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[mindmetoo]

Has this opened in Korea yet? The latest from the I See Dead People guy. No twist ending this time. Basically the director read a book about Einstein and decided he was now a philosopher of science and tried to tell his audience something about science and he just made zero sense.

He should have stowed the message making and just told a nice "end of the world" story.

Also, another film by him where people spend a lot of time in a basement.

[Ginormousaurus]

I wasn't too impressed with it either. I mean, I enjoyed it but I certainly won't be in a hurry to watch it again. I did like the creative ways some people offed themselves though.

[Paddycakes]

I watched it today.

The message: Be nice to your plants.

I actually thought it was pretty good, better than expected.

[the ireland]

gotta be one of the worst movies i have seen in a while, and i watched 88 minutes a few weeks ago so that's saying something, and what the hell was with mark wahlbergs acting, it was terrible, reminded me of his acting skills in one of his early movies "the big hit" but without the big black guy who was the video stores customer of the month

[fruitcake]

this guy sums it up well:

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=O5QVssSGips

terrible movie in every way. script written by a 12 yr old, acting painful to watch, plot that only gets more confusing when you "try to think" (lol...gimme a break! plot wasn't too hard to figure out) and made less and less sense as it went along. seems he was hoping to get to the "if we don't get upset, the plants won't try to kill us", which you can only imagine how stupid the movie would have been then (though good comedy material).

[Paddycakes]

In order to watch The Happening, you need to go into the theater in the right state of mind.

Read a bunch of dystopian life after Peak-Oil stuff on the internet, then watch the movie.

[captain kirk]

Day of the Triffids. That was a good SF story about plants threatening to take over the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids

http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/wyndham.html

[Grimalkin]

The crappening!

[Czarjorge]

I thought it was... good.

For all it's faults its still better than the VAST majority of other Hollywood movies. This summer is spoiling people. It's been four years since we've had a run of well done summer action movies.

Why did I... like... it?

The wind was well done. Those were by far the most ominous fields of grass I've ever seen.

The violence had a rawness to it that reminded me of Peckinpah. The guys walking off the building was really well done.

The flash forward at the end seemed to upset a lot of people. I didn't mind. It seems like most people I've talked to went in expecting to dislike it. This isn't hire art people, relax a little and enjoy.

[thematrixiam]

Meh.. I liked it. I also thought it made some sense

Not sure about the actual possibility of humans being able to willing kill them selves. Loss of ability to care for ones life, I could see. But I don't see that leading to an instant urge to kill oneself.

But the whole talking between plants and changing gene codes actually does occur.

I am not too sure if they would actually be able to reverse a genetic change or not once it has been changed already, though. So reverting back to a more passive plant seems unlikely.

I'd be more afraid of viruses... but that's been done loads of times.

This movie is good because it shows us something new. And teaches us a few things.

I thought there was a lot of good plot devices as well. As well as character development, and just plain character makeup. They were well defined, and yet not the stereotypical characters you'd see in these positions.

In terms of bad. There were parts of acting that sucked, but I don't think all of it did. Also, the plants controlling humans to that 'extent' seems a bit far fetched.

[thematrixiam]

What would suck though... is if something like that were to happen.

Plant communication can work similar to the synapses of the human brain... in extent a whole world of plants that can talk to each other. Sure it may take a while for something to evolve. But once it were to evolve, it could be very interesting.

How do you wage war against a plant?
Would they just react faster?
Would they evolve to a point that they master the art of breeding and communication amongst themselves? Thus allowing them to change their make up for more devastating consequences?

It could get to a point where we would basically have to get our asses handed to us. It would be impossible to wipe the world clean of all plants. We'd be dead. Either that, or slave to plants.

........ Then, how much further would it go? Would you have racism amongst plants?... He's too big, he takes my shade... He's useless, what does he do for our society, he just grows and grows and spreads.

yadda yadda.

I know... it does sound a little out there... but a small tweaks is all it would take for something like that to happen.

[Underwaterbob]

I haven't seen this yet but from this thread I gather it's about plants brainwashing humans to kill themselves.

[thematrixiam]

Not really. It's about them releasing something in the air that triggers humans to shut off our self preservation urges.

As a side note. This wasn't their first strike in the film. It was the second. The first strike was the plants agreeing with each other to change signals that they send to bees so that they no longer wish to pollinate with them. Which would lead to the bees outsourcing somewhere else.

On the black board it said that without bees humans would die out in 4 years.
They then began attacking humans themselves. Maybe as a way to further communicate their wants.

If you were a plant and wanted to wage war on humanity for equality, or even total domination, where would you start?

[mindmetoo]

[thematrixiam]