The Happening

rtil · June 16, 2008 03:27 AM

aren't all his movies predictable everyone always says that

i wouldn't know because i've never seen any of them

trent bortknob · June 16, 2008 03:29 AM

Quote from: rtilaren\\\'t all his movies predictable everyone always says that

not to me but maybe im just dumb or something

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that was really lame

the reason i liked m nights is because i found the concept really interesting (which im not going to say)

in this its just about a parasite that makes you depressed and then you kill yourself

plus the acting in this is even worse than m night\\\'s movie

It doesn\\\'t make you depressed, it just makes you kill yourself. Sure the acting was worse, but when watching both, I\\\'d rather save myself the extra time from the Happening in the end.

Both of them were lame. I thought M. Night\\\'s concept was twice as lame as the parasite cause though.

fuck off faggot your opinion is wrong

FG_SPace · June 16, 2008 04:16 AM

people who think the concept is lame are people who are sick of hearing the preachings of global warming and save the whales.
as for his movies being predictable...aren't all movies? Isn't it that all stories are the same since there are about 12 of em? if you pay any attention to the plot and characters you know how it ends its about the how they get there which is the entertainment. and thats what i think is good about m night's movies the middle is entertaining and while the endings aren't perfect they don't fall flat on their asses (cept Lady in the water)

MRat · June 16, 2008 06:09 AM

His movies are generally predictable, and the village is like identical to the book Running out of Time. The period they're acting out in the village is a different tiem, and what keeps them in the village is different, but yeah those are irrelevant really anyway.

And I am tired of hearing global warming and save the wales shit. Do I want the planet dead? No. Do I recycle? Yes. I'm not retarded stop ranting and raving about the environment. And it's not the message that was lame so much as the

MUTHERUCKING SPOILERS

fact that it's plants. PLANTS. The hole in my foot from stepping on a nail yesterday has better ideas than that. If he pushed the cheese factor of the whole film, then yeah, it would have worked for me, but as a serious thriller or horror? Hell naw.

Remember the Ruins?

FG_SPace · June 16, 2008 01:57 PM

didn't see the ruins and i thank god every day that i don't. same with house of wax.
what i like is there isn't certainty if its the plants, that even after all that happened there were still skeptics just like with global warming and i respect your opinion and that fact that your sick of hearing it, so am i and i go to a school where we get told about it every five minutes but there are still skeptics and i think the medium of film is a good vessel for middle america and i guess M Night missed the mark a little but its a good idea[/textwall]

wps · June 16, 2008 02:18 PM

I want to make a horror movie about a man who has a strange phobia that makes him think that a coconut will fall out of the sky and crush his skull

MRat · June 16, 2008 02:49 PM

Quote from: wpsI want to make a horror movie about a man who has a strange phobia that makes him think that a coconut will fall out of the sky and crush his skull

Do it. I'd watch it.

wps · June 16, 2008 03:15 PM

but I need money and famous actors like Tiffany Teen, Nextdoor Nikki, etc!

Hammi · June 16, 2008 04:15 PM

Im buying a ticket soon so i can watch it. The trailer got me good so i cant really help it.

texas · June 16, 2008 05:08 PM

Quote from: MRatRemember the Ruins?

the ruins was one of the best novels i've ever read even though the antagonists were the vines

MRat · June 16, 2008 05:34 PM

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the ruins was one of the best novels i've ever read even though the antagonists were the vines

It was very nic, very Stephen King, but ugh that movie.

billy · June 16, 2008 11:35 PM

Quote from: wpsI want to make a horror movie about a man who has a strange phobia that makes him think that a coconut will fall out of the sky and crush his skull

lmao

rtil · June 17, 2008 06:41 AM

ok i saw this tonight and it was really bad. horrible script, horrible acting, didn't care about the the protagonists, the antagonists were plants/wind noises, and they were not scary.

things i learned from this movie:

- maya the bee will kill you

trent bortknob · June 17, 2008 06:45 AM

i didnt think it was scary at all but i still thought it was interesting

and like i said the acting in the beginning was pretty bad

rtil · June 17, 2008 06:47 AM

it could have been way better it didn't even seem like he was trying to make a decent movie

trent bortknob · June 17, 2008 06:50 AM

i dont know ive seen 3 m. night movies

signs the happening and the sixth sense

signs was a really bad movie that i didnt find scary or interesting

the happening had an interesting concept but nothing to make it very scary

the sixth sense was neat if i remmeber correctly but i havcent see n it in a few years

rtil · June 17, 2008 07:06 AM

why is he such a big deal then his movies don't sound so great

billy · June 17, 2008 07:10 AM

my friend told me yesterday that he really liked signs so i called him a faggot

ZekeySpaceyLizard · June 17, 2008 07:25 AM

Quote from: rtilwhy is he such a big deal then his movies don't sound so great

because he made horror films differently than everyone else.....kinda.

he definitely has a style to his films.

but without a good plot/script they dont work.
he's not one of those directors who can polish a turd.

Rina-chan · June 17, 2008 10:23 AM

I found it interesting, but I was disappointed at the fact that it didn't scare me at all. And the whole plant thing kind of killed it---I was excited about the concept of people being compelled to kill themselves but that took a backseat to all the environmental messages. It had some parts that could have been creepy if we were given more insight---for instance, why was that little girl suddenly talking about calculus? I know that the toxins were supposed to make people confused and stop making sense but I wanted to see more of what was going on there

...Oh actually. I was creeped out by that crazy old lady.