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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Feb 26, 2009
Pros: Some good creepy atmosphere
Cons: The screenplay and dialogue are remarkably stupid
Summary: Who keeps giving M. Night Shyamalan money? Whoever it is, they should stop - he just makes movies with it and I can't take any more. He's a one hit wonder with the tenacity of the Energizer bunny, trying in vain to replicate the success of ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 19, 2012
Pros: Some actually compelling segments, genuinely hilarious
Cons: Wrong for countless reasons, the whole film is a plot hole
Summary: The Happening is a bad film, but on the plus side it isn't always boring like Lady in the Water, a film with absolutely no redeeming qualities. At this point Shyamalan's filmmaking is a non point. He proved with The Village that twists are one thing, but ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 19, 2010
Pros: I didn't pay to see it in the theater.
Cons: A movie that starts off terrible and just gets worse from there.
Summary: DON'T DO IT! I found myself wanting to go stand in front of the 200 available movie rentals for The Happening at the local blockbuster with a big sign that read, "I just saved 2 hours of your life!"After being disappointed by The ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 5, 2010
Pros: Can get you thinking about being nicer to nature
Cons: Can get you thinking about being nicer to nature
Summary: Horror these days has little to offer besides great gore or ridiculously humorous wanna-be-scary subject material, so I was not ready for another M. Night feature that might fail like the ones I saw already. I was not impressed with The Village although ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 24, 2009
Pros: zip. zero. zilch.
Cons: Pick em. Bad screenplay, bad performances, bad premise.
Summary: Written, Produced, and Directed By M. Night Shyamalan &nb
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Wahlberg (John Moore) Zooey Deschanel (Alma Moore) John Leguizamo ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 13, 2009
Pros: Plot, tension, score
Cons: Unoriginal, some will hate the ending
Summary: A mysterious, airborne force appears to be causing mass suicides (via Stephen King-like creative means, including lawnmowers and even knitting needles!) all across East Coast of the United States of Obama. Science teacher Mark Wahlberg (Marky Mark says ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 25, 2009
Pros: The trees are less wooden than the leads
Cons: Wahlberg is awful, the movie is a sleeper
Summary: I’m almost at a loss for words on this one. M. Night Shyamalan’s career started out emphatically with what I consider to be two classics, The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. The Village was a little drop off but it still had its imaginative ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 10, 2009
Pros: so bizarre and inexplicably bad I couldn't look away
Cons: takes itself way too seriously given the premise, cheesy performances
Summary: I swore after Lady in the Water that I would never see another M. Night Shyamalan movie in the theater. At that point, he had burned me pretty severely twice, so I had already experienced the age old "fool me once, shame on you, fool me ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 6, 2009
Pros: Good production values ...
Cons: ... yet more fizzle than sizzle.
Summary: M. Night Shyamelan's THE HAPPENING (2008 -- THE is part of the title, although Epinions leaves it out) will immediately bring to mind Hitchcock's THE BIRDS, possibly one or another version of WAR OF THE WORLDS, possibly one or another version of ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 10, 2009
Pros: It's a grower
Cons: Might not be suitable for all.
Summary: I have to talk about this DVD in a light as really the first film I bought of M. Night Shyamalan, which I seen one other movie of his being that I saw Unbreakable – this like many of his films make use of bright colors to create an atmosphere of ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 31, 2008
Pros: Actors, basic premise of film
Cons: execution of the premise.
Summary: For M. Night wants to scare us, and the Oaks ignore his pleas. I had read several reviews of the latest by director M. Night Shyamalan. I like Mark Wahlberg, and I also have a soft spot for actress Zooey Deschanel. (I love those bright blue ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 4, 2008
Pros: Workable premise, a couple of visceral scenes
Cons: Poorly paced, badly scripted characters (especially leads), leaves no impact on the viewer
Summary: M. Night Shyamalan seems to have become an odd sort of phenomenon: people keep garnering heaps of attention on his releases, but more and more with the sole purpose of pointing out how bad they are, usually referencing earlier works and lamenting a ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 6, 2008
Pros: It's not all bad, Wahlberg's on-screen wife was funny
Cons: "The Happening" is what you get when a movie goes A.D.D.
Summary: This was supposed to be the official, inaugural Shyamalan horror extravaganza to shock us all. It's sad that it didn't live up to this expectation in the slightest. :-(The premise of the film is that mother nature is attacking humans; and the ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 26, 2008
Pros: If you want a boring movie there is another on available to watch.
Cons: Boring and career ending movie for a director with good potential.
Summary: I had really enjoyed < i>"M. (Manoj) Night Shyamalan" movies up to this point. "The Sixth Sense" (1999) was a great movie which left me wondering what was coming up next from M. Night Shyamalan, "Unbreakable" (2000) was ok but "Signs" (2002) was a ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 15, 2008
Pros: It is only boring instead of objectionable.
Cons: stultifying, slow, boring (yes, worth repeating)
Summary: When the opening credits are rolling and you find yourself getting bored watching white clouds billow in a blue sky, give in to the feeling to turn off the movie and go do something else. Don't waste your time sitting around waiting for The ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 13, 2008
Pros: Good beginning. Good idea.
Cons: Story weakens at some points. Graphic suicides seem out of place.
Summary: Rented The Happening the other night and watched it with my better half. We both thought it was OK. Not great, but OK.Of course, this movie is depressing, as it deals with suicide on a large scale. Neither of us thought The Happening was ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 8, 2008
Pros: Well made end of the world movie.
Cons: Downer flick.
Summary: I have to admit that I was reluctant to watch this film. Inundated with previews for the film prior to its release, talk of how director M. Night Shyamalan was the next best thing since John Carpenter when it came to horror and a personal recommendation ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 6, 2008
Pros: Great cinematography, impressive opening scene
Cons: the excitement lost in the middle of the show
Summary: Also written by me in dooyoo.co.ukIn the park, they're freaked out. People started to kill themselves with any kind of tools they can find. A girl used a hair clip to stab herself. Workers jumped from the tall building. Police officer shot ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 22, 2008
Pros: If you want to feel really, really smart-- watch this film. Cons: The worst, stupidest film of 2008, and maybe the worst, stupidest film of all time.
Summary: I sometimes wonder how much Joel Achenbach received for penning M. Night Shyamalan's disastrously stupid 2008 crud-fest, The Happening.Achenbac
h,
unlike Shyamalan, is not a household word among modern moviegoers. In fact, the man writes ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 2, 2008
Pros: Wide appeal: humor, science, emotion.
Cons: Lots of dead bodies.
Summary: Once you get past the weird science, this movie works like a charm. I don't know about you, but I'm like Pavlov's dog: once I see the time lapse shot of rolling clouds above the beginning subtitles, I just settle back with whatever strange premise the ... read more
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