I dont usually reply to posts but I will in this case. WoW. Your blog is so informative keep up the good work!!!! great ….

btw, I liked _Knowing_, but I am a big huge nerd..

Speaking of comedies, there hasn't been a good comedy since Mel Brooks stopped making movies, or Peter Sellars in the Pink Panthers, or John Candy. I still watch "HIgh Anxiety"!

I go to Nicholas Cage's movies for entertainment. I don't find it entertaining to be propagandized about Big Business being a Big Villain (Duplicity, Michael Clayton), educated on social issues (Milk), Enlightened (Che) or treated like a Useful Idiot (most of the rest of Hollywood's films). I go to be ENTERTIANED, to lose myself in someone else's world. IF, in the meantime, I see some of my values and ideas while not endorsed, at least not demeaned, then that's a plus. That's knowing (pun intended).

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I was on the edge of my seat. The special effects were absolutely stupendous. Nicholas Cage was believable.
The problems were in plot holes one thought of AFTER the film was over. I would have ended it differently.
There was some subtlety to it that only the knowing (another pun) will catch.

Is it Academy Award material? Only in the Special Effects category. Will it keep you entertained? YES. Will you get sucker-punched with liberal propaganda? NO. Will your intelligence be insulted? NO.

Spouse and I went at 5:05. The theatre (stadium seating) was pretty full save for the seats down in the pit where nobody but kids sit anyway. That had people down there (who can sit there without getting dizzy?).

Good. Almost great movie. But your enjoyment or hatred of the movie will depend almost totally on how much you know going in and whether or not you can roll with the story.

If you plan on seeing it this weekend, AVOID all reviews and or descriptions. To have a good WTF! movie experience.

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What Knowing has going for it is the same thing that the best horror and SF have. That is, an implacable internal logic that doesn't necessarily mirror what we know or expect from a movie. In fact, it seems as the story progresses more and more bat shit crazy but crazy with a purpose. How the movie works for you will be determined by how many of the story jumps you can take.

Think the Dark City director's cut, the Matrix or horror movies like Carpenter's The Thing, Cronenberg's The Fly and even Argento movies like Suspiria and Phenomena. Though a closer parallel would be a movie from 1991 called The Rapture with Mimi Rodgers.

I think the director?, writer?, studio? wanted to avoid the bleak, existential ending of The Rapture (an ending that makes the Rapture a truly great movie and provokes equal amount of love and hatred from viewers).

And their solution almost gets it right, but they forget that Knowing is a horror movie first.

The second from last scene with the kids was too explicit in my view. They should've amped up the creepiness and desperation that this act by Cage's character represents instead of the hope and alrightness of his act. Then the last scene would've been a welcome relief instead of a 2×4 cluebat wielded for (supposed or real)dumbasses in the audience.

I think they really missed a chance to make a great emotional movie by forgetting Knowing is at heart a horror movie. And instead wound up, with a good solid B movie.

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