)
Why didn’t they just head to a desert? I mean... problem solved!?
There are plants in the desert 😎
@@zoezzzarko1117 the arctic is a desert
@@heatherlynn4652 ok 😎
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You've never been to the desert have you. There are plenty of plants and a shit ton of wind.
I’d like to thank the academy, and the person who decided crickets were a good sound effect for awkward moments.
Jamie you should check out the Peanut Butter Solution.
Great video 💚
You should check out "Stepsister from planet Weird" it is so bazaar. It is a 2000 Disney channel original movie.
You seriously need to watch My Best Friend's Wedding with Julia Roberts. Watched it the other day and it is just cringe.
Lol Jaime check out The Baby Sitter’s Club movie 😂 that was the most cringe 😬 movie that ever cringed 😂
Please do Earth Girls Are Easy!!! Check out the cast list including Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, so weird and amazing
Matt Damon and Katy Perry are so good in this movie!
Underrated comment. 😂
This needs to be pinned😂
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Terrible casting lol
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No one:
Zooey Deschanel:👁 👁
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That's like her permanent face tho... No matter the movie, no matter the situation she's got a *perma-deer-in-headlights* look 😳😳😳
Her sister can act. Why can't Emily teach Zoey?
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@@CandaceStevens 🤣
I really doubt M. Night meant this to be a joke. It's true that he's directed some amazing films, but he has the most hit or miss track record I've ever seen, and he also made The Last Airbender and After Earth. When I hear he's in charge of a new project I'm completely torn between excitement and dread 😂
Yes!!!
Yeah I think he just used that excuse after the fact to try to justify why it was so bad 😂😂😂
I still watch his movies because at least he has "interesting" ideas even if the movie is not a big hit. Can at least get a laugh out of the absurdity 😂
I feel both lol
@@dazem8I honestly love his movies.
Agreed. He’s a storyteller and that’s very lacking in movies. This wasn’t good but it was hilarious lol
Zooey Deschanel's default acting style is to just make her eyes as huge as possible.
Lmao
My mother and I both can't stand her. She IS her hair 🙄🙄
Yeah she’s a terribly actress. She’s only famous because she’s thin and conventionally attractive lol
She's the WORST.
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I convinced my mom to let me rent this movie when I was 11 because I thought Zoey Deschanel was Katy Perry LMAO
😭💀 we have Katy perry at home 🥴
Holy shit 😂 same though
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“Mark Wahlberg admitted that he regrets working on this movie, but said, "You can't blame me for wanting to try to play a science teacher. At least I wasn't playing a cop or a crook."”
“At least I wasn’t playing a cop or a crook.” Both roles that would actually suit him considering his past with hate crimes. How does no one know about him nearly killing two people?
@@mellissaredman4243 literally looking for a comment like this
Bs he gets away with it
@@mellissaredman4243 whaaat? I had no idea. Hollywood hiding famous people’s crimes, and acting like they’re no big deal, is disgusting.
@@AyshaLovesYou absolutely. He even attempted to get a pardon 😒 Literal school children were victims in one of the crimes.
@@mellissaredman4243 I'm sorry, but is there anything remotely recent? Those things happened when he was a LITERAL TEENAGER in the 80s in BOSTON. Context fucking matters and people absolutely are different than they were after 20 years. If you have nothing recent to discuss, get a fucking life. You must not have any real problems of your own if you're pressed about others and have time and wherewithal to post about it online..
So the plants only attacked people who gave off "bad vibes" and the mood ring was to show you that Markie marks character gave off "good vibes". or so I read, also the hotdog guy said something about the plants knowing who is good or bad or something....not like this makes it make much more sense lol
Edit: also I believe the bees disappearing was a sign that humans are destroying the earth hence why the trees/wind started unaliving people
but why would the plants kill the plant guy.......maybe its cause he was a creep🤔
@@frenchfryequeen hahah most likely, he was a peeping Tom after all
So like that teenage girl on the phone who rambled to her mom about calculus was actually a b****?
Or that teen girl in a car who was crying in terror at the dead people hanging from trees? Damn, what a menace. Plants are really unreasonable and judgemental.
So, would you say he had…
Good Vibrations?…
Can you… feel it, feel it?
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@@frenchfryequeen I doubt plants would view each person through a moral set of values, just plant survival ones. He was nice to them, so should have lived...
