Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: HAPPENING, THE (DVD MOVIE) EAN: 0024543532897 Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 07, 2008 Running Time: 90 minutes Sales Rank: 637 Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: 2008
An awful movie....
Al Gore would probably like this movie, but Michelle Polk rates it at zero! A gory movie which made little sense. Oh, I get the whole propaganda theme but the movie itself was just stupid. Suicide after suicide is committed because the plants are angry with humans. It might make a good sci-fi book but to watch those scenes over and over was just too rough!
Graceful Characters, Interesting Story
I'm noticing an interesting trend in Mr. Shyamalan's movies. While the "threat" or "main issue" of the movie is often dramatic and horrifying, the dialogue and relationships of the characters are usually delicate and graceful. There's a beautiful subtly to his movies that tug at your heart ever so gently. All of his main characters have wounded souls that, somehow through the difficulty they confront in the course of the story, figure out their greatest strengths. Not every ending is a perfect one and not every loose end is neatly tied and I wonder if that's why so many are walking away from his movies disappointed. There's no bang-bang shoot em' up or excessive gratuitous sex in every scene. I really walk away feeling connected to the ... Read More
i love this movie
becaause if they keep making movies like this we are going to do ourselves in
the future of movies is indeed corporate dispensibility
Don't waste your money
Lousy script and lousy performances . Mark Wahlberg,you are too good to be in such a lousy boring movie. Save your money and don't rent it.
Some similar themed sci-fi movies:
Hard to believe The Mist is rated higher and The Happening, or is it? Cloverfield I can accept as rated higher, but The Mist??? No freakin' way.
The Mist was sub-mediocre at best. Lame acting, lame(and same ol) CGI monster, boring cliched dialouge and poor acting. I found myself fast forwarding through most of the silly 'made for TV' style over-acting and trite dialouge parts just to see the lame CGI tentacled 'monster'. These numbers do certainly tell a tale....
I found The Happening to be a fitting homage/update to the sci-fi's of the 1950's. You know, where the human psychology and the ensuing paranoia is the 'monster'. If folks wanted to see a monster, watch Cloverfield or The Mist. That style of film has been ... Read More
