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.
― he sounded italian enough to give me something (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― GROLIOUS NIPPON ;_; (cankles), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
o yah the bunnies!
― he sounded italian enough to give me something (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― he sounded italian enough to give me something (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
or teen wolf
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/explodingkinetoscope/tw_dicknose.jpg
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
lol i was just amazed the kid wasnt named noah
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
did u guys know matinees are 8 bucks now?
All too well.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
they had all the animals of earth they just let the kids hold the bunnies cause kids like bunnies
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
noah's ark, duh
― Simon H., Tuesday, 24 March 2009 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i got that shitbird
― GROLIOUS NIPPON ;_; (cankles), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 00:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link
you know, for just a few scheckles you can rent it on amazon in a couple months -- just a heads up
― he sounded italian enough to give me something (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 02:03 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 02:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 02:58 (fifteen years ago) link
raising arizona
― eman, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 03:06 (fifteen years ago) link
it's been too long, Nic. time to come home
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 03:12 (fifteen years ago) link
the thing is he is STILL a weirdo, pop culture just caught up with him
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― he sounded italian enough to give me something (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 04:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait, he named his son Superman?
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 04:46 (fifteen years ago) link
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/10/04/204816.php
― he sounded italian enough to give me something (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link
YEah thats what I suspected it'd be... hahahah ohhhh sheet.
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 04:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Be cooler if it was Brando that did that instead of Cage
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 05:04 (fifteen years ago) link
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).
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 09:22 (fifteen years ago) link
this is a movie i can hang with being spoiled tbh
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 09:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― GROLIOUS NIPPON ;_; (cankles), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
wish i had not read synopsis before seeing. w t f.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Friday, 27 March 2009 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://7.media.tumblr.com/H4BeKQxFjllglnexYc4dEGN8o1_500.jpg
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 2 April 2009 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I am so glad I watched this in the cinema
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
hallelujah!
― da croupier, Saturday, 30 May 2009 01:40 (fourteen years ago) link
should have been named Pebbles From Heaven
― da croupier, Saturday, 30 May 2009 01:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, that was all very... odd. Not much to add to what's already been said, other than that it seemed a little ill-advised for the angels/aliens to disguise themselves as members of the Gestapo if they want little kids to trust them.
― James Morrison, Monday, 22 June 2009 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Watched it last night and can't really muster up anything other than "what everybody else said." Agree with da croupier on what the title should have been.
I watched Angels & Demons right after it and concluded that both movies would have been improved greatly if cast & crew had simply switched projects (Nic Cage as intent Illuminati hunter directed by Proyas w/heaps of Catholic symbolism. Tom Hanks & Ron Howard discovering and facing the end of the world)
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 22 June 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Was reminded of this short story (which would actually make a pretty good disaster movie)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconstant_Moon
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 22 June 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
giant moose on fire & hitting the tree w/the baseball bat while shouting "u want some of this" were wicker man level
the plane crash was o_O
― cozwn, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link
lolling @ cankles "also free complimentary bunnies w/ur apocalypse"
yeah wtf
also this movie feels like 4 hours long. on some jean eustache trip
― cozwn, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 12:25 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL WTFFhow did this movie even happeni wish it was about subway crashes because it could've used a few more of that scene and a few less of every other scene
YOU WANT SOMMA THIS?!ahahaaaaaa
― paragon of incalescence (rrrobyn), Monday, 27 July 2009 04:10 (fourteen years ago) link
thought last scene wld be keyboard cat tbh
― paragon of incalescence (rrrobyn), Monday, 27 July 2009 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Hahah that would have been icing on the cake for sure.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 July 2009 04:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I have no idea what was going on in this movie because I couldn't get past Cage's complete lack of sideburns.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Gotta watch out for those types.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
It's different when not connected to long flowing hair!
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link