The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan

KeithBMI · #1 06-14-2008, 12:45 AM

Who saw it?

I thought it was hilariously bad... Everyone in the theatre was laughing throughout the entire movie.

xlows · #2 06-14-2008, 01:52 AM

I had a gig, but I probably would have seen it otherwise. What's the gimmick this time?

Slapp Addict · #3 06-14-2008, 02:06 AM

I am dyyyyying (no pun intended) to see this movie. It looks amazing and I love anything by M. Night.

Is it really that bad?

casualmadness · #4 06-14-2008, 06:34 AM

IMHO his movies typically suck. But I am interested in seeing this one.

fenderhutz · #5 06-14-2008, 06:37 AM

I heard a review this morning that said it was like Alfred Hitchcocks "The Birds" without the actual birds and Alfred Hitchcock.

I have consistent 1.5 out of 4 or 5 reviews for it. Said it was great acting, but a horrible movie.

Marcury · #6 06-14-2008, 07:04 AM

Any movie that is advertised as the Directors first R rated movie...

peterbright · #7 06-14-2008, 07:05 AM

Really baaad ewe no.

JimK · #8 06-14-2008, 09:03 AM

Damn...I had wanted to check this out.

bobba66 · #9 06-14-2008, 09:07 AM

Better or worse than "Signs"?

DaveDeVille · #10 06-14-2008, 10:04 AM

i wanna see it anyway ...
i kinda' like watching bad movies .

it's fun to rip them apart .

... except for Cloverfield .
that was just plain awful , painful to watch .

scottice · #11 06-14-2008, 10:07 AM

Damn, damn, damn. I really had high hopes for this flick.
I think I'm going to have to wait until it's On-Demand now.

bongomania · #12 06-14-2008, 10:10 AM

Oh please, everything Shyalaman has ever done is ridiculous, laughable, corny, groan-inducing, and otherwise fit only to be seen while high as a mofo.

casualmadness · #13 06-14-2008, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by bobba66

Better or worse than "Signs"?

nothing is worse than signs...

scottice · #14 06-14-2008, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by casualmadness

nothing is worse than signs...

LMAO!!!!

KeithBMI · #15 06-14-2008, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by xlows

I had a gig, but I probably would have seen it otherwise. What's the gimmick this time?

*ENTIRE MOVIE SPOILER*

Highlight to read...

In the first 30 minutes of the movie it is explained that certain plants give off toxins as a method of self defense. Flash forward to people killing themselves... "It's the government!" "It's the nuclear power plants!" "It's terrorists!" "Whaaat is ittttt?"

Turns out it is the plants... I mean... It was mentioned during the beginning of the movie...

So the next 90 minutes is them running around trying to escape the wind... (It's pretty hard to show a colorless, orderless gas cloud.)

Then the end... Oh lord the end... "Oh! It's over! The plants aren't trying to kill us anymore!" "I have found a new love in my wife... The one who I just found out was cheating on me!"

But it can't be the plants! The mass suicides only occurred in the northeast... If the plants were killing off humans... Wouldn't it be all over?

DUN! DUN! DUN! The final scene shows Paris being affected by mass suicides... so... it was the plants...

The entire movie reeked of "we're harming the Earth... We need to stop before the plants defend themselves."

There was almost a twist... But the movie made you believe it was the plants from the get-go.

*END OF MOVIE SPOILER*

The best line in the movie... *Epic music drops* "CHEESE AND CRACKERS!"

Pass.

To be fair... I did like Signs but not so much The Village

This is so far below The Village that it should've just been a comedy. (I never saw Lady in the Water)

I also had high hopes for "The Happening"

cheesemonkey · #16 06-14-2008, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by david meissner

i wanna see it anyway ...
i kinda' like watching bad movies .

it's fun to rip them apart .

... except for Cloverfield .
that was just plain awful , painful to watch .

I liked cloverfield... it was a good movie... the camera shaking got a little annoying at times but i liked how it was made from the perspective of the people running away. I want the second one to come out so i can go see it. The village was... I don't know... it was interesting about the whole keeping them from the outside world but was really eck...

Mental Octopus · #17 06-14-2008, 12:26 PM

this movie was hideously awful. no twist what-so-ever. boring. don't waste your money.

txbasschik · #18 06-14-2008, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by KeithBMI

Who saw it?

I thought it was hilariously bad... Everyone in the theatre was laughing throughout the entire movie.

I'll see it when it comes on cable.

I saw Shyamalan's movie about the stupid people in the woods who cut themselves off from the outside world and kept everyone scared with a fake monster. Dumbest, most-boring movie I ever watched.

Shymalan's movies are marketed as if the stories were actually frightening, but they are anything *but*. So, you go, thinking you are going to see a good horror film, but its just a dumb story with a lousy let-down ending. Everything he writes always turns out to be a big letdown for me. So...I will never again pay to see anything he does.

Cherie

coolrunner989 · #19 06-14-2008, 12:37 PM

thats why I dont go to one of his movies like I would go to see a true horror flick - he doesnt aim for blood-and-guts and scary on the edge-of-your-seat-about-to-pee-your-pants kind of scary. He's more suspense/mystery to me. I thought the Village was brilliant. Not deathly scary, but a great movie.

WickedPissah · #20 06-14-2008, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by KeithBMI

I did like Signs but not so much The Village
This is so far below The Village that it should've just been a comedy.

+1

The Village was ****ing hilarious.