I Hate Plants
The other day, I finally watched The Happening.
If you don’t know, The Happening is the most recent movie from M. Night Shyamalan and it came out in 2008. Shyamalan is responsible for such atrocities as The Village and Lady in the Water, but also the decent Sixth Sense. And, if you haven’t seen any of them, he likes to wrap up most of his movies with a “Oh, wow look where destiny brought us” kind of endings. He’s a purveyor of the twist ending.
This movie was rated R because of his pervasive use of violence to show how “scary” his movie was. Problem is, it still wasn’t scary. AND, the big twist was…
WAIT.
SPOILER ALERT!
That the plants were emitting a toxin of some sort that makes you kill yourself in gruesome fashions… but it just stops. There’s no conclusion. It just… happens.
I’m sure he was trying to get across a tree-hugging message or something, but it just made me want to stock up on Round-Up and start killing ever plant in sight. There are ways to get messages across, and that wasn’t a good one.
