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Embarrassing LTTE
« on: June 17, 2008, 08:14:56 AM »
This letter ran in Saturday's Houston Chronicle.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5836892.html

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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

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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

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Re: Embarrassing LTTE
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2008, 09:21:14 AM »
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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Re: Embarrassing LTTE
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2008, 09:37:04 AM »
:rofl:



Very funny!
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Re: Embarrassing LTTE
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2008, 09:51:15 AM »
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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Re: Embarrassing LTTE
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2008, 09:54:14 AM »
They saved they guy some trouble. M. Night Shamlangadingdong hasn't made a decent movie since The Sixth Sense.
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Re: Embarrassing LTTE
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2008, 09:57:49 AM »
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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Re: Embarrassing LTTE
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2008, 09:59:37 AM »
Soylent Green is made of People!!!
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