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UK Mall 1 - The Happening [2008]
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Zooey Deschanel, Betty Buckley, Mark Wahlberg, John Leguizamo
Directed By: M. Night Shyamalan
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Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5039036038706
Format: PAL
Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: 2008-11-03
Running Time: 86
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Stupid
Comment: Shyamalan is now far from his directing excellence on The Sixth Sense and Signs. His last 3 movies The village, The Lady In The Water and this have been condemmed by many a reviewer. So, what happened? This movie didnt get 1 star because some scenes are slightly disturbing and chilling, but the rest of the movie spirals into a disaster. Its the plants that are scared of us! But if you stay in small groups then they wont want to make you kill yourself!? Poor.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Surely as mis-titled a movie as there has been in a while...
Comment: It's a B-movie. No other word to describe it. And as a non-intellectual throw-away B-movie, it's not that bad. However it comes laden with expectation - it's a Shymalayan movie - so what's the hook, and what's the twist!
Well, the hook is that mysterious deaths start occurring in the NE of the United States. Confusion reigns, as the news alternates between fear this is a terrorist attack, to the gradual realization this is.. well, just in case you haven't seen it yet I won't spoil the only `surprise' in the movie. But wait, there IS another surprise - when did Mark Wahlberg become such a dismal actor! The lines, the delivery, the timing, everything is just what you'd expect from a poorly edited 70's grindhouse movie. Can he be doing it deliberately as an in-joke? If so, the jokes on him because its cringe-worthy. If you can just take it at a B-movie level, you might get some satisfaction - because there isn't anything else to enjoy in the movie. The director has lost his flair for the gradual reveal, the careful structure, and the cinematic tools as storytelling devices.. it's a movie that is no more then the lowest denominator you might expect a movie with a plot like this to have.
The extras talk much about how this was the director's exciting foray into the world of an adult rating. And true, some of the deaths are disconcerting, and yes, there is maybe one cheap shock to be had, but sadly it's all so straightforward, and lacks any impact, except the occasional moment of impact as you hit the wall with your head at the ineptitude.
As for the twist - there is none. It's just one of those movies that you keep thinking it will go somewhere and it goes on, and on.. then.. sort of ends. And that's it.
Extras - deleted scenes are more of the same, gag reel is not as funny as some of the actual lines in the movie, featurettes are slight and frustratingly broken up into 5 to 10 minute chunks. Perhaps the movie might have been better if it had the same done to it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Imagine Day of the Triffids written by a five-year-old.
Comment: If you thought M Night Shyamalan couldn't make a movie worse than Lady in the Water, or if you thought Mark Wahlberg couldn't turn in a more risible performance than he did in Rockstar, then I'm here to tell you that you were plum wrong.
The Happening is a pompous, idiotic waste of celluloid that falls most definitely into the category: 'so bad it's just plain bad'. There has been a 'Happening', by which Shyamalan means plants are releasing airborne toxins that make people commit mass suicide. 'Plants can talk to each other,' someone with a beard explains. 'Trees talk to bushes, bushes talk to grass.' Imagine Day of the Triffids written by a five-year-old.
Wahlberg plays a science teacher (you can tell he's a science teacher because he wears a tank top sweater), and, boy, is he bad? To be fair, he is woefully miscast, and is forced to deliver dialogue that would make George Lucas blush, but Wahlberg really is pushing hard for the much-contested accolade of Hollywood's worst leading man. John Leguizamo and Zooey Deschanel (ruining the cred her recent indie-pop record afforded) also go down with this sinking ship. As for Shyamalan, who wrote and directed this gunk, his output has been in total freefall ever since the moment in Signs when the rubbish alien turned up.
The most annoying thing about The Happening is that Shyamalan clearly sees it as some sort of eco parable about us pesky humans getting our comeuppance for treating nature so horribly. It is such a cack-handed effort at persuading us to change our ways that it has precisely the opposite effect. So rev those engines, spray those aerosols, chuck your recyclables into a landfill. If we have to destroy the planet to stop M Night Shyamalan from making another rotten movie then that, good people of Earth, seems a very small price to pay.
Customer Rating:
Summary: If there was a 0 star option I would have picked it!!!!!
Comment: Truly one of the worst films I have ever seen.....and I was made to watch starship troopers 3 once!!!!.
I liked the sixth sense, though unbreakable was bad, signs ok and the other one a bit lame......this one seemed like some sort of a joke!
The acting was so poor it was, at times laugh out loud funny!!! My favourite line was when the group was in a field and heard some people dying in the distance Mark (who produces one the worst acting performances) utters "oh no".....there's a pause and very little other dialog....
Most the film made no sense, and the only thing that would make it better: the death of the main characters - never happens.....instead the film suddenly ends.....
Don't what ever you do buy this absolute pile of unadulterated dross.....it's closer to a spoof film then any real attempt......What amazes me more is that some people gave this 5 stars, they should clearly seek out starship troopers 3.
Customer Rating:
Summary: a shocker
Comment: I'm simply adding to the chorus of what has been said several times, but I can't help myself. What an appalling movie. The premise is interesting, but the script is ghastly. I never imagined that I'd see Mark Wahlberg in something this bad. M. Night Shyamalan has been given far, far too much leeway to write, direct and produce his own material, and the fact is, he will never be able to match the genius of The Sixth Sense. Will someone please stop this man!! If you're contemplating renting or (god forbid) buying this, forget about it. There are better things to waste your money on.
