So Sean (the nephew - nickname o' Speedy) watched The Happening. And he has reviewed it here for me.
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Before I get to my review if you wish to see this movie (The Happening) and don"t want to read the spoilers simply remember that I thought this movie was horrible and that it doesn't deserve the six to fifteen dollars required to get into the theatre.
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The worst movie of all time, so far.
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The tagline for this movie is "We've Sensed It. We've Seen The Signs and now... It's Happening" exactly what is happening I'm not sure but it certainly isn't a good movie.
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This movie The Happening by M. Night Shyamalan is about some seemingly other worldly force killing off the human race, but instead of aliens or a kid who can talk to ghosts; this movie is about a random force of nature.
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The plants attack us. The main villain in this movie is not a terrorist attack or an alien invasion it is in fact plants. Plants have suddenly gotten very pissy and have started giving off a toxin that reverses or disables the ability for the human brain to make good or protective decisions. In other words the plants make people commit suicide. This concept might make a good movie if the movie had good acting and a good director, neither of which this movie have. It is hard to believe that a movie can make an award winning actor like Mark Walhberg act so badly. This movie was horribly written, horribly acted, and horribly filmed. It would be more entertaining to watch a horror film on SciFi or to pull out an ingrown toenail.
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The suicides in this movie, though disturbing, were badly acted. When the people are about to kill themselves they simply stop moving... then kill themselves. While watching the movie I could see X's marked on the ground where the film makers wanted the actors to stop before they did themselves in. I know that suicide isn't a funny topic but this movie was down right "HORRIBLE".
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This movie could be and should be marked as a comedy for there were more laughs from the audience than screams of terror (there were actually no screams, it wasn't scary at all). The scariest part of the movie experience was when I knocked over my bag of popcorn and had to go get more.
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I hope this is not a sign of things to come (no pun intended) and that we can simply write this movie off as a good director trying something new. I give this movie a 2 out of 10. The first five minutes weren't that bad.
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