Rifftrax did a great take on this: "There's a cheap monster effect for you: The wind. But it was going to be worse. They were originally going to with low humidity."
And run away from the sun shining on us, and I don't mean find shade, I mean try to outrun the speed that the rays from the sun above shines down. That is how stupid the outrunning the wind comment sounds. Lol.
@Sanity Is Freedom it was devil and I did like it. But that has to be the dumbest exposition I've heard in a theatrical release. But the guy does deliver the line in such a way that I believe he believed what he was saying.
Also, as a biologist I am terribly insulted by the insipidity of the plot and how implausible it is. Yes, some plants can create toxins (though never airborne) to kill off parasites or other plants. They do NOT suddenly develop these overnight, and not ALL plants at the bloody same time... If the plot was "Aliens gave this power to plants" or fucking Mother Gaia rose out of the Earth to do this with an army of Dryads, I would have been more OK with this crap... Also, NO, there is no self-preservation switch in us, and even if it was, and got switched off, we would not automatically lose all self-control and commit suicide in very ingenious ways.
And even if there was, we'd simply lose our ability to self-preserve, we wouldn't self-harm. Like you wouldn't look before crossing the street, or check how hot something was before touching it out of the oven, but you wouldn't RUN INTO TRAFFIC. I can't imagine how frustrating this is to watch if you understand any biology beyond a high school level.
They now have pots you can get that have computer screens on the front. They show emojis that indicate if the plant is happy, needs a drink, etc. I can just imagine a shot of thousands of electronic planters with angry faces staring at the audience.
The deaths of the two boys, Jared and Josh were originally a lot more gruesome. Jared was seen getting the top of his head blown off. But that was cut to avoid an NC 17.
As much as I love the unintentional comedy, especially Wahlberg talking to the plant and the iconic "What, nooooooooo" moment, there is one legitimately good thing about this movie - John Leguizamo. Out of all the actors he's the only one who is trying to take Shyamalan's shitty writing and make it work. And I dare say he succeeds. Not only does he manage to take the quirk that Shyamalan forces on his character, but it also manages to work to his character's advantage, making him really likable. Remember that scene where Leguizamo's group are driving and they come across the people who've hanged themselves? And how Leguizamo uses a math problem to distract the frightened young woman from that horrible sight? I feel that was a legitimately good moment. But everything else... Wahlberg never stops whining, he has no chemistry with Deschanel whatsoever and the titular Happening is thwarted - I'm not kidding here - by the power of love. Once Wahlberg and Deschanel proclaim their love for each other, it all ends. That is single-handedly the dumbest moment in the whole movie and, believe me, that is saying something!
Yeah, I do think I say that Leguizamo is probably one of the better things about the film. He's managed to become one of those very reliable character actors (after a brief period of being an obnoxious leading man that he thankfully got past).
@@scottylewis8124 Exactly! So, got that ninth booster shot yet? I seem to be seeing all these trolls constantly pointing out the people that died from a certain thing and not those that didn't get the other certain thing...that now has flags all over the place...it's almost like trusting big pharma was ignorant....but nah those that have been sued for more than you can could spend in a century for exactly the same type of things, it's those that don't listen that are stupid! Especially since their alive! Good thing they didn't get a blood clot amirite? If all of humanity was like yourself, we'd STILL be in lockdown.
Makes me wonder why they didn't go to the high school infirmary and grab masks to put on if they were to go outside. Oh yeah. Because these characters are STUPID!
The worst thing is that there are ingredients of an interesting natural horror film in the film, but the execution is royally bungled. This is the kind of thing Hollywood should remake because they can't do any worse.
After seeing this film, I've got a better idea for a plotline: Mark Wahlberg stars as Theodore Happeninski, a down-on-his-luck mafia enforcer looking to do the right thing for his kids, and earn an honest wage in an attempt to go straight. With no real skills to speak of, Theodore takes the first job he can get, working at a garden centre. After receiving his weekly paycheck and realizing he'll never be able to afford giving his kids the education they deserve, Theodore returns to a life of crime, using his security privileges to attempt stealing the latest toy all the kids have to have, the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes figures. However, in his attempted larceny, Theodore stumbles upon a plot by the centre's evil owner (played by Joe Pantoliano, who played Titus Sinclair in "Ready to Rumble"), to siphon the funds of a centre-wide charity drive for his own selfish needs, particularly a trip to Acapulco. Now, Theodore has to create a Happening to thwart the evil deeds of the evil garden centre owner and his security detail (played by Kip Pardue, Til Schweiger, Gina Gershon, Estella Warren, Cristian de la Fuente, Stacey Edwards, and Robert Sean Leonard of "Driven" fame) in a zany romp all over the garden centre and be the hero his kids need. Along the way, Theodore becomes friends with a fellow employee (played by Zooey Deschanel), who is revealed at the end to be an undercover cop.
