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Business Stationary Mart - The Happening (Special Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]
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List Price: $39.99
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, John Leguizamo, Betty Buckley, Zooey Deschanel
Directed By: M. Night Shyamalan
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: 20th Century
EAN: 0024543533214
Format: AC-3
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: 2008-10-07
Running Time: 90
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Customer Rating:
Summary: quite possibly the worst movie ever.
Comment: maybe not the worst ever, but definitely the worst of this decade as one reviewer said. The video on the blu-ray is great, but, as the saying goes, putting this movie out with great HD video is like polishing a turd.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Move along; nothing Happening here.
Comment: Yet another in a long string of losers from one-hit-wonder, M. Night Shyamalan. What could Mark Wahlberg have been thinking? And with John Leguizamo's departure from ER, I guess he needed to do something to keep gas in the SUV. Ridiculous storyline with more inconsistencies than dead bodies. Absurd dialouge and zero character development. Ironically the desire for people to start shooting themselves in the head and walking off 10 story buildings is sort of how you're left feeling after seeing this movie.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Decent Story... But
Comment: I thought the overall story was pretty decent, but this movie suffered from poor writing and acting.
I seriously couldn't tell if this movie was SUPPOSED to be bad, because most of the movie is like this. The dialogue exchanges throughout the entire film are just BAD. This was, like I said, due to poor writing by M. Knight and bad acting by pretty much everyone... but it makes you wonder if M. Knight intentionally made the movie like this for "campyness".
Overall this movie does has some pretty frightening scenes, with the overall plot being honestly pretty good(the plants etc.).... but the writing and acting pretty much ruined it.
~Cookson
Customer Rating:
Summary: "The Crappening"
Comment: The "Crappening" has to be the biggest dissappointment I've had in a movie in a very long time. The plot was lame, the acting was worse. I've seen B movies with better acting. The ending was stupid and very anti-climactic. Fortunately the award for worst ending has already been set in stone by "The Mist"...
Don't waste your money renting...don't waste your money on the energy it would cost to watch the movie on cable either...
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Summary: I Wanted To Like It
Comment: This movie could have been so much better than it was. The concept was great, and the beginning of the movie is very creepy.
Here's the flaws though:
1. Besides John Leguizamo, the acting is absolutely awful. Zooey Deschanel is a horrible actress and makes any attempt at a love subplot impossible to believe or connect to. Whenever there was a scene that I could tell was supposed to make me think "aw, that's nice, good for them!" I ended up just thinking "who cares?"
2. A "guess" by a random farmer turns out to be the actual reason the "happening" is even happening. You would think all of the guesses early on in the movie would be plausible and then the REAL reason would turn out to be mind-blowing. This was not the case though, and it was very disappointing to have the mystery solved so early and so easily.
3. The reason for the "happening" is (I won't spoil it, although I'm using that word loosely) simply cheesy. A part of me was thinking "well, at least he took a risk and gave us a good message" but the other part of me couldn't help but overpower that with "that was just too cheesy for me." It reminded me of Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster - great message, but just too ridiculous to really connect with anyone.
4. M. Night Shyamalan is a great filmmaker. That may sound like a positive, but when you're expecting a great film from a great filmmaker, anything less is disappointing. I thought The Lady in the Water was a bit cheesy, but excused it since it's supposed to be "a bedtime story". This movie just has no excuse though, and I really hope he thinks long and hard about his next move. Any more flops like this one and he'll become a joke.
The movie is worth seeing if only for the eerie scenes that actually work, and the excellent film score. Just don't expect it to change your life, because it certainly won't.
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Disc 1: **Forced Trailers: Digital Copy Trailer, Untitled X Files Movie BD, Babylon AD BD, Street Kings BD, Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia BD **Train Shooting **The Hard Cut **Forces Unseen **"I Hear You Whispering" **Gag Reel **Deleted Scenes with Introductions by M. Night Shyamalan: *Elliot and Alma Fight (Extended Version) *Lion Attack (Extended Version) *Music Recital *Survivalist Porch (Extended Version) **The Happening - Visions Of The Happening: A Making Of **A Day For Night **Elements Of A Scene **DBOX (use logo) Disc 2: Digital Copy
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