The one thumbs down is from the head of schools.
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Vanity Plates 😂😂😂
Or Marky Mark
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@@natashahartlen5411 it could be. It could be from his same facial expression he makes.
That Jennifer Coolidge impersonation had me FLOORED 💀
Had a moment and forgot who Jennifer was...but Jamie’s impersonation was so spot on that I had to rewatch it cuz I was laughing so hard.
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I needed that laugh!!
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That Jennifer Coolidge insert/impersonation was EVERYTHING.
Yes it was I was laughing so hard!!! Omg 😂
Agreed! It was my favorite! My 8-year-old loved seeing Jaime as the old woman, too!
I didn’t even know her name and IMMEDIATELY knew what actress she was portraying! So impressed lol 😂
@@jenniferyoung8977 Same!! 😍
Spot on !Best 😂
As an ecologist I enjoyed this film immensely.
Shamylan has also added a lot of known science, like ppants responding to positivity, plants being able to release communicative pheromones to signal to other relatives (look up acacia and giraffe), plants evolving to defend themselves or manipulate other species etc etc,
I liked it, plants can fuck us up.
This. I think some of M. Night Shamylan's movies flop because he has a hard time communicating things that might not be common knowledge. They spoonfed a lot of info to the audience using the news but not the info about plants releasing stress pheromones to warn surrounding plants about a danger. You'd think it would be obvious that info would come from the nursery gardeners or the science teacher. The whole Convo about how plants can tell if you are a good person or not could have been converted to "I saw in the news a few months ago that...." And the whole movie would have made a lot more sense to people who don't read past headlines or science news (which is sadly the majority of people)
I really doubt the problem is the science part or the audience understanding it lol, his storytelling is just terrible @@UnicornsPoopRainbows
@@onemin8729 this lol the general concept is intriguing i guess but the movie sucked. Audience knowledge of plant science wasnt the issue
The thing I never understood about this movie is they act like you can just.... get away from air? As if being inside a house surrounded by woods saves you from the neurotoxin in the air? A little hole in your car means the air from outside is getting but if it wasn't getting in you would suffocate... make it make sense.
When u drive and have the air on it comes through the vents from outside sooooooo 😂 I was confused
Unfortunately, it was the Little Engine That Couldn’t :(
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There is an article that was in Entertainment Weekly where Mark Wahlberg said that "It Was a really bad movie that I did." He said he didn't want to say what the movie was but then said: "The Happening, F*ck it. it is what it is. F*cking trees, man. The plants. F*ck it." He said he took the role because he wanted to play a science teacher.
Oh I remember that. I believe he got type cast a lot back then so he wanted to play something completely different. Poor man.
To be fair MNS was dropping bomb after bomb. Im guessing anyone would’ve said yes
Well He definitely played the f*ck outta that science teacher 🤣
@@Amused_Comfort_Inc Yep. It's a great example of a self-fulfilling prophecy; his performance ensured that he'd never be cast as a science teacher again.
@@Amused_Comfort_Inc literally the only thing he did related to being a science teacher was use the scientific method which I learned about in detail more than he even said in the movie in 6th grade intro to science so honestly he played an okay person & a shitty science teacher
Jaime French is the best thing to happen to me in like 2 years.
Same.
Fr , I found her on some random shit on Facebook
Yes girl
Same!
Same
I had the misfortune of seeing this in the theater. The audience was laughing so much at scenes I don’t think he meant to be funny 😅
Mark Wally being a professor is the most unbelievable thing..happening...in this movie.
Surprised he’s not a cop in NYC 🤪
Agreed
Can u fo FEAR w/ mark Wahlberg... I think Alyssa Milano is in it as well...
you should check out, ''the lovely bones'. it stars saoirse ronan. he's surprisingly good in this and acts as a believable father.
@@avtlo1719 Yes! And Reese Witherspoon!
"You should care more about science because one day you might be ugly". What an interesting lesson plan!
Yes, but hot dogs
My key angle any time I lecture my class about bees.
@@laurenbee7990 pollen is the key to eternal beauty 😏
@@thebeeshow6496 LOL!!!!
As a biology major… Mark, I know.
I’m just thinking about all that trauma the little girl went through. She lost her mom and her dad and has to suffer having marky mark and Zooey Deschanel at adoptive parents.