What's funny to me is that you're typically not a comedic reviewer. You're more analytical, but this and your Ratatoing reviews are some of the funniest reviews I've ever seen, and I actually think this review of The Happening is funnier than Nostalgia Critic's.
I was going to say, this was really really funny. Not that the other reviews are not funny, but I'm normally not a laugh-out-loud person and this had me laughing :)
6:00 - I always remarked that both Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel (but especially Zooey) look entirely lost and wondering what the hell they did to end up at this point in their careers all throughout this movie.
This review was originally posted in October 2011, and is part of a series of Halloween themed re-posts. This re-edited version runs 1m 39s shorter than the original, largely due to trimming down film clips and tightening up the pacing. I figured I'd get this one up because it's also been covered on the Nostalgia Critic since this was made. I was going to put this up in a few days, but I've been ill this past week, hence why there's not been any new reviews (there will be very soon), but until then, enjoy Mark Wahlberg having to run away from the wind! EDIT: And, yes, I am aware those are lions, not tigers. 2011 Mathew, you dolt.
Film Brain did you get a sham one pitched His Lady in the Water movie to Disney but they don't understand it so he just stormed out seriously who does and the worst part Disney was going to do the movie anyway
I always laugh at the use of cooling towers with the great clouds coming out of them as an example of pollution. Know what those white clouds are? Water. That's how they use them for cooling -the evaporation cools water in the tower. The white cloud is literally a cloud, no different from the perfectly natural clouds in the sky. Ooooo, the horror!
For some reason I'm reminded of the scene in Project X where T Rigg's lawn gnome was smashed with a baseball bat and revealed to be filled with ecstasy. Probably because of the drugs (As of October 2nd 2022 when I'm first posting this) being disguised as things like candy in the US.
Shyamalan really doesn't understand science. To judge from this movie, he seems to think that when something happens, scientists all think about what might have caused it, then pick out the explanation they like, and decide to believe that one. Essentially, he thinks that scientific theories are guesses that the scientists make. It's really kind of weird.
Graham Kennedy I don't want to be racist, but Shyamalan is indian, and indians are known for being prominent in the "Medicinal Junk" market which is probably why there was a mood ring...
I'm really surprised that even though the film basically has the main characters survive because of their good vibes, no one has made a "Good Vibrations" joke. Is it because people are expecting a joke about Wahlburg's Marky Mark days?
The thing about Shayamalan is that his movies were never very good, largely because he didn't know how to plot his twist endings. Even in the Sixth Sense the twist that Willis is a ghost doesn't make sense the way the movie is plotted out, because it is obvious that he is interacting with the rest of the cast during the film, it's not even a case of him thinking that he is having conversations with his wife etc. but him actually doing those things and then a last minute bait and switch trying to trick the audience into thinking that they misremembered the film.
Here's the thing MKS gets so very, very wrong. The predisposition to avoid self-harm isn't there to stop us committing suicide, it's there to stop us taking stupid risks. If you "flip the switch" people don't jump off buildings, they build ramps in the street & try jumping over cars on their bikes.
Honestly one of the most laugh out loud examples of terrible 'science' in movies. The only response to the ludicrous plot is, that's not how this works, that's not how any of this works.
I always wonder, given how Shmayaladingdong was born in America... is USA education really this shit? Did he really not know neither "self-preservation instinct" nor plants nor evolution works this way?
I'm unsure if they are genuinely that clueless or if they just come up with premise's for films and desperately try to find some science that vaguely fits. I mean to the average US viewer it might sound science ish enough that they buy it maybe?
I watched this movie and found it a so bad it's good movie but there was one thing that did scare me. The wife's eyes! They just look wrong and unnatural to the point I half expected it to be revealed that she was the source of the problem.
Spot on Review Mathew I wish I could get the time back that I wasted sitting through this train wreck of a movie It is totally unintentionally funny You know a movie is bad when you’re laughing at movie intended to be horror Can you please review Split?
