Maybe I'm a huge jerkwad, but did anyone else have this thought? Half or two-thirds of the bees dying out and fields not being able to be pollinated is a HUGE catastrophe and not at all a boring story.
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Much bigger threat to the whole world than some statue shrouded in fog.
Oh my god I was thinking the same exact thing. That is actually a really huge ecological issue that is getting alot of press. The fact that this stupid chick thought that this was so beneath her showed that she was obviously not a journalist worth her stripes. If anyone deserved to be posessed by a gargoyle it was her (too bad for the intern though)
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I'm thinking that the whole point was that everyone is doing that type of story but no one is making a big deal about these people missing from this little town in Poland, but she really didn't seem like much of a reporter during the whole thing just a clueless tourist.
shareYeah. I'm still watching this right now and had to see if there was a post on this.
They really could have used something else to make their point.
Never understood why people disconnect themselves from the movie just to read other people's opinions on the movie. Why not wait until you finish watching the movie to browse the forum?
shareI can't help it when it's movies that I don't really want to watch in the first place. The other people had control of Netflix and chose it.
I did it quietly and to myself from my iPod while still watching it.
Well by doing that you risked reading spoilers and potentially ruining the experience for yourself.
shareThrow your iCrap out of the window next time and try to concentrate on one thing at a time ok mr ADHD? Tabled obsessed people....
shareha ha, good one, Yithian!
shareThe writers of this movie probably thought: let's come up with something really boring and lame for the alternative news story; thousands of bees dying - that suits well, because no cool person would be interested in that. It all shows that the writers of this movie were, perhaps, not that intelligent.
shareor they just wanted to further emphasize what a selfish ignorant bitch Carmen was.
let's be realistic here. if you go tell a random person on the street that a bunch of bees are dead they aren't going to care or understand. she didn't want to cover that story for the same reasons the everyday news reader would gloss over it. it's not "exciting" or "sexy" or visibly dramatic enough to the average shmuck compared to a kidnapping/murder story and she was pretty clearly much more interested in her own image and career than anything or anyone else.
and keep in mind...this is a fictional character in a movie. the fact that the character doesn't understand/care about something doesn't automatically mean the filmmakers think the same way. you think the creators would also think going back to sneak around a village that they just got chased out of by a bunch of armed and threatening foreigners is a great idea just because their character did?
While I haven't seen the Shrine yet, I have seen the remake of the Wicker Man and I just wanted to see about your post...LOL!!!!!!!
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Agreed. I didn't think the bee story (B story? lol) was anything to sneeze at either. I've heard about the world's bees dying/disappearing for years and the mystery of it all definitely intrigued me and it definitely seemed tragic. So...I cared about the bees :-) That may have been my fave part of the movie The Happening (call me uncool, I don't care, but I still like Night, its just that movie wasn't his best), when Mark Wahlberg's teacher character mentions the bees early on in class. So I agree it was wrong of the girl to be so dismissive of that story. Though you have to admit, that was a damn creepy statue Best part of the movie was the scene when that girl first sees it. The director definitely has a gift for prolonging eerie tension ::chills::
Funny thing: I got one of those MoveOn.org messages about this very thing (bees dying/disappearing) earlier on the same day I watched this (yesterday), read the message and signed/forwarded the petition right before logging off in fact, with me having no idea this movie would mention that phenomenon. And I don't think I've watched a movie that addressed it since The Happening 5 years ago. Freaky O_O Seriously though, most "logical" people would probably just dismiss it as a "coincidence", but I've witnessed enough things like that lately to wonder. Call me a dreamer, there will always be doubters and skeptics, but nothing wrong with keeping an open mind about the paranormal, believing in fate, believing the world could still being a magical place, etc. We lose that too much when we grow up IMO, but its mostly what's kept me going through the struggles I've gone through lately. Hey, whatever gets you through.
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