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When did it become trendy to hate this movie?

posted 7 years ago by spotthetruth
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Maybe I am missing something but is it residual hatred for M. Night Shyamalan following Lady in the Water? Or is it simply because it doesn't have a Marvel logo in front of it?
Whatever the case may be, it's a damn shame, became even after all these years later, this film holds up extremely well, and is easily better than many films out there now. Very underrated film.

[–] TheSonomaDude_Returns 7 years ago

It's never been "trendy" to hate this movie. The Happening has been an awful, poorly written/directed film since the Friday it was released. I'm watching it right now and I'm baffled at some of these directing choices.

[–] Burk48917 (11040) 5 years ago

Direction, acting, writing...all shit.

[–] NitroHangover (1115) 3 years ago

About two hours after it was released, and people started seeing how terrible it was.

[–] GreenLantern (186) 3 years ago

About halfway through the movie for me. I usually say Mark Wahlberg is one of those actors with few bad movies to his name. Then I remember this one...