Thread of Anticipating KNOWING with Nic Cage

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"Knowing" is among the best science-fiction films I've seen -- frightening, suspenseful, intelligent and, when it needs to be, rather awesome.

Still love the guy, but don't believe him.

more like BL0W1NG

I just saw a thing about Nick Cage, in which he's talking about how his remake of "The Wicker Man" is so horrifying that people will have nightmares for weeks afterwards and how it's a zillion times better than the original. So he's a big fucking liar. I hate the fucker, he's a crap one-dimensional actor who's (at best) fair at picking "big" movies (the National Treasure crap, for instance) and hasn't had a good role in years. And looking back, those seemed a matter of luck more than anything. Plus, he's pig ugly. Fuck him.

The Dance (2010) (announced) .... Billy 'The Kid' Roth
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) (filming) .... Balthazar Blake
Season of the Witch (2010) (filming) .... Lavey
Astro Boy (2009) (post-production) (voice) .... Dr. Tenma
G-Force (2009) (post-production) (voice) .... Speckles
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) (post-production)
Kick-Ass (2009) (post-production) .... Damon Macready

Nicolas Cage ... Speckles (voice)
Penélope Cruz ... Juarez (voice)
Bill Nighy
Sam Rockwell ... Darwin (voice)
Steve Buscemi ... Bucky (voice)
Will Arnett
Tracy Morgan ... Blaster (voice)
Zach Galifianakis ... Ben
Kelli Garner ... Marcie
Tyler Patrick Jones ... Connor
Mini Anden ... Christa
Niecy Nash ... Rosalita

Release Date:
16 July 2010 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Fantasy more
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A sorcerer (Cage) leaves his workshop in the hands of his apprentice (Baruchel), who gets into trouble when the broomstick he's tasked to do his chores for him somehow develops a mind of its own. | add synopsis

Release Date:
2010 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Sport
Plot:
A dramatization of the life of one-time champion prize fighter Billy "The Kid" Roth, who has volunteered as a boxing coach for over 40 years in the prisons of Louisiana. | add synopsis

Nicolas Cage ... Billy 'The Kid' Roth
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Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so

Season of the Witch (2010) (filming) .... Lavey

wtfffffffff remake of halloween 3??

I am actually curious about "Kick-Ass" and excited about the Herzog-directed "Bad Lieutenant."

This, however, s1ock is dead-on abbout - it is awful bible-thumping bullshit, and worse, it's boring. I'll give Proyas this, though: the man can stage an action sequence.

Anyone else notice that Richard Kelly has a writing credit on this?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090221133114AAES3Wz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know1ng

Initially believing that the last event will kill only 33, John eventually re-examines the numbers. He discovers that the final digits are not "33", but actually "EE" written backwards, and the upcoming event is a massive solar flare that will kill "Everyone Else."

everyone else cummings

I guess I'm the only person in the world who saw Garage Days

everyone else cummings

― eman, Monday, March 23, 2009 5:18 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

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that's pretty creative as far as porno knockoff titles go

saw it too, elvis. not very good, but i imagine a damn sight better than this.

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oh my god guys this movie!

I just saw a thing about Nick Cage, in which he's talking about how his remake of "The Wicker Man" is so horrifying that people will have nightmares for weeks afterwards and how it's a zillion times better than the original. So he's a big fucking liar.

I don't think he's a liar, he's just completely insane.

That's why the whisperers didn't save him.

"Only SANE people get to ride on the wheel."

seriously, i mean...i would put this in the same league as the happening or butterfly effect.

thee league of why would you see any of these?

If Nicolas Cage's fetus doesn't commit suicide at the end of the Knowing, it cannot be in the same league as the Butterfly Effect.

Maybe that'll be in Knowing: The Director's Cut.

ok SPOILERS:

FETUS SUICIDE V THE APOCOLYPSE?

Look seriously how can a movie which ends up concluding that world is a better place without Ashton Kutcher be all bad? I admit the idea of Nicolas Cage being incinerated has promise, but do we all have to die too?

thee league of why would you see any of these?

― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Monday, March 23, 2009 4:20 PM

4:20 PM

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I won't be swayed, I'm gonna see this, plus it's only 90 minutes long.

plz Ashton Kutcher is in the 1% indispensible showbiz laborers

yeah eman, y u think they call it dope etc.

I love that wikipedia will give away the whole dumb plot of this movie. It makes it sound like a pretentious version of the Apple.

