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  • This movie sucks. There was pretty much no plot, they are just running away from nothing. And the very beggining of the movie was crap. Two peolpe reading. I lost my page.... What page was I on? And then killed herself. Probaly one of the worst scenes I have ever seen in my entire life watching movies.

  • It was a horrible film!

  • @summerthevaccum So you hate taylor swift and this movie we totally have almost nothing in commen

  • Dude The Village is HORRIBLE as well and so is lady in the water and signs!

  • @Mystikal22693 signs was pretty good the other ones whernt that great but signs is pretty good.

  • This is NOT a B-MOVIE.

    Its nothing like one, all it is is bad dialog and bad acting and BAD directing.

    This movie is just a waste of time, a total failure.

  • I understand he wanted to make it a B-Movie, however, there is a reason people now avoid B-Movies. They suck. Also, according to the interviews, he was taking this project more seriously as it went along. This is where M Night pretty much became a joke to hollywood. And it didn't help after he made The Last Airbender. I'm sorry but, fuck this movie.

  • there was a twist ending

  • i like it ................ ...........

    

  • I disagree with you, Eric. First of all, I didn't like this movie, not at all (allthough the deaths where, as you told, Shymalanisch)

    But:

    So that Shyamalan told people in front that the film he was making would became a bad movie, shouldn't mean we should accept a bad movie.

    Shyamalan has made great movies before this one but this one just lacked at quality dialogs, acting (oh, it was incredibly poor acting) and a plot; It didn't had to be a plot twist, but at least a plot!

    Anyway nice review!

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  • i hated this movie so bad

  • im sleepy

  • I liked it doohde. I dont' know why this OR the Strangers gets so much hate. They both creeped me out. Oh btw Paranormal Activity gets a huge ammount of hate too (did you like those, I have not seen II yet) great review. I love how you have a spoiler section, its like in all of your reviews, thats very signature homie

  • Shyamalan reminds me of Afghanistan...bombed out and depleted.

  • i went to this so excited waiting to be scared and was so disappointed, i dont want to watch this movie ever again

  • were you 15 or 16 when you made this? i beleive your 17 now (you said you were the same age as andy in your toy story 3 review)

  • @LifeequalsVideogames hes like 19, he graduated high school over a year ago there big squeal

  • @KingTekins big squeal? WTF lol

  • Just saw this movie review......this wasnt a bad movie...i actually liked it, especially when the people died lol....

  • M Knight Shyamalamalamadingdong is a damn hack.

    The Happening was an awful movie.

  • Did you notice that all you were worried about was the acting and the visuals. When really you should have payed attention to the actual story...Have you watched the matrix, the movie about the world we live in...OPEN YOUR EYES and let your true self out because theres one thing in this world you dnt kno about because they blind you. But if someone pulls on that cord that you will feel we all will...

  • Do u have some movies scenes between ur comments....!!!? well not his one; but any other.!?.....Great comments BTW.

  • He is your faveroite director? Better than Alfred Hitchcock? Orson wells? Stanley kubrick? Christopher Nolan?

  • Ha, funny the start was promising but I thought it sucked like an old b movie trying to be an old dr who episode. Maybe b movies should come with a warning after the piracy one, its not like you can tell due to cheap sets and low grade film.

  • oh come on! M Night Shyamalan is probably the most over-rated director ever, except than no one rates him anymore. His movies suck so bad

  • This was not a very good movie, but it's ok because Mark Wahlberg is a badass

  • M night is your favorite director haha WTF! is wrong with you...

    Why would a director try to make the actors act bad?yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy­yyyyy

    What am i saying,its M night...

  • I thought of this movie more like a comedy than a suspense/horror film!

    Still, I enjoyed it.

    BTW Comedy, as in so cheesy, it was hilarious!

