The Happening

[vampira]

(If there's already a thread on this, sorry!)

I saw it last Saturday with my parents and I was the only one who liked it!
I thought that the story was very unique, the way that it was executed was well done and the scares were well planned!

What do you all think of it?

[Yuzna's Cufflinks]

Worst movie I've seen in a very very long time.

[Shadow]

"Cheese and Crackers"
I was really looking forward to seeing this film and so treated myself on Friday the 13th and went to see it.
I think I am undecided.
I liked the plot and some of the deaths were good.
The general idea is scary I mean you don't even know what your running/hiding from. However there was too much boring romance and the ending was terrible, predicable and over done.
Interesting and funny characters where lost and we were left with the boring ones. Had a good start but quickly went down hill.
Not the most terrible film ever but definitely disappointing.

[stenchofdeath]

SPOILER ALERT

This reminded me of The Village. In that there is alot of hype about the movie coming out, creepy looking preview with creepy music. You see it and are like what the fuck that looks brutal. The movie starts off and all of these crazy scenes and possibilities about what is going on in your mind. The excitement builds. then when you discover what is going on and you're like "oh". The village was complete garbage. Yes, this movie had great potential and then you get a lame possibility as to why things are happening. You get to watch Mark Wahlberg acting badly and his emotionless wife. This said the death scenes were good. It should have been R rated so we could see people actually blowing their heads off. It has potential to be better. I would be curious to know if he will make a sequel. Get rid of the stupid plant theory and make it something more sinister. The movie was very average.

[dollypaul123]

The movie was not even good or bad. It was just O.K. The direction was good. But the heroin's acting was very poor. Why don't the directors go for some thrilling concepts to make a better movie?
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[Angra]

Didn't we do this 2 weeks ago? :rolleyes:

[ferretchucker]

Does anyone else hate when films have titles like this "The Happening". I don't know how to explain why I hate them, dunno why I hate them in the first place, but I do. Anyone else?

[ChronoGrl]

Does anyone else hate when films have titles like this "The Happening". I don't know how to explain why I hate them, dunno why I hate them in the first place, but I do. Anyone else?

My personal pet peeve for this film is that the ads were so fucking good. Shamalamalan should have used the same editor in his films as he does in his trailers.

[heebiejeebies]

This said the death scenes were good. It should have been R rated so we could see people actually blowing their heads off. It has potential to be better. I would be curious to know if he will make a sequel. Get rid of the stupid plant theory and make it something more sinister. The movie was very average.

It was R-rated. That was actually the selling point in most of the TV ads.

I was looking forward to this movie because I like most of M. Night's work (with the exception of the last half of The Village and 98% of Lady in the Water). That being said, I can't even give it an "average" rating. I reserve that for movies I didn't really expect anything from in the first place, and I expected a whole lot more from The Happening than what I got.

[Angra]

Does anyone else hate when films have titles like this "The Happening". I don't know how to explain why I hate them, dunno why I hate them in the first place, but I do. Anyone else?



I just hate when titles lie..

[The Mothman]

Im not even going to see this. M. Night throws out so much crap. what an awful ad scheme too. "his first R rated movie" OOOoooooOOOoo. so what.

[stenchofdeath]

[QUOTE=heebiejeebies;715198]It was R-rated. That was actually the selling point in most of the TV ads.

In my country it got an MA 15+ rating. If it was R here then it would have had more violence and more gore and graphic scenes.

[Noah]

*SPOILERS BELOW*






I'm on the fence.... There were a lot of "poor" things about this... But I think a good amount of them were intentional by M. Night. It's not your typical hollywood horror/thriller. The reactions of the non-main characters seemed pretty realistic.... Seeing people die, and in their shock, they're not freaking out, etc.

I also loved the concept.... An "invisible enemy" basically. I wasn't too thrilled with Mark E. Mark's performance (I thought he looked really old in this for some reason) and also Zoey Deschanel did a horrid job too (though admittedly she's nice on the eyes).

But the movie was somewhat original (I know there've been killer plant flicks before) with the air toxins, and the way some of the death's were executed. I enjoyed what few death/blood scenes there were though. The highlight of the film was Dante from Clerks (Jeep Driver that John Leguizamo was riding in) flew through the windshield of his Jeep after driving into the tree! Great stuff there, and that death scene was grim and well executed.