We studied this film on my university course as part of a subject on 'bad screenwriting'. Some guy actually praised Deschanel's performance because of 'New Girl'. Just goes to show how some people wouldn't take the course seriously and were as basic as hell.
I've always wondered why a biology teacher would quote Einstein and not Gregor Mendel or Charles Darwin. The science community doesn't pretend like a professor in chemistry is an expert in all the other sciences. It's a very small nitpick in this smorgasbord of flaws, but I had to say it.
I'm passionate about actual bee dying en mass recently, and this scene only pissed me off with it's "vanishing" and "no bodies" nonsense. It's a big problem going on right now, and I don't like some mentally challenged film maker turning the topic into a joke. Anyway despite what this movie wants to tell the audience, plants can't only communicate with other plants, they can also communicate with fungi (not the wind though). Also there is no proof one needs a brain to think, there may be countless alternatives, the reason plants can't think isn't their lack of a brain, but their lack of a need to have ever evolved intelligence in the first place.
9:40 - I can't believe I never noticed this part before when I saw this insane film; even in the powerful jaws of a lion, would a human arm be torn off THAT easily? 11:45 - An alien wrote this dialogue.
My favorite Mark. Wallburg Films The Departed, Broken City, Pain And Gain, The Yards, Italian Job, Big Hit, Shooter, 3 Kings, 2 Guns, 4 Brothers, Contraband, Ted 2, We Own TheNight, Patriots Day, And Corruptor
The jokes and comedic insults you've given in this video left me to die laughing. I got introduced to your channel from when you were on Nostalgia Critic. You and Doug are hilarious.
I'm guessing M. Knight was thinking that the " true feelings / intentions of people " ( via the mood ring ) was going to give us a lesson on how to try to be a better person and have good intentions..... But this didn't get it across ( if that was even the point) who fn knows??? I'd pay a years salary for a by from Zooey , but this movie actually makes her unattractive. Wow. ... They took a beautiful woman in her 20s and made her ugly via bad dialog and utter nonsense
Here's an idea that lets the plot stay similar but more sane. Instead of turning off fear response, heighten it. Have the plants make humans perceive threats everywhere and jack up the aggression levels to boot. Groups are still dangerous, people were already paranoid in the script, plants are still impossibly to blame, this ties in better with attracting wasps to eliminate caterpillars, making people violent and paranoid is less of a stretch than making them commit self un al ive, and it's much more chilling as it's warping people instead of hijacking them.
There are more "happenings" in this flick than in the 1967 film, "The Happening", with Anthony Quinn, Robert Walker, Jr., and a pre-"Bonnie And Clyde" Faye Dunaway, which has nothing at all to do plants pushing humans to commit suicide, rest assured.
A really stupid natural disaster caused by global warming? Characters driving around the countryside and encountering weirdos? This is basically just Birdemic but with plants
Did M. Night trying to pretend this was meant comedically predate Tommy Wiseau insisting the same about "The Room"? I always credited Wiseau with inventing the "pretend it was intended as a comedy to save face," but its origins could be so much MORE grandiose?! Also there's a shite sci-fi English movie called "Starship Invasions" that stars Christopher Lee as a badly dressed alien trying to conquer the world by using an invisible ray to cause people to commit suicide across the world. And it's a REALLY bad movie, but the one part when a family is driving through their neighborhood and there are just CORPSES all over the place (and a starkly realistic Time Magazine cover of a slashed wrist and the question "IS THIS THE END?!") is legitimately more harrowing than anything in this movie!
As far as evolution of trees is concerned, there is an order of magnitude more trees on earth than there are stars in the sky and most of them have significantly shorter lifespans than humans. This gives them a much greater advantage in developing advantageous defenses against threats. Yes, the specific mechanism that presents here sounds a bit out there, it isn't out of the realm of possibility as far as you think. Also, Lady in the Water was a Great Film! The whole point was to bring back the magic of storytelling, it was obvious and poignant not arrogant.
Show Don't Tell doesn't have to apply to things that are unpleasant to see. However, in a movie like this, there's no reason to be discreet about people getting killed in horrible ways. So, yeah. Show us people clawing themselves to death.
All of the dialogue from Zoey and Mark sounds rushed. When Mark is teaching the teenagers in Science about the bees, the line is delivered unnaturally fast. It's like M. Night Shyamalan had a requirement that the actors had to force as much exposition out of as few breaths as possible.
