Knowing..HUH? SPOILERS!!!

[miraclefan]

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!

I love the fact that Roger Ebert gave this 4 stars, yet gave STAR TREK 2 and half?!

 

[CorporalClegg]

I think Ebert's brain is the consistency of Jello these days. I wouldn't think too much of it.

 

[miraclefan]

I think Ebert's brain is the consistency of Jello these days. I wouldn't think too much of it.

*I fear his brain is no longer in MINT condition...* Comic book guy.

 

[Harvey]

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!

I love the fact that Roger Ebert gave this 4 stars, yet gave STAR TREK 2 and half?!

Ebert's an unapologetic fan of Proyas, and seems to view everything he makes with rose-colored glasses. I don't fault him entirely for that. Dark City is a masterpiece, and I've heard good things about The Crow. But I, Robot was a muddled mess, and Knowing...well, I'll know when (if) I see it. As for his Star Trek review, all his points are valid. I'd just rate the movie a half a star higher and call it good.

 

[miraclefan]

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!

I love the fact that Roger Ebert gave this 4 stars, yet gave STAR TREK 2 and half?!

Ebert's an unapologetic fan of Proyas, and seems to view everything he makes with rose-colored glasses. I don't fault him entirely for that. Dark City is a masterpiece, and I've heard good things about The Crow. But I, Robot was a muddled mess, and Knowing...well, I'll know when (if) I see it. As for his Star Trek review, all his points are valid. I'd just rate the movie a half a star higher and call it good.

DUDE! WATCH the CROW you won't be dissapointed.

 

[Aragorn]

Ebert's an unapologetic fan of Proyas, and seems to view everything he makes with rose-colored glasses. I don't fault him entirely for that. Dark City is a masterpiece, and I've heard good things about The Crow. But I, Robot was a muddled mess, and Knowing...well, I'll know when (if) I see it. As for his Star Trek review, all his points are valid. I'd just rate the movie a half a star higher and call it good.

Ebert didn't like I, Robot, but I think Dark City was his best film of the year it came out. He even did an audio commentary track for it.

Hell, get Jennifer Lopez, Angelina Jolie and Neve Campbell in an Alex Proyas movie with skimpy outfits to emphasize their chests and asses, and Ebert might die of a heart attack.

 

[Harvey]

I listened to his audio commentary on Dark City recently, actually (the expanded one for the Director's Cut). It's pretty interesting, though Ebert finds a couple of mistakes that actually aren't, upon review. All of his commentaries I've heard are pretty interesting.

 

[Checkmate]

Yeah, this movie was just flat-out stupid.

The prophecies were nothing -- nothing -- but a red herring. And not for just for the characters in the movie, but for the audience as a whole. It meant nothing. It prevented nothing. It gave insight into nothing. It helped get nothing done. It was just a record of things that happened and would happen. Would. Not could, but would. No matter what. No matter what you tried to do, who you tried to tell, or how you tried to alter it. It was completely and utterly empty of any value or meaning.

The only thing the movie actually portrayed that had any point was a ridiculously short scene of some random aliens swooping down to kidnap some random children to take to a super magical place of awesomeness. With no apparent guardianship or instruction. Just left to fend for themselves with only an empty field and a big tree to tide them over for whatever fucked up reason.

The movie should have been called The Lord of the Flies II: The Rapture.

Just a God-awful movie. I have no idea why so many people said they loved it, let alone how they can say they found it deep, spiritual and/or meaningful in any way whatsoever. Pure and total dren.

 

[Spiderpope]

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

No just the ozone layer, Solar radiation would then penetrate the Earths crust 1 mile deep.

Yeah, this movie was just flat-out stupid.

The prophecies were nothing -- nothing -- but a red herring. And not for just for the characters in the movie, but for the audience as a whole. It meant nothing. It prevented nothing. It gave insight into nothing. It helped get nothing done. It was just a record of things that happened and would happen. Would. Not could, but would. No matter what. No matter what you tried to do, who you tried to tell, or how you tried to alter it. It was completely and utterly empty of any value or meaning.

The only thing the movie actually portrayed that had any point was a ridiculously short scene of some random aliens swooping down to kidnap some random children to take to a super magical place of awesomeness. With no apparent guardianship or instruction. Just left to fend for themselves with only an empty field and a big tree to tide them over for whatever fucked up reason.

Knowing feels like two films shoved together. Figuring out the prophecies and maybe preventing them was an interesting idea, but the gear change to "OMG!Its the rapture, and the angels are aliens!" belonged in a different film. Seperately the two concepts would make decent films, i for one quite like the idea of the biblical apocalypse being reworked into a sci-fi tale, but together it just ended up a great big pile of meh.

And i agree with the comment about the ending, so these benevolent aliens are just going leave the kids on some world? What if none of them ever bothered to join the Scouts and learn how to start a fire? Not to mention they are going to have a massive problem with the rabbit population pretty soon.

And whats the point in saving anyone if their entire history and culture is entirely lost to them. When i was 10 all we had been taught about history revolved around Romans, Vikings, Ancient Egyptians and a little bit about WWII. Not exactly preserving knowledge there.

They might as well have just nicked a few ova and cooked up a few clones and dumped them next to a tree instead.

 

[Scout101]

last couple reviews said it all: terrible movie. What was the point, exactly? All the numbers, the figuring out the deal, trying to stop things...meaningless, and not even really important. And why were they handing out rocks, again?