Knowing SPOILERS!

CyberGhost · 14-04-2009 3:55pm #1

Was AWESOME!

I truly enjoyed it!

At first I though mmkay, this is going to be your typical prediction prevention bull****, where the hero ****s it up first couple of times but the last disaster/prediction involves somebody he loves, and he saves the world and prevents the disaster. Hurrey!!!

I NEVER expected that they'd blow up and kill off the whole world, that was awesome! I wanted that to happen in movie for so long, I was really tired of all the bull**** happy ending disaster movies.... Armageddon, The Day After Tomorrow, Deep Impact... **** happens, but in the end the president comes out gives us the money speech and the world moves on as usual.

This was completely different, a grim, gruesome and scary ending of our world. No saving, no hero ****, no bull****, complete eradication. But at the same time it offered a happy ending aswell, that some were saved and the life begins in another world, completely clean, from scratch.

CyberGhost · 14-04-2009 3:56pm

The new world looked completely wicked too, very odd.

Mac daddy · 14-04-2009 6:58pm

I liked the end

overall very entertaining film not great but decent enough.

CutzEr · 14-04-2009 7:02pm

I thought it was a terribile film.

The worst film I have ever seen infact.

I really really don't see how you could like it.

14-04-2009 7:08pm

CutzEr wrote: »

I thought it was a terribile film.

The worst film I have ever seen infact.

I really really don't see how you could like it.

Agreed. It was absolutely awful and I was quite cross coming out of it that I'd wasted time and money on it.
And

aliens with wings showing up to transport the two little white kids off to start a garden of eden, and the UNENDING run to this magic tree in a field full of corn , when they don't miss their parents at all??? give me a BREAK

:mad::mad::mad:

Brimmy · 14-04-2009 7:08pm

CutzEr wrote: »

I thought it was a terribile film.

The worst film I have ever seen infact.

I really really don't see how you could like it.

You really need to see more films then because while it's not great it's certainly not worthy of that title.

Had some nice scenes and concepts. The plane crash was directed brilliantly and Cage as suspected played up his overacting acting, see the baseball bat/tree conflict and chatting the woman up.

Would have liked to have seen the script before the rewrites though because it did look toned down in bits. Some parts of it was laughable, "I KNOW WHERE WE CAN FIND A CAVE!", just completely took away from the experience.

Comendable for trying though. 6.5/10.

Nichololas · 14-04-2009 7:27pm

CyberGhost wrote: »

I was really tired of all the bull**** happy ending disaster movies.... Armageddon, The Day After Tomorrow, Deep Impact...

Didn't

the meteor crash into the ocean and wipe out most of humanity at the end of Deep Impact?

Then again I haven't seen it in a while.

Back on topic;

I saw this on the strength of Roger Ebert's review giving it a tentative thumbs up, despite vowing never to watch another Nic Cage movie again. Ebert's review got my hopes up initially, although I wasn't expecting much, so I was pleasantly surprised when Knowing actually ended up sucking hard. I should have known better, really.

Brimmy · 14-04-2009 8:15pm

You have to remember when reading Ebert that he reviews films against what he sees them as trying to achieve.

Hence why he gave the likes of the Garfield movies 3/4.

Rhyme · 14-04-2009 8:40pm

Enlil_Nick wrote: »

Didn't
the meteor crash into the ocean and wipe out most of humanity at the end of Deep Impact?
Then again I haven't seen it in a while.

Meteor splits in two, smaller one hits ocean and wipes out a few cities and one of the main characters. Bigger bit gets kamikaze'd by the guys sent up to blow it up (with nukes set to blow on impact) and turns into a light show for the survivors. President gives speech, The End.

CyberGhost · 14-04-2009 10:27pm

CutzEr wrote: »

I thought it was a terribile film.

The worst film I have ever seen infact.

I really really don't see how you could like it.

I'm a casual movie watcher, not a hardcore film fan, I don't read the reviews, I don't watch trailers.

I just really liked the idea of the ending, and basically liked the movie.

For example Batman, I hated, I thought it was garbage, the idea of a grown man in a bat costume in the middle of the day, in an average city was hilarious to me, atleast in previous batmans gotham was fictional city and it was almost always night, so Batman fit better there, just imagine, standing on the O'Connell street and this guy painted as a clown and a guy in a bat costume run around. Also that voice when he had the suit on, arrr! hilarious, I thought it was a comedy.

But to each his own.

Hyndsy85 · 16-04-2009 7:56pm

Knowing was pure tripe.

Worst movie or close to the worst movie ive ever seen. (The love guru would probably take that title.

Rubbish story, rubbish acting, crap pace, useless dialogue and horrible special effects. There is not one thing about that movie that i could say was okay

Vokes · 16-04-2009 9:02pm

Really enjoyed this one.

Sure it was (another) phoned in performance from Cage but that was rendered moot cos of the top-notch feeling of unease and tension built up by Proyas throughout. Plus the main story theme which tackles the issue of a deterministic reality vs one of randomness was pretty refreshing for a sci-fi flick.

CG effects were super as well (a massive improvement on the I,Robot robots for example) - kudos to the engineers for that.

At the end, was a bit worried for a minute that it was headed for a

God-will-save-them finish. Thankfully not. It was a suprisingly downbeat ending for a blockbuster.

Fingers crossed, Proyas doesn't wait to long for his next sci-fi project - I really enjoy his stuff so far (yes even I, Robot to an extent).

7.5/10

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