The happening

[C2james]

Is anybody watching this or seen this film before, it's the first time I've seen it and I think it's quite good so far.

What do you guys think of the film?

Edited by C2james on Saturday 19th March 23:44

[Burnham]

Yeah, it starts off ok!

[Jasandjules]

It was ok. Not fantastic but not great, basically watchable.

[carmonk]

Without doubt one of the top 5 worst films I've ever seen. In fact, no, cancel that, it was probably the worst film that I've ever sat through beginning to end. So dire that I may have to watch it again to assess its true horror. The acting was on a par with a school play, the direction random and the storyline... well, I'm not sure there was one but if there was, it was abysmal. Plants suddenly decide to kill people by emitting some mind control substance. So they do, and then they stop, for no reason. Which is handy because our hero has just got himself into a situation where he's stuck in a house and his woman and the obligatory kid have decided to go for a walk in the toxic air to a hut some 200m distant (a magic conduit allows them to conduct a conversation at this distance, something obviously added after an 'Oh st' moment by the director). "Close the doors and windows!" Walberg tells the woman, who responds, "Why?" Yes, why would you close the windows when the air itself has killed everyone on the East coast? They then decide to take a walk outside and find that the plants don't want them dead any more. Nice job. fking hell. Everyone knows that M Knight Shamalamadingdong has no imagination or direction capability but this film was shocking even taking that on board. The 'humorous' bit where Walberg starts talking to a plastic plant had me curled up like a dormouse, squealing with embarrassment.

Edited by carmonk on Sunday 20th March 15:29

[eastlmark]

another very bad film (along with Taken) I have wasted another few hours of my life for, just appalling acting, (the marine/soldier for example! Lybia/Iraq must be quaking in their boots). Quite liked The Village and believed this to be on the same level, how wrong i was.

[vixen1700]

Recorded it and looked forward to seeing it when I got home last night, lasted about 40 minutes thinking it's got to get better than this surely. Seen far better 'films' on the Scy-fi & horror channels.

Dreadful.

[55allgold]

Another "avoid" verdict here, too. The beyond-preposterous bit was the idea that plants could conjure up the wind!

[C2james]

I have to admit the plot was quite strange and akward, I do like Zooey deschanel though

[Jasandjules]

55allgold said:

Another "avoid" verdict here, too. The beyond-preposterous bit was the idea that plants could conjure up the wind!

Actually, not able to conjure up wind BUT some plants DO communicate with those nearby and in contact and down wind when there is a predator.............

[Hugo a Gogo]

carmonk said:

They then decide to take a walk outside and find that the plants don't want them dead any more. Nice job. fking hell.

I thought I'd missed a bit, I couldn't believe they honestly just said "ah fk it, that'll do for an ending"

[carmonk]

Hugo a Gogo said:

carmonk said:

They then decide to take a walk outside and find that the plants don't want them dead any more. Nice job. fking hell.

I thought I'd missed a bit, I couldn't believe they honestly just said "ah fk it, that'll do for an ending"

When they were suddenly back in the city and everything was rosy I thought it must be some sort of hallucination our hero had succombed to in his dying moments, and soon we'd be shown the three bodies collapsed in the field. Even that would have been a dire ending but to just have the whole thing stop was ridiculous (although an end to the whole thing was more than welcome, I must admit).

[Cotty]

carmonk said:

When they were suddenly back in the city and everything was rosy I thought it must be some sort of hallucination our hero had succombed to in his dying moments, and soon we'd be shown the three bodies collapsed in the field. Even that would have been a dire ending but to just have the whole thing stop was ridiculous (although an end to the whole thing was more than welcome, I must admit).

Being and M. Night Shyamalan film I thought there was supposed to be some kind of twist at the end, but no. Lots of people died then they stopped dying, but then in France they started dying.

I like Mark Wahlberg and have seen a few of his films but his acting or character was just strange, with the way he said things and what he said. Likewise Zooey Deschanel just acting weird.