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15th
(Spoilers for ‘THE HAPPENING’ by M. Night Shyamalan below.)
It’s plants that are responsible. They’ve decided to wipe out humanity and release the neurotoxin as their natural weapon… What Shyamalan quickly finds, though, is that it’s very, very hard to menacingly cut to an evil-looking tree. That doesn’t stop him from trying, though, and he inexplicably adds wind as a way of livening up the scenes. When the leaves of a tree start to blow, evil’s afoot. It’s really, really hard not to laugh at and there’s even a real groaner of a gag-scene wherein Wahlberg timidly apologizes to a houseplant only to find that it’s made of rubber. Really.
