The Happening

[FretsAflame]

Yeah ok, so the movie actually was bad, as you all predicted.

<<<spoiler>>>>

First of all, the movie is based on a theory that plants can produce neurotoxin when they sense a threat, and that the chemical will effect the human brain and nerve system to a point of self destruction.
The theory is OLD and obviously has never been proven.
The thing with this theory is that plants CAN produce this chemical, and can communicate with other plants from THE SAME SPECIES to do the same.
It has been proven that plants from the same species can communicate with other plants in other places with certain chemicals they produce.

HOWEVER: in the movie, all of a sudden all plants from all kinds of species (Including GRASS that is actually a human designed plant) can communicate with each other and they all trget people as threats-
so everywhere humans kill themselves in all sorts of ways...
Wait, did you hear what I said???? Plants FROM ALL SPECIES CAN COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER!!! that's absurd in so many levels I don't even know where to begin

MY GOD.

Minus few nice mild gore and suicide scenes this movies sucked so bad.
The dialogues were funny (??!!) the characters were shallow and "obvious"
The scene where the main character started to talk to a fake plastic tree in a house, was probably the worst scene in history of thrillers,
It was BAD BAD BAD.

When they arrive to the old lady's house, all of a sudden the viewers are facing another kind of thrilling moments (and have nothing to do with anything in the movie ) I mean.... wtf.

I was mildly entertained throughout the movie, and I love the theory it is based on, but this movie seemed to me, like it was written in one night, with 0 thought put into it, and was edited really bad.

4/10

So what you are all are saying is that my time would be better spent just watching porno at home?

 

[FretsAflame]

This is where I'd reference Brokeback Mountain if only I'd seen it.

Homophobe.
















I haven't seen it either.

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

I opted for The Hulk over The Happening tonight. The Hulk was pretty good, but would have been a bit better if they had simply done away with 40-50% of the dialogue.

 

[EricT]

Wanted to see the The Hulk tonight, but the showing I was going to go to sold out... ended up convincing the person I was with the not see The Happening, and saw Quid Pro Quo. Movie was ok, but a little too "Holy shit I love fucking Cronenberg so I'm going to make a movie just like him!" for me...

 

[Dead_Lioness]

I have to go see THe Hulk & Iron Man !! Heard awesome reviews about both

 

[Dead_Lioness]

So what you are all are saying is that my time would be better spent just watching porno at home?

haha Yes Steve


btw, that Saturday when you called me, I was in class... I forgot to tell you
I had classes on Saturdays

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

I have to go see THe Hulk & Iron Man !! Heard awesome reviews about both

I'll love you if you do.

 

[Chromatose]

I read an interview this morning, which I can't seem to find now, with Marky Mark and Shyamalan, where they were saying this movie has something to do with God and how awesome is it that Einstein ended up loving God too, and how if Einstein can do it EVERYONE CAN. And then they high five each other and Einstein smiles from beyond the grave, hand in hand with Jesus. I may have taken some liberties with that retelling.

 

[Chromatose]

Your protagonist is a science teacher, and you also have a scientist at the end who talks about the limits of rational thought. How does that tie into the whole spiritual aspect?

Shyamalan: Right. Well, you know, I was reading the Einstein biography when I was writing the screenplay. I don’t know if you’ve read it. It’s just fantastic. The new one, by Isaacson. A beautiful, beautiful book. One of the things I was struck by—and when you read the book you may not even see that it’s in there, but I saw it in there—was that Einstein was this guy…

Wahlberg: He converted?

Shyamalan: Yeah, he rejected religion and became atheistic, did his wondrous things in his twenties and got really into it. Then in the gaps in science he started seeing a hand, you know? In his point of view, the hand of God. A divine kind of “Is there something there?” His life struggle was finding an overall formula, an overall thing that could define the design of things, and a belief that that was there. And then he became very religious. The ultimate man of science became a man of faith. In a way, when I was writing Elliot, it affected Elliot. He’s just a high school science teacher. He has plenty of gaps in the knowledge of science. I said, “You’re just a regular science teacher. You’re not going to be the hero that figures out something. It’s not like that. But you see in those gaps…” He honors those things in the gap. That’s why Mark felt like the right casting, because obviously he’s a man of faith, you know? Because there are things that we don’t know. The lack of need to define it in the closest category is something inspiring when I see that in somebody, whether it’s Einstein or Elliot’s character or Mark. And so it is a kind of question of science to almost give evidence to something else.

 

[derek]

Well I'm glad he's as articulate in interviews as he is with his screenplays.

 

[Captain Beard]

I don't recall reading anywhere about Einy reverting. Just that he wanted his goddamned Cosmological constant so badly he stalled on everything else. I smell turds.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

I'll love you if you do.

Of course!!! I'm a comics fan, and I love it when they make movies about comics characters! That's like a "dream come true" to see some of your favorite heros, you grew up with, come to life

 

[Dead_Lioness]

I don't recall reading anywhere about Einy reverting. Just that he wanted his goddamned Cosmological constant so badly he stalled on everything else. I smell turds.

Einstein really didn't convert.... that's what religious people love to say
to make them look better... Einstein had SOME quotes regarding religion,
but he never came back to religion...

 

[Captain Beard]

It's all about deathbed conversion stories to them. Silly asses.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

It's all about deathbed conversion stories to them. Silly asses.

Yeah, I think the Einstein stories about how he was such a great scientist and yet still found out that there is god, makes them feel better about themselves, although it's not true...
You know what makes me feel better: the Mother Theresa story haha!

 

[derek]

They said David Hume relinquished his religious doubt on the death bed too! Poppy cock.

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

They are such assholes aren't they.

 

[derek]

Bah, not really.

 

[Chromatose]

I take it Shyamalan is misunderstanding his pantheism, which surprises me because most Christians see such a belief as atheism with flair. Neither of these things make a whole lot of sense to me.

 

[derek]

Nor me. What does make sense though is Shyamalan misunderstanding things.