Thread of Anticipating KNOWING with Nic Cage

well you've provided enough bait for me to walk into the awesome trap of seeing this movie

OK Ally has made this film sound kind of batshit awesome.

I went ahead and read the plot on Wikipedia and it clearly IS batshit awesome.

omg i have to see this now

OMG I just read it too... what.. the... hell...

The film is set in Boston, and to represent the city, filmmakers used Australian locations such as Geelong Ring Road, Melbourne Museum, Mount Macedon, and Collins Street.[1] Filming also took place at Camberwell High School, which was converted into William Dawes Elementary, set in Boston circa 1958

LOLOL thats why they used melbourne BECAUSE ITS LIKE THE 50s HERE MAYBE WHY NOT.

http://www.echo.ucla.edu/Volume5-Issue2/chapman-media/pi-film.jpg
^^ also this guys.

this is nowhere near as lolworthy as "the happening" - it's mostly just awful.

Waht! Pi is great you guys.

OK Ally has made this film sound kind of batshit awesome.

If it's Stealth-level batshit awesome, I will go see it. Convince me!

how can anyone not want to see this film based on the wiki plot? and also that EE thing, i thought you were joking at first

yeah this looks pretty hilarious

it is hilarious - dont want to spoil the ending but the last shot is such next-level wtf its worth it almost for that alone

gukbe, we gotta go see this when it comes out! (it isn't out yet is it?)

** probable spoiler alert **

lol at generic 'this is a different planet to earth' movie making = more than one moon!

I read that spoiler and now I want to see this movie.

(Haven't been to the movie theater since 2007.)

haha the last shot! i think one of my companions actually yelled "OH COME ON" at that point. i was hoping his son would have superpowers on the new planet due to the yellow rays of the new sun.

okay, first, did u guys know matinees are 8 bucks now? wtf

anyway, this was ridic but not really 'happening'-level wtfiness - s1ockster was right on about feeling like it was funded by a church group. didnt realize it was directed by the dark city shithead until the credits were rollin.

really the best part is when he googles 9/11. also free complimentary bunnies w/ur apocalypse

also i noticed in the opening credits that it was written by Stiles White - i assume this isn't a real name, but is instead a reference to Stylez G White http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylez_White

o yah the bunnies!

alex asked me this yesterday..."i have a question for you...why did they get bunnies when the world ended?" and i was like a) we saw that movie like whatnow, 3 days ago? b) who knows dude, dr manhattan works in mysterious ways

also i noticed in the opening credits that it was written by Stiles White - i assume this isn't a real name, but is instead a reference to Stylez G White http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylez_White

or teen wolf

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/explodingkinetoscope/tw_dicknose.jpg

lol i was just amazed the kid wasnt named noah

really the best part is when he googles 9/11. also free complimentary bunnies w/ur apocalypse

lol

did u guys know matinees are 8 bucks now?

All too well.

they had all the animals of earth they just let the kids hold the bunnies cause kids like bunnies

noah's ark, duh

yeah i got that shitbird

From what I've read of the plot, the ending reeks awfully of a Rapture/Jehovas Witness kind of utopia idea which is a bit ew.

I now have 2 reasons to see this:

# 1 Ben Mendelson (sorry, longstanding crush, am unable to resist)
# 2 Geelong Ring Road!

I eagerly await its television premiere.

you know, for just a few scheckles you can rent it on amazon in a couple months -- just a heads up

that's how i introduced myself to a little movie called THE HAPPENING

VegGrrl: haha in the trailer, I swear you can see the Bolte Bridge pylons in the shot with the plane crashing! It made me laugh.

Also I agree on the Ben Mendleson love.

hahaha. Bolte Bridge! $10 Victoria Gov somehow shoehorns it into tourism promotion. Come to Victoria! We have roads! And bridges! See: America likes them so much they put them in a movie!

I'm sure we'll get a promo copy at work soon enough... I see a drinking game in my future...

But honestly: Nic Cage needs to get rid of the hair plugs and the crappy movies and go back to being a weirdo. What was the last truly enjoyable, Nic Cage is kind of unbalanced, movie he's been in?

raising arizona

it's been too long, Nic. time to come home

the thing is he is STILL a weirdo, pop culture just caught up with him

i mean the dude is covered in ghost rider tattoos and named his son after superman -- i don't know what you all expect of him but i expect things like ghost rider and knowing and face off.

Wait, he named his son Superman?

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/10/04/204816.php

YEah thats what I suspected it'd be... hahahah ohhhh sheet.

Be cooler if it was Brando that did that instead of Cage

so i watched this, it's pretty bad but some of the effects are impressive. and yes, highly suspicious ending (including **SPOILER** the subtle white light 'winged' alien beings).

this is a movie i can hang with being spoiled tbh

ok then, light non-specific spoilers

saw this last night. it's not a 'highly suspicious ending', you might as well call this 'Left Behind Part 5: The Wall of Fire' and the main reason I stayed to watch the credits was to check to see if Peter and Paul LaLonde were creative consultants.

the earliest scenes set up Cage's 'loss of faith' as the central reason for his depression, the reconciliation with his preacher father is the redemption, the final apocalpyse is transcribed directly from Revelations and the final shots of the paradise planet are a cross between the illustrations of children playing with tigers in fields of wheat & rolling valleys you can find in any Jehovah's Witness literature and 70's science-fiction space art.

the only leap you have to make is that angels are actually extraterrestrials, which will leave behind some of the devout, but... not many when the rest of it is done as faithfully & reverently as this

I didn't think it was as non-stop packed as Ally did, and Cage is pretty reigned in actually. but each of the disaster scenes are top notch spectacle, and the final 15 minutes are, well they're religious

also, I know Beethoven is Beethoven, but any inclusion of the 7th allegretto in a science fiction movie officially constitutes a direct reference to Zardoz, especially when used to soundtrack THE END OF THE WORLD

yeah, left behind is exactly what it brought to mind for me too, to the extent that i could swear i saw kirk cameron's face in the apocalyptic flames consuming the planet

ahahaha yes and i thought of zardoz too

mostly in the 'this is so dated feeling' sense

it's not loony like 70's SF, the direction is just typical 90's paranormal horror films before the final 15 minutes

33% of the audience last night were three black couples all sitting together who seemed to be expecting a suspense film, at the credits, this 6'6" guy stood up and yelled 'hallelujah' in a sarcastic voice. on the way down the escalators the six of them were laughing about how terrible the ending was until one of them started singing gospel and they all joined in with harmony parts and they sounded amazing

zoinks at comments: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/03/a_roll_of_whose_dice.html#more

ebert admits he was primed for this film by the 1400+ comments still being added to his posts on that ben stein film