I went to see the Nicholas Cage Movie "KNOWING" last night with my wife and some friends. We went to eat and decided to see what was playing at the cheap theater and saw that this Nicholas Cage movie was about to begin. It looked intriguing and when is a Nicholas Cage movie ever bad? (The answer to that is: Wickerman and The Weatherman were definitely bad, and a few could be considered mediocre at best).
This movie started out feeling like a horror movie with a weird little elementary school girl putting a weirdly scrawled series of numbers in a time capsule. This was probably the best part of the movie. Fifty years later, Cage's son happens to get the letter she wrote when the capsule is opened. Cage is, of course, some sort of science professor with religious/determinism/random chance issues whose father is a Pastor (why this is a plot feature, I do not know) and whose wife died a year before in a disastrous tragedy.
He can somehow piece together the numbers and realizes they are dates of and references to disasters, including the one that killed his wife and several upcoming ones. He tries to warn people and help them, to no avail. We get to see a plane crash, complete with burning bodies and a subway crash, complete with people being crushed. As exciting as this sounds, even those scenes are overdone.
It sounds strange, but sort of cool until you hear about how the picture winds down. It doesn't matter if I give it away, because you should not go see this movie. But I will just say that it features space aliens, more death, destruction and mayhem and the fiery end of the world. I think the ending earns it the title of one of the worst movies I've seen in a while and on the list of Cage's worst.
On the bright side, we saw it with some friends and we were all able to ridicule it together. One of our friends, this guy, walked out for the last ten minutes and waited for us in the lobby.
Related to this, our friend Brea is freaked out by Nicholas Cage. Sort of like some people are freaked out by spiders. I always thought it would be fun to invite him to a party that she comes to.
3 comments:
I'm pretty sure the whole movie had a "science" over Christianity point. The "facts" of the movie included the obvious conclusion that life MUST exist on other planets. Then the write decided to pick a story out of the Bible and demonstrated that the Bible is a bunch of allegorical tales by explaining that Ezekial's "wheel within a wheel" was actually an alien space craft. So the pastor's faith that there is more than this life was ironically true. The point of the movie was that there is more than this life, but it doesn't involve a Creator; it involves really smart alien's that are watching over us.
But maybe I'm looking to far into it.
Even seeing that you wrote about "he who must not be named" freaked me out. No, it hasn't gotten better. Yes, I still turn away when he comes on a screen. And yes, being at a party with him might just kill me. But I guess that's better than dying in one of the ways predicted in that movie.
hahahaha
I don't want to kill Brea, that would be very sad. But still, it would be fun to see the (freaky) look on Nicholas Cage's face when Brea sees him and runs screaming from the room.
Sorry to freak you out Brea.
The movie really sux.
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