M0RB1US

jel you will not regret seeing this movie

how does this compare to

http://www.lamarsmoviepalace.com/number23.jpg

I will wait for the dollar theater.

i never saw #23 but i think this is better than the wickerman

its an amzing movie i hav reviewed it on my bløg

fuck i wish they still had dollar theaters here. lol i saw stargate at one

I saw the Number 23! It was er, Jim Carrey seeing the number 23 in everything, then I think he went insane, or maybe he'd killed some people in the past, or was that a "History of Violence"? Anyway, I'm pretty sure he just ended up scrawling sums that added up to 23 all over his prison cell.

This dollar theater talk has inspired me.

This movie is set in Boston. So for some baffling reason, it was filmed in Melbourne.

Which means I'd be laughing and picking shit out of the film regardless of how good/bad it was.

I was wondering about that. Melbourne looks NOTHING like Boston!

Why would they do that? Do they honesly think no one in the US or Australia is just going to not notice!?

Wah double negative, anyway you know what I mean.

wait seriously? i -- lol -- did not notice at all! did they shoot any of it in boston?

also i can't stress this enough, you all should see this movie. i mean it is a nicolas cage thriller about how the SUN BLOWS UP and only rutger haueresque aliens who are only understandable to small crazy children* are the saviors btw 9/11.

* seriously one "talks" to nic cage and this just results in a giant sunbeam shooting out of his mouth and blinding our hero because his voice is a giant laser when speaking to "rational" adults???

i mean there is a five minute "tense action" sequence that consists of nicolas cage stripping paint from a door while screaming at a lady "just wait, i have to finish this then we'll go to the caves!"

loool

schef you have CONVINCED me to see this in the theater - i have an interview tomorrow morning and afterwards i am gonna peep a matinee of this fuckin thing

this movie was ridiculously entertaining

This movie cured me of my cold.
I thought the bunnies might be a Con-Air reference, but what do I know...

SPOILERS!!!

I thought this was pretty good! I mean, the whole story made absolutely no sense at all... If the aliens knew what was gonna happen 50 years ago, why did they come up with such a ridiculously complex plot to save a handful of kids (I take it there were two kids in all of those space ships in the end, even though the two main kids were all we saw) right before the end of the world? Why not just slowly ship folks away during those 50 years, so they could've saved more people? And why come upt with such silly way of passing the information instead of just, you know, telling the truth right from the beginning? But if you get past all the plot holes, the movie was quite entertaining to watch. I hadn't been spoiled about the plot, so it was genuinely cool to watch a movie were you really couldn't guess what's gonna happen next (no way did I see the movie ending with the destruction of the whole Earth). And Proyas is still great at coming up with arresting and scary cinema; those accident scenes were genuinely disturbing, and the finale looked absolutely gorgeous!

I think the Nick Cage is the best actor for these kind of films, because he can be totally earnest throughout the silliness. If the movie had had a nudge nudge wink wink, "you aren't really supposed to take this seriously" postmodern vibe, it would've just gone up its arse, and it would've been so much worse. You need to take it seriously for it to work, and Cage is perfect at portraying that seriousness. I mean, in the climax point of the movie the guy scrubbing paint away from an old cellar door to find out the cordinates scribbled to it by a school girl, which will lead him to the exact spot where space aliens will appear to rescue his son from the complete destruction of the Earth by the Sun, and when you write it down like this it's the stupidest thing you've ever heard, but when you're watching it on the screen you're there with him, and you totally believe in him, with all your heart, because he's Nick fucking Cage, and youre like, go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!!

Because he's that good.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, August 12, 2009 3:45 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is my all-time favorite tuomas post, by a country mile

SPOILERS!!!!!!

I thought this film was great, like a '50's B-Movie with Biblical overtones. And Nic Cage wears the same blazer he wears in every other movie. Still didn't quite understand why the alien/angels saved such lame kids.

This movie provided an excellent example of Nic Cage's primary acting technique, namely YELLING HIS LINES AT OTHER CHARACTERS.

http://s2.buzzfeed.com/static/imagebuzz/terminal01/2009/9/25/9/andre-the-cage-8095-1253884320-2.jpg

Knowing director has a new film in development called Dracula Year Zero.

x-post HAHAHAHAHA YES! I saw this thread had been revived and said to myself pls pls let someone have posted the Andre/Nick pic. LOL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wle7aaKAF0

ok people watch the v end of this^ shit (whole thing is amazing but only the end is KNOWING)

Haha, they just swiped the whole scene from the movie!

haha yeah i remember that video came out like a week after i had rented Know1ng and had to like stop and rack my brain for a minute about where they jacked it from