Is this like the End of the World or something?

^ WHAT A BEAST ^

Today, I went and saw the movie Knowing with some church pals. What a mistake that was. Ok, actually it was kind of my idea to see the movie because honestly, the movie posters looked so damn cool and I couldn't pass up another chance to see Nicholas Cage making a fool of himself again. Too bad it turned out to be a huge dissapointment. Knowing is a story of this guy, I think his name is Jon or something, who finds out through his son that the world is going to end (yeah you know, it's almost the most original movie I've ever seen!). He figures this out by Googling some numbers he finds on a piece of paper that this crazy little girl put in a time capsule fifty years ago. Turns out that girl, as well as Jon's son, Caleb, are both being whispered to by some crazy aliens or angels (which we don't realize until the last ten minutes of the movie) who want to obliterate the earth, saving just two humans to "start over". Well you know, the premise of this movie really isn't that bad; I mean, a quest to discover the meaning of these mysterious scrawled numbers, and a plan to re-invent the human race? It sounds like you could really make something out of it, right? It's just a shame that this movie was just too disjointed, totally random and horror-ish to live up to it's cool image of numbers falling off the earth. I still wrap my head around those "angels"! The worst part is that throughout the entire movie, they keep showing up in the forest near Jon's house, staring through the windows at Caleb while they stand there, immobile, like human-shaped telephone poles or something wacky like that. Sort of way too creepy and pedo, right? Nicholas Cage delivered on his necessary comedy act though. I remember there was a scene where he was like "IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK, IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK, IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK AHH". Watch his performance in The Wicker Man and you will see why I find this guy so utterly hilarious. He's but a mediocre actor but he has great potential to be a comedian, I think. Really!

Cheers,

Kamster