I watched this movie on TV a few months ago, and liked it a lot. Not sure why it was panned so much by the critics (though that doesn't usually have any bearing on whether or not I see a movie, since I don't ever pay attention to professional film critics
).
I mean, what a fascinating idea! What if non-human organisms
do have some sort of self-preservation mechanism in their genes, and being put under too much pressure by the human species acts as a catalyst for them to activate it? The results would probably be just as horrifying and confusing as they were in the film, and it would drastically alter our view of the organisms we share the planet with. I thought it was interesting that the people who were spared, so to speak, were those who had been paying attention to and had some knowledge of the toll humans are taking on the planet (Though I don't know why the guy who ran the greenhouse ended up being part of the body count. I'd think
he'd be one of those most likely to survive the plants' "attack".). As for the gore, it wasn't the
worst I've ever seen. Some of the scenes in
The Mist were
far worse. The acting, while hardly Oscar-worthy, was quite good, I thought.
I really enjoyed it. It really made you think about how we are treating our planet. I started to ponder of the possibilities of something like that happening after watching "The Happening." (haha. cute.) Some plants do have self-preservation techniques though not to that extent.
