Lame!
I saw a commercial for The Happening and had just a glimmer of hope that it would be awesome and scary. Heck and no! I didn't see it but...
There aren't fucking zombies!!!
Now I don't mean zombies having sex, I just mean WHAT THE FUCK! I thought for sure people committing suicide en mass meant ZOMBIES! I saw one commercial and I thought I saw corpses floating like The Gentlemen in BTVS. FLOATING MOTHER FUCKING CORPSES WOULD BE AWESOME!!! Scary as hell too!
Like many movies the idea of what it might be got me interested, but in this case I was so freaked out by my own thoughts there was no way I was going to pay to pee my pants in public. So I read the review over at Pajiba. Oh so lame!
To summarize short and sweet - plants are defending themselves from humans! Yep, plants! All plant life has banded together geneticly and released poison that makes humans want to kill themselves. Oh. My. LORD that is lame! How the hell does a poison make a person want to kill themselves? And oh, by the way, plants are only triggering on LARGE groups of people that pose a threat.
ARGH! That makes no sense at all. And I am not going to see the movie and try to see if it really makes sense. There is no way that makes sense! I would believe that a certain plant could release a toxin that could paralyze a person and they'd "commit suicide" by just wasting away. Or like in Serenity! On Miranda the pax in the teraforming made people just give up and die. But a trigger to suicide? In large groups? Giving plants not only motives and means, but purposeful selection and global timing is nuts!
Now I am sure some dip shit is going to compare The Happening to The Birds - well nope, that won't work. The Birds took place on an island not New York to Pennsylvania. Motive was never ascribed to the birds. Nor could a specific target/group of people be pinpointed that the birds attacked, but Hitchcock did give some options via storytelling but not a character spelling it out. If memory serves there is dialog in Plan 9 from Outerspace where a government official lays out the motive and means of the aliens. Plan 9 is awesome, but do you really thing M. Night was going for Plan 9?
There aren't fucking zombies!!!
Now I don't mean zombies having sex, I just mean WHAT THE FUCK! I thought for sure people committing suicide en mass meant ZOMBIES! I saw one commercial and I thought I saw corpses floating like The Gentlemen in BTVS. FLOATING MOTHER FUCKING CORPSES WOULD BE AWESOME!!! Scary as hell too!
Like many movies the idea of what it might be got me interested, but in this case I was so freaked out by my own thoughts there was no way I was going to pay to pee my pants in public. So I read the review over at Pajiba. Oh so lame!
To summarize short and sweet - plants are defending themselves from humans! Yep, plants! All plant life has banded together geneticly and released poison that makes humans want to kill themselves. Oh. My. LORD that is lame! How the hell does a poison make a person want to kill themselves? And oh, by the way, plants are only triggering on LARGE groups of people that pose a threat.
ARGH! That makes no sense at all. And I am not going to see the movie and try to see if it really makes sense. There is no way that makes sense! I would believe that a certain plant could release a toxin that could paralyze a person and they'd "commit suicide" by just wasting away. Or like in Serenity! On Miranda the pax in the teraforming made people just give up and die. But a trigger to suicide? In large groups? Giving plants not only motives and means, but purposeful selection and global timing is nuts!
Now I am sure some dip shit is going to compare The Happening to The Birds - well nope, that won't work. The Birds took place on an island not New York to Pennsylvania. Motive was never ascribed to the birds. Nor could a specific target/group of people be pinpointed that the birds attacked, but Hitchcock did give some options via storytelling but not a character spelling it out. If memory serves there is dialog in Plan 9 from Outerspace where a government official lays out the motive and means of the aliens. Plan 9 is awesome, but do you really thing M. Night was going for Plan 9?