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I love M. Night Shyamalan movies.  I even love Unbreakable, which a lot of people didn’t like.  Signs is certainly in my top 10 favorite movies of all time.  Well, today we saw “The Happening” – we’d been looking forward to it for quite a while.  All I can say is “blah”.

I hadn’t pictured M Night as part of the nutball leftist environmental group, but the whole premise of this movie is that plants and trees are “threatened” by humans and develop a defense mechanism to kill humans.  Whatever.  The whole concept that all of a sudden, the trees will group together and say, “hey, these pesky humans are taking up too much space.  Let’s create some gas that will drive them to kill themselves.  Here’s the chemical compound…” is silly.

Not only is the premise of the movie completely stupid, the acting is terrible.  Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel are way too goofy for belief.  The dialog is bad and there’s no surprise at the end of the movie that we have come to know and love from M Night.

Save your dollars.  The trees are mad at humans…

Come on Manoj, you’re better than this.