I don't know what to think really.... I guess it wasn't as bad as I initially thought it was, after thinking about it some more. I like the fact it made me think, anyway. The characters were awkward, but they weren't your sterotypical movie chraracters either.... Though some of that dialogue was just beyond awful. I also thought the crazy old lady was a little bit over the top....

I definitely liked it better than The Village, and it's better than Signs (simply because Signs was about an alien invasion, when their weakness was water - and they're invading a planet that's 60% water or whatever it is, anyway :p)

I like more than half of Shymalan's flicks:

-Unbreakable
-Lady in the Water
-The Sixth Sense

This one was OK, Signs' concept was weak, and The Village was garbage.

[heebiejeebies]

If it was R here then it would have had more violence and more gore and graphic scenes.

There actually might have been something to watch then.:D

[Ferox13]

The highlight of the film was Dante from Clerks (Jeep Driver that John Leguizamo was riding in) flew through the windshield of his Jeep after driving into the tree!

'I'm not even suposed to be here to day....'

[Hilti88NYC]

I must say I dont like any of this guys movies,until I saw the happening.

It was a creepy idea, and very original,which the horror community has lacked for a long time. it one remak e after another, one sequl after another, or prequel etc.....

Finally an original well thought out idea is thrown out there and every one hates it. Well a majority of posts I read everywhere other message boards etc...People are not liking this film. I also thought there was more of a meaning to this film, just by a comment made by some one at the end of the film. This film may have a deeper meaning.

I thought the plot was very good,the acting very good ( being I been a fan of Mark Walberg ). I think the whole point that the trees etc were fighting back against people which have become the enemies of the planet we live in, as we are destrotying it.Its natures planet and its fighting back.

Great plot,very original and solid movie.Death scenes were excellent as well.

I give it 7.5 out of 10 *'s, as I was very pleased with the film. I think people need to be a bit more open minded. Just a bit.

[Angra]

I must say I dont like any of this guys movies,until I saw the happening.

It was a creepy idea, and very original,which the horror community has lacked for a long time. it one remak e after another, one sequl after another, or prequel etc.....

Finally an original well thought out idea is thrown out there and every one hates it. Well a majority of posts I read everywhere other message bpards etc...People are not liking this film. I also thought there was more of a menaing to this film, just by a comment made by some one at the end of the film.So there maybe a bit of well thought out meaning to this film.

I thought the plot was very good,the acting very good ( being I been a fan of Mark Walberg ). I think the whole point that the trees etc were fighting back against people which have become the enemies of the planet we live in, as we are destrotying it.Its natures planet and its fighting back.

Great plot,very original and solid movie.



Some people would call it just plain stupid. But fair enough. To each his own..

[Hilti88NYC]

Some people would call it just plain stupid. But fair enough. To each his own..

Thats cool, but Im one to really careless what anyone would call it. Its a matter of opinion and thats it.

To each his own,ya know:eek:

[The Mothman]

Thats cool, but Im one to really careless what anyone would call it.
nice grammar.

[vampira]

Yeah I would've thought it to be PG-13; but my dad's speculated that one of the main reasons that it was rated R was because of the scene where all the construction workers were falling off the building

Make sense??

[Disease]

I thought the trailer looked alright. I'm so glad I never went to the cinema to see it though. It was rubbish. Total rubbish. I hate Marky Mark even more now.

[kaytee83]

Thing is... The Happening... well, despite its shit title, the concept was okay. Cool, nature is fighting back. About fucking time. However, you shower it in shit like "it's turning off the survival instinct" which, in turn, somehow leads people to commit suicide... that's when I turn my back.

How the hell does turning off the survival instinct make us want to kill ourselves? The theory is out of the water nonsense. Turning a switch off means neutrality. Perhaps it means people would do dangerous things without regard to their safety, but actively killing themselves? No. Turning off survival does not turn on suicide.

Though that scene with the police pistol and various people picking it up was kickass.

It was a thought-provoking film in the environmental sense.

Otherwise... rubbish.