Blogitis: M. Night`s Evil Wind

Bless me readers, for I did not blog yesterday. It has been 54 days since my last blogless day (May 18th, Yard Sale day).

Although I am starting to feel the Pre-Vacation crunch (I'm heading south to My Beach the last week in July), I just can't blame it for my blogless day Friday. The blame goes squarely on a day full of meetings at AccuWeather, followed by a rare trip to the movies for my wife and I.

Usually Fridays hold the average 1-3 meetings per day for me, but my boss is on vacation next week, so I was in back-to-back meetings from 12-4 yesterday, after giving a 2-hour morning tour to some folks from Pittsburgh and the LeHigh Valley here in Pennsylvania. So I was barely at my computer during the day, then in the evening my wife and I went to see the new M. Night Shyamalan flick "The Happening" (which we had been wanting to see, I am a huge Shyamalan fan).

It involved a number of interesting weather themes - the intro credits were in front of several lengthy timelapse videos of cumulus clouds - very cool. And, without giving too much away, let's just say that the wind was the villain in this movie, and I thought he did a pretty good job of making an invisible force of weather terrify on the big screen.

It was, in some ways, the classic M. Night film, set in Eastern Pennsylvania, with a old-school classic horror-film feeling to it. However, the ending was disappointing, and I fear that M. Night has now become famous enough to do "stuff he likes" which the public does not. Overall, I rate it at the lower portion of his list so far, even though it was an excellent film.

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MOVIE? Let me know what you thought by leaving a Comment below.