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Interesting thread.

We watched The Happening last night and sort of liked it. I liked the central idea and I liked the serious mood of dread created in the first half hour or so. But I really didn't like either of the two leads. Wahlberg does nothing for me and the actress was even worse than him. Their relationship was JUST PLAIN SILLY. To me, this movie ended just like... Island Of Terror. I admit all through the movie I was trying to figure out what the twist would be (and that's no way to watch a movie, but his previous stuff was so one-note in that regard) and when one didn't come, I was both relieved and disappointed at the same time. I don't know... I'm confused about this one. 50% bad, 50% good. There were inconsistencies and some hard-to-watch sequences. The dumbest bit was people murdering children with no compunction less than 24 HOURS into the crisis! We found that laughable. I thought Betty Buckley was very good in her role, but that lead to one of those moments that didn't make sense to us. I'll be keeping it for awhile and trying to decide whether or not I want to watch it again.

I liked The Sixth Sense, but yes, it was derivative, and so dependent on the twist (I admit I didn't see it coming and am pretty embarrassed about that) that I can't watch it a second time. I tried and found I was just looking for mistakes and gave up.

Unbreakable I found boring as Hell, but when the end came, I thought... cool idea... shame about the execution.

Signs was 90 minutes of dumb with a couple of good tense bits.

I was really intrigued by the trailers for The Village, but a couple of days after watching them and ruminating a bit, the ending seemed obvious. A friend went to see it and started telling me how good it was and I told her the ending before she'd barely begun. And THAT was already done in a New Zealand film from the 80's or 90's, whose title I forget now. Maybe I watch too many of these things! I think we all find it tough to be surprised in this genre at this point in our lives.