Al Gore strikes again, only this time, he's infiltrated M. Night Shyamalan's mind.
(Spoiler Alert! I will engage conversation about events in the movie.)
I went to see The Happening the other day, hoping to see an M. Night movie I wouldn't have to defend to everyone. I was rewarded not with clever plot twists or a religious revalation, but with an hippy, environmentalist, bullshit message: be nice to the plants, or they will gang up and kill you. Sorry Night, I can't do anything for ya this time.
Collin knows more than anybody that I am a skeptic, and it's true, but I like M. Night movies, not because they are believable or realistic, but because they are mostly original and unique. He always puts in a clever moral at the end of the film, leaving the viewer feeling warm and fuzzy inside. But this time, I left the movie theater just wanting to burn down a brazilian rain forest. Plants punishing mankind for their ravenous industrialization by coordinating a syncronized, vege-terrorist attack on humans using toxins that make you kill yourself...WTF!?
If the environmentalist message is what we were supposed to take from the movie, shame on you M. Night. Yup, it was original, unique, and the nasty suicides are pretty damn cool and thought provoking, but the political message poisons the fun. No pun intended.
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