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I think the movie is...........SUCKS
It's gonna take a long time to forget how bad the movie is
ps: One of the worst movie of all time, potentially razzie awards for worst movie
WHAT A TWIST!
"His first R RATED FILM!! OMG!"
Lame...
films were still successful as a film. People act like he's the worst director ever which
definitely is not true. Seriously, his only big flop was Lady in the Water... (unless you want
to count Praying with Anger and Wide Awake).
6) M. Night Shyamalan. He needs a good punch in the mouth for every movie he’s put out since 6th Sense. That movie was incredible and awesome w/the twist at the very end. But Signs/The Village (10 punches in the mouth for that!)/Unbreakable/Lady in the Water/The Credit Card commercial & whatever other crap he’s put out is another boiling point! How could you come w/a wicked a$$ movie like 6th Sense and then flop everytime after and have people cuss your wisp of a soul for supporting your garbage and still sleep at night? Anyway, he deserves a HULK SMASH!! in his a$$!!!! & now he’s going to ruin one of the few decent cartoons out right now in a couple of years when he finishes puking out Avatar : The Last Airbender!!! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!! He’s the one who needs to get The Message and stop making garbage movies!!!
his films still makes a career in the film industry... And he does so outside of Hollywood...
while people here are (as the site's name implies) Film School Rejects. Shyamalan is and
will continue to be a major player in the industry and I wouldn't be surprised if he continues
his success even if every single film he makes for the rest of his life is progressively worse
by "some" peoples standards..
Hey now, don't lump us in together... Brian may be jealous of Shyamalan, but that
doesn't speak for the rest of us. I don't dislike the guy -- his movies have never
interested me, but then again, it's just not my genre.
As well, I would point out that our own Kevin Carr wrote <a
href="http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/reviews/the-happening-creeped-me-
out.php">a very positive review of 'The Happening', going against even many of the
"more respectable" outlets...
Just because the name says "Film School Rejects" that doesn't mean you should make fun
of us.. We didn't say mean things about your mom...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Gender
and i didn't like BG much either.
Seriously though, Shyamalan is a competent filmmaker despite the reviews his films get.
Basically all I'm saying is that he'll continue to make films, regardless of hat the critics
and even the general public say.
Also, Shyamalan gets a lot of hate even before people see his movie. it's analogous to
the new hulk movie and Ang Lee's 2003 version. It's not like its a flop, but it definitely
didn't get the success predicted, and because of that people treat it as a flop... Same
thing with Shyamalan's films. I'm defending the filmmaker, not his film.
exactly the greatest... some of his early films before Notorious in the 1940s, and also after
Psycho... His prime was in the 50s, but he also had points in his career when his films
weren't well received. Same thing with other filmmakers... including Shyamalan.
Alfred Hitchcock was brilliant and there will never be another like him.
The Sixth Sense was legend. It's the kind of film that most filmmakers try their entire lives to make, and fail.
If the only criticisms that people can make about M. Knight Shyamalan is that he can't live up to (1) sheer brilliance, or (2) himself, then he's pretty damn good.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Okay, here’s the deal, people.
Alfred Hitchcock was brilliant and there will never be another like him.
The Sixth Sense was legend. It’s the kind of film that most filmmakers try their entire lives to make, and fail.
If the only criticisms that people can make about M. Knight Shyamalan is that he can’t live up to (1) sheer brilliance, or (2) himself, then he’s pretty damn good.
It only proves that he's a hack that got lucky.
The Village goes in the category as this movie for me. I thought the Village wasn't horrible, although not good. It's problem was that it was hugely twist-centric, where as the Happening scores points because it's more so about the people's reactions, in my opinion.
Suck it Trebek.
And to that, I say that all of you are entirely crazy.
The Sixth Sense sucked ass just as much as the movies that followed it. Sure the twist itself was good, but the whole thing was boring and slow, just like what all of his other movies sound like (I don't know about whether they actually were or not. After seeing Sixth Sense and Signs, I said "He fooled me twice, no more").
Even watching the trailers for these movies, it's painfully obvious that it's going to be exactly the same as all the others. Boring characters who are confused about what's going on around them try to figure it out in a boring and extremely long-winded and drawn out manner. Then comes the "surprise" twist, which anyone with half a brain has already worked out an hour or so beforehand. And in each movie, the "surprise" twist is even more obvious than it was in the last movie.
Why do people still pay money to go and watch this shit? Even this movie, the twist was so extremely obvious that they had to put together the most vague and awkward sounding trailer together just to try and keep people from guessing what was going to happen. I mean, "The Happening"?! What the hell kind of name for a movie is that anyways? Why not just call it "SURPRISE, YOU JUST WASTED 10 BUCKS!" and be done with it?
If i would cut my dick off after bashing my face in, during a portugese breakfast, it wouldn't even be close to the feeling of watching that god damn *film.
*doesn't even deserve to be called a film. I will thus call it dirt.