Knowing..HUH? SPOILERS!!!

[RobertScorpio]

We got this movie over the weekend at Blockbuster. The movie is about as depressing as they come. And as bad as the reviews were, it does work sort of good as a creepy horror movie. It freaked out kids and my wife to the point where they got rid of these little black smooth rocks they have been collecting for a year or so.

The code part is cool. Some girl is able to write down all the major events in the world that happen after 1959, when she writes the code, all the way up to the year 2009 and, supposedly, the end of the world.

The effects that show the end of the world are, I think, very well done and very gripping for kids to see, perhaps too gripping.

But, overall, the story had potential...but becomes a PR movie for the Bible. If you believe in the Bible, or some aspect of it, you might like this movie. If you don't believe, and for some reason I don't think many 'professional' reviewers do, you wont like it that much I dare say..

But it is creepy for kids. So beware...I give it a 6 on a scale from 1-10...
The non-scfi movie for the weekend? 50 First Dates..a charming chic flick which I liked...8 out of 10 for this one.

Rob

 

[CorporalClegg]

I don't know. I kind of took it as a bit anti-bible.

The Rapture isn't conducted by Christ and the Seraph are really aliens. "The Chosen" aren't so much "believers" as they can simply communicate with the aliens.

The Fig tree isn't in heaven or Israel, it's on another planet.

All that Aside, the movie wasn't any better.

 

[OmahaStar]

So either way, it's a bunch of fictional nonsense?

 

[RobertScorpio]

I don't know. I kind of took it as a bit anti-bible.

The Rapture isn't conducted by Christ and the Seraph are really aliens. "The Chosen" aren't so much "believers" as they can simply communicate with the aliens.

The Fig tree isn't in heaven or Israel, it's on another planet.

All that Aside, the movie wasn't any better.

I asked my brother-in-law (who we call, and looks like, Moses) to see it. He will get back to me. He is big-time religious dude. Will be interesting to see his take on it...

But I saw it as pro-bible. All its suggests, I think, is that aspects of the bible were taken out of context by people (2000+ years ago) who had no idea what they were seeing (UFOS instead of a lion on a chair)

Kind of like the logic behind MISSION TO MARS, in a weird way...

Rob

 

[Hober Mallow]

I didn't take it as pro-Bible or anti-Bible. I just took it as a crappy movie.

The code part is cool.

I thought it was just plain confusing. What was the point of the code? It had no point, because the aliens had a plan in motion that didn't require the humans to know anything at all. With or without the code, the aliens' plan would have been the same. My girlfriend's explanation is that the girl at the beginning was simply psychic and read the aliens' minds without their knowledge, but why would she get that specific information? It seemed to me the opening scene was played in a way that it seemed she was receiving intentional important messages from the aliens that she was supposed to share, but maybe that was just my perception. Either way, in the end none of it made a bit of difference.

But, overall, the story had potential...but becomes a PR movie for the Bible. If you believe in the Bible, or some aspect of it, you might like this movie. If you don't believe, and for some reason I don't think many 'professional' reviewers do, you wont like it that much I dare say..

I don't think people are going to be devided on the content of the film. The identity of the aliens is so ambiguous, the message so noncommittal as to neither gratify nor offend Christians or nonChristians.

 

[Mr Light]

I liked the movie more than I thought I would. And I think they did a good job of making the angel/alien line totally blurred. You could easily interpret it either way. Personally I went with aliens. One thing in particular I really liked was the score, it was very different and boisterous, it reminded me of the score to Close Encounters.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I liked the movie more than I thought I would. And I think they did a good job of making the angel/alien line totally blurred. You could easily interpret it either way. Personally I went with aliens. One thing in particular I really liked was the score, it was very different and boisterous, it reminded me of the score to Close Encounters.

Agreed.

The movie isn't so bad as it is in need of, I think, another re-write. I never really got the connection between the two kids. Sure, they liked extinct animals, and the girl is related to the girl from 1959...but I thought the little girl and her mother were under-written.

Rob

 

[bigdaddy]

I watched the movie last night and thought that it was insane. I give them credit for having one of the oddest movies I have ever seen.

However the science of the movie is lame, unless the sun is going super nova there is no way a solar storm will burn away the Earth like that.

And yes it needed another rewrite to connect the things together better, however i heard really bad things about the movie and the aliens part was rather creepy.

 

[timelord1010]

I think the girl in the 1950's was given a message to warn the world that the end was coming and by giving her the dates and locations of the accidents was a way to prove that this was "real".

If Nick Cage's character would have shared the information with the world instead of trying to save people on his own maybe shelters could have been built or at least people could have prepared for the end.

 

[Mr Light]

I believe he says at one point the catastrophe is going burn off the Earth's crust ten miles deep or something like that.

 

[Hober Mallow]

I think the girl in the 1950's was given a message to warn the world that the end was coming and by giving her the dates and locations of the accidents was a way to prove that this was "real".

Nope, that can't be because the alien plan was simply to take those they chose to leave the world before the end. That didn't require anyone in the world to have any advance notice of anything. They were going to take the kids either way. In fact, the fact that Cage knew what was happening caused him to interfere with the aliens' plan.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

I went in Knowing this was a crappy movie but had to see it anyway.

Flaming moose! Ahahahaw!

And yes, the sum knowledge of the human race is limited to the public school education of 10 year olds.

THANKS FOR SAVING THE HUMAN RACE, CRYPTICALLY ASININE ALIEN-ANGEL THINGS.

 

[CorporalClegg]

And yes, the sum knowledge of the human race is limited to the public school education of 10 year olds.

Well, I gotta think that's pretty much how any intelligent life form would perceive the human race in generally, so...

 

[bigdaddy]

In fact, the fact that Cage knew what was happening caused him to interfere with the aliens' plan.

But the aliens knew that was goig to happen and planned that into the whole thing.

 

[Extrocomp]

I loved the movie but I never understood the significance of the shiny rocks. What was that about?

 

[Aragorn]

And yes, the sum knowledge of the human race is limited to the public school education of 10 year olds.

Well, I gotta think that's pretty much how any intelligent life form would perceive the human race in generally, so...

I dunno. If I were an alien and I saw some girl who was so busy texting she fell into the sewer, I'd just move on to the next planet.

 

[RobertScorpio]

And yes, the sum knowledge of the human race is limited to the public school education of 10 year olds.

Well, I gotta think that's pretty much how any intelligent life form would perceive the human race in generally, so...

I dunno. If I were an alien and I saw some girl who was so busy texting she fell into the sewer, I'd just move on to the next planet.

ROTFL

Then again? She will take them to court and get TONS of money.

Rob

 

[Hober Mallow]

I loved the movie but I never understood the significance of the shiny rocks. What was that about?

Other than indicating the alien's landing site... nothing.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

They left them where ever...oh, you aren't invited to leave Earth but here's a rock. Like you are goddamned Charlie Brown on Halloween. F$%^ing aliens!

 

[Goji]

There are better entries in the "Nicholas Cage Runs Around Like a Madman" genre.