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Terrible dad just giving her away when the world is ending
Comment of the century
After all that she then gets slapped by a crazy old white lady.
People can make fun of this movie all the want but honestly, the scene where she walks up to Mark and says something to him and then she falls in his arms while they both cry…that shit gets me every time. That moment feels so genuine to me.
I’m so upset that they wanted to die together but faced each other so when the happening happened they would be walking away from each other. Just face the same direction. Of all stupid things they did this bothered me the most
I remember Googling while watching this movie "is the happening supposed to be a comedy" because I am 1000% convinced it was supposed to be
I thought it was
And?
It was marketed as a horror movie, I think M Night just lost all of his talent by using it all up in his first few movies 🫣
I remember being bored one night and told my friend I was in the mood for a comedy so I watched this movie. I laughed so hard the whole time.
That's what I thought and Google it too 😅
Girl, please...watch "The Wicker Man" with Nicholas Cage. Major content.
Omg that is one of the very worst movies I have ever seen.
I liked that one too! Lol though it’s admittedly a bad movie
😂😂👏🏻👏🏻 yesssss
That one scene when the big manly woman runs after Nicolas 😂😂😂😂😂
YASsss
Fun fact, I'm in this movie. At 8:37 where the students are evacuating I'm the one with that obnoxious pink backpack! Lol I loved this video. You're awesome
How was the shooting?
@@cristianacevedo178 it got banged out in a day, but we all had to be there veeeery early in the morning. But it felt very low stress. Pretty much just nailing the shot of everyone going down the stairs
Do you have any video clips or anything from this time?
@@FlamespeedyAMV not on my channel, just in the movie 😂 I wish I did
Are you off to the left pulling the back pack strap up on your shoulder
It’s 1987 on a Friday night. My family has rented a bad movie like this one, and a pizza with snacks from the grocery store. Someone plunks the vhs tape into the vcr and we proceed to immensely enjoy ourselves. That’s what these kind of movies are made for!
So how do you return the pizza and the snacks?
@@bubblegumplasticgrammar snob lol
I’d love to rent pizza too!
Drinking game- Take a shot every time Jaime says, "M. Night Shamalan wrote this"
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Or "happening" 🤣
Jaime French that bit got funnier every. single. time. 🙌🏻🤣
You would be drunk within the first 5 minutes of this video if you used "The Happening". What would "happen" is you would hugging a toilet by the end of the video.
Why are you trying to kill me 😂😂
Remember when every psychological thriller ended w the same thing happening in a different country to leave open the option of a sequel 😂
I actually like this movie, and that’s just one of many things fundamentally wrong with me as a person.
I also liked it, don't worry!
Same
Lol I did too!
I liked it as well 😅
Same!
I thoroughly enjoyed you working through the dialogue to make sense of it 😂😂😂
Honestly, your movie reviews are way better than any film critic.
When I watched this movie I was so confused, but as soon as the guy said “Cheese and crackers!” I was convinced this movie was actually a M. Night Shyamalan version of a comedy. And it makes sense because all of the actors have been in some really funny comedies. It even funnier that it’s so serious lol. I can’t be convinced otherwise.
I always thought it was a comedy? Lol
That actually makes sense.
Apparently it was supposed to be a parody and none of us got it.
@@TarynRMartin unfortunately that means it’s just altogether bad. Bad bad bad
@@TarynRMartin was it for real..?! Now I'm like, ohh okay I loveEe parodies esp dark, kinda super smart and biting social commentary types ya know? But THENNN: wait what is this parodying? Climate change & that kinda jus happening orrr ha I'm LoSt I'm bouta slip into the rabbit hole if Jamie doesnt tell us what's HAPPENNNNIINGG here by the end lol 🤞🏽
I now want a shirt that says “M. Night Shyamalan Wrote This”
Underrated.
I want one too, with a picture of that crappy Last Airbender movie. 😵😵😵
That was a DISASTER
Lol I loved when she kept saying it 😂
I would wear this shirt
wear it while doing The Twist
You are seriously THE youtuber that makes me actually LOL. Your delivery is hysterical. You are so naturally funny!!!!
"I smell the polygrip up there"😅🤣🤣
I just found this channel today because I was watching the latest upload from one of my favorite TH-camrs, Nick DiRamio, and someone recommended a possible collab between him, and Jamie in the comments. So, I decided to check her out, and boy am I glad that I did. She is great, been binging her stuff for hours now, love how she edits herself into the movies. I hit that subscribe button less than five minutes into the first one. Great stuff.
