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jaster is back in black Mod Emperor of Dune
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:47 pm Post subject: The Happening... |
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...was awful. I'm done with Shyamalan; he's cut from the team.
In a nutshell:
-1.5 hours of suicides... decently disturbing, can't really argue with that
-NO TWIST... there is no twist... I don't mean that in the sense of 'oh, that was obvious since day 1'... I mean, a character suggests the cause of what's happening early in the movie and he's right... there's no mystery, there's no more to it
-I shit you not, turns out it's global warming.
Perhaps ironically, jack shit happened in this movie. People killed themselves, then it ended. Most of it was in turns hackneyed, non-sense dialogue, and suspenseful (because you're waiting for something to happen).
The other night, Emily and I watched an episode of Nova (I love that show) on honeybees (in case you don't know, they're fucked). So, it turns out that honeybees all over the world are just up and disappearing (when honeybees get sick, they fly away from the hive to die). Given the fact that a character in the movie mentions this fact... I think our good friend M. Night Shyamalan might have seen this episode and thought to himself, "what if that happened to people... in a movie made be me," and we ended up with this trash.
Easily an epic fail:
_________________ When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
-Children of Dune, attributed to Louis Veuillot |
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mchicken is dejected. Cover of Rush's Seminal Album
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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I believe I claimed this movie was a waste of something like $14 and I was naysayed. |
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lugo is unable to remember his password. Such an Aries
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:06 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, except as far as anyone can tell it's not global warming that's killing the bees. |
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lizakova is shinying up her life. Kitty Guardian
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:23 am Post subject: |
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lugo wrote: | Yeah, except as far as anyone can tell it's not global warming that's killing the bees. |
I disagree. Global warming is, in fact, the root of all evil. According to the media anyways. |
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hankr is 100% sold to a law firm for the low starting price of $160k/year, his soul, and his free time annex ghost
Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 574
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