THE HAPPENING

So I've been seeing trailers for The Happening. At first, I was sort of intrigued, especially when a recent commercial actually touted it as "M. Night Shyamalan's first R-rated film", showing all kinds of gory suicides. Curious that they would be so specific with the rating? Hype, for sure. Drum up a good opening weekend with horror fans, right?

I was almost ready to wait until it opens (on Friday the 13th, 'natch) to find out what the big mystery or twist would be this time, but then I remembered, "oh yeah, I hate his movies".

(Okay, Sixth Sense was well done, but a tad overrated, and really nothing more than a stolen Twilight Zone episode... Unbreakable, I figured that one out from the opening credits, why else would they put up a title card before the movie talking about national comic-book sales figures? So stupid... Signs was nothing special, all mood and atmosphere with a dreadful, poorly-written script, and, oh yeah, I can't stand Mel Gibson... and The Village I had completely figured out just from the trailer, I literally blurted out in the theater, "they're in modern day and they don't know it").

Sooooo, I decided to just go ahead and ruin The Happening for myself, and search the internet for spoilers. I ended up finding a detailed script review that spills the entire story. And let me tell you, I freaking LAUGHED. OUT. LOUD. The critics (and audiences) are going to have a field day with this one. The "mystery" that the trailers manage to keep secret, is going to create WAVES of laughter in theaters when the movie finally opens. No, really.

If you are an M. Night fan and plan on seeing the movie, by all means DO NOT CLICK THROUGH and definitely don't read the review. But if you want a good laugh, and want to save yourself a movie ticket, be sure to check it out.

WARNING: SPOILERS!
M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening Script Review

CELL GATEWAY

Picked up this nifty phone gadget at Target, the GE Cell Fusion Gateway.

Basically, you connect it to your home phone line, and it then connects via Bluetooth to your mobile phones whenever you come home. It then routes incoming mobile calls to your home handsets. It even lets you dial out on your mobile line via your home-phone handsets. Your home handsets basically become a Bluetooth headset for your mobile number, and it supports two mobile phones.

This is very useful for us, because both of our mobile phones get terrible reception inside our house, except in one place (in the bedroom near the window, which is right where we usually leave them to charge anyway). I used to forward mobile calls to our home phone number while I was in the house, but Sprint charges a hefty fee for each call received, so this lets me do basically the same thing for free. Plus, if you have a good mobile calling plan (free nights/weekends, free phone-to-phone calling, etc.), you can use your home handsets to make calls on those accounts too. Bonus!

We're not going to completely get rid of our home line just yet -- we still use our fax occasionally, and have the home phone tied to the apartment building security door system. But, we're going to bump down our home service to the cheapest plan possible (something like ten bucks a month, no long distance) and see how it goes.