* If you're into a 20 something year old, NYU film school grad, reviewing everything from "365 Days", to "Camp Rock", or "Halloweentown", to Lifetime/Hallmark movies, then you definitely need to check him out. I promise, you won't regret it.
I second that!
*Currently binge watching all your videos*
lol
💯!!!
So true.
I was 18 when this movie came out and I genuinely thought the plot was so good! It was my favorite movie for a while and now I’m embarrassed
I think it's great because Mark Wahlburg has such great comedic timing.
I absolutely LOVE the movie Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny. I thought most people liked it as well. Turns out it's considered a bad movie. Me and my son both love it. Also...Burlesque is also up there on my favorites. Apparently it's considered bad as well. I had NO idea...lol. If you think The Happening is the best...then it's the best. Keep enjoying it
I didn't even understand the plot when I watched it....
No reason to be embarrassed. People get to like what movies they like. No apology, no regret.
Life is much sweeter that way.
You can also enjoy the movie, and also a funny review which shreds it… all at the same time.
It’s like the pineapple on pizza fight. There aren’t food police. Eat what you like, and be pleased for others to do the same. 😊
Hey, you're allowed to enjoy garbage 😂
My mom and my aunt went to see this when it released. They legitimately forgot the name of the movie after seeing it and have called it “It’s Raining Men” ever since.
Omg 😂🤣😂 that is hilarious. The beginning is so messed up.
Did you see that funny clip with the song edited into the beginning scene?! I accidentally clicked on it and died when it came to that part. I think of it every time I see it now. 😆
I need you to know that this comment took me TF out! I crying laughing!
Hallelujah 🤤
@@iPixie66 You died??? Nah, your brain has died if you think overusing this expression is funny
I get the whole bee thing! The reason that bees have been dying out is the use of neurotoxins on crops which is why they put that in there to parallel what is “happening” xx
But why does that make them disappear? There are no bodies or anything
I feel like "Honey" with Jessica Alba is a very on-brand bad teen movie you should review!
She was shoooo bad
It was terrible but Missy Elliot was hilarious in that. 😂😂😂
honey 2 is HORRIBLE, but i love it sooooo much
I liked honey kinda 😂😂
I was 18 when it came out and loved it! But I would love to look at it now with my 35 yr old soul and Jamie's review; I'm sure I'll be in stitches!
I’m going through a very hard time right now. Severe depression. Your videos have gotten me through it when I feel most low. This is one of my favorites and I watch it a lot. It always makes me laugh. Thank you for your content.
I don’t know what you were going through but I hope it’s been getting better. I’ve been going through alot too and Jamie’s videos have been a comfort to me. You’re not alone in coming here to be with your goofy online best friend that can make fun of movies with you ❤️
When it first came out I went to see this in theater and there was a fly walking across the projector the whole time and it took us way too long to tell if it was part of the movie or not.
This comment and the picture in my head of what you experienced made me laugh out loud! 😂😂😂
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He DID NOT just start spitting facts about hotdogs in the middle of a global emergency. Omfg. I died laughing.
Reminds me of Trump🥴
It’s making me want a hot dog real bad
The “BarS” comment! Nooooo those are the worst! 😂
Could be his way of coping with stressful situation XD
But yeah, lol
You did NOT just say ''died laughing'' when thousands and millions people die for real... Overusing this expression in times of pandemics is CRINGE AF, almost as the Happening
This movie was SOOOO frustrating. Like did he tell everyone “hey act like you don’t know how to act” and go
That's the only explanation because John Leguizamo is amazing in every movie (but this one).
I read somewhere that Wahlberg said he would ask for directions about certain scenes and his character, but M. Night would say to just act serious and nothing else lol, I think that explaines a lot
There's this channel on here run by a biologist who breaks down different movie sicknesses and things like that and he actually did a pretty in depth explanation of what may be Happening. It's a pretty interesting video!
The channel's called Roanoke Gaming and he also thought it was a really stupid movie XD
“As the happening happens, nothing happens.” Sums this movie up perfectly. 🤣🤣
I actually really like the concept of this movie. It’s really a shame that the execution was done so poorly.
I agree.
