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16th June 2008, 12:45am
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#31 | | John Ringo
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| Re: The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan's new film.
Fart.
If he got the "r" rating, why not use it instead of being a fucking dick about it? No gore meant to impact in this instance. Don't get me started in the "acting". Great concept done poorly. | 
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16th June 2008, 1:13am
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#32 | | Experiment in Heavy Deal
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| Re: The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan's new film.
Prefer the song.
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16th June 2008, 8:23am
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#33 | | THE BOMB?
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| Re: The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan's new film.
It was so bad that I was wondering if it was intentionally made that way.
Who though Marky Mark could act?
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16th June 2008, 9:17am
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#34 | | Cap ou pas cap?
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| Re: The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan's new film.
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Originally Posted by System_Star  Who though Marky Mark could act? | Scorsese did. He's not half bad in The Departed either. Just seems to be rubbish in... well... pretty much everything else! 
People really do seem to hate this movie. Someone asked for their money back 'cos it was shite', and when I said no, they told me the ending. Sounded gash, so I think I'll avoid it.
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16th June 2008, 9:23am
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#35 | | Keep Never Changing
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| Re: The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan's new film.
If I didn't have a cinema card, I'd have demanded a refund too! Haha. The only thing that stopped me from walking out early was the fact that I wanted to see if there was going to be some crazy twist or something... what a waste of time that was.
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16th June 2008, 9:48am
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#36 | | A little glass vial?
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| Re: The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan's new film.
Part of me wants to see this now.
Specifically, the part that likes watching car crashes. | |
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16th June 2008, 10:06am
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#37 | | Cap'n Cherry
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| Re: The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan's new film.
I just read the plot synopsis there, and actually snorted out loud (SOL?) when I read the reason behind it all...
What a load of utter garbage. | |
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16th June 2008, 11:48am
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#38 | | Gutentag McGyver
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| Re: The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan's new film.
Went to see the film last night. Was so shit. I used to like Mark Wahlberg. Not now! He deserves a razzie award for that acting | |
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16th June 2008, 7:14pm
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#39 | | bad kitty!
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| Re: The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan's new film.
i liked the idea and the first half, when you find out what was maybe going on but then we have just to assume that is whats going on cause its never really confirmed but anyway it was pretty bad. acting and script was awful, but to be fair i thought some scenes were pretty well done(the beginning ones) and i didnt hate it.
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16th June 2008, 7:24pm
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#40 | | Filth-kitten
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| Re: The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan's new film.
I didn't know that you could get away with such painfully wooden acting these days. Rubbish. You know what's going to happen way before they start dropping hints, the characters are all boring and one-dimensional DESPITE an attempt to give them some kind of emotional depth and background, there's no point in even attempting to identify with anyone. Don't bother.
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16th June 2008, 9:43pm
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#41 | | John Ringo
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| Re: The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan's new film.
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Originally Posted by bikuki I just read the plot synopsis there, and actually snorted out loud (SOL?) when I read the reason behind it all...
What a load of utter garbage. | See, that's not even the bad part. | |
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16th June 2008, 9:54pm
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#42 | | Filth-kitten
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| Re: The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan's new film.
See, there's potential with a ridiculous plot like that for some form of entertainment. 'Nature gone nasty' is a theme behind the billion-and-one ongoing shark documentaries, mutant animal films etc. Thing is, I'd rather watch Octopus 2 three times in a row than watch this once more. It just... wasn't entertaining in any fashion. It wasn't even laughably bad. The multiple suicides weren't shocking. The suspense was non-existent. The child was as annoying as possible, the many 'scary wind' scenes mind-numbing. THERE WASN'T EVEN A TWIST OF ANY SORT. Or, if you call THAT a twist, you've clearly never read a book, watched any other movie or heard a story in any form before.
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16th June 2008, 10:01pm
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#43 | | 50ft Queenie
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| Re: The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan's new film.
Go on. Someone please post the twist under spoiler tags so we don't need to waste time and/or money on this...?
EDIT: Whoops, just read the above post about there being no twist. Just the ending then...? | |
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16th June 2008, 10:04pm
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#44 | | Aurė enteluva Gallery SuperMod
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| Re: The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan's new film.
It's quite incredble to me how long this guy has been coasting on the success of 'the sixth sense'. | |
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16th June 2008, 10:05pm
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#45 | | Filth-kitten
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| Re: The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan's new film.
SPOILER:
Twist? There is none. Throughout the film, despite half-hearted attempts at mixing things up and implicating the government or terrorists, we are left in no doubt that the plants are the cause of the apocalypse. The family evades suicide for a long time, and at the end, isolated and cut off from everyone else, they think 'fuck it' and walk out through high winds that normally mean that the neurotoxins are out, but don't die because suddenly the potency dropped mere moments before they stepped outside. Family lives happily ever after, as we all knew they would. People speculate about this being Nature 'warning humans of what it can do', but because it was all confined to the northeast where there are army testing bases they assume it's a government slip-up or consipiracy in another half-baked and thrown-in attempt at throwing us off the scent. Don't worry folks, it won't happen again!
Scene IMMEDIATELY switches to France a few months down the line, where the neurotoxin suddenly strikes again as we all knew it would. End credits.
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