So my favorite thing to do currently is to discuss loudly the "gotcha" spoiler of M. Night Shyamalan's new movie The Happening. I think of it as my civic duty to protect people from themselves and let them apply their hard earned 11 dollars instead towards better things like buying two and a half gallons of gas. The movie is that horrendous.
Says who? you ask.
Says my coworker.
Says this critic who just eviscerates the movie. Spoiler warning:
Elliot, Alma, and Jess flee from Philadelphia to a series of smaller towns and ultimately the rural countryside. This makes sense in the movie's nonsensical context--the nation's trees are somehow "targeting" big cities first and then smaller and smaller populations. But it seems more than a little unhinged that our heroes' response to the revelation that the trees are trying to kill them is to head into the forest.
Says Moye and I...and we haven't even seen it. And we won't. So there.
Actually the object of this whole pointless entry was just so I could use the obvious pun in my headline.