If you flipped off the self preservation switch would flip, it's not like you'd become super depressed & instantly suicidal. It just means your brain wouldn't see a problem with the blue liquid under your sink. You'd basically turn into one of those millennial who dine on tide pods, not a hypnosis victim.
6:59 Doesn’t having a “serious message” make it even more of a schlocky B-Movie? IDK, that just seems like another cliche associated with the style to me.
"Run away from the wind!" is my favorite Film Brain joke ever.
xD
“Take a shower, but don’t let any water go on you!”
Rifftrax did a great take on this: "There's a cheap monster effect for you: The wind. But it was going to be worse. They were originally going to with low humidity."
When u see M. Nights name RRRUUUNNN!!
One of the best comedies of the 2000s.
Am i evil for laughing when the kids get shot unexpectedly , i was trying to suppress my laughter when i saw that scene in the theater
F. N. Lorter Naw The Wicker Man (2006) is
The Wicker Man made sense - this garbage is demented, and does not. This is much funnier.
@@jamesb.8940 how'd it get burned?!
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I still get a chuckle out of the "RUN AWAY FROM THE WIND!!!" gag.
Run away from the wind!! Only the flash is capable of such a feat.
And run away from the sun shining on us, and I don't mean find shade, I mean try to outrun the speed that the rays from the sun above shines down. That is how stupid the outrunning the wind comment sounds. Lol.
25:56 Well, that certainly gives the "Who else will I have ice cream with?" line from Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days a whole new meaning...
M Night "A piece of toast landing jelly side down means the devil is near" Shyamalan everybody.
That is the best line ever spoken in any movie ever.
What's puzzling about that ridiculous line is that there's a very good reason why the heavier side of the toast would end up on the bottom.
@Sanity Is Freedom it was devil and I did like it. But that has to be the dumbest exposition I've heard in a theatrical release. But the guy does deliver the line in such a way that I believe he believed what he was saying.
I made a theory a while back why that was the case but it sounds dumb
Jelly side down! 😱😱
one of the best episodes!!! total classic, aged like a fine wine.
Also, as a biologist I am terribly insulted by the insipidity of the plot and how implausible it is. Yes, some plants can create toxins (though never airborne) to kill off parasites or other plants. They do NOT suddenly develop these overnight, and not ALL plants at the bloody same time... If the plot was "Aliens gave this power to plants" or fucking Mother Gaia rose out of the Earth to do this with an army of Dryads, I would have been more OK with this crap... Also, NO, there is no self-preservation switch in us, and even if it was, and got switched off, we would not automatically lose all self-control and commit suicide in very ingenious ways.
I've heard of a tree that drips toxin and if stand under it it can kill you.
And even if there was, we'd simply lose our ability to self-preserve, we wouldn't self-harm. Like you wouldn't look before crossing the street, or check how hot something was before touching it out of the oven, but you wouldn't RUN INTO TRAFFIC.
I can't imagine how frustrating this is to watch if you understand any biology beyond a high school level.
Isn't someone who expertise is with plants called a botanist?
what the fuck has biology got to do with trees??
@@kennethwilkinson2095 botany is a subtype of biology
@@markgrehan3726 I was high then and I am high now, I can't be held accountable for the things I say.
They now have pots you can get that have computer screens on the front. They show emojis that indicate if the plant is happy, needs a drink, etc. I can just imagine a shot of thousands of electronic planters with angry faces staring at the audience.
The deaths of the two boys, Jared and Josh were originally a lot more gruesome. Jared was seen getting the top of his head blown off. But that was cut to avoid an NC 17.
Holy shit, I just realized: this movie was basically Birdemic, but trees
As much as I love the unintentional comedy, especially Wahlberg talking to the plant and the iconic "What, nooooooooo" moment, there is one legitimately good thing about this movie - John Leguizamo. Out of all the actors he's the only one who is trying to take Shyamalan's shitty writing and make it work. And I dare say he succeeds. Not only does he manage to take the quirk that Shyamalan forces on his character, but it also manages to work to his character's advantage, making him really likable. Remember that scene where Leguizamo's group are driving and they come across the people who've hanged themselves? And how Leguizamo uses a math problem to distract the frightened young woman from that horrible sight? I feel that was a legitimately good moment. But everything else... Wahlberg never stops whining, he has no chemistry with Deschanel whatsoever and the titular Happening is thwarted - I'm not kidding here - by the power of love. Once Wahlberg and Deschanel proclaim their love for each other, it all ends. That is single-handedly the dumbest moment in the whole movie and, believe me, that is saying something!
