The Happening

#26
#26
kptvol said:
Could they not analyze our atmosphere and figure out that moisture is in the air? Those aliens would still be dead when it rained. What happens in the summer when it gets humid? I guess their lungs burn up. Or crap, if water is such a huge danger, why not wear a freaking wet suit? They can build spacecraft, but not ponchos?
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you're taking this a little too seriously. next you'll be analyzing H.G. Wells' martian invaders. Why weren't they smart enough to get their immunizations updated before they invaded earth, especially if they'd been watching us closely for all those years.
 
#27
#27
MG1968 said:
you're taking this a little too seriously. next you'll be analyzing H.G. Wells' martian invaders. Why weren't they smart enough to get their immunizations updated before they invaded earth, especially if they'd been watching us closely for all those years.
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Not really. People are claiming his movies are "too deep" for some viewers. I don't think that's the case at all.
 
#28
#28
I think after The Sixth Sense, he let success go to his head, and he thought he could do no wrong. I liked Signs, BUT the first thing I said was "Why would they come to a planet that's 3/4 water? (as some have staed here).

The Village was really garbage, and I don't even know where to begin with Lady in the Water. I know the premise and what happens in The Happening, and it's just not my thing. Maybe I just don't "get it".
 
#29
#29
I don't see how anyone can defend most of his movies... The Sixth Sense was great, and the rest of his movies have been unimaginative crap since.

Greenpeace funded this movie, I'm sure of it.
 
#31
#31
kptvol said:
I wouldn't have had a problem with Signs if the ending had made even a little bit of sense. Why in the crap would aliens capable of interplanetary travel choose to land on a planet that is 75% covered with a substance that kills them? How long was their takeover of Earth going to last? Until it rained?
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Best example about Signs I have ever read. Very good stuff. I always liked the Village but I cannot stand Signs.
 
#32
#32
My comments earlier about his movies including social commentary is RIGHT ON. This movie was, as some milo said probably funded by greenpeace, but he also went out of his way to say that love is important and that ultimately, love wins out.
 
#33
#33
VolzRChamps said:
My comments earlier about his movies including social commentary is RIGHT ON. This movie was, as some milo said probably funded by greenpeace, but he also went out of his way to say that love is important and that ultimately, love wins out.
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So... what other movies have social commentary?
 
#37
#37
Entertaining review of The Happening.

WARNING - it is full of spoilers. If you plan to see the movie, don't read.

The Movie Review: ‘The Happening’

It's the kind of movie you want to laugh about with friends, swapping favorite moments of inanity: "Do you remember the part when Mark Wahlberg ... ?" "God, yes. And what about that scene where the wind ... ?"


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The problem, of course, is that to have such a conversation, you'd normally have to see the movie, which I believe is an unreasonably high price to pay just to make fun of it. So rather than write a conventional review explaining why you should or shouldn't see The Happening (trust me, you shouldn't), I'm offering an alternative: A dozen and a half of the most mind-bendingly ridiculous elements of the film, which will enable you to marvel at its anti-genius without sacrificing (and I don't use that term lightly) 90 minutes of your life.
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#38
#38
Killer water. Killer air. I guess his next movie will be about some form of poisonous soil or something.
 
#39
#39
I don't get mad at movies much but this made me mad. I literally felt like stabbing myself right in the jugular after watching The Happening. I can't believe I "happened" to blow $16 on two tickets to see this. I think I might have got about as much enjoyment out of having midgets kick me in the groin.
 
#40
#40
DownNDirty said:
I don't get mad at movies much but this made me mad. I literally felt like stabbing myself right in the jugular after watching The Happening. I can't believe I "happened" to blow $16 on two tickets to see this. I think I might have got about as much enjoyment out of having midgets kick me in the groin.
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$16? Did you go to the matinee?:)
 
#41
#41
DownNDirty said:
I don't get mad at movies much but this made me mad. I literally felt like stabbing myself right in the jugular after watching The Happening. I can't believe I "happened" to blow $16 on two tickets to see this. I think I might have got about as much enjoyment out of having midgets kick me in the groin.
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That can be arranged, but it requires a premium VN membership :p
 
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