The Happening 2008

Reviews (12)

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   itscharlibb 8 月 23, 2026

   mark wahlberg and zooey deschanel as a couple feels random af but other than that i was totally down.

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   Wes 8 月 23, 2026

   this isnt a movie you watch but a movie you survive

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   Inherently Viced 8 月 23, 2026

   Some memorable quotes out of the context from M. Night Shyamalan’s magnum opus: “It makes you kill yourself.” “You should be more interested in science, Jake. You know why? Because your face is perfect” “Take an interest in science.” “Can you believe how crappy people are?” “I don’t like to show my emotions either.” “I forgot where I am.” “I need a second, okay!? Why can’t anybody give me a goddamn second!?” “Why you eyeing my lemon drink?” “Don’t take my daughter’s hands ubless you mean it.” “Plastic. I’m talking to a plastic plant. I’m still doing it.” “We’re packing hot dogs for the road. You know, hot dogs get a bad rep. They gotta cool shape, they got protein.”

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   Matt Singer 8 月 23, 2026

   Certainly one of the more unorthodox episodes of THE NEW GIRL I’ve seen.

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   Tara 8 月 23, 2026

   Mark Wahlberg gets out acted by a plant.

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   •lily• 8 月 23, 2026

   WE ATE TIRAMISU TOGETHER AND THAT WAS IT

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   matt lynch 8 月 23, 2026

   “Can you believe how crappy people are?” Fear of a crisis with no rational solution quickly mutates into fear of irrationality itself. It’s everywhere, completely unpredictable and inescapable. You might as well run away from the wind. Shyamalan’s too clunky a writer to quite pull off the tone here, which may be why a lot of folks missed that this is trying to be knowingly funny without tipping its hand at all (not assisted by an already-overly-earnest Wahlberg being directed to play everything entirely straight). But the visual precision once again comes to the rescue. The people are either crammed into stifling interior spaces or minimized in green, leafy outdoor ones, basically filling every single environment with the story’s twin…

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   trin 8 月 23, 2026

   why do they speak like that

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   adambolt 8 月 23, 2026

   has anyone made the joke of this movie making you want to kill yourself yet

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    Ethan Vestby 8 月 23, 2026

    When will the rest of the world be as smart as me and realize how great this is?

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    SilentDawn 8 月 23, 2026

    87 Re-watch after re-watch, I try to make sense of The Happening, and in every instance, I fail. Is that the fault of the movie like so many believe? I’m not so sure. Its inexorable link of absurdity and sheer horror is not to be overlooked. M. Night Shyamalan and DP Tak Fujimoto team up for their third collaboration, and they don’t fuck around. All of the agonizing close-ups and crystal-clear wide shots of fields and trees blowing in the wind operate to serve the same function: an evocation of the indescribable. These characters don’t know what’s happening to them, but it *is* happening. Very indicative of a post-9/11 world. Shyamalan is fascinated by this. How do people react when…

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    Josh Lewis 8 月 23, 2026

    Haven’t seen this since high school when I remember joining in the pile-on of how ridiculous the whole thing was but years later many of its creepier images like the bodies falling, the lawnmower, the suicide oner, etc have stuck with me so I decided to give it another go. Still has this strange tonal whiplash courtesy of the combination of flatly sincere performances, bizarre writing that gestures towards old B-movies and a terrifying, modern immediacy to Fujimoto’s photography (especially when the sudden, grisly acts of violence occur) but I have to admit it hits harder during a literal pandemic. Captures a very specific, genuinely chilling mood of unreality amidst social breakdown and on rewatch it’s clear the movie is not so much inept but has a perverse sense of humor about human confusion and panic that sometimes got a bit lost in translation.

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