Yeah, I do think I say that Leguizamo is probably one of the better things about the film. He's managed to become one of those very reliable character actors (after a brief period of being an obnoxious leading man that he thankfully got past).
I thought the Happening just kind of... stopped.
I didn't perceive a "power of love" thing which makes the movie WORSE.
I always think her name is Beshamel. As in, the sauce. :D
It don't take money
Don't need fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
....of a shitty movie!
@@FilmBrain I think between this, the ice age sequels, and The pest, which does he regret more?
I don't think I like Shyamalan's darker and edgier take on Little Shop of Horrors
M. Night doesn't seem to know anything about humans or physics or logic. I think he's from another reality.
"What is so difficult about staying inside, locking the doors, and waiting for it to blow over?" LOL now we know it's extremely difficult for some!
Some people are too stupid to keep on living
@@scottylewis8124 Exactly!
So, got that ninth booster shot yet? I seem to be seeing all these trolls constantly pointing out the people that died from a certain thing and not those that didn't get the other certain thing...that now has flags all over the place...it's almost like trusting big pharma was ignorant....but nah those that have been sued for more than you can could spend in a century for exactly the same type of things, it's those that don't listen that are stupid! Especially since their alive! Good thing they didn't get a blood clot amirite?
If all of humanity was like yourself, we'd STILL be in lockdown.
"It's something airborne and they're telling people to go outside! Unrealistic!"
*sobs in 2020 COVID feels*
glad to know I am not the only one watching this in mid 2020 and feeling really awkward...
23:31 "what is so difficult about staying inside, locking the doors, and waiting for this to blow over"
🙃 turns out it's super difficult
Makes me wonder why they didn't go to the high school infirmary and grab masks to put on if they were to go outside. Oh yeah. Because these characters are STUPID!
The worst thing is that there are ingredients of an interesting natural horror film in the film, but the execution is royally bungled. This is the kind of thing Hollywood should remake because they can't do any worse.
This is kinda a remake of Bloodsuckers From Outer Space
After seeing this film, I've got a better idea for a plotline:
Mark Wahlberg stars as Theodore Happeninski, a down-on-his-luck mafia enforcer looking to do the right thing for his kids, and earn an honest wage in an attempt to go straight. With no real skills to speak of, Theodore takes the first job he can get, working at a garden centre.
After receiving his weekly paycheck and realizing he'll never be able to afford giving his kids the education they deserve, Theodore returns to a life of crime, using his security privileges to attempt stealing the latest toy all the kids have to have, the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes figures.
However, in his attempted larceny, Theodore stumbles upon a plot by the centre's evil owner (played by Joe Pantoliano, who played Titus Sinclair in "Ready to Rumble"), to siphon the funds of a centre-wide charity drive for his own selfish needs, particularly a trip to Acapulco.
Now, Theodore has to create a Happening to thwart the evil deeds of the evil garden centre owner and his security detail (played by Kip Pardue, Til Schweiger, Gina Gershon, Estella Warren, Cristian de la Fuente, Stacey Edwards, and Robert Sean Leonard of "Driven" fame) in a zany romp all over the garden centre and be the hero his kids need.
Along the way, Theodore becomes friends with a fellow employee (played by Zooey Deschanel), who is revealed at the end to be an undercover cop.
What's funny to me is that you're typically not a comedic reviewer. You're more analytical, but this and your Ratatoing reviews are some of the funniest reviews I've ever seen, and I actually think this review of The Happening is funnier than Nostalgia Critic's.
I was going to say, this was really really funny. Not that the other reviews are not funny, but I'm normally not a laugh-out-loud person and this had me laughing :)
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"The Head of Schools" It's called a Superintendent, M. Night!
6:00 - I always remarked that both Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel (but especially Zooey) look entirely lost and wondering what the hell they did to end up at this point in their careers all throughout this movie.
20:43 the girl is thinking: is this man high?
This review was originally posted in October 2011, and is part of a series of Halloween themed re-posts. This re-edited version runs 1m 39s shorter than the original, largely due to trimming down film clips and tightening up the pacing. I figured I'd get this one up because it's also been covered on the Nostalgia Critic since this was made. I was going to put this up in a few days, but I've been ill this past week, hence why there's not been any new reviews (there will be very soon), but until then, enjoy Mark Wahlberg having to run away from the wind!
