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Speed Racer: 7/10
-Nothing too offensive, and if you can turn your brain off, the ADD the movie has is actually almost cute. I also liked the way it kind of broke out of any kind of time line. There were some good technical ideas in there, even if I thought the kid and monkey were more annoying than cute.
The Happening: 6/10
-This really wasn't that bad. I mean, I was going in expecting something shit like The Village or The Lady in the Water or whatever that shit was called, but M. Night actually didn't create something that made me want to kill myself. Actually, that might be all Zooey Deschanel's blessing. The execution was really quite good in parts, with some moments of suspense, but then there were parts that were crappy (I don't understand why Mark Wahlberg's character didn't try talking to the source of the problem more than he did, after he had started putting things together).
It was a bit annoying how obvious the message of the movie was, but M. Night Shyamalan seems to be maturing to the point where he doesn't need shitty twists in his movies. If he can now grow a little more in the script department, I might like him as much as I did after Signs.
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