Comments on: Review: The Happening

By: amanda

amanda — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:15:27 +0000

what a joke…wouldn’t have given this garbage a star at all! Just plain wrong that this was ever allowed in the theaters.

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M. Night Shyamalan May Become Unbreakable Again - Screen Rant — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:48:46 +0000

[...] films. Mr. Shyamalan has really hurt his fan base with his last two features: Lady in the Water and The Happening. Both of these films earned lower-than-expected box office gross and were met with overwhelmingly [...]

By: The Unbreakable Signs in the Village

The Unbreakable Signs in the Village — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:19:32 +0000

I think that Night should have gone a little deeper and longer than the 1 1/2 hour towards a completely different explanation of the happening at the end. It would then have been an extremely good movie. Different from this crap!

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[...] The Happening ends up with 2/5 when I really think it should have gotten 1/5, Zohan gets a 2 when I think it [...]

By: Kahless

Kahless — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:23:43 +0000

I must be a glutton for punishment. I tried using my free voucher but had to wait 10 days after the movie opened, which meant I couldn’t go see Hulk again. Vic, if I ever mistrust your reviews again, please smack me on the head.

I don’t get Shamylyn (or however you spell his name); was he trying for a comedy or a thriller, because I couldn’t figure out which way he was going. For about 30 minutes, the movie had me intrigue but that didn’t last. As Vic said, the suicides were very graphic, so if you are squeemish, stay out. What am I saying; if you want a good movie; stay out. There was no real reason for what was happening, only conjecture; and the ending just sucked.

By: the old man

the old man — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:04:51 +0000

But the message is the same… “we have met the enemy and he is Us.”_POGO

For a much better story than Shyamalan’s read “The Green Brain.”

By: INK

INK — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:44:05 +0000

I agree there have been some strange food allergies but I think we, as humans, has had more to do with it than plants suddenly becoming a sentient network of revenge. I think in the next 15 years we will find that preservatives and other chemicals we use in food will be a main cause of a lot of health problems we are facing today.

By: the old man

the old man — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:59:43 +0000

Sounds like Shyamalan is auditioning for next director for the SciFi channels’ infamous movie of the weekend line up??
That’s a shame. Looks Like “Robot Chicken” is going to get some more mileage out of parodies of his movies!
BUT who’s worse, him or his backers??

I will say this about the general subject matter of this film. Over the last 20 years for some strange reason their has been a dramatic increase in problems with allergies, asthma, and strange food related disease. Witness the latest issue with uncooked prepacked tomatoes and E-coli or mad cow concerns here in the U.S. The subject has potential. We’re really only 7-8 food allergies away from total starvation! I have 4 myself.

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:12:46 +0000

Yeah, the more I think about it the more I think I should have knocked off at LEAST half a star…

Vic

By: baker2d

baker2d — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:43:56 +0000

Just got back from seeing this so called ‘movie’. How did it even get 2 stars. This is by far the worse horror movie ever made, somply put, I wasted a good £6 to watch an hour + of bad acting.

I was a big fan of The Village and The Sixth Sense, but oh my gosh-woggles, this sucked to the D.

A tad of a rant, but seriously, what a waste of good money. Don’t go see it, I’d say wait for the DVD, but I wouldn’t even do that.

By: INK

INK — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:39:08 +0000

One of the worst movies I have ever seen. As stated earlier Vic, I think your 2 star is about 1 and a half too high. Thank God I saw Hulk right after this one to erase the memory of it. I think the twist was the audience wanting to kill themselves for sitting through it.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:46:52 +0000

I do have to say this. The movie had a lot of intentional humor that worked very well. However, the cause and explanation of what was happening in the film came much too early. It would have worked much better if it was in the last act.

It is hard to gauge the quality of this film seeing it only once because the theater I saw it at had the film bracketed improperly and the boom mic was extremely visible in about half the scenes. The subtitles which gave locations and time of day were halfway off the bottom. I complained right away, but they didn’t know how to rebracket it and had to call in a mechanic to fix it.

Also, I felt the film was actually mocking environmentalists in that it was so ridiculous. It felt like he was saying some people might actually believe this could happen. He made people who bought the theory that plants caused it look really fanatical.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:28:21 +0000

omg the worst movie i have seen. im not just saying that. the acting was so bad and every single person in the theater was laughing. and the wind, plants and trees! r u kidding?

By: schming

schming — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:17:16 +0000

Please don’t waste your money on this movie like I did, it really was terrible. I’m surprised they didn’t have Al Gore do a P.S.A. at the begining telling us the about the dangers of global warming…considering they told us what “The Happening” was about 45 minutes into the movie was. Kung Fu Panda was 100 times better than this garbage and I’m 25. DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY.

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:42:26 +0000

Brian, yeah – sometimes I think that I over compensate on both ends… I worry I’m being too harsh on crappy movies and then I worry I’ll be too generous on movies in my favorite genre (Iron Man & Hulk for example).

Vic

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:33:12 +0000

I think your giving the film two stars was generous. It deserved one, or even a half. The suicides were one thing, but when the characters figure out that plants are causing this, they run right into rural america and out into a field. Brilliant!

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:24:26 +0000

greenknight333: My oops. I sometimes leave words off because obviously everyone knows what I mean! Right?

I was actually referencing the ads we’ve been seeing on TV. They seem a little more graphic suggesting than most.

By: greenknight333

greenknight333 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:18:32 +0000

Bruce

I don`t think little kids should be watching this type of film…It is an R-rated…I don`t even think they should be watching the trailer IMHO.

Cheers

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:10:41 +0000

And to think, the ads made it look interesting, which by the way, seemed a wee bit overboard. Try explaining to little kids why people are falling off the roof and laying down in front of a Combine or whatever that big green farm thing was.

By: Panda

Panda — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:56:41 +0000

a friend of mine made a comment about The village that I found quite true -

“if it was an independent film from nowhere, it would have been decent. The M. Knight Hype killed it”

The plot of The Happening just sounds stupid though