EDIT: And, yes, I am aware those are lions, not tigers. 2011 Mathew, you dolt.
Film Brain any thoughts on Split,
Not seen it, but did pick up the DVD recently.
Feel better, man!
Hope you feel better soon, but until then, take it easy and recover well.
Film Brain did you get a sham one pitched His Lady in the Water movie to Disney but they don't understand it so he just stormed out seriously who does and the worst part Disney was going to do the movie anyway
I always laugh at the use of cooling towers with the great clouds coming out of them as an example of pollution. Know what those white clouds are? Water. That's how they use them for cooling -the evaporation cools water in the tower. The white cloud is literally a cloud, no different from the perfectly natural clouds in the sky. Ooooo, the horror!
I know, if you wanted an cliché example of pollution, why not show smokestacks spewing noxious black clouds? That would at least be more accurate.
Usually you need to be on ecstasy to talk to trees (even plastic ones)
For some reason I'm reminded of the scene in Project X where T Rigg's lawn gnome was smashed with a baseball bat and revealed to be filled with ecstasy. Probably because of the drugs (As of October 2nd 2022 when I'm first posting this) being disguised as things like candy in the US.
Well this movie is certainly different in the era of COVID-19. “Why don’t these people stay inside?”
But in the film, they don't have Trump as president.
9:17 “This ring can supposedly tell you what you’re feeling”. You know what else can me what I’m feeling? ME!!!
This is like The Room of M Knight films. This can be watched like a unintentional comedy. It is hilarious.
The bits where you're parodying Mark Wahlberg's performance have never stopped being funny; "Am I the only one who cares about the bees?"
The Happening was bad?
What? Nooooo.
Shyamalan really doesn't understand science. To judge from this movie, he seems to think that when something happens, scientists all think about what might have caused it, then pick out the explanation they like, and decide to believe that one. Essentially, he thinks that scientific theories are guesses that the scientists make.
It's really kind of weird.
Graham Kennedy
I don't want to be racist, but Shyamalan is indian, and indians are known for being prominent in the "Medicinal Junk" market which is probably why there was a mood ring...
I'm really surprised that even though the film basically has the main characters survive because of their good vibes, no one has made a "Good Vibrations" joke. Is it because people are expecting a joke about Wahlburg's Marky Mark days?
Mark Wahlberg is always flaccid. He will never live down the "What? No!" of this movie.
The thing about Shayamalan is that his movies were never very good, largely because he didn't know how to plot his twist endings. Even in the Sixth Sense the twist that Willis is a ghost doesn't make sense the way the movie is plotted out, because it is obvious that he is interacting with the rest of the cast during the film, it's not even a case of him thinking that he is having conversations with his wife etc. but him actually doing those things and then a last minute bait and switch trying to trick the audience into thinking that they misremembered the film.
A "science teacher" who doesn't know the difference between _theory_ and _hypothesis.._
Rewatching Zoe’s google eyes after the Battle Angel Alita live action trailer makes this both more funny and more sad.
At least that movie looks okay
5:55 - she's a real-life anime character!
Hey I thought of a great twist, what if the happening was actually created by the aliens from Signs.
Here's the thing MKS gets so very, very wrong. The predisposition to avoid self-harm isn't there to stop us committing suicide, it's there to stop us taking stupid risks. If you "flip the switch" people don't jump off buildings, they build ramps in the street & try jumping over cars on their bikes.
04:00 - Let me guess, they are all gone because they will be extras in the Bee Movie (another big stinker)
23:32 Relevant
Actually the Magic Roundabout music does still kinda make it creepy
I agree
Mark Wahlberg as a teacher . lol
What?. .No!
The happening more like the NOT happening!!!
Honestly one of the most laugh out loud examples of terrible 'science' in movies.
The only response to the ludicrous plot is, that's not how this works, that's not how any of this works.
I always wonder, given how Shmayaladingdong was born in America... is USA education really this shit? Did he really not know neither "self-preservation instinct" nor plants nor evolution works this way?
I'm unsure if they are genuinely that clueless or if they just come up with premise's for films and desperately try to find some science that vaguely fits. I mean to the average US viewer it might sound science ish enough that they buy it maybe?
