REWATCH: The Happening [2008]

It's been a while. First, I went to Egypt. Then I came back and we were so tired between my flight and Adam and Sarah's having two young children that we just decided to put it off for another week. But hey, we're back with a bang. 

We hadn't rewatched this one since 2018, and oh boy does it still deliver like Dominos. The script is bonkers from its premise to its unnatural dialogue, the shots are often held too long, the music does nothing to actually create a serious or suspenseful tone, and the cast is weirdly stacked with competent actors (including Alan Ruck and Jeremy Strong of Succession fame in side roles, which was very exciting for me as I'm rewatching it for the third time, back off) but none of them can do anything with the material. Mark E. Mark just furrows his brow a bunch and sounds super insincere, and it's great. It's easy to joke about while also being organically funny on its own. Highly recommend.

Spoon Rating: 9

We followed it up with an encore of Cars per request of two-year-old Jade. I had never seen it before and it's good! Just thought I'd mention.

Silk 2 [1989]

We've really had a string of stinkers for a while. This one, Silk 2, is barely worth writing about. It's a sequel to an even more boring police-in-Hawaii B movie. Basically, an art thief replaces some famous Japanese scrolls that are about to go on display at an art museum in Hawaii with fakes so he can sell the real ones on the black market. Silk is a cop who is on a mission to uncover this in between weird banter with her soon-to-die coworker, a fully nude shower scene, and super blurry sex with an art nerd who spends most of the film in the most 80s button up you've ever seen. That's it. It's only an hour and 15 minutes and it felt longer.

Spoon Rating: 2