  • Okay i like you but i cant believe you think hes a good director- that movie was crap and once again he made a better trailer for the movie then the movie itself. Maybe thats what he should do, just make trailers for movies sense he soo good at it. But the movie was long, and there was more talking then what was going on, and when found out it was a freaking plant killing off people i wanted to scream. And he just screwed up Avatar the last airbender AVATAR NOOOOO!

  • I was okay, but M Night Shyamalan, has gotten---well was and still is pretty terrible....

  • i havent seen this one but the village and sixth sense and lady in the water were al very good

  • its good but weird!

  • what a twist

  • I saw this movie on dvd awhile ago and it was really good, i dont really pay attention to the acting and stuff though

  • This movie wuz so cheesy

    ITS HALAROUS!!! ok,so ther on this road and this marine cums along w/ his

    hum vee and ther talking about wer they saw bodys and then he says

    "cheese and crackers wuts going on"

    LOL holy fucking shit I made fun of the movie the whole time its so fucking funny and fun to watch and make fun of!!!!!!!

  • @TheSkullAssassin lol,yea i laughed when he said that too!

  • I watched this with my Dad.

    Even my Dad told me, you're not gonna sleep tonight!

    Only I enjoyed it

    & I liked the concept to it as to the possibility of why it happened.

    I was wondering, what's your fav M. Night. Shyalaman movie?

  • M. Night is one of my favorite directors. His first 3 movies are among my all time favorites, and I even liked The Village to an extent (if it weren't for its twist, I would have loved it), and even Lady in the Water was watchable, though I walked away disappointed. The Happening was just bad. Lol. I could see where you're coming from, and I appreciate what M. Night was trying to do, and I loved the concept--but it was NOT scary at all, it was far too silly and made no sense. Interesting, tho.

  • put your stupid face out of my screen!

  • The village sucked. The happening sucked too. It was a really stupid story line, and apart from the fact that some of it was funny, I would've turned it off. There was a twist anyway. You think it's all over and everything is fine and andy till it happens in paris... ¬¬

  • it was the funniest movie which wasn't supposed to be funny

  • Seems like M. Night has been going downhill ever since The Sixth Sense (which was his best one). I even liked The Village, which a lot of people didn't like. But Lady In The Water sucked, and The Happening was stupid. They called it The Happening even though nothing happened in the whole movie. People running from bushes & trees?

  • bad movie,but didn`t realise m night wanted it to look like a b movie.

  • I agree in every point! good to know, that I am not allone - I love m. night shymalan´s movies. still I was quite dissapointe, when I saw the terrible acting and the horrible dialogs - but it might was the horrible synchronizing to german, which made it even worse ^^ but still I think it is a good one - not his best, but still it got the M. Night bonus - by the way thanks for the insider informations - love your blog!

  • The Happening is a piece of crap you fucking retard!

  • i thought the movie was building up to somthing but it just ended. Terrible ending the rest of it was very average.

  • B for a bad movie lol

  • The happening sucked. Okay it's a B movie.... so according to your video I should like it now because I understand that its a B movie.... um no. It was just a bad movie. Teenagers From Space was a B movie that is likable as a B movie. Plan 9 from Outer Space is a B movie that is a bad likable film. The happening just sucked.

  • an absolutely terrible film. awful. and the reviewer is a bullying cunt (his brad pitt video he posted, take it down man).

  • you fuckin' turd

  • thay should call it THE NOT HAPPENING because nothing happed

  • Another good review, nice work! I did think the build up in Signs was eminently creepy, although the ending let everyone off the hook far too easily. Youd think theyd arrive, perhaps toy with us a bit for any interesting reactions and then dismantle the Earth whole sale. The scene where the bird hit the stealthed ship was great though. I hear they might be making Greg Bear's Forge of God cycle into movies so Ill wait for those.

  • hated the ending it was stupid

  • The movie had so much potential in my opinion. Bad acting and that stupid boom mic that keeps showing up on the screen is what destroyed this movie.

