The Wind That Makes You Dead - The Happening: Media Club Plus S02E06
Added 2025-11-03 22:45:55 +0000 UTCWARNING: This is M Night's first R rated movie so the screencaps are a little grosser than usual
Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. This season we're watching a selection of M Night Shyamalan movies.
This episode we watched The Happening and next time we'll be back with After Earth. Also Check out our Patreon for last week's watchalong of The Last Airbender with special guest Austin Walker.
This one might as well have been a 107 minute blank screen! Sorry to Jack for editing their joke into a slightly more appriate title.
Featuring Keith Carberry (@KeithJCarberry, @KeithJCarberry), Sylvi Bullet (@SYLVIBULLET), Ali Acampora (@Ali-online), Arthur Martinez-Tebbel (@amtebbel) and Jack De Quidt (@notquitereal) for their secondest appearance on Media Club Plus season 2.
Produced by Keith Carberry
Music by Jack de Quidt (available at notquitereal.bandcamp.com)
Cover Art by by Annie Johnston-Glick (@dancynrew) anniejg.com
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Comments
What really strikes me about The Happening and Lady in the Water is that Shyamalan is so dead-set about certain ideas or concepts, but also terrible at voicing or depicting them. This incoherent or unsuccessful execution honestly reminds me of all my worst tendencies when I was first studying film production. His final cut on most films prior to The Visit feel like a first cut, with plotting, characterization, and motivations betraying a distinct lack of... what anybody but Shyamalan is like. He's a poor student of human behavior, to make a generous read. Since I am a life-long Shyamalan hater, what I say can be rationalized, but I don't feel off the mark when I say that the problem goes deeper than him being an uneven "practitioner of the craft." The dude sees the world through a distorted window, and I don't feel qualified to make a more clinical judgement.
Jumungous
2025-11-05 02:27:53 +0000 UTCI watched this movie in anticipation of this episode and immediately had to tell my friends that this was the worst movie I have ever seen. I *hate* Science Douchebag Mark Wahlberg. I hate that he is a science teacher who doesn't believe in science. The *point* of science education at that level is to excite kids' interest in science, to get them to examine the world and to give them the tools to understand it. Save the talk about the mysterious and unknowable forces of nature for philosophy or religion courses. Can we actually perceive the whole universe in a scientific way? Probably not, we're humans and not truth-seeking engines. But the point is to make the attempt! Not to just give up in the face of nature! No science teacher would ever make this argument to his class. Blah!
J. D. Harper
2025-11-04 21:00:09 +0000 UTC
