Ooooh. whatatwist!
Rotten egg for sure.... bad acting/bad story... But the main point of it is really good I think. The crappy movie aside, it's all about "what can happen if we don't stop destroying the world with our way of living." That's what I was thinking about when leaving the cinema. But as a Hollywood commercial movie, it didn't work. M Night should have done as John Carpenter in They Live instead.... I feel those movies are similar in many ways, since they both have a serious theme, but They Live were deliberately made over the top and funny. While 'The Happening'... well.. I feel the trailer was very misleading..
Some numbers.
The Happening (2008)
Budget: $60,000,000
Total US Gross $64,506,874
International Gross $98,762,187
Worldwide Gross $163,269,061 (w00t? Tricky trailer bastrd! You fooled us all!
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They Live (1988)
Production Budget $4,000,000
Total US Gross $13,000,000
Looking at the results... I guess whatever people say how much the movie sucks, it's still a big success....
Why does mediocrity always sell?!?!