The Happening - WTF was MNS on?

[BPorter]

So the wife who manages the Netflix list has The Happening show up at our house. Now, while I don't think M. Night Shyamalan walks on water, I generally like his movies (loved Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, liked The Village and Signs). So while I had heard mixed reviews on The Happening, I figured it couldn't be that bad. I mean, the guy knows how to build suspense, right? The guy knows how to make interesting characters, right?

All I can say is WTF?!?!?!?!?!? I want the 90 minutes I wasted back. This easily goes into the top 5 of worst movies I've seen in the last 5 years. No supsense, crappy dialogue, characters I didn't give a rat's behind about.

What the hell was he on? What the hell was Walhberg thinking? He was like a drone through the whole movie.

I don't expect a home run from MNS every time but he showed up dressed for golf for a baseball game.

I'm now having SERIOUS doubts about his ability to do justice to Avatar: The Last Airbender. I was thrilled when I heard he was doing it. Now I'm dreading it.

I even sat through 30 min of crappy DVD extras hoping to find some insight, some method, to the madness that would cause him to make this movie. I became further disenchanted as he talked about how "horrific" and "suspenseful" the movie was. It just plain sucked. Hard.

[DragonBelow]

I liked this movie, and hated the village.

Still, I think it's really hit and miss with this guy.

[Crowheart]

This movie was fairly terrible.

Spoiler:

Although when the construction workers started jumping off the roof, my friend next to me started singing "It's Raining Men" and I lost it.

Argh:

Spoiler:

The suspense of this movie was utter crap. About halfway through the movie they start thinking it's THE TREES..... and it turns out... it IS. Wow. So suspenseful. Didn't see that one coming at all. End of sarcasm.

The whole thing was suppose to have some kind of environmentalist message that got mixed up somewhere between Dumb and What?

Also:

Spoiler:

The whole idea that the "pheromone" or whatever destroys your inhibitions, so that makes people want to kill themselves?? In horribly retarded ways like turning on a lawnmower and laying down in front of it??

Sixth Sense was great. Other stuff rather hit and miss for me. This was pretty bad, conceptually. Mostly I found it humerous, which I suppose is something.

Rent it? Sure, why not. Its bad, but it is kinda humerous. Just don't spend any money on this. I regret actually seeing this in theatres when it was a total "rent-only" film.