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Summary: Stupid
Comment: Shyamalan is now far from his directing excellence on The Sixth Sense and Signs. His last 3 movies The village, The Lady In The Water and this have been condemmed by many a reviewer. So, what happened? This movie didnt get 1 star because some scenes are slightly disturbing and chilling, but the rest of the movie spirals into a disaster. Its the plants that are scared of us! But if you stay in small groups then they wont want to make you kill yourself!? Poor.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Surely as mis-titled a movie as there has been in a while...
Comment: It's a B-movie. No other word to describe it. And as a non-intellectual throw-away B-movie, it's not that bad. However it comes laden with expectation - it's a Shymalayan movie - so what's the hook, and what's the twist!
Well, the hook is that mysterious deaths start occurring in the NE of the United States. Confusion reigns, as the news alternates between fear this is a terrorist attack, to the gradual realization this is.. well, just in case you haven't seen it yet I won't spoil the only `surprise' in the movie. But wait, there IS another surprise - when did Mark Wahlberg become such a dismal actor! The lines, the delivery, the timing, everything is just what you'd expect from a poorly edited 70's grindhouse movie. Can he be doing it deliberately as an in-joke? If so, the jokes on him because its cringe-worthy. If you can just take it at a B-movie level, you might get some satisfaction - because there isn't anything else to enjoy in the movie. The director has lost his flair for the gradual reveal, the careful structure, and the cinematic tools as storytelling devices.. it's a movie that is no more then the lowest denominator you might expect a movie with a plot like this to have.
The extras talk much about how this was the director's exciting foray into the world of an adult rating. And true, some of the deaths are disconcerting, and yes, there is maybe one cheap shock to be had, but sadly it's all so straightforward, and lacks any impact, except the occasional moment of impact as you hit the wall with your head at the ineptitude.
As for the twist - there is none. It's just one of those movies that you keep thinking it will go somewhere and it goes on, and on.. then.. sort of ends. And that's it.
Extras - deleted scenes are more of the same, gag reel is not as funny as some of the actual lines in the movie, featurettes are slight and frustratingly broken up into 5 to 10 minute chunks. Perhaps the movie might have been better if it had the same done to it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Imagine Day of the Triffids written by a five-year-old.
Comment: If you thought M Night Shyamalan couldn't make a movie worse than Lady in the Water, or if you thought Mark Wahlberg couldn't turn in a more risible performance than he did in Rockstar, then I'm here to tell you that you were plum wrong.
The Happening is a pompous, idiotic waste of celluloid that falls most definitely into the category: 'so bad it's just plain bad'. There has been a 'Happening', by which Shyamalan means plants are releasing airborne toxins that make people commit mass suicide. 'Plants can talk to each other,' someone with a beard explains. 'Trees talk to bushes, bushes talk to grass.' Imagine Day of the Triffids written by a five-year-old.
Wahlberg plays a science teacher (you can tell he's a science teacher because he wears a tank top sweater), and, boy, is he bad? To be fair, he is woefully miscast, and is forced to deliver dialogue that would make George Lucas blush, but Wahlberg really is pushing hard for the much-contested accolade of Hollywood's worst leading man. John Leguizamo and Zooey Deschanel (ruining the cred her recent indie-pop record afforded) also go down with this sinking ship. As for Shyamalan, who wrote and directed this gunk, his output has been in total freefall ever since the moment in Signs when the rubbish alien turned up.
The most annoying thing about The Happening is that Shyamalan clearly sees it as some sort of eco parable about us pesky humans getting our comeuppance for treating nature so horribly. It is such a cack-handed effort at persuading us to change our ways that it has precisely the opposite effect. So rev those engines, spray those aerosols, chuck your recyclables into a landfill. If we have to destroy the planet to stop M Night Shyamalan from making another rotten movie then that, good people of Earth, seems a very small price to pay.
Customer Rating:
Summary: If there was a 0 star option I would have picked it!!!!!
Comment: Truly one of the worst films I have ever seen.....and I was made to watch starship troopers 3 once!!!!.
I liked the sixth sense, though unbreakable was bad, signs ok and the other one a bit lame......this one seemed like some sort of a joke!
The acting was so poor it was, at times laugh out loud funny!!! My favourite line was when the group was in a field and heard some people dying in the distance Mark (who produces one the worst acting performances) utters "oh no".....there's a pause and very little other dialog....
Most the film made no sense, and the only thing that would make it better: the death of the main characters - never happens.....instead the film suddenly ends.....
Don't what ever you do buy this absolute pile of unadulterated dross.....it's closer to a spoof film then any real attempt......What amazes me more is that some people gave this 5 stars, they should clearly seek out starship troopers 3.
Customer Rating:
Summary: a shocker
Comment: I'm simply adding to the chorus of what has been said several times, but I can't help myself. What an appalling movie. The premise is interesting, but the script is ghastly. I never imagined that I'd see Mark Wahlberg in something this bad. M. Night Shyamalan has been given far, far too much leeway to write, direct and produce his own material, and the fact is, he will never be able to match the genius of The Sixth Sense. Will someone please stop this man!! If you're contemplating renting or (god forbid) buying this, forget about it. There are better things to waste your money on.
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