Thread: Knowing - A film with Nicholas Cage

I thought it was pretty rubbish. An idea with a lot of potential but the film turned out like a B-movie that tried to be different and unexpected at the end but went way too far. Nick Cage definitely the wrong actor to use too.

I enjoyed it.

I was disturbed by a few parts. Like the plan crash with the burning people running around screaming. There was just something about this movie where the disaster scenes looked almost too real, if you know what I mean? But it made it that much more interesting I guess.

What is also interesting (for me) is that I've been using the word Knowing, with a capital K for few years now.

Originally Posted by Aquanina

I enjoyed it.

I was disturbed by a few parts. Like the plan crash with the burning people running around screaming. There was just something about this movie where the disaster scenes looked almost too real, if you know what I mean? But it made it that much more interesting I guess.

What is also interesting (for me) is that I've been using the word Knowing, with a capital K for few years now.

Mm. I can't say I enjoyed the scenes too much, it looked too animated. He just got up after a freaking plane had crashed a few meters away from him. It seemed too fake.

Originally Posted by Albion

Mm. I can't say I enjoyed the scenes too much, it looked too animated. He just got up after a freaking plane had crashed a few meters away from him. It seemed too fake.

Uhh...yeah, he got up to try to help any survivors. I hope I would do the same in his position. I guess you'd just sit there and watch them run around screaming and dying? Eh...

Also, I saw this in the theater. I imagine it would be much less effective on a tv screen. But some of the people I went and saw it with actually couldn't watch certain parts and said it just looked too real, and I can definitely understand what they meant. If you've ever been in a disaster situation like that, you know what I am talking about. If you haven't, then...well...hopefully you never will be.

Just in case anyone wants to see the scene we're talking about here's a video clip.

The complete scene in Knowing where the plane crashes. Apparently this is fairly accurate to real life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd4zUQ_d4AY


And here's the subway crash...I mean...it's just disturbing the way people are mowed down like flies on a windshield.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZOj1...eature=related

Actually, the ending was all I liked about Knowing, mainly the visuals of the Ezekiel-style aliens and spacecraft, and the sheet of flame, but also that they went ahead and ended life on earth, and I think they pulled that off better than much of anything else in the movie.

Also, I don't think it was just the two kids--I'm pretty sure the aliens took kids from all over earth.

Originally Posted by Taosaur

Actually, the ending was all I liked about Knowing, mainly the visuals of the Ezekiel-style aliens and spacecraft, and the sheet of flame, but also that they went ahead and ended life on earth, and I think they pulled that off better than much of anything else in the movie.

Also, I don't think it was just the two kids--I'm pretty sure the aliens took kids from all over earth.

I know. I loved the ending...it felt like every drug trip I've ever had rolled into one awesome visual effect lol. That spacecraft was cool as hell, and I love that the aliens are "angels" basically. Maybe I'm crazy but it didn't see too far fetched to me. However, I was under the impression it was just the two "chosen" children? I don't remember seeing anything that would indicate other children were taken?

edit: oh wait, nvmd you're right, I just watched the end again and noticed all the spaceships leaving together

I loved every part of the movie, and I'm so glad that it wasn't another movie where the humans can't do jack shit about dying. Aliens IMO was the only way to go after a certain point in the movie. And there definitely were other children taken to that planet, if you try to remember the last scene there were many other ships in the background sky that seemed to be beaming down something.

Originally Posted by C-Fonz

And there definitely were other children taken to that planet, if you try to remember the last scene there were many other ships in the background sky that seemed to be beaming down something.

Yah, I just edited my post. I saw that movie when it first came out awhile ago, so I didn't remember everything about it, but yeah there are definitely a ton of spaceships leaving at the end. (then again, maybe those ships were collecting the animals?)

^^ouuu perhaps they were.

Originally Posted by Aquanina

Uhh...yeah, he got up to try to help any survivors. I hope I would do the same in his position. I guess you'd just sit there and watch them run around screaming and dying? Eh...

Also, I saw this in the theater. I imagine it would be much less effective on a tv screen. But some of the people I went and saw it with actually couldn't watch certain parts and said it just looked too real, and I can definitely understand what they meant. If you've ever been in a disaster situation like that, you know what I am talking about. If you haven't, then...well...hopefully you never will be.

No need to be bitchy, love. I'd get up and help them as well.

I'm just saying its a little weird that a plane crashed just a few meters away from him, and he didn't even fall over by the impact, or ANYTHING of the sort. I don't see why you'd have to react like that.

I loved every part of the movie, and I'm so glad that it wasn't another movie where the humans can't do jack shit about dying. Aliens IMO was the only way to go after a certain point in the movie. And there definitely were other children taken to that planet, if you try to remember the last scene there were many other ships in the background sky that seemed to be beaming down something.

The concept was Adam and Eve. There were other biblical references in the movie as well. You have to see it as the ark of noah (not sure what its called in english), version 2. Except now the world is flooded with flames, instead of water.

That...was not bitchy...it was sarcasm. Though I realize sarcasm is difficult online.

Originally Posted by Albion

The concept was Adam and Eve. There were other biblical references in the movie as well. You have to see it as the ark of noah (not sure what its called in english), version 2. Except now the world is flooded with flames, instead of water.

That of course is your interpretation though. There are many different interpretations for the end of the movie. My own was a wipe out of corrupt human civilization in order to create a more innocent and pure one.

Originally Posted by C-Fonz

That of course is your interpretation though. There are many different interpretations for the end of the movie. My own was a wipe out of corrupt human civilization in order to create a more innocent and pure one.

Did you read the bible?

That was the first concept of Noah's Ark. They recreated a second version of it.

Originally Posted by Albion

Did you read the bible?

That was the first concept of Noah's Ark. They recreated a second version of it.

Um...no. Yes, there were deliberate parallels with Adam and Eve as well as the book of Ezekiel, but not so much the flood, and all of the references were made loosely.

Originally Posted by Taosaur

Um...no. Yes, there were deliberate parallels with Adam and Eve as well as the book of Ezekiel, but not so much the flood, and all of the references were made loosely.

The references were to Adam and Eve, and Noah.

So it's not my interpretance.

Nick cage is one of the worst mainstream actors in hollywood. Him and Keanu reeves are probably in the top 2.

Keanu and Cage are both usually hit or miss for me. They've both been in movies I absolutely love, and movies I have no intention of seeing. Cage more so the latter. But I don't think either are terrible actors...

Keanu is in a lot of good movies, but it is moreso because of the supporting cast/writers that make it so. His emotional range is the equivalent of a plank with a smiley face. Nick cage is in a greater diversity of genres but he should stick to comedies rather than family movies and action flicks.

Originally Posted by grasshoppa

Nick cage is in a greater diversity of genres but he should stick to comedies rather than family movies and action flicks.

Well The Rock is one of my favorite movies of all time...

But yeah, now that he's getting old...I can see why you'd say that I guess.

Originally Posted by Albion

The references were to Adam and Eve, and Noah.

So it's not my interpretance.

No it is. It really wouldn't have mattered if I read the bible either way, I'm pretty sure Noah's Ark and Adam and Eve were two different stories. Motion pictures are art, there is no cut and dry way to convey their meaning. It's whatever you want.

Originally Posted by C-Fonz

No it is. It really wouldn't have mattered if I read the bible either way, I'm pretty sure Noah's Ark and Adam and Eve were two different stories. Motion pictures are art, there is no cut and dry way to convey their meaning. It's whatever you want.

Ofcourse they're 2 different storys. They just combined them in this CONTEXT. It's not whatever you want, its pretty clearly a reference to the bible.