...because I feel the exact same as Harry.

For a start, most natural disasters are localised. Sorry it wasn't I am Legend 2 but that's a nitpicky personal gripe right there. Also as to the gas-masks and scuba gear, the film showed very clearly that they had no clue what was going on until they had already hit the countryside.

As to the deaths being meaningless I disagree completely. Some were, yes, but the Tree/Glass event(for spoiler's sake) was particularly effective in my eyes. It's a very flawed film but nowhere near the pig-fuck you're implying. so for all our sakes get off the hyperbole pills and try to contain your own wants while you review something.

That this is what he believes reaches even half the level of those fims illustrates how deluded he has become. It's sad to see someone's ego totally wreck their career.

OH MY GOD MY BALLS BURST WITH HAPPY

or it's IT WAS SO BAD IT RAPED MY MOTHER AND LEFT HER PREGNANT WITH A NAZI SCORPION BABY!!

Frankly I think that Happening was a below average horror with a few decent moments and a lot of missed opportunity, howver Harry just seems to have done his usual and taken the fact it wasn't The next Godfather as some sort of personal insult. He needs to calm his ass down and start looking at WHAT WAS IN THE FILM, not what they left out, which only ever existed in his head.

That's a couple of Blindingly Harsh Reviews there and I am Loving it! I always envied your ability to see the amazing in every movie you watched, actually maybee it was more down to you cherry picking the good ones to review but I like this new found Criticism!

As for The Happening, I imagine I'll see it on DVD. Mrs. Skin likes M. Night for some reason.

I like Harry's reviews due to the enthusiasm he shows wether he loves a movie or hates it with a passion.

He's stated before he only reviews the movies he's realluy interested in, so why is it a surprise that his opinions are 'exuberant'. Better that than having your brain turn slowly beige reading a review written by a guy from the Neutral Planet - "This movie had sound and pictures that moved. The End"

Boring!! Oh, and this sounds the drizzling shits.

At least THE HAPPENING didn't have time travel.

How is anyone supposed to deliver this dialogue credibly? "It's ok, Jess. I don't like to show my emotions, either." "There's a car!" (after a car has pulled up literally right next to them). Or after they hear gunshots and Elliot says "Oh no," she actually replies with "What 'Oh no'?!" And then she proposes that they run TOWARD the gunshots to see what's up, because they "can't just stand here and be uninvolved observers!" She was dumb enough to make me think I should be offended on behalf of women everywhere.

And for the record, I like Mark Wahlberg, and think Zooey is VERY underrated (I find her to be far more talented than Scarlett, Natalie and most of the other starlets her age). No actors could have played these roles and come off looking well.

But I agree with Harry that this does have some entertainment value, even if it is unintentional, which is more than I can say for Lady in the Water or The Village. But that "unintentional hilarity" value is undercut by that nagging pity I have for the actors when watching it.

If ever there was a Modern Movie that deserved the MST3K treatment THIS is IT baby !

The "acting" has to be seen to be believed. The dialogue is just sidesplittingly bad and the less said about the "plot" the better.

A Movie where the camera cuts to a large plant indoors and actually has you wondering THE SECOND it does so "No. NO, dear God even in this piece of shit .. they WON'T go there. They CAN'T go there!!!! NOOOOooo!".

And then of course they do. And your jaw is on the floor.

Has Shyamalan been eating and smoking every plant he could find as preperation for this Movie or what ??? You simply won't believe he's made this, even if you are one of those who can't stand him. (And I'm not, I think he's made some superb films in the past.)In fact you simply won't believe it's an actual real Hollywood Major Movie. It's staggering.

However one REALLY good thing has come of The Happening. Unless you see this you cannot in good conscience tell others about how BAD other Movies are without referral to this one.

All those who got foaming at the mouth Hhsterical over Indy 4 ? HERE is a goddawful fucking Movie. Indy 4 was Meh.

It will take an incredible almost superhuman effort that utilises divine inspiration to make a Movie worse than this one this year... maybe even this decade!

Also, I would like you to read what I said about the movie in the "love guru" review, so I will copy and paste it here.

One of the problems though with his style is that, after seeing 5 of his movies, I basically know what to look for. Nothing said is arbitrary. If someone says something about the plants doing it, then by golly that's what it is. He tries to keep us guessing by having someone talk about how there are more nuclear power plants on the east coast than anywhere, but a "thoughtful" movie goer (as Ebert would say) would put the pieces together from what they have seen so far and not buy it. Same thing goes with that crazy old woman, Mrs. Johnson. She mentions that there there is a "speaking tube" in the house, and the minute she said that, I knew that Mark Wahlberg would be seperated from his wife and the little girl.

He is peaceful to drive the plot. That's why he acts like that. M. Night even bashes the point home by talking about the mood ring, over and over again. In case we didn't really get that Mark is peaceful. No matter what the situation, the ring was always blue. WE GET IT, okay? Mark Wahlberg is peaceful, so he is immune to the trees that don't like angry people. Got it. Got it WAY before that scene where he decides to go outside to see his wife. What, did M. Night actually think that was a suspenseful moment? Ridiculous.

Anyway, the point is, in a normal role where Mark Wahlberg is playing a laid back guy, it would be fine. The guy has range. But since he is KNOWN for being a tough guy in movies, and this movie DEMANDS that he act a certain way that is completely contrary to his known persona, it just comes off as awkward.

