New The Happening trailer
This domestic trailer for The Happening (I actually didn’t realize the first one was an international version) works a little less well, I think, than the previous installment. This one focuses more on Mark Wahlberg and his immediate group of friends and family and how they are impacted by and react to the strange events unfolding around them.
While that is going to be more “involving” for the audience in that it gives them something to connect to emotionally, it does so at the expense of a lot of the atmosphere that the earlier version had going for it.
It’s still pretty good, but it sells the movie as more of a traditional thriller (especially with the pounding soundtrack in the last 45 seconds or so) and less as a terror-laden mystery, which I suspect is closer to the movie’s actual tone.
It also looks like Shyamalan is returning to the “there’s something out there” genre and abandoning some of the pretentiousness that marked The Village and Lady in the Water.
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I saw this trailer before JUMPER and thought it was one of the most annoying I have seen in a while.
Not so much the film (although it looks like another miss for Night) but the fade to black at the end of each scene. It gave me a serious headache. Just when you see what is in the scene, it is black again.
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I can’t wait to see this movie. This trailer is great. I thought it was intense and teased me just enough to wonder what will happen. I love that John Leguizamo is in the movie. And I think casting Mark Wahlberg as the central character is great. Did you hear when he said “From whom?” I thought that was funny…if he wasn’t a teacher, he’d probably have said “From who?”
My only gripe is that the trailer flashes http://www.thehappening.com toward the end, but it’s a parked website. Why would they promote a site that is not functional?