Knowing
Has anyone else seen Knowing?
Steven and I saw a preview for this when we went to see Taken. I turned over to him and said “That looks really good, but… Nicolas Cage is in it…” I had kind of written off Nicolas Cage movies as “immediately in the Netflix Queue” movies. As in, “not worth seeing in theater!”
But Ebert gave it 4 stars (like that means anything, I know), we love “the world’s coming to an end” movies, and had a free movie ticket*, so we decided to go.
Wow. I was completely shocked by this movie. We all know from the previews that the movie is about a sheet of paper with a bunch of numbers all over it. Nicolas Cage gets a hold of the paper and figures out the numbers correspond to dates of horrific events and the number of deaths. Pretty freaky already, right?
Well, I don’t want to give it away, but the movie is a little bit more complicated than that. It took on a much more different angle than I expected it to based on the preview. And it seriously creeped me out. As in, I was grabbing Steven’s arm in the theater, and will probably have nightmares.
I wish I could say more, but I don’t want to spoil it. If you were thinking about seeing it in the theater, I think it is worth it.
*We are signed up for the free rewards program at our theater, and they keep giving us free drinks, and popcorn and tickets! They gave us another ticket tonight! Sweet!!!
Themocracy
Did you just say a Nic Cage movie was worth seeing in theaters? Who are you and what have you done with Kim?
kapgar – I know! Shocking! I did not say his acting was stellar, but it wasn’t distracting or anything. We just really enjoyed the film. I couldn’t sleep last night though 🙁
Ok, now I have to see this!
I almost never see movies but since you are saying it was worth seeing, I might need to. If you remember, I did have a giant crush on Nicolas years ago when he was sort of normal and not all crazy like he is now.
ok… see, i was really not wanting to see it cause it was a Nicolas Cage movie but now i think i may have to see it… you’ve made it sound pretty good!!! thanks!!!
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I was really looking forward to it.
Then the plot went off in directions that were not expected.
The weird part was that I only saw one of two possible ways they could wrap it up in the end (other than just having the world end) and some how they managed to merge those two possibilities into one and run with that….
And it was totally obvious what the numbers that he couldn’t figure out were for!
Amanda – If you were thinking about it before, and were on the edge about whether or not to, I think you should 🙂
tori – If you don’t mind the creepiness of the movie, I think you would like it. But if you are prone to nightmares, like me, be warned…
CourtneyInControl – LOL. That is EXACTLY how I was feeling about it too.
Gary LaPointe – Ha ha! I didn’t figure out what the numbers were until he figured it out. I guess I am not that intuitive 😉