The Happening

[2GOLD 0]

Man, this film sounds great. Absolutely a laugh out loud comedy romp. Clearly the movie needed

Garth Brooks to show up and rope the wind, allowing people more time to run from it

[Ravenbomb 0]

Part of the commercials remind me of the episode of South Park where everybody's running from Global Warming.

[The Ghost of bps21 0]

I find his movies too slow moving. There's trying to create tension and then there's just BORING. I gave up after Signs. Although it doesn't really sound like I've been missing much.

[Guest Smues]

Just saw it. Bringing a baby in a stroller probably wasn't the best idea for the lady that did it. Yeah, I was SO shocked that the baby started crying! And the teenies in the front row were really annoying, but they got shut up. When someone died "AHHHHHHHHHH OH MY GOD OH MY GOD Oh MY GOD" backrow: SHUT THE FUCK UP! And that was the end of it.

 

As for the movie, what a waste. A decent start, and a good atmosphere but the script was just terrible. PEOPLE DON'T TALK LIKE THAT M. Dear lord. I haven't wanted to scream PEOPLE DON'T TALK LIKE THAT at the screen this much since Transformers. good job shamalama, you're as bad as Michael Bay. And

what the fuck was the point of the old lady? where the hell did she come from? I don't think she killed herself because of the planet. I think she did it just because she's a miserable old bag.

 

Question for those that have seen it/will see it. Is the very last guy who speaks in the movie the "I'm a Mac" guy? Or is it just his Russian equivilant?

 

Oh, and FUCK the cause behind everything.

OMG the planet is fighting back. And without needing the Planeteers! GO PLANET! Roger Ebert gave the film 3 stars and a thumbs up, which I wouldn't argue with because everyone has different tastes. But I'm 99% sure he only liked it because of the planet killing people, as he mentions in his review how he believes the planet will turn on us some day. Or something like that. I'm sure Al Gore loves the movie too. That 'run from the wind scene' was really awful, but at least it provided a good laugh. The model home in the middle of nowhere was odd as well. And man all the love stuff was just nails on chalkboard painful. Let someone else write that shit for you M, it ain't working. YOU HAD DESSERT WITH SOMEONE ELSE? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[Guest Smues]

Part of the commercials remind me of the episode of South Park where everybody's running from Global Warming.

 

That's exactly what I thought of while watching the movie. The urge to yell GLOBAL WARMMINGGGGGG was hard to resist.

[Matt Young 0]

Man, this film sounds great. Absolutely a laugh out loud comedy romp. Clearly the movie needed

Garth Brooks to show up and rope the wind, allowing people more time to run from it

 

Fuck Garth Brooks. CHRIS BAH GAWD GAINES FTW BOOMER SOONER!

[Obi Chris Kenobi 0]

So why if the planet earth is trying to kill the fuckers, are they running through fields, forests, lakes and generally, other really scenic locations? I would have thought locking themselves in the middle of a New York Bank's Vault would have been much safer.

[Atticus Chaos 0]

It made 12 million on Friday. So, it won't be a huge flop.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Well, it's official. Mrs. kkk is no longer allowed to make selections for "movie night."

 

 

Replace the road with a field and I just saved you $9 (or whatever your theater's early-bird discount is).

 

If you go to this YouTube's page, the most recent comment at the time of this posting is:

 

Now watch "The Happening" with Mark Wahlberg!

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

Signs is the worst movie I've ever seen in my life. I've seen the Village as well, and it was horrid. I will never waste any time in my life with anything he ever makes ever again. ever.

 

No hyperbole. Signs is the worst movie ever made. Worse than Plan 9. Worse than Glen or Glenda. Worse than any Hal P Warren picture. Worse than Cannibal Nazi Zombies. Worse than Night of A Thousand Cats.

[Atticus Chaos 0]

I didn't mind signs, apart from the whole 'the aliens are incredibly smart and have mastered intergalatic space travel but somehow didn't realize the planet they travelled thousands of light years to colonize was filled of the one substance they were deathly allegeric to' plot line.

[The Niggardly King 0]

Or that they didn't know how to open a door.

[Craig Th 0]

it's funny...outside of the Departed, Wahlberg really ISN'T that great of an actor...but I still like the guy, for some reason.

He was awesome in Boogie Nights.

[Youth N Asia 0]

Not the best acting chops, but 4 brothers was a fun movie

[Sideburnious 0]

The cast in this movie usually are able to act but they couldn't get through this shit. It really is terrible. I've watched shit movies more than once but I don't think I'd see this again.

[cabbageboy 0]

M. Night Shyamalan is such a hack, but for some reason I am always compelled to watch whatever crap he does. What's funny is that I still remember the initial review The Sixth Sense got in the paper when it came out. It got ** and the reviewer said "It's not particularly exciting or engrossing." Then it makes like 290 million dollars. The funny aspect of Sixth Sense is that it did huge repeat business, yet it's the single movie that most doesn't hold up for shit on repeat viewings since you know the twist now!

 

Unbreakable was a good film (and unlike Sixth Sense the twist ending actually holds up), but I do think that the stuff with Willis foiling the burglary gets pretty damn boring. Signs was a movie I enjoyed the most of his movies, at least at the theater, but man it really loses something on TV. It's like Shyamalan does all these little bits of scare business that startle you on the big screen with Dolby sound, but at home this stuff is just boring.

