The Happening

I'm with Eric on this one, as we were days ago when this thread started. It's a horrible movie, absolutely terrible. The only redeeming feature in it being Wahlberg's slightly childlike voice - it was more dimensional and haunting than anything Shamasham of a director could have made.
 
i like m night.

signs was good, i LOVED sixth sense, the village and lady in the water, though i need to rewatch it because there was stuff i didnt really pick up on the first time.

kinda wanna see the happening despite what you guys are saying, just to see what going on
 
I just got back from seeing it and I'm totally confused, did he intend it to be so cheesy? Some of the dialogue was so bad there is no way it could be unintended, and the audience clearly thought it was supposed to be funny. I still don't know if I liked it, the friend I went with LOVED it, clearly, the fact that I'm still trying to decide if I liked it means it has some redeeming qualities, not sure what they are though. At least all the plants in my house got fed when I got home, don't want them trying to kill me..... ah I just found the redeeming quality, the plants got their water.



Yeah ok, so the movie actually was bad, as you all predicted.

<<<spoiler>>>>

First of all, the movie is based on a theory that plants can produce neurotoxin when they sense a threat, and that the chemical will effect the human brain and nerve system to a point of self destruction.
The theory is OLD and obviously has never been proven.
The thing with this theory is that plants CAN produce this chemical, and can communicate with other plants from THE SAME SPECIES to do the same.
It has been proven that plants from the same species can communicate with other plants in other places with certain chemicals they produce.

HOWEVER: in the movie, all of a sudden all plants from all kinds of species (Including GRASS that is actually a human designed plant) can communicate with each other and they all trget people as threats-
so everywhere humans kill themselves in all sorts of ways...
Wait, did you hear what I said???? Plants FROM ALL SPECIES CAN COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER!!! that's absurd in so many levels I don't even know where to begin

MY GOD. :rolleyes:

Minus few nice mild gore and suicide scenes this movies sucked so bad.
The dialogues were funny (??!!) the characters were shallow and "obvious"
The scene where the main character started to talk to a fake plastic tree in a house, was probably the worst scene in history of thrillers,
It was BAD BAD BAD.

When they arrive to the old lady's house, all of a sudden the viewers are facing another kind of thrilling moments (and have nothing to do with anything in the movie ) I mean.... wtf.

I was mildly entertained throughout the movie, and I love the theory it is based on, but this movie seemed to me, like it was written in one night, with 0 thought put into it, and was edited really bad.

4/10
 
So did your friend love it too? I got a lecture about how " I just didn't get it"

You should give her a lecture of how this movie is spitting on everything that makes sense. ...and while you're at it, please inform her, that dandelions can not communicate with maple trees...
Also, please highlight the fact that "big groups of humans stumulate the plants so we must stay in smaller groups"
is the biggest load of shit I've heard since last weekend when those Jehova Whitnesses came to my front door
 
Yeah ok, so the movie actually was bad, as you all predicted.

<<<spoiler>>>>

First of all, the movie is based on a theory that plants can produce neurotoxin when they sense a threat, and that the chemical will effect the human brain and nerve system to a point of self destruction.
The theory is OLD and obviously has never been proven.
The thing with this theory is that plants CAN produce this chemical, and can communicate with other plants from THE SAME SPECIES to do the same.
It has been proven that plants from the same species can communicate with other plants in other places with certain chemicals they produce.

HOWEVER: in the movie, all of a sudden all plants from all kinds of species (Including GRASS that is actually a human designed plant) can communicate with each other and they all trget people as threats-
so everywhere humans kill themselves in all sorts of ways...
Wait, did you hear what I said???? Plants FROM ALL SPECIES CAN COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER!!! that's absurd in so many levels I don't even know where to begin

MY GOD. :rolleyes:

Minus few nice mild gore and suicide scenes this movies sucked so bad.
The dialogues were funny (??!!) the characters were shallow and "obvious"
The scene where the main character started to talk to a fake plastic tree in a house, was probably the worst scene in history of thrillers,
It was BAD BAD BAD.

When they arrive to the old lady's house, all of a sudden the viewers are facing another kind of thrilling moments (and have nothing to do with anything in the movie ) I mean.... wtf.

I was mildly entertained throughout the movie, and I love the theory it is based on, but this movie seemed to me, like it was written in one night, with 0 thought put into it, and was edited really bad.

4/10

damn, and i was thinking about going to see it for the last few days.
 
I was already avoiding this movie only because the tv spots just talk about the R rating. That tells me there not much worthwhile to the film itself if they have to use such a shitty gimmick. Plus, I was one of the idiots who saw Lady In The Water. One of the worst movies ever made. The Village was barely any better.

I liked Signs and I give M. Night props for tricking me with The Sixth Sense but really, he has few good movies.

He'll be sharing a duplex with Uwe Boll if he keeps this shit up.
 
Id agree it was probaly a 3star movie, the comic book franchise is defitenely taking a positive turn in overall quality lately, only thing that I can really remember that was totally gay was when they kept calling it the Hulk(idk didnt seem right placement, probaly how it happened in the Comics) and when hes like "HULKKKK SMASHHHHHHHH" lol

at the end with the cameo, was he hinting at some sort of Justice League or w/e its called for them?

and i thought it was pretty cool Lou Ferrigno had a lil cameo and he was the voice of the Hulk haha
 
The Avengers will be outstanding... I like how they're tying all the Marvel series together via movies.
 
I'd give Hulk a 8.5
The Bluray and DVD will have the scenes that Ed Norton wanted in the movie.
And I read that the director will release a scene soon with Captain America that was cut from Hulk.

Blonsky and Ross were both awesome. Completely crazy for their cause.
first Iron Man and now Hulk. Marvel is rocking my balls!