No, it's total bullshit in the U.S. too
Lol Mathew this is so funny review. When u was running away from the wind was priceless lol 😂
I watched this movie and found it a so bad it's good movie but there was one thing that did scare me. The wife's eyes! They just look wrong and unnatural to the point I half expected it to be revealed that she was the source of the problem.
Spot on Review Mathew
I wish I could get the time back that I wasted sitting through this train wreck of a movie
It is totally unintentionally funny
You know a movie is bad when you’re laughing at movie intended to be horror
Can you please review Split?
17:18 - Still a classic.
He’s basically the critic without skits and British. So Mike Jay with a better and more frequent selection
We studied this film on my university course as part of a subject on 'bad screenwriting'. Some guy actually praised Deschanel's performance because of 'New Girl'. Just goes to show how some people wouldn't take the course seriously and were as basic as hell.
I've always wondered why a biology teacher would quote Einstein and not Gregor Mendel or Charles Darwin. The science community doesn't pretend like a professor in chemistry is an expert in all the other sciences. It's a very small nitpick in this smorgasbord of flaws, but I had to say it.
In that scene I felt like m night just tried to convince us that the old lady got mad at marky mark for saying the word happening, o shut it.
wahlberg really shows his ethos here LOL
Diary of the Dead? In Cinemas May 7th! 9:50
Maybe I'm several years late to the joke.
thank you for making my life slightly less miserable
I'm passionate about actual bee dying en mass recently, and this scene only pissed me off with it's "vanishing" and "no bodies" nonsense. It's a big problem going on right now, and I don't like some mentally challenged film maker turning the topic into a joke.
Anyway despite what this movie wants to tell the audience, plants can't only communicate with other plants, they can also communicate with fungi (not the wind though).
Also there is no proof one needs a brain to think, there may be countless alternatives, the reason plants can't think isn't their lack of a brain, but their lack of a need to have ever evolved intelligence in the first place.
9:40 - I can't believe I never noticed this part before when I saw this insane film; even in the powerful jaws of a lion, would a human arm be torn off THAT easily?
11:45 - An alien wrote this dialogue.
We're in The happening right now.
Except not as funny and slightly terrifying.
All in all it makes one want to say... "Cheese and Crackers"
@@TheSkully343 What? No!
@@TheSkully343 everyone in this film has the survival instinct of a lemming.
@@scottylewis8124 Especially when their leader and a man of science gives them the sagely advice to outrun the wind.
@@TheSkully343 that's like telling an aquaphobic to outrun the rain.
9:50-Quick flash of the Diary Of The Dead poster
IT WAS THE WIND!!! I think?
Yes, This movie is stupid.
Then M. night made the visit and split which both turned out to be good.
The Visit is garbage.
@@cangrejopendejo4909 wrong
The happening is a sequel to signs and a prequel to after earth, you're welcome
And this movie is now owned by Disney.
My favorite Mark. Wallburg Films The Departed, Broken City, Pain And Gain, The Yards, Italian Job, Big Hit, Shooter, 3 Kings, 2 Guns, 4 Brothers, Contraband, Ted 2, We Own TheNight, Patriots Day, And Corruptor
Spencer Breslin was in this. From Santa Clause 2 and Cat in the Hat to this.
dear filmbrain can we have an edit of i now pronounce you chuck and larry....please
This is a great review of this unintentionally hilarious flick. I also like the ones by Nostalgia Critic and Good Bad Or Bad Bad!
Bee corpses disappearing?
Perhaps animals that feed on bees are responsible?
There is a secret bee zombie apocalypse the government doesn't want us to know about.
Open your eyes, people. The undead bees buzz.
@21:25 😂
Watch film brain clap his hands at 2x speed
The jokes and comedic insults you've given in this video left me to die laughing. I got introduced to your channel from when you were on Nostalgia Critic. You and Doug are hilarious.
9:40 Those aren't tigers; they're lions. You get it right the next line, so what happened?
When I saw this i genuinely thought it was some funny parody film, found out everything in this is meant to be serious
I'm guessing M. Knight was thinking that the " true feelings / intentions of people " ( via the mood ring ) was going to give us a lesson on how to try to be a better person and have good intentions..... But this didn't get it across ( if that was even the point) who fn knows???