  • i liked the happening

  • The failure of this film can be attributed to bad timing. Why? If this movie wouldve been release, lets say the 70s, today it could have been a cult classic. I am not saying is a bad movie. You never know, perhaps in time, it might have a following.

  • You make some good points.

    I thought the concept was great, just the execution was terrible. If the acting was supposed to be bad, then they were right on point. I do agree that the deaths were the coolest part. But the dialogue was so incredibly bad at some points that I can't believe Shyamalan would intentionally write such crappy lines.

    Overall, I think it was better than Lady In The Water, which I thought was a complete mess, but not as good as some of his earlier movies.

  • his best movie was signs

  • horrible acting, a ok story behind it, poor story telling, predictable = one awful movie

  • I RELLY LIKED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I actually liked Lady in the Water better than The Happening, but that's just me

  • I went into this movie not knowing anything of this movie. No feeling for characters, I want to write him a letter asking for the hour and a half back of my life. You want to like this movie sure whatever I don't care. But I do not want shit movies like this created anymore. You want a cheesy movie, don't use mark wahlberg. Hi this is mark wahlberg and I talk to trees. NO M. Night Shay..... however you spell it. Your good movies equal signs, unbreakable and sixth sense. Retire immediately.

  • The movie needed more urgency. I mean the deaths were just to "sane." I think it needed more irrational deaths. I mean the gun shot scenes were to "planned." I mean, it didn't feel crazy.

    And lady in the water was just all over the place.

  • i personally didnt like it that much..it was really weird

  • lol i liked the part where the grandma started WACKING her head against the wall and window XD

  • the reason people didnt like this movie is because American morons didnt like the thesis, which is that the earth can eliminate us whenever it wants

  • you are right actually i went to watch this movie thinking it was gonna be like 6th sense or something like that... then i realise i was very wrong:( since you mention this was meant to be a B movie then i guess it was a pretty gd movie LOL....

  • I agree about the acting. The Happening is way better then Lady in The Water. Lady in the Water was just weird...

  • the acting was pretty good to me, except for the lead actor trying to be funny with his student in the classroom. i really liked the movie i thought the idea was really good and i always put myself in that situation and see how i would feel if i was in that kind of trouble. so that made me enjoy the movie. the ending was really good too. i thought it was a twist.

  • only ppl who dislike the movie were prolly only stumped on the part it caused suicide. I thought it was good too but if he made it simply the toxin slowly kills you instead of somehow making you kill yourself alot more ppl would like.

    And it TRIED to be funny was prolly the other flaw.

  • the movie was terrible.

  • awful movie.

  • This movie IS what M. Night said it would be....................this kid doesn't know his ass from his elbow.

  • you dont know to not say something if it isn't nice u little shit!

  • The Happening and Lady in the water are shit imo. I love every other movie he has done that are the best!

  • That was one of my FAVORITE movies, though! The acting wasn't bad but it was weird..

  • i thought it was a dumb movie with bad acting. but now that you say it was SUPPOSE to be like that....

    I still think it was dumb

  • how the hell do you TRY to make a B movie?? Hated this movie.....the idea was so cool....but the ending just killed it and the acting was awful i agree

  • yes that doesn't make sense to me to

  • It actually was a good movie. It was weird when the guy got ran ober by the lawnmower.

  • This movie was terrible... i was really exited to watch it but stopped half way thru the acting is lame the script is lame everything sucked about this movie.

  • I Thought This Movie Was Soo Stupid Lol

    I Hated It

  • i liked it and the old person scared me lol

  • i liked the movie i just though also that the acting was really bad but other then tha tit was a pretty good movie

    P.S whats a B movie??

  • A movie that's really cheesy but so much so it's awesome and funny.

  • A B movie is low budget, with inexperienced cast and crew. B movies typically are straight to DVD, these days.

