I am sooo staying away from that movie.
Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
That was exactly right. EXACTLY.
Posted by lem (Member # 6914) on :
*Spoiler alert from reading the article*
So let me get this straight. In the movie the plants are causing The Happening but the metro cities are affected first and the remote small towns tucked away in nature are affected last?
I am confused. M. Night really has gone down hill since The Sixth Sense.
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
Wow, the movie sounds so...retarded. The parody was pretty good though.
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
lem: I'm tempted to call him a one hit wonder, but Unbreakable was pretty good, mostly.
Thank goodness I don't have to see this piece of junk. M. Night owes me $20 for having to watch the Village.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
As I think I've said before, I feel of Shyamalan much as I do of Spike Lee: early success spoiled him.
I haven't seen The Happening, but the 15 minute version suggests I don't need to. (Very funny, by the way.)
Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
SPOILERS
lem, the premise is that the trees can only "sense" large groups of people first and then quickly develop the ability to "sense" smaller and smaller groups as the movie progresses. So even though there are more trees in a country setting, there's not as much human presence, so the big cities (aka parks with huge human populations strolling through them at any given time) are affected first.
It's a truly bizarre premise.
Posted by Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged (Member # 7476) on :
so the moral of the story is we must stop the trees before it's to late? that destroying the rain forest was actually a good idea?
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
"I talk to the trees... But they never listen to me... Wait, hold on? What's that? Huh? Ho! Ahctog! (Kills himself)"
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
This is the kind of movie we get when people don't have a good grasp of evolution. /sigh
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
quote:Originally posted by MightyCow: This is the kind of movie we get when people don't have a good grasp of evolution. /sigh
Ben Stein loved it.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Remember the Star Trek: Voyager episode where people get trapped in a shuttlecraft, then "evolution" causes them to become big ol' lizard things?
I've only rarely seen a genre show from creative folk of any stripe that shows evolution in a scientifically accurate sense. Must be why they call it fiction. Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Or that Star Trek: The Next Generation episode where some sort of virus starts activating dormant parts of the crew's DNA, causing them to turn into frogs and spiders and whatnot? The best part was when Spot turned into an iguana. 'Cause, you know, cats are directly descended from iguanas.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
quote:Originally posted by Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged: so the moral of the story is we must stop the trees before it's to late? that destroying the rain forest was actually a good idea?
That's what I'M saying!
The Lorax is secretly plotting the demise of humanity. GET HIM.
-pH
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
quote:Originally posted by lem: I am confused. M. Night really has gone down hill since The Sixth Sense.
Down hill? After the Sixth Sense wrapped M. Night fell into an endless abyss. The abyss is reminiscent of his later films, they're really abstract existentialist cries for help.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
people laugh in movie theatres here when M. Night's name shows up in a trailer.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:JULIAN: Close the vents while I calm the passengers with math!
HYSTERICAL WOMAN: OH GOD MATH NOOOOOOO!
[A tiny tear in the roof of the Jeep has betrayed them omg. Sad violins are sad.]
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