348: The Happening
I Hate It But I Love It
Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Spooky Scary Movie Month continues with M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening! We talk about inconsistent tone, all-time worst line readings, and how you simply can't cast Mark Wahlberg as a science teacher.
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| 0:00.0 | I hate it, but I love it. |
| 0:25.5 | I high-bye lie, everybody. |
| 0:26.9 | I halloween, bye-bye. |
| 0:29.5 | I still try to make it work. It's still not working. I haven't figured this out yet. |
| 0:33.1 | I, uh, welcome to I hate it, but I love it. I halloween, but I love it. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Jocelyn Getty. |
| 0:37.6 | I am, Caddy, I guess, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate simultaneously. |
| 0:42.8 | We are continuing spooky, scary movie months this week with The Happening. |
| 0:47.5 | Truly a career worst for everyone involved. |
| 0:51.3 | Oh, for sure. Well, Avatar might have been... |
| 0:54.4 | I was just thinking that. |
| 0:56.0 | I haven't been lower for, uh, I'm not Jocelyn, but this is way down, this is down there with it. |
| 1:00.8 | Yeah, maybe they're neck and neck because they're two very similar and slightly different forms of bad. |
| 1:06.9 | Like, this is just a badly executed idea all the way around. |
| 1:10.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.4 | And then Avatar is, is tartishing, a beloved property. |
| 1:15.2 | Yes, yes. |
| 1:16.2 | In a way that I'm like, I can't believe you did that. |
| 1:19.0 | Um, oh, oh, I mean, with Avatar 2, I wasn't able to watch truly more than 30 seconds before I was like, |
| 1:25.6 | I have to turn this off. |
| 1:26.9 | Yeah, I've never seen it. |
| 1:28.1 | Oh, my God. Within... |
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