The Happening (2008)

[speedy_kevin]

Terrible, seen it at the theater few weeks back. Really regret it.

It's just boring. The few suicide scenes are funny, but that is all it has.

And the ending… don't get me going on that.

[kawasabi]

See the big picture, no?

Pretty much what happens these days is that people give bad ratings when the movie is nothing like the trailer.

You need a open mind and a brain to enjoy it i guess.

[shakey]

Great suspense, horrible story, horrible plot, horrible everything else. Why was this rated R again? for some blood splatter? next time i watch a horror movie, they better not pan down to knees everytime someone is going to shoot a gun.

and as M. Night Shamanlangadingon would say, " WHAT A TWIG! ERR TWIST"

[Hurmoth]

You can't blame M. Night for the rating. That's the MPAA there. They rated it for violent and disturbing images. Suspect it got that rating for the girl in the beginning and the guy going under the mower.

NOTE: This film isn't really meant to be a horror film. It is meant to be a psychological thriller like all of M. Night's previous films. He tried crossing over to horror, but he didn't make it there.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Pretty much what happens these days is that people give bad ratings when the movie is nothing like the trailer.

I never seen any of the marketing prior to the film and still thought it was terrible :no:

[Pygmy_Hippo]

Wow. There are really no words.

I'll try tho.

I'm only an hour in and have had to take numerous breaks just to cope with it (there is nothing else to do tonight and it's kinda like watching a car crash)

How can the bloke who brought us The 6th Sense and Unbreakable manage to produce a film that makes Mansquito look like Godfather Part 2?

Zooey Deschanal was completely from Mars - I really did believe that she was playing a character with special needs.

Mark Wahlberg and John Leguiziamo have produced great work elsewhere - what the hell happened here? I do realise a polished turd is still a turd, but it should have a nice surface sheen to it!!

It really, really wanted to be Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and really, really failed.

I think I may just go to bed instead - probably less painful!! :D

(i've heard it gets worse towards the end!!!)

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

I thought this movie could of been a lot better, with a different ending...

I was disappointed in the ending of this, but I still think Zooey Deschanel is hot.

6/10, because of Zooey, and how people died was funny to me

[ambiance]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9wy4xSIsTE

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9wy4xSIsTE

That is missing the the people falling off the building, and the car running into the tree, other then that, that subs the entire film up

[Eric Veteran]

^ Lady in the Water was definitely unique, but yes I enjoyed it.

And Lady is certainly not the worst movie ever made. Here's a list of some of the worst: Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, Son of the Mask, Daddy Day Camp, Batman and Robin, Basic Instinct 2, Catwoman, Alone in the Dark, etc. That's just to name a few.

Or how about this, take almost every satire film, those are all the worst films. They all suck! But Lady is no where near some of those.

You forgot Millennium. :) (The movie, not the TV series.)

That is missing the the people falling off the building, and the car running into the tree, other then that, that subs the entire film up

I don't suppose if I had watched the movie I would have been lucky enough to see the the writer hopping into a wood chipper? I have to assume that The Sixth Sense was an accident...

[splicer707]

Really enjoyed this movie. Really appreciated the ending. 8/10 (Y)

[iZoom]

It was slow and sort of uncomfortable to watch due to the lack of anything happening.

I've seen better tv episodes than this feature length film. I like M's work, just not this :(

Not even worth a rental, maybe a night on FX movies or USA movies or something.

[Joseph B]

I thought the acting was horrible.

I thought the ending was horrible.

I thought the way people died was extremely funny.

When that fat kid was shot in the stomach I nearly roffled out of my seat, it was just so tacky and expected, and looked completely fake.

I would never rent or own this film, for some reason I thought it would of been good on the big screen, I was dead wrong.

Just my opinion though.

[Jase]

it was pretty boring.

Indeed, the only good thing about this movie is the Soundtrack.

[Ayepecks]

Saw it a while back when it first hit DVD.

I thought the reviews were rather bad just because of his recent stinkers, but no, this movie is that bad. This and Lady in the Water have made me lose any faith I had in M. Night.