Every Shyamalan film has a "hook" in addition to the main offbeat tale (SIXTH SENSE Kid who sees dead people...but the doctor treating him is the one who's dead, UNBREAKABLE A man discovers he's a superhero...but finds out he's being manipulated by a supervillain, etc). The twist in THE HAPPENING, I believe, is a trick played on the sensibilities of its critics: the story is SUPPOSED to be preachy, the acting wooden, the dialog stale...it's a modern day B-movie, similar in structure (and in clunkiness) to its panicky nuclear-age forbears from the fifties.

I mean, c'mon...didn't you feel like somebody was putting you on as you watched it (see palinode's post above)? Shyamalan can be obvious (I figured out THE VILLAGE fifteen minutes in), but he isn't this outrightly awful...not without a reason.

This will be complete shit but it's okay, that's the point! What a twist!

Ok, so I actually had to watch 3 or 4 of Zooey's indie movies in school (I was a film major, and one of my professors liked to keep us up with the Sundance crowd): "Manic," "All the Real Girls," "The Good Girl," and one of her short films...I think it was "Raving" because it was free on iTunes, and another one of my professors who wanted us to watch as many short films as possible told us all to get it. Anyway, based on those for roles, I had the hardest time reconciling that those characters were all the same person. Then later I realized she was also the scene-stealing big sister in "Almost Famous" and the love interest in "Elf" and couldn't believe it. I just don't see how anyone could watch all those roles (especially the 1st 3 I mentioned) and not think she was some sort of chameleon.

I've since become more familiar with some of her other work, and I can see how some people could think she plays the same character all the time, because it seems in the more mainstream projects, she's been pigeon-holed into the quirky/crazy/deadpan supporting roles, but that's just because she's damn good at it (HILARIOUS in Weeds), but that's on top of the other types of roles she's done in smaller indies ("Winter Passing" was another good little-seen performance of hers).

Unfortunately, it seems like the higher-profile the project, the weaker her role is, so I think she's incredibly underrated as a result.

I admit I'm biased though, because unlike Shyamalan, I do think Howard's always awesome. Seriously, though, this was a fairly low-key movie for Shyamalan, and I think it had an appropriately low-key score. That's like the one thing I didn't have a problem with in this movie.

I know exactly what you're talking about, but if that bugs, you though, you won't like her in Weeds, which is probably her craziest character to date. She definitely has the "spacey eyes" in that. But in movies where she's playing a real non-psychotic person, she doesn't seem remotely spacey to me (like "All the Real Girls" or hell, even "Bridge to Terabithia"). Of course, her eyes are naturally quite big, so if that's what's bothering you, I don't think you'll ever like her. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I just only get the spacey-vibe when she's playing a character who's supposed to be "off."

Secondly, Lesbians are NOT good judges on what qualifies as a good looking woman. On the radio this week, this lesbian was saying that's the last thing they think about.

All hail the power of Google Maps(TM)!

And BTW Whalberg talking to the plant was his only decent acting in the film. That was great moment in the fim. It was Night consciously admitting to the audience the inherent lunacy of the situation, but somehow not taking anything away from the danger involved. It was a nice bit of comic relief. you people are seriously reaching for things to hate about this film and it's kind of sad.

And IMO Shyamalan hasn't had a good (or great) original ideal since UNBREAKABLE. This leads me to believe he got lucky early in his career. And now is getting by on ego and self promotion. He is a one-trick pony. He attempts to wrap a clever story around a gimmick. (It doesn't have to be a twist, just a gimmick.) And IMO his gimmicks get sillier after each movie and the stories less clever. Once again, IMO and YMMV.

Another great Shyamalan film would be awesome. I doubt one is coming.

Also with a title like the Happening, you know it was going to end up something lame. Like THEM! he should've man'ed up and not explained anything rather then going green and saying it was the trees. If that was the explination after 3 movies, it would've been awesomely outrageous. But I guess after his Unbreakable trilogy fell through he probably felt that he would only get one shot at this.

I'm sorry if you are going to try to sell me on a movie just because its rated R, and your not aiming to get 10 year olds into the theater (because anyone over the age of ten who wants to see an R rated film should be smart enough to figure out a way to without bugging there parents to take them). Then it has to be the most brutal R rated film ever. Because just two weeks ago an R rated film came out called Sex in the City. And I am assuming that that movie was probably scarier and a harder R then Whats Happening.

Fox Exec: "Whats the one sight I read when I was in college - had all the inside track on movie news nobody else could find. Had that water-boy from The Faculty writing for it or something."

Fox Staffer: "Aint it cool news. Yeah they still have a following. I haven't read it in a while tho. I assume they're still on the net."

Fox Exec: *taps keyboard* "chocolate covered WHAT? Phone call from WHERE? Third trimester abortions? *turns off laptop* Tell ya what, see if anyone over at IGN wants em."

Take Unbreakable - I know, a lot of folks love it or whatever, but what is it, at heart? A superhero movie with no visible superhero, and action flick with all action deliberately omitted.

I remember feeling like Unbreakable was damn-near condescending the first time I watched it. Mind you, I've always been told I am in the minority on this, but fuck you and a half for insinuating that just because I thought Unbreakable was patronizing, I'd be better suited to Fantastic Four. That, sir, is what we call fightin' words.