Same! It could have been so good
It really is a good concept
I was thinking the same. I've never seen it, but this review gave me a good idea of what the movie was SUPPOSED to be like.
Same
This is like a modern. " Mystery Science Theater 3000" (comedy show with commentary while watching old bad movies). Love it-
One of my fav shows ever. I agree...I am lovin' it!💓💓😀😂
I love that show!!
@@agent_ninety9 yaaassss mystery science theater 3000!
@@PurplePegasus2531 a while back the writers were during a tour called the mads are back. I'm sure that stopped with covid though.
I was thinking the same thing!
You in the classroom has me in stitches right now 😂
Jaime helped me realize what this film should've been called: "It Didn't Happen to Them"
That sounds like a Lifetime movie title.
@@FrenkTheJoy it does 😆
😂😂😂
The bee thing is called Colony Collapse Disorder. It's a really interesting, but depressing topic. No one really knows.
Lots of people know. 🙄 the point was that it wasn't brought up again in the movie. Any tying it to the plot is a reach and a half.
@@Amused_Comfort_Inc how is "large swaths of bees are dead" not a metaphor for the plants killing off large swaths of humans. As in, by misrepresenting colong collapse disorder as "mysterious" it hints at nature producing a mass death event that will be used on humans.
Not saying it was done well or incorporated properly but it's there.
A neuro-toxin could, I guess, effect each person differently. Since each person is different in how their nervous system is wired. But I like how the plants seem to be actively attacking humans. I mean…the concept is fun.
Its not an original concept….ever hear of “little shop of horrors”? 😂🤣
They didnt say it was an original concept. They said it was a fun one
"Feed me, Seymour!"
@@hurricanekitty6736 that movie is about an alien plant. Not earth plants evolving to destroy what they perceive to be a predator. Totally different
@@lostandfound5145 i was being facetious, jeez.
Your commentary and insert of yourself in the scenes make this gold 😂🤍 new fave TH-cam series 🥳👏🏼
jaime's green screen little moments where she pops in the scene makes me cackle everytime lmao i love her
Yes me too !! Love it
Best parts!
Especially if it’s Tammy i die every time!
Same! I became a fan when she green screened herself on crossroads! I’ve been obsessed ever since😂😂😂
I legit snort laughed after "WILL U GODU PROM WITH ME?"
I’d love to see your take on all Twilight movies. Please...that would be so incredibly funny.
+1!
Yes!!!
Omg yes!!! Slightly embarrassed to admit but was a HUGE fan of the books, but the movies….?!?!?! 😂😂😂
Yes please do twilight
The directors cut cause they're so wacky
I genuinely loved this movie as a child and still do because I rewatch it through the filter of childhood
Nostalgia goggles are strong 😂
I remember when Happening came out. “WHAT? NO!”, was called out by sooo many people. And now, 13 years later…we still haven’t gotten over it.
These reviews are literally THE best things that has ever happened I legit almost peed myself.
I want more of these so much! Theyre the best things ever!
I mean this wasn't his only terrible movie... *cough cough* the last Airbender
That's all I could think of every time she brought up he made this movie xD. It'd be an equally (worse?( bad movie to watch lol
M. Knight shamalama-ding-dong strikes again
There is no movie in Ba Sing Se.
Ohhhhhhhhh man, and I was sooooo ready for that movie too. Lol I looooove Airbender but boy oh boy that movie 🤣🤣🤣
After Earth?
Saw this in theaters and remember at the time people didn't even realize how bad this was until later on. At this point in Shamalon's career people were still very optimistic about his talent bc he hadn't reached full on whacko yet, but was getting there. We all for whatever reason gave him the benefit of the doubt and took this for what it was, even if the ending "reveal" was utterly ridiculous.
The plants were killing the humans because the humans were responsible for the bees dying and plants need bees for pollination.
Oh my gosh that makes so much sense.
Not in the US. There are other pollinator insects that can take over the bees niche. The honeybee is actually invasive and was brought over from Europe. There are over 4,000 species of native bees and many many species are not affected by the bee die off. But friendly reminder: don't use pesticides & while you're at it, don't use fertilizer. Fertilizer because it harms amphibians who breathe through their skin.
Lol but there's places where humans do it like in China.
Ah ha!
Nika Broennimann Thiiiiis‼️‼️
By far yet, best breakdown comment.-
Ok, but when Mrs Jones was all ‘you’re gonna murder me in my sleep’ abs Mark was like ‘what? No,’ it reminded me of some of the reactions I’ve had with my confused, older patients. They’ll be like ‘you’re gonna stab me with a fork!’ And I’m like ‘what? No…’
same oml. like ik they teach us not to engage with someone in the throes of dementia, but i try to dignify with SOME response.
idc if they forget right after; our job is to make them comfortable and safe, and i don't want anyone left to steep in frankly terrifying delusion & no reassurance for ANY amount of time
I'm gonna start referring to him as abs Mark from now on
Exactly healthcare heroes represent
I absolutely 100% remember seeing a clip during filming where Wahlberg is questioning Shyamalan about why they are going in houses if the food is likely tainted (or something like that) and Shyamalan snaps about “canned food” or something but it was ages ago and I can’t find it anywhere 😭 Something tells me Marky Mark knows stuff was sounding a little stooopid
My dad showed me this movie when I was about 8 years old (I used to watch horror movies all the time from a young age-) and honestly I still love this movie. It's shitty, sure, and weird, but it has so much nostalgic value for me lmao
Tbh, this movie really freaked me out as a kid😆 It used to pour rain where I lived, & you could literally watch the grass stand back up once the rain stopped. Some would pop up faster than others, & some would have a slow ascend. It was weird to witness, so when this movie came out, I was in total belief plants could say f*ck you guys, & release a chemical to f*ck with us.
Now that I'm older, I feel like this could've been executed 100x better.
Same
This movie should be called "wtf is happening"
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😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂
Literally THE funniest fucking comment on here. 😂😂😂
😂🤣
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I actually remember reading an interview with Shyamalan back when this movie came out. He said he wanted to make a bad B-Horror movie, like the ones from the 50s. So, he wasn't necessarily trolling, but this movie is exactly what he wanted it to be. I feel like, because he had already made Signs and Sixth Sense and The Village, etc, people thought he was taking himself really seriously with this movie, but he wasn't.
Makes sense. But didn't he direct it himself? I figured it was meant to be more melancholy and super dark. Either way the art direction and post prod totally screwed it up.
Nothing about this movie was 50s B movie horror
He was lieing he did this movie to precondition society with what's to come. .. the "plandemic" and "social distancing"... I.e. gov't tyranny and total control i.e. social conditioning society for what's to come
@@lovelyjanecohen2637 Amen!
Omg, The Village used to scare the crap out of me
I think 25:25-25:35 is officially my favorite 10 second clip probably out of all of Jaime's TH-cam reaction videos that I've ever seen.
It’s hilarious! I’ve choked laughing!!!
Jaime.. PLEASE do Life Size- that freaky life sized doll movie with Tyra 😂
Omg!! YES!!!! It has Lindsay Lohan in it too right???!!
Oh, that's a good one!
🎶"Shine BRIGHT, shine FAR, don't be shy, be a STAR!"🎶
YES!
Better yet, do the Life Size Christmas-themed sequel they did a decade later.
This movie feels like if Birdbox and an episode of Black Mirror had a really weird baby
This movie was before those two...
@@rebecabanuet1946 not the point though
@@rebecabanuet1946 yeah I wasnt implying it was a ripoff just describing the vibe
Indeed and a bad SciFy Stephen King Adaptation episode
That's what I thought at first too, the concept of the story is similar to bird box.
"WHAT?! No!" -Mark Walberg
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He sounded exactly like Joey Jeremiah from 1980's Degrassi Junior High. lolololol
You're Jennifer Coolidge impression never gets old 😂
Something is “HAPPENING” and everyone gets sent home...
Sounds strangely familiar. 🧐
HAHA! You're hilarious! Is walking backwards a symptom of C-19? :) Stay strong, stay funny.
Birdbox?
Damn
M Tee hee, thanks! I hope we’re all staying strong (and funny). ❤️
When life imitates art 😂
I saw this movie in theaters with my husband and some of our friends when it first came out. We were all talking about it after we left the theater, saying how ridiculous it was and how nothing made sense. One of our friends said he didn’t get what it was supposed to be about, my husband and I tried to explain, but then our other friend said the stupidest thing: “it’s about friendship. Their friendship fixed the happening.” And he was totally serious.
Aw thats kinda sweet.
Wow, you're not a good friend.
OMG, I can't wait for The Happening 2: It happened Again(En Francais)!
This is genuinely one of my favorite scary movies of all time. Because the concept is very new and has never been done before, and there are bits and pieces of truths in it via how plants communicates and how plants are sentient.
my theory is that everyone in this movie is so stupid and acts stupidly because the happening is already having a mild effect on them.
Every conversation is the least relatable dialogue I've ever heard. And sometimes they are just absurd.
hey that's smart!
Or the plants are killing the stupid people. 😉
Definitely a sound theory
This was always my theory too. Like some people just got real ding-y and weird and others started self harming/dying. I felt like it was a precursor to the actual "happening"
The whole thing with them thinking they were safe inside the vehicle is kinda dumb bc a vehicle's ventilation system draws air from.....outside.....
@Katy MacCoy 🤣🤣
Not if you close the vents
Even if you select the air recirculating switch, some amount of air from the outside will get into the car. It's useful if you're passing by a pig farm and you don't want the smell. But it's not a biohazard protection system 😂😂
Right? Cars aren't airtight
It's just a movie LOL
"Don't you play possum on me, I smell the Polygrip!" 🤣🤣
The no-makeup look is absolute fire on you Jaime. That is all.
Also, the Rifftrax version of this movie is hysterical.
I've never seen this but my mom has and she's laughing hysterically sitting across from me just listening to you. 😂
The old lady bashing her head through the window HAUNTED me for years lol
Yes!!!!
Omg!! Me too!!
I'm cackling at your Jennifer Coolidge
It fits in soo well 😂😂
In college, I did a series of experiments with 2 botanist involving plants. There have been lots of these experiments through the years, and the findings are usually the same. We gave our plants the same amount of food, water, and light. However, for half of them we played nice music, we talked to them, and said nice things, and for the other half, we yelled at them, and said mean things to them. The ones we treated like crap, died, and the ones with all the positive reinforcement thrived. So the premise of this movie was good, but the execution wasn’t great. It wasn’t the worst movie in the world! The thought of a species rising up against us, because we treat it like crap, is not only terrifying, but not completely improbable. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But we ignore trees and they are doing good so I guess it's ok
@@shanac5536 We don't even ignore them, we murder them to make paper. But all the other trees are just chill with that I guess?
I often wonder if some of these "we talked nice to the plants" experiments don't account for differences in sunlight, since if you're yelling at one plant it can't be placed close enough to the other plant for the "loved" plant to hear the yelling, right?
Not saying I don't believe it, but I'd like to see it replicated with trees and other types of flora. Maybe only some react? Maybe non-trees react because they have a shorter lifespan? idk.
u think that maybe unconsciously u were just genuinely taking better care of the ones you were being nice to, and it was u receiving the positive reinforcement?
WHAT?? NOOOOOO
@@astroboystanI assume that a college professor can manage to make sure the plants are physically treated equally (same amount of water, plant food, pH, whatever…) and such. If it was a homemade experiment, that seems fair enough to ask, but I assume that a professor educated to teach full grown adults these subjects can manage to set a schedule and get measuring cups.
"We just ate Tirimisu together!"wtf 😂
Very random but I loathe tirimisu. For a while that was always on every dessert menu everywhere.
M Night Shamalan was on drugs when he wrote this and no one can convince me otherwise
I second “The Room” and nominate “Rubber”. It’s literally a homicidal tire.
YES TO BOTH. Rubber CRACKED ME UP.
Yes rubber is so stupid but it's hard to look away.
And the room! Yes just I agree
Rubber was meant to be campy, it was bad but self aware lol
Theres also a thanksgiving movie where a killer turkey goes around killing ppl lol
Jaime: Everything M. Night Shyamalan makes is basically a masterpiece...
Me: *war flashbacks of the last airbender*
YES!!!! 😂😂😂😂 I think it ruined his career! 😂
When Jaime mentioned him at the beginning of the video all I could think of was the last airbender 😂
*Michael Scott's screaming at Toby* GOOOOOD NO PLEASE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
The only masterpiece M. Night has ever had was The Sixth Sense. 😂
yeh I found the assumption of prestige, because it's a Shyamalan movie was a bit odd. It's usually a red flag for most people lmao
PS, the heavyset woman in the blue shirt in the group scene (when they’re on the phone with the girl who sees in calculus) was Christina Crawford as a little girl in another absolute classic “Mommie Dearest”. Which would be AMAZING for you to do Jaime!!!
there is a really cool pod cast called “how did this get made” thad dissects bad movies. My husband and I watch bad movies based on this podcast on a regular basis. I have seen some doozies!
