saying that your film is a joke or not to be taken 100% seriously seems to be the new way to get a director out of a shit hole, doesn't it?

for example, this movie, and appaloosa.

I thought the happening was FAR worse, but they were both awful to say the least

I hated it. I didn't find it to be scary or amusing; just a big boring mess. D+

cuz u like this shit, and love The Village.

The VIllage is without a doubt, one of the worst movies i've ever seen in my entire life.

D. The only thing that keeps it from an F is that i got through the whole movie for some reason. so it must have done something good.

F

This was the first MNS movie I didn't see in the theater. Despite hating Signs (D+) becaue of its ending, I liked the first 90% enough to pay to see The Village (C) and hopped to LITW (D-), and that was embarrasing. But it still didn't even prepare me for the embarassment of this movie. This was worse than 95% of the straight to dvd movies I've seen, and my respect for the major filmmakers involved dropped significantly.

Why did you even see it? You obviously just don't like MNS movies... so why would you see this?

A friend of mine and I have to see his movies now just to laugh at them and see if he will sink to a new low, which, IMO, he has with every film. I liked 6th Sense and Unbreakable for the most part. But his pretensiousness has been inversely proportional to the quality of the films, and it's a spectacle to behold.

I will say I enjoyed the scene with the lion, and he really should have left the uncut scene in there. And the scene where the kids get killed for being stupid.

Part of why I hate the film is that I like man v. nature films and this did such a ridiculously horrible send up of the theme.

The thing that ruined this for me was Mark Wahlberg and that girl from Elf's performances..


Seriously, laugh-out-loud bad.

And it wasn't really WHAT they said, it was HOW they said them.

Dissapointing, some nice money shots and an awesome marketing campaign, leading to not alot.

Step up from the Village and Lady in the Water though.

This was such a fucking lousy film.
A big fat F.

There should be no excuses for MNS or any "He was going for a B movie angle etc" That's plain bullshit and really clutching at straws. Do you people have nothing better to do than to create excuses for a director who's fallen from his prime? I mean, really, which film-maker would waste 44 days of his life filming a B movie? If he went to the studios saying that he wanted to make a B movie they'd turn his ass away. Use your brains, maybe because it sucked so much he decides to pull a new angle out of his arse. So why don't we all say Uwe Boll is great and Disaster Movie was fantastic because they intended to be and are mind-numbingly retarded? Same logic.

The acting was horrible. I like Deschanel and Wahlberg but both couldn't act to save their lives.
And like others have said, what the fuck was wrong with his voice??
He sounded like a child. His emotion seemed incredibly restricted, in other words he didn't make his character believable.
The plot, non-existent, unexplained and retarded in that if the virus resurfaces what was the point in the story of survival, they'll die anyway. Sheesh. Actually that could be the only saving grace for the movie that it's a political statement.

I for one never said that, its a good movie and I enjoyed it end of.

Hey BK, read my post further up on this page. M. Night said it was a B movie. On 3 different occasions.

It became a B movie once he realized he could get away with it because some people desperately want to believe The Happening is a B movie, when in fact it's just a bad, bad movie.

I did and I don't believe he started out that way. Probably once he finished filming and realized it sucked he changed his stance.

Studios gave the ok for Quentin Tarantino and Rodriguez to make a B movie and MNS has had more commercial success than those 2 combined