Curse

JupiterStarWarrior · Mar 29, 2009, 03:47 AM // 03:47

WARNING! I will be posting spoilers, so if you don't want to know how the movie Knowing ends, then don't read. If you have seen the movie, or just don't give a rat's ass, then read on.

Last week, I had the misfortune of watching Knowing on Harkins Theatres' Cine Capri. I did this because I was curious why there was a big rumbling at the end of the film, and what caused that. Also, I thought the movie would be a darker version of National Treasure. I mean, both movies star the same actor and had a conspiracy theme to them, so why not, right? Plus, I like mystery things. Little did I know that Knowing would actually be an apocolyptic movie.

Knowing started off innocently enough with a group of elementary school kids in 1958 drawing pictures of what they thought the future would be. This is for a time capsule that would be opened fifty years later. All kids, but one, drew the pictures. One kid, though, wrote nothing but numbers.

In 2009, fifty years after doing this, the time capsule is opened and one kid gets the paper with the numbers on it. The kid's father quickly learns that these numbers reveal almost every major disaster mankind faced for the last fifty years, with three more on the way. I say "most" because I didn't see the May 3, 1999, tornadoes in Oklahoma (but did see the OKC bombing), and the tsunami a few years back. I also didn't see Katrina or anything like that, so I'm assuming these numbers weren't NATURAL DISASTERS... Yet... That theory is not true, either (more on that later).

About the middle of the movie, when the main character is chasing a silent, mysterious character, I wanted to leave the movie. At that point in the movie, the plot went from mystery to science fiction because the mystery character flashed his eyes and disappeared. And I thought to myself "Oh, my GOD! Seriously? SERIOUSLY?!"

From then on, the movie was torture. I only watched to see what was so loud. Turns out, that the final disaster is a MAJOR disaster on a GLOBAL scale where EVERYONE ELSE dies. Only a selected few people get to escape the disaster by being saved on a spaceship to another planet to save mankind. The disaster? A major solar flare from the sun that, pretty much, destroys the Earth.

And, at the end, when the camera is panning this "new planet" and goes to this lone tree, I kept thinking to myself "I want my two hours back!" I mean, I bet a LOT of people here could have made a better ending to this damn movie than the writers! Hell, the whole thing could have been in the main character's head, and then he goes into a mental institution at the end. THAT would have been more believeable than what was portrayed. So, I say unto you, DON'T WATCH KNOWING. Not worth your time. Don't waste it.

fenix · Mar 29, 2009, 04:54 AM // 04:54

I've heard the exact same thing from lots of other sources.

If you see this movie, you're stupid. It's absolute garbage.

RedNova88 · Mar 29, 2009, 05:07 AM // 05:07

Meh, me and my friends really liked it. Can't expect everyone to feel the same way I guess, since it's all just opinions pulled from an individuals mind. It's a little bit silly to outright call a movie bad, and just expect everyone to agree.

Opinions my friend, that's all they are, and none of them ever really matter. What someone loves another will hate, and no matter how much the vast majority hates/loves something, there's still someone on the opposite side.

street peddler · Mar 29, 2009, 06:05 AM // 06:05

id also like to add the dragonball movie to the list of movies not to see.

JupiterStarWarrior · Mar 29, 2009, 07:34 AM // 07:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by street peddler

id also like to add the dragonball movie to the list of movies not to see.

I haven't seen it yet, so I can't really say.

Vilaptca · Mar 29, 2009, 10:51 PM // 22:51

I decided not to watch this movie when they expected me to believe that a 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper covered in numbers was big enough to include all those disasters for what...the last fifty years? Or that some douche could just solve it that fast...