  • lol i love wow when u said it's not going to hurt me it starts moving lol......(the wind did it but still lol)

  • i thought it was ok but it was weird seeing mark waldberg in that kind of character. I kept expecting him to punch someone or get REALLY angry. lol

    i did like the ending

  • why would any director intentionaly make a b-movie?

  • The guy who made B-Movie?

  • yea but why would u intentionaly go into making a movie with the purpose of not makin it as best as u possibly can?

  • I dunno. I personally thought the movie was very good, but a lot of people thought it was terrible.

  • oh me 2 i liked it alot im a huge m. NIght fan but i did notice mark wahlberg was kinda doin not so well actin wise in the movie haha this explains it then i guess

  • i was disappointed

  • Me, my brother and my dad enjoyed this movie!

  • that movie was terrible

  • No director should be making a b movie unless they want it to be a comedy. It was far too serious to be comedy, because it was advertised and portrayed as a serious thriller that he usually does.

    Sorry to say, despite what he wanted to do, he failed.

    Although I do agree with you on one thing: He needs co writers... BADLY.

  • Are you anticipating for The Last Avatar?

  • Lol now that you say the bad acting was probably intentional, it makes more sense. There was a part in the movie where the old woman asks Wahlberg if he's planning on stealing from her, and he goes, "What?! No!" and it just sounded so funny, my brother and I were cracking up we rewinded it twice. I really hope the bad acting was intentional, or else I'm Wahlberg in different light from now on..

  • i thought it was gonna be gud but wtf it was lik i was taking a long awful dump

  • The Happening was very original, but I think it's was TOO original. The idea of plants releasing toxins to make people commit suicide is just too original. In my opinion, it sounds like they just drew ideas out of a hat

  • Exactly! It just didnt seem like an M. Knight Shyalaman movie...The Last Airbender is coming out...lets so how that goes. I love your reviews : ]

  • I really enjoyed the movie

    especially the deaths

    Like with the tigers and the lawn mower

    It was great

  • so i bought a blue shirt at the store today and when i got home it was orange! I called the store and they had this to say: "no the shirt you bought is still blue sir..." so i looked at the shirt again and i agreed to call it blue and wore it anyway...

  • ..?

  • wth does that have to do with anything?

  • ok, i tried sooooo hard to like it, i started to feel sorry for it about half way through because i knew that this is what it is...so what if its a B movie, if its good its good. B movies are still good in a B movie way, this was just a terrible movie

  • if i had known he was tryin to make a B movie wen i watched it, i think i would hav enjoyed it a lot more but i hav to say that this was my least favorite so far. it just felt off

  • I seriously hated that moving, it was really disapointing :(

  • which is why im worried for avatar, but after watch the trailer for it, not only am i very impressed with it(they got the fire nation ships and the fireballs all right which is awsome) but i will watch when it comes out next summer. if it sucks in the end i will ask for my money back.

  • seeing how i grew up watching b monster movies like godzilla. so i may give it another chance.

    plus, no offense, but i fear that m. night might ruin avatar cause i love that show to death and just doin a live action movie of it in general, especailly after watching the shity piece of garbage that was dragonball E, worries me alot especailly with m. night doing it. the village still hung in my mind since it was one i didnt enjoy, the ending sucked and the whole thing was dissapointing.

  • i dont m. night too much (though signs was awsome and i loved it) umm the village sucked and with the happening i thought the reason everyone was commiting suicide was that something paranormal was happening

    not fucking plants.

    i woulda passed as whatever but after seeing the guy talking to the plant just made the movie dumber.

    what i didnt know was that it was mean as a b-movie. now this explains alot and if i were to watch it again with this newfound knowledge i may enjoy it

  • what are u touching all the time? :D

  • beggining of the movie was very exciting but it just went more boring and finaly it was so boring so.. yeah it wasn't the best of m.night movies

  • i actual loved this movie. it wasn't the greatest movie from M. Night Shyamalan. but i liked it.

  • I loved this movie!

