Thread of Anticipating KNOWING with Nic Cage

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

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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

wish i had not read synopsis before seeing. w t f.

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I am so glad I watched this in the cinema

hallelujah!

should have been named Pebbles From Heaven

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.

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)

Was reminded of this short story (which would actually make a pretty good disaster movie)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconstant_Moon

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

lolling @ cankles "also free complimentary bunnies w/ur apocalypse"

yeah wtf

also this movie feels like 4 hours long. on some jean eustache trip

LOL WTFF
how did this movie even happen
i 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

thought last scene wld be keyboard cat tbh

Hahah that would have been icing on the cake for sure.

I have no idea what was going on in this movie because I couldn't get past Cage's complete lack of sideburns.

Gotta watch out for those types.

It's different when not connected to long flowing hair!

thread should be moved to ilc imo

i mean I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX

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.