I'd pay a years salary for a by from Zooey , but this movie actually makes her unattractive. Wow. ... They took a beautiful woman in her 20s and made her ugly via bad dialog and utter nonsense
He randomly starts talking about hotdogs cause he says "we're packing hotdogs for the road you guys like hotdogs?"
I just love that this movie makes suicide methods borderline funny.
Could I watch the Happening with the Film Brain adjusted BGM? Seems like the more appropriate music choice.
Here's an idea that lets the plot stay similar but more sane. Instead of turning off fear response, heighten it. Have the plants make humans perceive threats everywhere and jack up the aggression levels to boot. Groups are still dangerous, people were already paranoid in the script, plants are still impossibly to blame, this ties in better with attracting wasps to eliminate caterpillars, making people violent and paranoid is less of a stretch than making them commit self un al ive, and it's much more chilling as it's warping people instead of hijacking them.
There are more "happenings" in this flick than in the 1967 film, "The Happening", with Anthony Quinn, Robert Walker, Jr., and a pre-"Bonnie And Clyde" Faye Dunaway, which has nothing at all to do plants pushing humans to commit suicide, rest assured.
A really stupid natural disaster caused by global warming?
Characters driving around the countryside and encountering weirdos?
This is basically just Birdemic but with plants
you know its a bad film if arms get ripped off so easy
Did M. Night trying to pretend this was meant comedically predate Tommy Wiseau insisting the same about "The Room"?
I always credited Wiseau with inventing the "pretend it was intended as a comedy to save face," but its origins could be so much MORE grandiose?!
Also there's a shite sci-fi English movie called "Starship Invasions" that stars Christopher Lee as a badly dressed alien trying to conquer the world by using an invisible ray to cause people to commit suicide across the world. And it's a REALLY bad movie, but the one part when a family is driving through their neighborhood and there are just CORPSES all over the place (and a starkly realistic Time Magazine cover of a slashed wrist and the question "IS THIS THE END?!") is legitimately more harrowing than anything in this movie!
Happy cute clouds
As far as evolution of trees is concerned, there is an order of magnitude more trees on earth than there are stars in the sky and most of them have significantly shorter lifespans than humans. This gives them a much greater advantage in developing advantageous defenses against threats. Yes, the specific mechanism that presents here sounds a bit out there, it isn't out of the realm of possibility as far as you think. Also, Lady in the Water was a Great Film! The whole point was to bring back the magic of storytelling, it was obvious and poignant not arrogant.
This movie definitely deserves a beatdown, from the opening credits (white text on white clouds) this thing was a complete disaster.
Show Don't Tell doesn't have to apply to things that are unpleasant to see. However, in a movie like this, there's no reason to be discreet about people getting killed in horrible ways. So, yeah. Show us people clawing themselves to death.
Is it bad that I love the intro music so much We need a top 10 of youtube intro music....
All of the dialogue from Zoey and Mark sounds rushed. When Mark is teaching the teenagers in Science about the bees, the line is delivered unnaturally fast. It's like M. Night Shyamalan had a requirement that the actors had to force as much exposition out of as few breaths as possible.
The hot dog guy is probably the best thing that m night delivers or should I say embarrasses us.
Take a drink everytime "Happening" is mentioned in the film haha. xD
If you flipped off the self preservation switch would flip, it's not like you'd become super depressed & instantly suicidal. It just means your brain wouldn't see a problem with the blue liquid under your sink. You'd basically turn into one of those millennial who dine on tide pods, not a hypnosis victim.
15 years old
Can’t believe I didn’t realize how bad this was after I first saw it
I saw this opening night with some buddies
In a possible live action of Futurama, you would be perfect as Fry.
What? Noooo.
One of several films I've turned off half way through when I found myself wanting everyone to perish.
Watching this movie my brother and I laughed so much, we missed stretches of dialog and skipped back to catch up. Ridiculous movie.
2:10 - what the heck is that? Sounds like organ music at a baseball game.
Its the theme to The Magic Roundabout.
Best series Channel Awesome ever did.
You're currently in my top 5 TH-camrs. NC is only top 15.
Doug Walker sucks
Secret Joke at 9:50
MrCrow180 What was that poster?
Joshua Bell Diary of the Dead
6:59 Doesn’t having a “serious message” make it even more of a schlocky B-Movie? IDK, that just seems like another cliche associated with the style to me.
Most people would say that something is happening instead of something is occurring.
Even more people would say: Something's going on. Or: Shit's going down, bro.
The Occurrence would be a better title