"Knowing" sucks

This was the worst movie that I've ever seen done by Cage and he's made some bad ones. It started out so great but the alien crap was something that could've been left out. I was pissed off. However, I watched Gran Torino after it and was invigorated all over again.

 

OK. Now I gotta rent Gran Torino. Completely forgot about that one.

 

Previews looked sorta interesting, but gosh, with these reviews I might stay away.

 

STAY VERY FAR AWAY.
If I could get away with it, I'd like to kick Nicholas Cage's ass for putting this crap out.

 

I know Nicolas Cage. We used to take jujitsu and pilates together, back-to-back, and let me assure you that he would not be the one getting his ass kicked in this scenario.

 

Ha! 1.06 where I live.


And I thought it wasn't all that bad. I can list 10 to 20 worse movies. What Dreams May Come, Event Horizon, Fifth Element, Blair Witch Project, etc., come to mind immediately as absolutely awful.

 

Fifth Element was campy good fun. Blair With was bad, yes, but it wasn't exaclty big hollywood, where oceans must part just to get a big-budget flick like Knowing made. I passed on the other ones, trusting the reviewers.

 

I loved the Blair Witch Project, because I did it the right way. The proper viewing procedure is as follows:

1) Be raised by pentecostal parents who almost never let you see movies until you are a teenager, and even then definitely not scary movies.

2) Sneak out to see BWP without their permission at 16.

3) Watch it alone.

4) Walk home in the dark afterwards.

In that context, it's awesome.

 

Blair Witch gets hammered here, and 10 years later, yeah, it's not as scary or as awesome as it was portrayed.

But it was still pretty fuckin good for what it was, and that last scene is still one of the best, most jarring final scenes I've ever, err, seen.

 

Wish I could have read this BEFORE I rented The Knowing over the weekend. I thought the premise sounded interesting, a little girl writing the dates of significant tragedies that hadn't happened yet, but they absolutely blew it. What a rip-off. On the plus side, I was kicking myself for spending 2 hours of my life on that junk, and then I watched The Unborn, which practically made The Knowing look like a masterpiece. Now I'm kicking myself for spending another 2 hours on that.

 

Best part about Blair Witch was that plenty of people went into it thinking it was really a documentary.

 

I really have to disagree.
Knowing was sooooo much worse than The Unborn.
That stupid-ass "surprise" ending was the worst. Don't rent this one at all.