  • the happening pissed me. too much death and such

  • for plants to even develop such a mutation, it would take millions of years for sustainable mutations to take place, and if they do not directly benefit the survival of the plant, the genes are lost, and since it was every type of plant in the world doing it all at once, and no build up, the idea is just dumb. also, the subtle things like the mood ring and the origional name for the film is rli kl and all, but as someone just goin in to c the film w/o noin the origional name, it was lost on me.

  • dude u have some good points and i respect that, u seem to love the director, but its so retarded to WANT to make a rli bad B movie... the film didnt make sense anyway, the pheremones reversed survival instinct. if he actually got an idea which made sense scientifically fair enuf, but as it goes, "survival instinct" is genetic, so plants using chemical signals to make you kill urself is truly ridiculous, again if he hadnt tried to explain it as if it did make sense fair enuf.

  • you have some good thoughts dude. you must really know alot about this director. i just saw the movie yesterday and just like you, i really enjoyed it. i seemed to be the only one of whom i was with who enjoyed it...... im glad the ending was not EXTRA hapy

  • and yes. the acting was aweful.

    i was cracking up during the movie:| not good. haha.

  • i like hearing you talk(:

  • the boom kept appearing in the screen XD

  • They are making an avatar the last airbender movie!! OMG Can't wait!!!!

  • Movie sucked, and yer full of it.

  • I liked the movie, but really didn't get it until the second time around. I liked the realistic effect the movie portrayed. I mean, something like that actually happening to us really wouldn't surprise me because of how destructive we are to the planet.

  • The Happening is the worst movie all-time! M.Night Shama-lama-ding-dong is a D.Bag!

  • i really liked thismovie. unfortunatlly i didnt get to finnish it cuz i was too scared. :). i love Zooey Deschanel and MArk Wahlberg and John Leguizamo! so i thought thy were great. i kind of got pissed at Johns character when he leaves his daughter. come on who woud do that to their 9 year old daughter. any way i guve the movie one thumb up!

  • sometimes if i squeeze my stomach really hard i throw up a little,

  • that is really a very interesting fact, totally unrelated to this topic.

  • i loved this movie

  • i liked the part where they watch the video of the guy feeding himself to the lions and the end where it turns up in france

  • i think it could of have been better.

    A had find a mistake in some point of the film Elliot say it's because of large number of groups but in some point of the movie he talks to a girl on the who is lone in house house and the thing got into her house and killed her when she was alone. I found that out after watching and i don't think i'm the only one

  • When i said talks to a girl on i forgot to put phone

  • well she was in a town with a bunch of people. and she couldnt be too isolated by just being in the house. but there were indeed many confusing parts. so cant really blame you there.

  • I really did not enjoy the movie. I still think The Sixth Sense is still his best.

  • I really appreciate your review. You probably like to talk much and have this ability to express yourself clearly but please try not to repeat yourself so often.

  • i like your reviews =]

    i find them very interesting.

    i also like your twilight reviews and updates about it ^_^

  • i started dying when you brought up the plant behind you

  • Dude i understand what your saying i looked forward to it but you can bullshit yourself man that movie was garbage there were not many positives the dialouge was god awful it made whalberg look like zac efron

  • agree!!!.. liked the review and explanations but i thought the movie was a little awkward.

  • I thought it was good I guess, and also super easy to make fun of.

    Me and my cousin's favorite part was when he called himself a douche.

  • loved the movie

  • its a friendly plant

    aahaha

  • the movie was good... not great but good enough that i watched it a second time on cable :D umm after Lady in the water, i thought his movies could have only gotten worse, but this one wasn't as horrible. I thought i was the only one who thought the acting was weird.

  • omg my fav part was when the math teacher and the other ppl in the jeep killed themselves

    it was just idk rlly cool

    not to be psychopath lol

  • I'm a fan of M. Night also. I saw this movie when it came out last year on Friday the 13th too. I thought it was interesting and I enjoyed it. It was scary to me because it seems like something like that could possibly happen. I agree with you on the acting; it could have been better, but overall I liked it a lot.

