What is so bad about the movie The Happening?

[Corven]

The movie is only good for people to get together and riff on. I mean the people legitimately try to outrun the wind at one point, how is that not laughably bad?

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

Could you make a good film out of the premise? Yeah, probably. Did they? No. Besides all they had to do was stay in their house for a few days and close all the doors and windows

 

[Angie7F]

It is just...It is a M night movie, ya know?
Once you set yourself a bad reputation, its hard to not be seen without a certain expectation to flop.

That said, I likes The Last Airbender a bit. lol

 

[Tom_green_day]

it also tried to hit you over the head with environmentalist messages in the most poorly thought out way possible.

Well Avatar did this to a stupid degree and it was successful.
I actually like Shyamalan, but I've only seen the Village, Signs and the Sixth Sense. I actually think The Village is one of the best films I've ever seen, and I don't see why people dislike it.

 

[ItouKaiji]

I think the problem with it being an "intentional" unintentional comedy is it's completely lacking in self awareness and the actual funny bits are too far spread apart which makes the movie tedious to watch. There are lots of moments that could have been played up or downplayed to give it more of that unintentional comedy feel, but I think claiming this was supposed to be a comedy is kind of like Tommy Wiseau re-branding The Room into a dark comedy when really he just a shitty movie that happened to be comedy genius.

 

[King Billi]

I actually like Shyamalan, but I've only seen the Village, Signs and the Sixth Sense. I actually think The Village is one of the best films I've ever seen, and I don't see why people dislike it.

I really like Shyamalan as well though not without recognising the bad films he has made, its just that the good ones he's made tend to be very, VERY good.

The really liked The Village too, I felt the music to that film was particuarly beautiful. Even people who hate the film can't deny it's score is amazing.

 

[Lieju]

It's not really the premise. It is dumb, but the whole 'mother nature deciding to kill off humans' could work very well in a horror movie, despite it not making any scientific sense.

But you'd have to write good characters, and know how to make an invisible threat suspenseful.
This movie fails at both.

I didn't think it was terrible, it certainly had an interesting premise.

It reminded me alot of movies like "The Birds" actually...

The difference between something like The Happening, and The Birds, is that in The Birds the characters are actually running away from something tangible. You get a thrill seeing people run away from the Birds, dodging them, escaping into a house for safety. You can't get the same kind of thrill from The Happening, because the characters are running away from NOTHING.

Well, there's the scene where they are running from a woman who tries to kill herself.
It is kinda creepy, but not really threatening. She isn't trying to hurt you, she is trying to hurt herself!

It is shot very badly, though.
There's a sense that they are running from nothing, rather than something you can't see.

It is one of my favourite comedies, though.

I actually like Shyamalan, but I've only seen the Village, Signs and the Sixth Sense. I actually think The Village is one of the best films I've ever seen, and I don't see why people dislike it.

I like the village a lot too. I'm not sure what problems people have with it, usually it's about the 'twist', so I guess people were at that point expecting a twist and it failed to surprise and impress them?

Avatar looked bad but that's more due to the forced 3D conversion, but in general the man has a good eye for composition.

Avatar's a James Cameron movie. You're thinking of The Last Airbender.

I'm pretty sure s/he means Last Airbender, Cameron's Avatar wasn't converted to 3D.

 

[ItouKaiji]

Yeah, sorry I did mean The Last Airbender the one based on the Avatar cartoon. They just couldn't name it Avatar: The Last Airbender because of Cameron's movie.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Granted I haven't seen the film (nor do I intend to!) but this rifftrax scene seen to sum up why I shouldn't watched it (I lost it at 1.50)-