So I read a review (Village Voice, for those interested) of THE HAPPENING that gave things away. I don't know what I think, but at least it doesn't sound like I'd want to throw things at the screen the way the Twist in THE VILLAGE would have (spoilers saved me money and aggrevation there).

Really? The maybe-spoilers I read -- well, I guess they wouldn't make me want to throw things, but they made me laugh and laugh and laugh.

Gonna whitefont, here: was it plants? Because that's what I read.

t edit Actually, I just read the Village Voice review, and I'm wondering if half of it was missing, or something. Because it was, like, 5 paragraphs long and didn't really say anything much, other than the fact that it's an underwhelming film.

yes, that's what I read. the movie sounds really bad.

Also going with the white font. If it needs to move to spoilers, some stompy let me know. The review said an unknown airborne toxin so I guess it could be (spores for instance) , but it mostly sounded like it was 28 Days Later except people offing themselves instead of other people. The review referred to it jokingly as the thriller version of An Inconvenient Truth - that's a paraphrase.

You know, Bob Bob told me about a review that also "spoiled" that, so I'm thinking it's a spoiler in the trailer that's NSM one in the movie.

I'm not reading the white-font, but sometimes his movies seem to have more than one twist/shocking moment. I'm thinking of The Village and Unbreakable.

Franken -

I read one detailed "review" where the reviewer said the special effects were bad. The trees and plants are producing the neurotoxin that kills people. One shot apparently focuses on a tree and the leaves wave in the breeze which is supposed to indicate: toxin is spreading. I also heard that Marky Mark's acting is the absolute WORST.

The twist of the movie is

that there is no twist. Plants do indeed cause stuff happens and then it stops. Oh and Marky Mark talks to a plastic plant at one point. No joke.

And the only surprise is that someone actually gave Night the money to make this. It's stupendously awful. The most spectacular act of career suicide I can think of since...well, probably Lady in the Water. Having to decide which one is worse would require me to see both again and I have no plans to ever do that. Please, spend your money on anything else this weekend--even that underwhelming Hulk movie. It's not good, but it's better than this.

Oh and Marky Mark talks to a plastic plant at one point. No joke.

See, that is a twist. Normally it's Marky's co-stars who are talking to a plastic plant.