oh, man...

M. Night Shyamalan on The Happening: "If something happens during the movie and you think, 'That's dumb,' it'll be because whatever happened was actually too amazing for you to fully understand, or possibly a metaphor for something really crazy and cool."

HEADDESK.

The Happening spoiler, apparently:

Apparently there is a scene where Marky Mark, in a sweater vest, talks to a potted plant. And he cries.

This. Movie. Is. Going. To. Be. DAWESOME, Spider-Man 3 style.

I have funny friends.

(me) (10:39:41 PM): the happening is a pretty dumb title
(me) (10:39:51 PM): also mark wahlberg seems really wrong for the role.
(me) (10:40:01 PM): mark wahlberg is not the kind to be like "death! OMG! i'm gonna die!"
(me) (10:40:20 PM): mark wahlberg is the kind to go up to death, stick his pointer finger in its face, and go "faaaaahk you, cunt!!!!"
(friend) (10:41:07 PM): no. that's the departed. the whole movie. not any one character. the movie stands up and goes "fahk off ya fahkin' cuntrags!" and bangs your girlfriend.
(me) (10:41:18 PM): hahahhahahahhahhahaha
(me) (10:41:20 PM): its so true

So, "Night Out" is on now, and honestly, apologies to "The Deposition" because "Night Out" is definitely the worst episode of S4. It's not terrible, in fact it is pretty funny, but it would probably be in my bottom 10 episodes of the series, which I need to work on. There are only three episodes of the entire series which I would flat-out say I didn't like.

Hysterical Happening at Iron Man

So I went to see Iron Man Saturday night, and there were all kinds 'o' geeks there who screamed over everything (I don't get the significance of SHIELD nor whatever Sammy L. J. was talking about in that scene after the credits, but if it means more terrific superhero movies I'm all for it). Obviously, there were previews before the movie. One of the previews started with this scene of a whole bunch of people getting off a train and trying to contact people in the outside world, and it was really weird and creepy and suspenseful. You could tell everyone was really into it.

And then the title came up.

"The Happening: a movie by M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN"

The entire audience groaned in unison. It was amazing.