Wednesday, October 22, 2008
My husband and I recently rented the M. Night Shyamalan movie "The Happening". I am glad we didn't pay to see this at the theater. Talk about a bad movie. Bad acting, ridiculous plot and in the end the disturbing images made me feel awful. I suppose making political movies will just keep increasing. Whatever happened to making entertaining movies? It gets annoying going to the movies and then being hammered by someones political views. This movie had strong environmental overtones. The scene with the nuclear reactors in the background was stupid. In fact the whole premise of this movie was stupid. The plants rise up against mankind and poison people with a toxin that makes the people commit suicide. Oh, as a side note, the wind cooperates. How the plants and the wind communicate is not known but when the plants are ready to poison people the wind picks up and blows the toxin. In one scene it actually chases people! In addition to the radical environmental tone, there are a lot of mistakes in the movie. All that said, for me, the worst was the people committing suicide. I can't even articulate how that made me feel. On a positive, there was one person in the movie who played their part perfectly. The old lady at the end. SCARY! She was a good scary lady. So that's it. Don't see this movie unless you are a glutton for punishment or you are an extreme environmentalist.
