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LucidElement
wow, this movie was somewhat creepy at parts.. but what was the twist?? was the plants really doing the damage?? im lost thanks>!!
jesspy
yes it was the plants they were threatened by us. As in we are destroying too much land killing to much off etc. The plants sent out a toxin to make humans die and were also able to communicate with each other. interesting. Good movie.
LightningMunk
i just saw that movie and it was EPIC! freaked me out when i walked outside haha. the funny part was i walked and then did the stop thing, and walked back a couple steps, and people started freaking out!!! tongue.gif

but now i have a whole new respect for trees, treat them nice, or they will kill us all sad.gif
"oh, your plastic, im talking to a plastic tree....im still talking to it" haha tongue.gif
jesspy
QUOTE (LightningMunk @ Jun 15 2008, 04:40 PM) *
"oh, your plastic, im talking to a plastic tree....im still talking to it" haha tongue.gif



lol i loved that bit
LightningMunk
"i asked for cough syrup, and i didnt even have a cough....a whole 6 dollars..."
LucidElement
wasnt it 7 dollars?? do you think plants can really communicate?? and also, why did it just STOP all of a sudden.. "3 months later"... why did it just stop??

and then at the end, it began in another country, the point of that?
LightningMunk
you didnt get that part?? you should pay better attention to the movie tongue.gif maybe go see it again.

i believe plants can communicate, just the only way we can realize communication is by vocalization sounds by which our throats make lol. its true though that plants evolve just to protect itself from predators. life evolves to survive. thats what freaked me out the most about this movie, not cuz of the scenes of people killing each other, but just the possibility that, hey, nature could do that to us. if the human race is a potential danger to nature (which it kinda is right now), it will do something in order to get rid of it.

the reason why it was in one small area was just like they said in the movie, a "warning". they explained in the film about how some germs suddenly appeared in the ocean that were gone like a billion years, and then disappeared you know, what was it, the "red wave".

and for it starting it in another country, it explained near the ending on that tv interview that the scientists "theory" about plants rapidly evolving to take out the human race as only credible if it occured somewhere else, instead of just the Northeast of the US, cuz it could have been an outbreak of something, and they explained about CIA buildings there and government testing, so no one really "believed" in that.

overall freaky movie, just cuz of its not impossible for it to happpen tongue.gif (get it, happen, ha haa)
Tia
I'm waiting to see this movie hopefully next week. How would you rate it against his other movies?
pimppapa1977
I honestly saw a bootleg from a buddy.They showed most of the good parts in commercials.Save your money!! I felt jipped and didnt even pay for it lol.
Paranoid Android
Haven't seen it yet, and after the write-up in the local paper,have no interest in seeing it. The write-up made mention of the Rural-setting of much of the movie and how Shyamalan is a master of tension in rural settings but totally blows it. After seeing the Village (which I thought was a great movie, btw) thinking that he could botch the tension in a rural setting just doesn't give me confidene to see the film. Hopefully it will be a good film, though.
Legatus Legionis
It was an Ok movie, it has some creepy scenes in it. ok I admit the movie was way to creepy, It seems a real possibility of happening. Nature has a way of fixing things up.
Jason KB
Saw this flick over the weekend. It wasn't too bad. It's not better than most of Shyamalan's other work...but it DEFINITELY beats "Lady in the Water," which was probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen, I'm sad to say.

This movie had some tension, some comedy...it wasn't too bad. I didn't LOVE Mark Wahlberg in it, but whatever. I'd give it like 3 stars.
ammy
My brother went to see it last night,he said that the acting was horrible.I also looked for a review online.Got a C-
Jason KB
QUOTE (ammy @ Jun 17 2008, 02:13 AM) *
My brother went to see it last night,he said that the acting was horrible.I also looked for a review online.Got a C-


Some of it wasn't too bad, but I don't think Mark Wahlberg pulled off more than one constant emotion the whole time. I've seen him be good in other movies, I don't know what the heck happened here.
Cadetak
I work at a movie theater and caught bits and parts of it and from what I saw it seemed kind of silly and bad. The acting seems horrible and emotionless which is suprising given the cast isn't bad. The whole 'twist' is given away in the first fifteen minutes of the movie when Walhberg is in class asking the students why they think the bees disappeared and gives them the line"its a force of nature beyond our understanding"

OMG the wind is chasing us and OMG hide from the plants is not terrifying. He couldn't have spent more then fifteen minutes writing that part of the script...and possibily spent a day teaching good actors how to be bad actors.

Creepy a times I sopose but not worth the effort. The Sixth Sense was good and so was Signs(up till the end) but everything else them man has made is just silly and bad.
AztecInca
This movie was a massive dissapointment for me, every aspect of it was a let-down. The acting, the story, the threat, it was all sub-par and I would not advise anyone to go see it without reading a number of reviews first. You would be better off watching Signs or Sixth Sense again.
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