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| The Happening (Special Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] | ![The Happening (Special Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510hZIYZ5IL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Actors: Mark Wahlberg, John Leguizamo, Betty Buckley, Zooey Deschanel
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 1213
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 90
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 53321
UPC: 024543533214
EAN: 0024543533214
ASIN: B001DZOC3W
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: October 7, 2008
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Product Description
20th Century The Happening (Blu-ray) From M. Night Shyamalan, the writer-director of "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs", comes a gripping thriller about a family onthe run from a mysterious and deadly phenomenon. Academy Award(R) Nominee Mark Wahlberg (2006 Best Supporting Actor ? "The Departed") stars as ElliotMoore, an ordinary man trying to save his family from a terrifying, invisible killer. As Elliot begins to discover the true nature of what is lurkingout there, it soon becomes clear that no one - and nowhere - is safe.
Amazon.com
You'd expect the end of the world to be no day in the park, but in M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, a day in the park is where the end begins. One otherwise peaceful summer morning, New Yorkers strolling in Central Park come to a halt in unison, then begin killing themselves by any means at hand. At a high-rise construction site a few blocks over, it's raining bodies as workers step off girders into space. And all the while, the city is so quiet you can hear the gentle breeze in the trees. That breeze carries a neurotoxin, and what or who put it there (terrorists?) is a question raised periodically as the film unfolds. But the question that really matters is how and whether anybody in the Middle Atlantic states is going to stay alive. The Happening is Shyamalan's best film since The Sixth Sense, partly because he avoids the kind of egregious misjudgment that derailed The Village and Lady in the Water, but mostly because the whole thing has been structured and imagined to keep faith with the point of view of regular, unheroic folks confronted with a mammoth crisis. Focal characters are a Philadelphia high-school science teacher (Mark Wahlberg, excellent), his wife (Zooey Deschanel) and math-teacher colleague (John Leguizamo), and the latter's little girl (Ashlyn Sanchez). Instinct says get out of the cities and move west; most of the film takes place in the delicately picturesque Pennsylvania countryside, with menace hovering somewhere in the haze. There are no special effects (apart from a wind machine and some breakaway glass), but the movie manages to be deeply unsettling in the matter-of-factness of its storytelling. Especially effective is its feel for what we might call the surrealism of banality. One warning sign that someone has been infected by the neurotoxin is irrational or erratic speech and behavior, yet Shyamalan has a genius for dialogue that sounds normal and everyday as it's spoken, yet flies apart grenade-like a second later as its logic (or illogic) sinks in. Then there's Deschanel's eye-rolling dodginess about the messages some guy has been leaving on her cellphone. Or the fellow (Frank Collis) who addresses his greenhouse plants as though they were his children--has a stray toxic zephyr wafted his way, or is this just his idea of normal? --Richard T. Jameson
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| Customer Reviews: Read 33 more reviews...
 quite possibly the worst movie ever. January 7, 2009
maybe not the worst ever, but definitely the worst of this decade as one reviewer said. The video on the blu-ray is great, but, as the saying goes, putting this movie out with great HD video is like polishing a turd.
Move along; nothing Happening here. January 6, 2009
Yet another in a long string of losers from one-hit-wonder, M. Night Shyamalan. What could Mark Wahlberg have been thinking? And with John Leguizamo's departure from ER, I guess he needed to do something to keep gas in the SUV. Ridiculous storyline with more inconsistencies than dead bodies. Absurd dialouge and zero character development. Ironically the desire for people to start shooting themselves in the head and walking off 10 story buildings is sort of how you're left feeling after seeing this movie.
 Decent Story... But December 26, 2008
I thought the overall story was pretty decent, but this movie suffered from poor writing and acting.
I seriously couldn't tell if this movie was SUPPOSED to be bad, because most of the movie is like this. The dialogue exchanges throughout the entire film are just BAD. This was, like I said, due to poor writing by M. Knight and bad acting by pretty much everyone... but it makes you wonder if M. Knight intentionally made the movie like this for "campyness".
Overall this movie does has some pretty frightening scenes, with the overall plot being honestly pretty good(the plants etc.).... but the writing and acting pretty much ruined it.
~Cookson
"The Crappening" December 19, 2008
The "Crappening" has to be the biggest dissappointment I've had in a movie in a very long time. The plot was lame, the acting was worse. I've seen B movies with better acting. The ending was stupid and very anti-climactic. Fortunately the award for worst ending has already been set in stone by "The Mist"...
Don't waste your money renting...don't waste your money on the energy it would cost to watch the movie on cable either...
I Wanted To Like It December 18, 2008
This movie could have been so much better than it was. The concept was great, and the beginning of the movie is very creepy.
Here's the flaws though:
1. Besides John Leguizamo, the acting is absolutely awful. Zooey Deschanel is a horrible actress and makes any attempt at a love subplot impossible to believe or connect to. Whenever there was a scene that I could tell was supposed to make me think "aw, that's nice, good for them!" I ended up just thinking "who cares?"
2. A "guess" by a random farmer turns out to be the actual reason the "happening" is even happening. You would think all of the guesses early on in the movie would be plausible and then the REAL reason would turn out to be mind-blowing. This was not the case though, and it was very disappointing to have the mystery solved so early and so easily.
3. The reason for the "happening" is (I won't spoil it, although I'm using that word loosely) simply cheesy. A part of me was thinking "well, at least he took a risk and gave us a good message" but the other part of me couldn't help but overpower that with "that was just too cheesy for me." It reminded me of Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster - great message, but just too ridiculous to really connect with anyone.
4. M. Night Shyamalan is a great filmmaker. That may sound like a positive, but when you're expecting a great film from a great filmmaker, anything less is disappointing. I thought The Lady in the Water was a bit cheesy, but excused it since it's supposed to be "a bedtime story". This movie just has no excuse though, and I really hope he thinks long and hard about his next move. Any more flops like this one and he'll become a joke.
The movie is worth seeing if only for the eerie scenes that actually work, and the excellent film score. Just don't expect it to change your life, because it certainly won't.
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