 

The Village was actually the movie I saw on a first date and it seemed like a **1/2 sort of movie at the theater, but I went back and watched it a while back on TV and dear god does it ever suck on a 2nd viewing. Lady in the Water was a laugh riot that seemed like M. Night jerking off in front of the world, but watching again on DVD I mostly just felt sorry for Giamatti for being in that trash. At least I had free tickets for that movie, which I got due to the projector breaking during Clerks 2.

 

As far as The Happening, I'll probably see it at some point. How could I resist?

[Atticus Chaos 0]

I'll give him credit for managing to coax such great performances out of Bruce Willis. I never thought he was that good an actor if he wasn't playing John Mcclaine, but he's terrific in both the sixth sense and unbreakable.

 

 

[Nighthawk 0]

Bruce Willis' best role was in Last Boyscout.

 

Anyway, I'm sold on seeing this piece of shit. The last time I got this excited about a bad movie was I Know Who Killed Me, and that lived up to it...

[Ketamine Disaster 0]

Saw it last night. The first ten minutes were cool, then it was all downhill from there.

 

I'm a math teacher! You know that because I talk about math all the fucking time! Well, I'm a science teacher! I know the scientific method and I'll repeat it three times!

 

After awhile, this just turned into everyone in the theatre talking, not really caring what happened.

[RedJed 0]

The cast in this movie usually are able to act but they couldn't get through this shit. It really is terrible. I've watched shit movies more than once but I don't think I'd see this again.

 

I think the actors were meant to act a little off the wall, B-movieish at times due to the goofy subject nature of the film. At least that's how I took it.

 

Saw it yesterday, and I actually liked most of the movie, although the ending just seemed so open ended and rehashed to the beginning that I kind of left underwhelmed at that. Lots of unexplained shit in here, though, that bothered me that it wasnt more brought to make sense by the end. By no means the best summer movie around, but a fun and surprisingly violent/gorey flick for the standards of you know who.

[Ketamine Disaster 0]

The deaths were pretty cool, though. Once they started attempting character development was when I lost interest.

 

I'm also going to disagree with the notion that this was intentionally a B-Movie. I bet you it was made, buzz was high, and when initial screenings went poorly, M. Night just went, "....no, I meant to do it that way."

[RedJed 0]

The deaths were pretty cool, though. Once they started attempting character development was when I lost interest.

 

I'm also going to disagree with the notion that this was intentionally a B-Movie. I bet you it was made, buzz was high, and when initial screenings went poorly, M. Night just went, "....no, I meant to do it that way."

 

I don't know, I can't imagine anyone would write and direct a scene with a guy having a conversation with a

plastic plant

and think that it was meant to be taken seriously.

[The Niggardly King 0]

It was meant to be taken seriously, this is M. Night we're talking about.

[Vampiro69 0]

Well, it's official. Mrs. kkk is no longer allowed to make selections for "movie night."

 

 

Replace the road with a field and I just saved you $9 (or whatever your theater's early-bird discount is).

 

If you go to this YouTube's page, the most recent comment at the time of this posting is:

 

Now watch "The Happening" with Mark Wahlberg!

 

I am glad that I wasn't the only person who was thinking about South Park when they were running from the wind.

[bob_barron 0]

What an awful movie, 91 pointless minutes.

 

It was really funny though.

[RepoMan 0]

I really hope this makes it to the local dollar theater. This thread turned me away from seeing it, but apparantly it's so bad it's good.

[The Niggardly King 0]

All it's missing is Nicholas Cage in a bear suit punching bitches.

[godthedog 0]

i got dragged to this yesterday, and some of it was indeed very funny. if anything, i think it suffered from not really knowing how seriously it wanted to take itself--it alternated pretty violently between typical shyamalan "let's insert lots of ingmar bergman pregnant pauses into a heavy family drama into horror/mystery formulas" mode and "we're just going to have some fun with how ridiculous this is" mode. it seems like shyamalan sort of knew that the premise doesn't really hold up, and the violence escalating through encountering weirder-and-weirder characters was sort of promising. two parts in particular i was dying at:

 

the death-by-lion footage on the iphone

 

killing two innocent kids with a shotgun and a rifle--that takes some seriously morally bankrupt balls

 

but when you put those next to stupid family drama crap (especially the climactic moment, which is so fucking overblown and stupid i don't even know how to begin describing it), you don't have a cohesive movie.

[Dr. Zoidberg 0]

I KNEW that was the ending of the movie! I fucking knew it.

One thing, though: Is the planet fighting back by, like, just killing people? Or is it making people go insane and kill each other?

 

I saw The Village on a date, too, and my then girlfriend was really into it. I kinda dug it too until the first twist, the whole "It's A Farce!" Yeah...that's what I thought about that plotline. Then the second fucking twist, with the whole "Well...it's present day and we're in a compound." I actually shouted "Are you fucking kidding?!"

 

I saw Signs once, thought it sucked, and never looked back. It's been said SO many times, but seriously...Why the FUCK would these aliens, with their incredible intelligence and their ONE weakness being water, come to a planet that is almost ALL water?

 

Sixth Sense was good, Unbreakable was meh.

[cd213 0]

I saw THE HAPPENING yesterday morning and loved it. I have seen and loved all of M. Night's movies (they aren't all good, but I happen to like them). I love how some people are taking this movie so seriously. When I was watching it, the whole thing screamed 1950's cheesy b-level sci-fi film. The overacting, the writing, the story and the music. I would like to ask M. Night if that was one of his objectives, because if it was he pulled it off perfectly. If not, it was a still a good homage to one.