  • people always critize me of why i love m. night films, but i love 'em all! from sixth sense, unbreakable, signs, the village! although i didn't understand lady in the water much... but he's such a great story teller, and his perspective is awsome! And i liked the happening!

    The best part is that he always revolves his movies around a true love story, and developes them with a happy ending!

  • the only bad actor was the one soldier who said holy cheese and crackers. that cracked me up.

  • that is what the economy will be like.

  • i loved this movie. it was actually my second favorite, first being signs. third being the sixth sense. yes, i admit it, this movie was better than the sixth sense

  • I thought it didn't match his usually amazing movies and I did go in there thinking it would be better than what it was. I really didn't like the movie and yes they really had bad acting but if that was what he was going for than it was amazing lol.

  • The premise of the movie irritated me from the beginning and therefore I didn't really enjoy watching it. I'm getting bored with these movies about spontaneous outbursts of sickness among populations - 28 Weeks Later, Dawn of the Dead, I Am Legend...

  • I love you!!!!!

  • This was definitely a decent film.

    My friend convinced me to watch it, even though I really didn't want to watch it. I felt the previews for it didn't do it any justice.

    So yes, this movie is good. Much better than I thought it would be.

    You're awesome at reviewing movies!

  • so, i rented this movie and really like it right off the back. and it was funny cause when they came accross the plant farm guy i was like wouldnt it be funny if it was the pants that were doing this and it was lol. later i made my friend watch it and they were like that was not really scary but made-you-think-scary movie. afterward when we went outside my friend kinda freaked when the wind started to blow and move the trees. it was a good movie

  • Ok the secound I watched it I hated it. Now that I think about it,from what you said and stuff I think it was ok. I know the acting stuff was suppose to be like that but it bugged me. Sorry! Anyway I didnt really get the whole old lady thing like she was randomly like not normal,idk I didnt get it. I also just didnt think this was scary or like a thriller or make you tense up or whatever.I think the green effect would be cooler name...ithink the deaths were awsome!

  • signs and sixth sense are his best movies no doubt

  • Well if I think about it as a B movie than I guess it wasn't that bad.

  • tell Mr Shyamalan if he wants to make a movie.

    make it an A movie.

    this was a horrific movie. ur right about the visuals. they were ok.

    TERIBBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE acting.

    LOVED THE SIXTH SENSE!

  • that movie freaked me out

  • fuck m night's movie they are gay as fuck , im not a fan of rob zombie's music but the mother fucker know how to make a horror film. house of a 1000 corpes , the devil's rejects , and halloween . best fuckin movies ever!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • i actually liked that movie.

    it freaked me out. it was very odd. i like some of his movies. the village was awful though.

    i thought it was one of those "entertaining" kind of movies.

  • Fag

  • k wtf?

  • Okay, this was, if you followed the story line, was a shitty movie. But I already knew that because like Eric said, Shyamalan was going to make it a cheesy B-movie. So, I wen't in to the theater knowing that so thought that it was a good movie. Go ahead, make fun of me, I like THE HAPPENING.

  • I hated this movie but i blame it on the trailer because it made me expect think that the Happening was a true horror. Also, i hate the concept lol.

  • thats a sweet shirt lol

  • i love all of nights movies. all of them.

  • I actually liked it. My mind could wrap around the fact they brouht up the bees in the beginning. My friends and I had this whole concept that they provided the pollen to kill humans- idk. Movie was good

  • So he set out to make a crappy movie? I guess if that's the case he succeeded with flying colors.

  • yeaah this movie was deffinatly good,

    thats interesting that he was Joey,

    i never kneww that haha,

    i do remember that he does usually have a part in his movies though, like i remember in the sxith sense, and signs

    (: