i dont know if i should believe any of these reviews anymore on account that someone exaggerated a tree shaking into a tree talking

6/16/2008 7:38:37 PM

alright, it didn't talk, but it's implied that the plants are sentient beings, correct?

6/16/2008 7:55:05 PM

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"alright, it didn't talk, but it's implied that the plants are sentient beings, correct?"

No, it is not. They're simply evolving, like all other organisms on the planet. While far-fetched, it's not out of this world.

The fact that plants are the alleged menace is not the reason the movie sucked so bad. It's a valid idea and a valid vehicle for an antagonist.

No, what made the movie awful is that literally nothing is explained (unless you take it purely at face value, which only a fool would do). It is never proven that the trees were to blame, nor is it ever explained how the crisis ends.

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"Unbreakable being the worst"

Can someone explain this? That movie was freakin' brilliant. I have a feeling a lot of you people may have missed some things.

6/16/2008 8:21:18 PM

I think this flick looked awesome on paper, and should've come into the world as a novella or short story.

6/16/2008 8:56:13 PM

why would plants want to kill the largest producer of CO2 in the world? They eat that shit up.

6/16/2008 9:02:20 PM

If I wanted to watch a movie about trees killing people, I would watch Lord of the rings. Atleast they throw boulders and shit, this movie sucked cockzilla

6/16/2008 9:12:10 PM

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"this movie sucked cockzilla"

/thread

6/16/2008 9:23:00 PM

^^^ Acid Rain

It eats that shit(the trees) up

[Edited on June 16, 2008 at 9:24 PM. Reason : ^]

[Edited on June 16, 2008 at 9:24 PM. Reason : wtf]

6/16/2008 9:23:42 PM

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"No, what made the movie awful is that literally nothing is explained"

this is a major plotpoint. throughout the movie there are notions that things happen that we can't help, or explain, and they are never very cryptic about that. i don't know how you can be disappointed with this when you're built up to never knowing exactly what happened.

6/16/2008 11:39:17 PM

it's a shame that this movie turned out just like all of this guy's other work. the preview looked really interesting.

6/17/2008 1:01:52 AM

Didn't watch the movie but...

So the trees evolve to produce some sort of toxin that kills people - or makes people kill themselves, whatever. All species of tree evolve the same way to produce the toxin, or just one kind of tree. If one kind, then wouldn't "the happening" be restricted to one geographic area? If every species of tree (riiiight), the I guess all the people that live in areas far away from trees are safe - like the desert for instance.

6/17/2008 7:35:35 AM

I liked it.

6/17/2008 8:38:20 AM

^^In the movie, it was restricted to one geographic area.

6/17/2008 9:01:41 AM

^^are you shittin' me?

6/17/2008 9:38:18 AM

^
It kinda was. Not a bad flick, but disappointing considering Im such a big fan.

6/17/2008 11:45:02 AM

From the man himself:

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"No. 1, it's a B movie. This is the best B movie you will ever see, that's it."

lol is this guy for real?

6/17/2008 12:34:26 PM

a B movie with a $57 million budget

it all makes sense now

i cant stand the guy

6/17/2008 12:39:53 PM

this movie takes the cake for the worst movie ive ever seen in a theater.

good thing i walked out with my date and got my money back.

fucking pathetic.

6/18/2008 7:19:46 PM

^ Good man. Wish I'd been so proactive.

6/18/2008 7:57:40 PM

I liked the concept of nature > humans but I am still trying to figure out how the wind had anything to do with the plants being pissed at people. I suppose maybe the movement of the trees/grass could cause it but that is a bit of a stretch.

6/18/2008 8:04:47 PM

god awful! i wish we had gotten our money back, but instead we just sat there and laughed through the whole thing.

6/18/2008 8:33:00 PM

I never understood assholes who go to movies and demand their money back if it's shit.
You picked it, the reviews warned you that it will be shit, but you still went.

6/18/2008 11:00:52 PM

*********Spoilers************



How fucked up was it that the people in that house shot those two teenagers? That was like one of the worst things I have seen in a movie. Also I just knew that Mrs. Jones was going to be like Satan or something and she was controlling the plants with her ways and house.





******End Spoiler********

6/19/2008 1:10:05 AM

boredom and a free ticket compelled me to go see this last night at the 9:45 showing, I was also alone in the whole theater.
I thought this would work to my advantage, making less spooky things more scary. Nope. It was just a bad movie.

The dialogue and how it was executed was akin to a SciFi made for tv movie.

The plant defense premise, while fun to think about, just gets a big *carl face* from me.

Like someone else said, I think it would have been better on paper as a short story, but even then who knows.

It was hard to get really attached to any of the characters at all. John Laguiziamo's character I think was just there to be the first person to die that you may have been mildly attached to. I thought he was going to save the day with some stats or some math or something, but no The little girl was pretty much useless as most of the time she was kinda ignored. The chick who played Dorothy in Tin Man, can't remember her name, acted so out of it and wide-eyed and spaced out that I couldn't take anything she said seriously. And Mr. Walbergh . . well. Not only were his lines retarded but how he said them, nostrils a-flare, were even worse. He had some weird voice inflection thing going on the whole time. "O! no! m'aam! not at all! no way!" And what kinda faggot wears a mood ring, honestly!

I do wish the creepy old lady had more airtime. It was pretty satisfying to see her smash herself to death.



[Edited on June 20, 2008 at 11:30 AM. Reason : .]

6/20/2008 11:27:37 AM

lol zooey deschanel is always "wide-eyed"

6/20/2008 1:33:50 PM

saw it.

neutral opinion. i knew what i was going into.

would have been much better on paper.

6/20/2008 6:30:25 PM

I can't remember the last time I saw a movie as bad as this.

6/20/2008 11:23:21 PM

anyone else notice Brian O'Halloran AKA Dante Hicks driving the car into the tree?

I was pretty sure it was him but you only saw his eyes in the rear-view mirror real quick and such but IMDB confirms it

finally fed up with the store clerk life

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" This is the 2nd worst movie I've ever paid money to see, with Unbreakable being the worst and signs being number 3 on the list."

lol, wut

[Edited on June 21, 2008 at 10:56 PM. Reason : nfds]

6/21/2008 10:48:44 PM

[Edited on June 21, 2008 at 10:56 PM. Reason : triple bacon cheeseburger]

6/21/2008 10:55:14 PM

-------Spoiler------------

In the happening, nothing happens.

-------end of spoiler------



This was fucking awful.

6/22/2008 10:18:54 PM

wahlberg did suck a big one in it, really unbelievable and unconvincing

all i was waiting for at the end of the movie was to see A film by Al Gore in the credits... it was a very political movie and not even a good one of them.

this is his first movie ive hated too

6/23/2008 9:40:39 AM

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"What if the twist this time was that there is no twist???"

called on page 1.

This was an excellent idea for a movie. It could have been SO much better. I've been a fan of Shyamalan's for quite a while. I loved Unbreakable, Sixth Sense, Signs, and The Village... Lady was terrible and this movie was awful. I left wanting my money back.

The plot was good. It definitely had substance. The execution was abysmal.

A better resolution: When the girl was saying "I see in calculus." If that could've been a point where the plot turned where there was some sort of savior, like in the rest of his movies... No. There was nothing.

Also, the movie got preachy at the end. All this move did was give material to the Wayans Brothers for Scary Movie 5. That's it.

6/23/2008 10:54:34 AM

I just want to say that Unbreakable is a great movie

completely original and fantastically done

yes, it has a twist at the end, but tell me it doesn't fit so perfectly with the theme and idea of the movie

a fantastic movie

6/23/2008 10:59:54 AM

the little montage at the end (when anyone who has half a brain realized it halfway through the movie) ruined it for me. and as i said earlier, i thought it was an alright movie up until that point.

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 11:02 AM. Reason : (unbreakable)]

6/23/2008 11:02:41 AM

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"when anyone who has half a brain realized it halfway through the movie"

well, i didn't see it, and I have a whole brain... thanks

of course, I wasn't playing "OMG WHAT A TWIST" throughout any of his movies so

I guess I just got to enjoy them as is...

6/23/2008 11:05:55 AM

HAHAHAHAHHAHA

okay, i was just told the "story" or whatever. that is THE gayest thing i have ever heard.

i wasn't planning on seeing this movie but i wanted to find out what the deal was.

holy crap that's terrible. i'd be ashamed.

6/23/2008 11:08:42 AM

it's not the lack of a twist, it was the lack of a coherent ending. His twists usually give validation to the plot. There was no twist in this movie nor any plot validation.

6/23/2008 11:09:18 AM

^ exACTLY

6/23/2008 11:11:29 AM

And, for those of you hating on signs because of the fallacy of "OMG THE ALIENS INVADED A PLANET FULL OF STUFF THEY'RE DEATHLY ALLERGIC TO"

How retarded.

You're assuming the aliens knew they were allergic to water. How could we possibly know that?

I thought signs was a great movie and the ending sequence with the brother battling the alien with water was perfect. It made sense. It gave a rhyme and reason to the little girl's water issues. It gave a rhyme and reason to the brother's minor league career. It gave rhyme and reason to the son's asthma problems. It gave a rhyme and reason to the final words uttered by the wife. Just thinking about it gives me goosebumps still. It was a perfect movie.

This movie, however, paled so much in comparison to shyamalan's talent.

One critic said: It was like I was a teacher, shaking my head while grading a subpar paper written by a bright student.

6/23/2008 11:15:25 AM

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"It was like I was a teacher, shaking my head while grading a subpar paper written by a bright student. "

lol yes

6/23/2008 11:19:42 AM

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"How retarded. You're assuming the aliens knew they were allergic to water. How could we possibly know that? "

Because in the movie they actually say that the aliens were staying away from lakes and bodies of water... M. Night's character says he is leaving for a lake bc he thinks they do not like water.

6/23/2008 11:20:13 AM

Yes, this is coming from human's observation. So the alien's figure it out after the invasion. They're still vastly superior in physical ability and mental capacity (they can go from planet to planet).

It's like how an experienced handler approaches a snake. Yes, the snake will kill the man if he makes a wrong move. 99999/100000 he can beat the snake.

6/23/2008 11:25:28 AM

No...they say the aliens are landing away from bodies of water. So the aliens did know they are allergic.

6/23/2008 11:37:06 AM

no, halfway through the invasion, the people were syaing "they're going away from bodies of water." That does not necessarily mean their first stop was away from a body of water. You're dismissing the possibility of a discovery by the aliens.

6/23/2008 11:39:13 AM

I dismiss it because my interpretation is that they are messing around in corn fields and areas in the center of huge landmasses bc there are no large bodies of water then they said the aliens are staying away (I don't know the exact quote) from lakes and bodies of water. I don't care enough to be really concerned with it though and it's been years since I have seen it, no need to revisit.


Back to our regularly scheduled M Night commercial disappointment...

6/23/2008 11:44:55 AM

that I can agree with.

Besides, I think most audiences will forgive logical fallacies. They will not forgive an unsubstantiated ending, unless the open ending is well done. This one, was not.

6/23/2008 11:46:30 AM

Ok so I just started to think about this(which makes the movie even worse if possible).

There is a scene where they are running from the wind, which is moving almost like a tidal wave toward them. First off, them running from the wind made me bust out laughing in the middle of the movie. Second, were the plants controlling the wind or something? Wind doesn't "move" like that, it makes no sense. It would imply that not only were the plants in on it, but the wind was helping the plants? What the fuck?

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 2:38 PM. Reason : huh?]

6/23/2008 2:37:36 PM

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"How retarded. You're assuming the aliens knew they were allergic to water. How could we possibly know that? "

It didn't matter if they knew or not. The problem is that the atmosphere is saturated with water. If they were hurt by water they would be writing in pain just being within Earth's atmosphere

6/23/2008 3:27:32 PM

^

6/23/2008 3:29:23 PM

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"It didn't matter if they knew or not. The problem is that the atmosphere is saturated with water. If they were hurt by water they would be writing in pain just being within Earth's atmosphere"

6/23/2008 4:21:08 PM