The Happening: not much happening.....

[Kptn Howdie]

Anyone seen this yet? I was just watching my morning show and one of the crew said he went to see it with his wife and they ended up leaving half way through:boring:

Could this be M. Night Shyamalan`s worst movie ever: I hope so, another director that should be kept far away from hollywood.

[birddog]

Heard the same thing from the DJ's on the morning radio show I have on... It sucked.

Looked cool in the commercials, but thats what commercials are for.

[240sx4u]

Saw it yesterday, I have to say I was disappointed. Not sure how you could say he is the worst producer ever, I loved the 6th sense.

Evan

[Celt]

I thought the Sixth Sense was very good. Can't say the same for anything he's done since.

[vinyldavid]

I have heard that people were laughing at it...

[ablethevoice]

I haven't seen it yet, but my 16YO daughter saw it and liked it. But... she's 16.

As to M. Night's work in general: I saw 6th Sense and enjoyed it. I also saw Signs and it was a monumental borefest. So was Lady In The Water. I guess I'll wait till The Happening happens on DVD.

[Kptn Howdie]

Saw it yesterday, I have to say I was disappointed. Not sure how you could say he is the worst producer ever, I loved the 6th sense.

Evan

the only real appeal (to me) about the 6th sense was the plot twist. the red door knobs and i see dead people stuff was just plain ol toast and butter.

[240sx4u]

But who DOESN'T like toast and butter? lol

[Ashfan]

After the way people have been savaging it, I went expecting the worst. However, it wasn't bad. Not great, but much better than the mishmash of trying to create a whole new mythology and then incorporate the mythology into a modern storyline that was Lady in the Water. It had some very interesting subplots, such as how an off-hand suggestion as to the source of the "problem", through repetition and lack of any other specifics, eventually becomes fact. The terrorism analogy was very evident, where you have an enemy you can't focus on, can't fight back against directly, and in some ways can't even identify. So all you can do is try and survive. What I also find interesting is the backlash that has started against the hysterically negative reviews. I have seen 2 reviews that attacked the negative reviews, saying, in essence, if you can't understand how M. Knight Shmalamadingdong (or whatever his name is) intended to make a low-key, highly ambiguous movie, maybe you're too dumb to be reviewing movies. Anyway, definitely not the best movies of the summer so far, but M. Knight's best since Unbreakable (IMHO).

[Kptn Howdie]

you know what the problem is........THE MONEY, at least to me anyway. i`m sure the happening is an alright movie, but is it worth 50 bucks to see? (factor in popcorn and gas).

my wife and i went to see the village a few years back. it was actually a good movie, but not worth the money imo.

perhaps i`m being to judgemental of movie based on a comparison of "retail value", but nevertheless the floating people in the commercial caught my attention, but i just can`t take the chance of being let down.

:thumbsdn:

[ablethevoice]

but i just can`t take the chance of being let down.[/B]

:thumbsdn:

That is exactly why I don't go to movies in the theater any more. At all. I got screwed by Star Wars 1...and thought it a fluke. I got screwed by Star Wars 2... and refused to believe it could get any worse. After Star Wars 3 The Whimpering End, I said Never Again. I've already decided that I'm not gonna be disappointed to the tune of $50 by getting lead by the short hairs to see Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. I'm absolutely not going to see this Happening BS in the theater.

[ablethevoice]

but i just can`t take the chance of being let down.[/B]

:thumbsdn:

That is exactly why I don't go to movies in the theater any more. At all. I got screwed by Star Wars 1...and thought it a fluke. I got screwed by Star Wars 2... and refused to believe it could get any worse. After Star Wars 3 The Whimpering End, I said Never Again. I've already decided that I'm not gonna be disappointed to the tune of $50 by getting lead by the short hairs to see Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. I'm absolutely not going to see this Happening BS in the theater.

[ShaneC]

I've already decided that I'm not gonna be disappointed to the tune of $50 ...

$50? Dear god, I'm glad I live close to a cheap theater. Takes me all of about a 10minute drive - hit the 10:30 showing for $12 for me and the wife (total).

Food's another story, but I try to avoid that one (but $8.99 for a Gyro & fries isn't tooo bad).


OH...Right, the Happening. Well, about $20 total for us to see it (damn food!) - and I wasn't really disappointed; but you're not missing much either.

I'll venture to say it was "almost good", like they were on the right track, but failed. It just needed more 'oomph', a better climax or something to draw us in more.

Not a bad movie, but I'd say wait for the rental (or TV airing).

[winters860]

I'm sorry to say I got dragged to the theater to see "Lady in the Water." About halfway through, I thought I had it figured out: The twist was going to be that the movie was actually a story-within-a-story and he was making some sort of high-minded (if misguided) point about mythmaking and the creative process.

The twist wound up being that there was no twist. The "clues" I had honed in on were just painfully ham-handed movie-making. Shyamalan even wrote a juicy, extraneous part for himself as THE WRITER WHO WAS DESTINED TO SAVE THE WORLD. Who the hell greenlighted that travesty? It takes away the prize from "Event Horizon" as the worst movie I've ever paid to see in a theater. The big-budget "Godzilla" with Matthew Broderick was high entertainment by comparison. There's eight bucks and two hours I'll never get back. :thumbsdn:

[soundmotor]

I'm sorry to say I got dragged to the theater to see "Lady in the Water."

I found it in the blow out bin at Wally World. I didn't hate it, I actually liked it as a fable or fairy tale. I liked "The Village" too. However, what his films do not survive is repeated watchings. Once you know the hook there isn't enough there to sit through it again. I am going to wait on Happening until I find it as cheap or cheaper than a rental or just wait completely until it shows up on FIOS.

[electronjohn]

My wife got sucked in by the promos...I refused to go. She NEARLY walked out, it was so bad.