Thanks for sharing!!
I am obsesseddddddd with HDTGM
sounds right up my alley!
Omg yes!!! I’ll have to check it out, my best friend and I always ask ourselves how did this even get made in the regular lol
The mood ring is a nod towards the plants are effected by the mood of those around them. I feel like M.Night ws trying to make an English Teachers cream in their pants movie. All this symbolism that is an absolute reach.
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But this still doesn't make any sense what so ever towards the plot...
I need to be going to sleep cause I have adult responsibles in the morning but MAKEUPMOVIEMONDAY!!
Sorry it was so late 😭😭 it was a doozie
SAME
I love when you insert yourself in the film, its my favorite. Especially when it takes me a minute to realize it's not in the movie, that's you! The hot dog scene made me belly laugh! " I even drink the water"
The glass of fake wine KILLED me!!! Omfg! So stupid
I vaguely remember that the house they were in was a staged house, so everything was fake. It's done to make a house more appealing when selling it.
“I see in calculus” sounds like something I screamed as I was running around the parking lot of an abandoned 7-11....when I unknowingly smoked PCP.
How does one unknowingly smoke pcp?? I feel like there's a story here and I wanna know it.
@@pinkiepie7823 it was sprinkled onto a joint!!!💀😫
Lol
@@daniellasloane8410 lol the reminds me of smokey on Friday 😩😂😂
@@daniellasloane8410 that happened to me too. It was terrifying. 😭
I appreciate and love how you edit yourself into the scenes and highly IMPROVE UPON THEM!!! LOL😆😆 Love you, love this series!!! 💖💖
Please more cameos of you in everything please?! pretty please so hilarious!
“They’re stwanded, they’re stwanded in filbewt “
😂💀
You should do a review of the movie Christine. It's literally about a car that falls in love with its teenage owner and then tries to murder his girlfriend. It's great lol
Christine is a classic tho not a terrible piece of crap like this. Like yeah the idea is silly, but it's very well done
@@heatherlynn4652 the happening was a decent idea with poor execution, Christine is a stupid idea with decent execution. Classic ≠ good
christine.. the book.. is EPIC. the movie is okay.. would have been great at the time. jaime would probs like it cause of the behind the scenes on how the car was done etc
The book Christine is pretty great though.
Stephen king is my favorite author the fact that they completely ruined the movie still irritates me the book was so much better thats why with his stuff I'll always prefer the book over the movie
It's the middle of the night and I'm nursing my baby who is sleeping and I keep laughing at this video and scaring the crap out of her... Thanks Jaime! 🤣
Lol! Poor peanut 🥜 😂
The Happening was like a turning point for Shamalan's career I think. Before that point he was mostly well regarded, and while Lady in the Water wasn't great, it was at least more low key about its badness, and it was more the weird that stood out in that movie which acts as a bit of a smoke screen. People who still wanted to think he was a good director could dismiss it as just being too weird for them, rather than bad. With The Happening it was all bad, and in your face with it, no excuses. The premise, the presentation, the acting, everything was bad. And then from that point Shamalan wasn't seen as a "good but a bit strange" filmmaker anymore. Even his older stuff was viewed with more criticism after that point. And then not long after, The Last Airbender permanently solidified his status as a Bad Director to most people.
The principal is CAMERON from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off!
Yup. And he's in Twister. But I can't remember his character's name. 😂
@@vanityplates3125 I think its Rabbit.
@@rachel-lou3318 YES. You get the MVP award for the day!! And I feel ashamed because Twister is one of my favorite movies ever, but his character's name always escapes me!! Thank you!!
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I LOVE when you do Jennifer Coolidge. You’re so good at it!!!
Jaime inserting herself into the movies always has me dead 🤣🤣🤣 you need to check out They/Them by Wes Craven.. my cousin who was terrified of scary movies actually laughed at the first one. Total waste of our time!
Yes!!! Those parts were the absolute BEST!
I have watched this so many times. Your commentary in this has become like a comfort watch. And if TH-cam just randomly starts playing it after another video I watched, I can’t help but finish it. My kids love it, too. We joke a lot about eyeing lemon drinks. :)