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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Servonaut on June 17, 2008, 08:14:56 AM
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This letter ran in Saturday's Houston Chronicle.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5836892.html
Headline wasn't 'Happening'
Friday's review from the Los Angeles Daily News and reprinted in the Chronicle of the movie The Happening gave away the secret of the movie! That's like reviewing the movie The Sixth Sense and giving it a headline of "He sees dead people." (Please see — or don't — "THRILLER / ... ," Page 3 of Star section.)
Not revealing a movie's secrets is a movie reviewer's first and most important responsibility. There's a sacred trust between reviewer and reader, a trust that the reviewer won't screw up our enjoyment of the movie. Glenn Whipp, and a Chronicle editor, have absolutely violated that trust.
Those of us who would like to go see The Happening have seen the movie's advertisements and are wondering, hmm, what is this happening? Was it caused by terrorists? Mass panic? Nature? No need to wonder. The review told us. It's even in the headline. Oh, and don't bother showing Bambi to your kids. Here's a secret: Bambi dies. So sorry.
Things like this make me embarrassed to live in Houston!
MARK TREFNEY
Houston
This ran in today's paper.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5841111.html
A correction on a critcism
Reader Mark Trefney should be embarrassed. (Please see "Headline wasn't 'Happening,' " Letters, Saturday.) Bambi doesn't die in the movie; his mother does.
DAVID KELLY, Spring
:rofl:
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Rosebud is a sled
The Bad Seed gets a spanking after the credits roll
Blance Hudson was the evil sister
Both Bonnie and Clyde die in a hail of bullets
James Bond never dies
etc.
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:rofl:
Very funny!
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Rosebud is a sled
The Bad Seed gets a spanking after the credits roll
Blance Hudson was the evil sister
Both Bonnie and Clyde die in a hail of bullets
James Bond never dies
etc.
She's a guy
Darth Vader is Luke's father
Bacteria kills the aliens
His mom is dead and he wears her clothes when he kills people
He's already dead
Brad Pitt doesn't really exist
He's not really an alien
They drive into the Grand Canyon.
The hooker gets the millionaire
It is really Earth in the far distant future
She's a Replicant (and he probably is)
It was all a dream
He finally plays in one play in the Big Game
They win the Big Game
He isn't really disfigured
They all did it
Spidey wins, but his friend dies
"After all, tomorrow is another day!"
He gets the Christmas Spirit and permanently changes into a Good Guy
He's the Marshall that was killed
The monster eats him and they nuke New York and the heroes die
The whole family comes together and he quits his job but gets a better one
Smeagel chews off Frodo's finger but falls into the Fire with the Ring
She gets on the plane
He gets found and delivers the mysterious package to a somewhat cute chick
They watch the end of the movie they were/are in
They kill the banditos but all but 3 of them get killed
they kill the attackers but all of them get killed
They do find the gold, he kills the really bad guy and then shoots the rope with the noose just like the opening
He releases the whale into the ocean
The pig wins the contest
It isn't really God, just a very powerful alien
They become friends and he rescues the alien's kid and gets adopted by the aliens
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They saved they guy some trouble. M. Night Shamlangadingdong hasn't made a decent movie since The Sixth Sense.
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Rosebud is a sled
The Bad Seed gets a spanking after the credits roll
Blance Hudson was the evil sister
Both Bonnie and Clyde die in a hail of bullets
James Bond never dies
etc.
She's a guy
Darth Vader is Luke's father
Bacteria kills the aliens
His mom is dead and he wears her clothes when he kills people
He's already dead
Brad Pitt doesn't really exist
He's not really an alien
They drive into the Grand Canyon.
The hooker gets the millionaire
It is really Earth in the far distant future
She's a Replicant (and he probably is)
It was all a dream
He finally plays in one play in the Big Game
They win the Big Game
He isn't really disfigured
They all did it
Spidey wins, but his friend dies
"After all, tomorrow is another day!"
He gets the Christmas Spirit and permanently changes into a Good Guy
He's the Marshall that was killed
The monster eats him and they nuke New York and the heroes die
The whole family comes together and he quits his job but gets a better one
Smeagel chews off Frodo's finger but falls into the Fire with the Ring
She gets on the plane
He gets found and delivers the mysterious package to a somewhat cute chick
They watch the end of the movie they were/are in
They kill the banditos but all but 3 of them get killed
they kill the attackers but all of them get killed
They do find the gold, he kills the really bad guy and then shoots the rope with the noose just like the opening
He releases the whale into the ocean
The pig wins the contest
It isn't really God, just a very powerful alien
They become friends and he rescues the alien's kid and gets adopted by the aliens
Verbal Kint is Keyser Soze
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