I think it's because he's set up his name and his films as a kind of brand. Tarintino does the same thing… and both of them seem to have a certain type of film they enjoy making, and they often write/direct/cast themselves. But it means that when you get sick of that brand, its easy and natural to blame the name at…

Also, if I remember rightly, the movie made the point that plants didn't induce suicide, but rather removed our survival instinct. As if we have a little drinking bird constantly tapping a "Don't kill yourself" button, and the plants stopped it.

That's always been my problem with writing God into a script… you have to deal with the same Problem of Evil that real religions, but I almost never see characters wondering why God decided to act *after* aliens attack and kill tons of people.

That scene really tapped into a bunch of 9/11 memories for me too. Everyone was huddled around their TVs, having a vague idea that something happened, but not having necessarily seen the images yet… and sometimes neither had the news announcers.

I remember a lot of marketing was "M. Night's First R Rated Movie!!!!" And then focusing on a lot of the scenes that could be gory, like the guy lying down in front of the huge riding lawnmower.

The Happening does at least warn you what sort of movie it's going to be when it has a science teacher tell you a made up quote by Einstein, and then basically say "sometimes, in science, you can't figure something out, and then you should basically just give up trying to explain it."

I tried watching Life After Beth… it's rare that I turn of a movie, but boy, was I rooting for her to kill the main character so badly.

I think it was my first time going full Rashomon, so I found it deeply irritating. "Oh, that fight scene happened in our minds. But it never really happened at all."

I'm just glad Person of Interest didn't spoil me about a major character's death when they changed the cover picture for Season 4. I thought they would have made longer… they were in the Season 4 poster!

Otherwise known as "Unifying China Justifies Genocide"

I thought the fight scenes were very kinetic and exciting, but the plot felt like watching a movie based on a video game with rules that someone familiar with the source material would know, but a casual viewer wouldn't get.

I think it's just an artifact of Amazon allowing you to also buy a single season of a show.

Have you seen The Man from Nowhere? Another good Korean action flick… for some reason I could just see that guy fight all day.

I guess I'd have to give him Huffington Post or some other bigger site for S2 quality and the return of Troy.

I would sacrifice The AVclub for Season 7 of Community. You hear me, Satan?

My friend that lives in China has told me stories about Chinese movies and television operating under weird rules…. nothing bad ever comes from China, it's always foreign. In Shaolin Soccer, the drug that makes the evil team powerful is from America, even though the team is all Chinese and America doesn't give a shit…

Movies never really get that being strong isn't enough… you've got to have the mass too, otherwise you'd punch someone really hard and just knock yourself away.

Right. And then the 8th is the Cruel Birthday Breakup wave.

The sixth wave is love wave.

Falling Skies made 5 shitty, shitty seasons out of doing just that.