21 June 2008  Another Walk-Out Idea  This is a letter I received
from "The World's Best Mechanical Engineer." I wanted to pull it
out as a posting in-and-of itself, instead of a comment because
it bears deeper merit.   I just read your "Not Happening"
Website.  I think your tactics are exactly backwards in that
you're going to increase Shyamalan's ticket sales. Instead, you
should be advocating that people buy tickets for other movies
then go sit in the best seats of "The Happening" at the
beginning. Then walk out at key moments in the so-called plot
development.   This is an interesting idea. I'm the first to
admit that I don't know if, when you buy a ticket and then walk
out, it's credited as a ticket sale to that film, or not. What I
do know, is when I walked out of mine, I was asked to sign a
receipt proving something to accountants (I'm guessing that it
was proof that my Happening ticket had been exchanged for a Hulk
ticket and no one was stuffing money in their pockets
somewhere).  Scott's concept here