Alex Proyas' The Knowing' - With Nic Cage - Trailer Post #8

[Rorsach]

I'm a fan of Cage, but this was just ridiculous.

I liked the first part, but as soon as the aliens turned up it lost it's appeal.

[Steve McQueef]

I dont get some of you.

Nicolas Cages worst film? Worse film than the happening? This is just crazy talk.

At least The Happening was funny.

[DarhkFox]

At least The Happening was funny.

really? i thought it was just awful full stop.

[marcus]

I'm a fan of Cage, but this was just ridiculous.

I liked the first part, but as soon as the aliens turned up it lost it's appeal.

Aliens? I thought they were angels..?

[Alex W.]

They were aliens that inspired the ideas of Angels. Or maybe the entire Christian religion was implanted into humanity as part of the procedure that led to magic children with special powers being born. Ancient Astronauts stuff either way.

[the_debaser]

My God. Just watched it. That's 2 hrs I'll never get back.

[And]

Hmm, just watched this, the disaster scenes were well executed but the rest of it was crap.

Nick Cage is possibly the worlds most overrated actor. Remind me what he is famous for again?

Wild at heart was good but after that i'm struggling to think of anything of worth.

[Goose]

I'm noticing a worrying trend here - after I (and many, many others) slagged off The Happening more and more forumites went and downloaded it just to see how bad it was! I fear this is happening again. I am truly sorry.

[Rudderless]

Just watched this. It was a decent idea, well-directed on the whole, but really badly acted (Byrne was okay, but Cage and the kids were awful), and some of the dialogue was fist-chewingly awful (the "pastor's son" line being a particular clunker). But Proyas did really well building a sense of impending doom and the events were very well-staged.

Did anyone else feel that the ending

played it incredibly safe by making it deliberately unclear whether they were aliens or angels, so as not to offend anyone? I guess you could say it's cleverly done because it's down to whether you're a man of science or a man of faith which side you're leaning towards, but it felt a bit like a cheap way of catering to everyone instead of having the balls to pick one or the other.

Really doesn't stand up to any kind of scrutiny, and one of the plot points in particular doesn't make any kind of sense -

why have the voices whispering to Lucinda when it wasn't going to happen for another 50 years? And does the shot of all those ships leaving the Earth at the end mean that they've simultaneously left a bunch of cryptic clues in time capsules across the world?

But I quite enjoyed some of it, and it was quite a bold ending, whether you like it or not. At the very least, Proyas and Byrne earned their paycheques.

[Varnsen]

It didn't make any sense at all but I wasn't really paying attention, too busy making snide comments about Cage for cheap laughs which is why we watched the movie.

[Goose]

Just finished watching this I can't decide about it. The idea I really liked, the numbers predicting events, and the first hour was actually pretty decent but then it went rapidly down hill. Cage's acting was so broad to almost be laughable but the idea just about kept it together.

How did he find out the garage that the kids were calling from? I never saw his son or the girl tell him. I thought the plane crash was ok but the aftermath, with people on fire, was pretty traumatic (though also LOL worthy when the guy walks past him on fire and Cage goes "hey!" to him). The underground bit just seemed a step too far to be honest but again had its moments.

Maybe a different lead actor, less emphasis on the single parent thing and maybe 20 minutes cut from the running time might have made it a stronger movie.

[buster_broon]

i kinda thought the pebbles were given to the chosen ones, like the boy when he walked to the car from his garden and the little girls was left with her mother at the garage

also seems a little too much like adam and eve

i thought the effects were alright and the plane crashing was pretty believeable

[redbloodcell]

I'm noticing a worrying trend here - after I (and many, many others) slagged off The Happening more and more forumites went and downloaded it just to see how bad it was! I fear this is happening again. I am truly sorry.

Don't be too sorry, it was better than that heap of dung.

Watched this tonight finally, disappointing really. Cage was poor most of the time and the hysterical mother near the end got right on my teats. The effects shots were good though, better than running away from the FUCKING WIND (Yeah you heard me Shamaylan you cocksucker). The initial premise too had promise but the explanation of it annoyed me, could have been better if it were left as a more unknown quantity and they had taken out the

Aliens/Angels

entirely. However then they'd have had to fill the film with other stuff, like maybe some deeper characters or something.

[mechamonkey]

Watched this at the weekend. So very, very bad.

I actually enjoyed the film up until the 'whispering people' and black stones started to appear and its writers stoked up the crack pipe.

[Barnard]

The film went shit when Cage told his mate at MIT about the numbers and his mate said 'this makes my scientific mind not want to go there' or something like that. Cage had proof and he just fobbed it off. Balls.

[Professor Puzzles]

What a bummer.

I've formulated a hypothesis about Nicolas Cage that proposes a direct correlation between the normality of his hair and the quality of his acting; the more ridiculous and artificial his hair becomes the more ridiculous and artificial his acting becomes.