I heard it was a
Spoiler:
Adam and Eve kind of storyline set up where mother nature kills all of earth except for a few and at the end they realise they have to start again like humanity is given a second chance through them to start again after learning the hard way not to mess with mother nature or harm the earth so badly again
Here are two new red-band trailers.
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/two-red-band-internet-trailers-for-the-happening
The Happening
The Happening is a paranormal thriller in which a family must survive a global environmental crisis. The film will portray the earth's vegetation unleashing airborne neurotoxins that cause all those who breathe it to commit violent suicide. The protagonist, a science teacher named Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg), goes on the run with his estranged wife (Zooey Deschanel) and friends as hysteria grips the planet.
The trailer looks awsome, but the description sounds kind of. . . . well. .
IFFY.
What do you think? Worth seeing? Not worth seeing? Load of crap?
Originally posted by Darth Vicious
It looks very interesting but then again so did The Village and Lady in The Water. This one seems better though.
Yeah good point,so did signs.Yeah it looks interesting from the previews and makes me want to see it but like you said,The Village did as well and so did Signs.Havent seen The Lady in The water but The Village was boring and Signs was god awful.Worst movie of the year I would go as far as saying
Originally posted by BackFire
Eh. I've lost some faith in M. Night. The Village was garbage, Lady in the Water was kinda decent, but really silly.I'll see this. Just so long as the villain isn't some retard in a furry suit.
Yeah same here as well.I also have lost faith in M. Night.The Village was extremely boring and Signs I think is worse.Signs for me is the one I would go and say was garbage.I dont think I can ever recall seeing a movie Mel Gibson was in that I didnt like so thats saying a lot about M Night making a movie that Mel was in that I hated.Normally I would say-well it wasnt the directors fault,he was just working with what was given to him with the screenplay but Night I believe writes the screenplays for his movies and hearing that people hated The Lady in The Water like I hated Signs and seeing how The Village sucked,Night is the one to blame for churning out so many bad movies.Still it looks interesting,maybe he'll surprise me this ONE time and finally make a good flick.I'll just have to wait and see.
cant blame them.come to think of it thats WHY I skipped that movie cause after I saw that pitiful Signs movie and the incredibly boring The Village,I now remember thats why I missed it was because when I saw he was the director i said to myself-No thanks,I think I'll stay away from this one since M Night is the director.I have seen two of his movies and they both were horrible.
I think i will do with this movie what I do with others that I want to see but dont want to pay money to see.Pay to see a movie that I have seen that I really liked,watch it,then pop in to the other theatre after that movie is over and see it as well for free.
Originally posted by MildPossession
I enjoyed Signs also, and The Village is probably my favourite film from the director. The Happening will be a dvd wait for me though.
Signs was alright until it went all cheapo at the end. It should have ended with the knock on the door of the cellar. As for The Village...Are. You. Joking. Question. Mark. That was a pile of stinking, rotten, putrid garbage.
The Happening looks to be a joke of a movie, too. Wahlberg seems to be acting as a parody of someone who cares.
Film review: 'Happening' shocks, then boresBy DAVID GERMAIN – 6 hours ago
For a movie called "The Happening," not much happens.
M. Night Shyamalan effectively delivers the usual broody air of foreboding that has been a trademark of his hits ("The Sixth Sense" and "Signs"😉 and misses ("Lady in the Water" and "Unbreakable"😉.
And this fear-mongering story of an airborne toxin that causes victims to snuff themselves in nasty ways — shoving hairpins into their throats, hurling themselves en masse off a high rise, the like — induces plenty of seat-squirming. The shock value wears off quickly, though, and writer-director Shyamalan strands us (along with Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel) in an ultimately boring cautionary tale with an infantile eco-message.
Thankfully, Shyamalan's not trying to pull great surprises anymore. He sneaked up on us brilliantly with an ending to "The Sixth Sense" that made just about everyone want to see it again.
Since then, his attempts to startle mostly have been flimsy gimmicks, though the end to "The Village," while not terribly surprising, packed provocative notions about creating your own monsters while trying to shield yourself from the horrors of the world at large.
In "The Happening," those horrors land abruptly and mysteriously as crowds in New York's Central Park become disoriented one morning, then start killing themselves savagely. The phenomena spreads through Manhattan, then to Philadelphia, Boston and other cities, trickling down to smaller and smaller Northeast towns, villages and pockets of people.
By way of lame explanation, a TV news talking head babbles some scientific nonsense about a substance that blocks the brain's self-preservation neurotransmitters.
At first, it's assumed this is a terrorist attack. But as the day wears on, observers realize — none too plausibly, given the skimpy anecdotal evidence and utter lack of empirical validation — that our green friends in the plant world are the source of some deadly toxin.
Philly science teacher Elliot Moore (Wahlberg) and wife Alma (Deschanel) flee the city by train along with his buddy Julian (John Leguizamo) and his 8-year-old daughter, Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez).
Stranded in rural Pennsylvania, Julian heads off to search for his missing wife, leaving his daughter in the care of Elliot and Alma, who join other survivors rushing through the boondocks to stay ahead of the toxin.
From here, "The Happening" deflates from its grisly, early promise to repetitive images of people running through fields, the unlucky ones suddenly stopping, then searching about for convenient ways to do themselves in.
By the time a guy cranks up a giant lawnmower and lies down in front of it, Shyamalan's images of mass suicide have grown tiresome.
There's little room for Wahlberg and Deschanel to do more than react in terror, and both are rather bland even at that. A feeble marital rift Shyamalan tosses in does nothing to spice up the drama.
Gradually, "The Happening" turns weird for the sake of turning weird as Elliot and Alma take refuge with a crazy old woman (Betty Buckley, the step-mom from "Eight Is Enough" — remember her?).
Shyamalan manages to keep in check the overactive ego that led him to take on tiny roles a la an Alfred Hitchcock walk-on in some movies — and the all-out narcissism he displayed by casting himself as a writer whose book will be the basis of humanity's salvation in "Lady in the Water."
He does slip himself into "The Happening," though, providing the phone voice of a man with whom Alma has a flirtation.
The movie's vague, shame-on-us finger-pointing would have been tepid in the 1960s and '70s, when Hollywood condemned our rapacious species with more fun and interesting future-shock stories such as "Planet of the Apes" and "Silent Running."
Shyamalan states that the idea for "The Happening" — the entire structure and the characters — came to him in an instant as he drove through rural New Jersey and was hit by the thought, "What if nature one day turned on us?"
Fine, nice start. But all Shyamalan ever came up with is a start, an intriguing impetus for a story that ultimately goes nowhere and says nothing.
"The Happening," a 20th Century Fox release, is rated R for violent and disturbing images. Running time: 91 minutes.
Two stars out of four.
As for The Village...Are. You. Joking. Question. Mark. That was a pile of stinking, rotten, putrid garbage.
No, it's my favourite. Did you expect a scary 'horror' film because of the rubbish advertising for the film? or do you just think it was 'putrid garbage' full stop?
I liked Signs but prefered Sixth Sense over it.