Comments on: The Happening or Taking Lives: Somewhere, This Decade Owes Me Ninety-One Minutes http://www.moviesaboutgladiators.com/2010/01/the-happening-v-taking-lives-somewhere-this-decade-owes-me-ninety-one-minutes/ Thoughts on Film Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:47:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Movie Review: The Wolfman – Like Passing a Kidney Stone on Christmas Morning http://www.moviesaboutgladiators.com/2010/01/the-happening-v-taking-lives-somewhere-this-decade-owes-me-ninety-one-minutes/#comment-39 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:35:19 +0000 http://www.doyoulikemoviesaboutgladiators.com/?p=317#comment-39 […] In a previous post, I determined that The Happening edged Taking Lives as the worst movie that I had seen in the first decade of this millennium, and moving forward, I’m proud—or saddened—to announce that I have a front runner for the worst movie I will see in the next ten years. […]

]]> By: Dustin http://www.moviesaboutgladiators.com/2010/01/the-happening-v-taking-lives-somewhere-this-decade-owes-me-ninety-one-minutes/#comment-38 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:44:13 +0000 http://www.doyoulikemoviesaboutgladiators.com/?p=317#comment-38 If it’s not a train wreck, it’s certainly a thruway pileup. It’s one of those films that isn’t silly just for the sake of being silly. There are definitely worse films made in the 2000’s in terms of acting, etc–see anything with Paris Hilton, any of the Not Another Teen movie progeny, but those movies are silly for the sake of being silly and aren’t trying to aspire to anything more.

]]> By: Charlie "The Ram" Arcella http://www.moviesaboutgladiators.com/2010/01/the-happening-v-taking-lives-somewhere-this-decade-owes-me-ninety-one-minutes/#comment-37 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:18:52 +0000 http://www.doyoulikemoviesaboutgladiators.com/?p=317#comment-37 Extremely well written article.

Couple of notes:
1. I’m not just saying that because you’re my roomate. It’s an extremely well written article

2. I’m not just saying that because you study literature, and teach it, for a living. It really is a well written article.

3. The Happening was not the train wreck you make it out to be. M. Night Shyamalan has lost his touch (ok ok, he never had one) and this is downright terrible. But I can probably name 30 movies worse than this in the 2000’s.

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