10 Mysterious Or Bizarre Movie Titles With Disappointingly Boring Explanations

8. The Happening

Dear Mark, I hope you don't think I'm picking on you but I'm going to have to go with another one of your pictures at number 3. M. Night Shyamalan's box-office flop has been slated by so many people in so many places that I wouldn't be surprised if there's not a person in the world who doesn't know its sh*t. Its a crying shame because the title is dark, mysterious and doesn't give anything away. I saw a poster, with the abandoned cars lining the motorway and I wanted to see it a lot. I wanted to find out what this 'happening' actually was. Plants get upset, so make people kill themselves. There's no way to spin it. That is the height of it. As far as 'end of the world' type deals go, the opening half an hour isn't bad. Dramatic scenes of mass suicide are shot quite artistically as bodies rain from skyscrapers and the sense of threat is very real. Once our protagonist gets to the countryside however, we find ourselves watching Mark Wahlberg run through field after field, seeing how long he can outrun the wind. The sense of threat is lost and the pace plummits, resulting in one of the driest, most ridiculous thrillers ever made.