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David Griffin 01/05/2010 3:51:00 AM
This review couldn't be more spot-on!
In the face of terror cells rendered incorrigible through the control of religious fundamentalist leaders, America reacts not by cleaning up it's own religious insanity, but by fighting that fire with it's own fire. Now we have Christ, the fairy tale rehashing of occulted fairy tales with twice it's seniority on this planet, making Hollywood's biggest budget films, and even real (albeit pathetically slumping after many bad scripts which he should never have touched) star power of Nicholas Cage. America's children have enough to be afraid of without their minds being poisoned by fear of eternal hellfire, and the wrath of any super-being slave master. Looking back on a childhood which was terrorized by films such as these, I will not rest in my holy quest ("holy" for the benefit of the high-minded jerks who call atheism a religion) to have the producers of such garbage as this jailed for child abuse.
Ledeux - the best weapon you have against your own head, your children's, and your freinds' is "they can't understand, but they will when it's too late". It works only on those who are logically undiscerning, and therefore susceptible to such high-pressure psychological terror tactics - specifically, that would be the children who your lot commits this mental abuse against. It's certainly a can't-lose ploy for the believer, who won't be sorry no matter what happens, being that the dead who stay dead in the ground have no regrets and feel no pain - this is what it truly means to "rest in peace"! Then again, we could all be wrong and you'll be surprised that you backed the wrong god, but my worries are limited only to the damage which you cause to human intellectual progress, American national policy, and the future of the human species.
Jon - you are the prime example of Christian arrogance - yes, you the believer, are extremely arrogant. Not even the bible which you believe in describes the physical anatomy of aliens, nor angels, for that matter.
Johnny Five - you're surprised to see Hollywood behind the power-preachers, but no one who's been awake since 9/11/2001 should be. There are (count 'em) just two super-religions with the capacity, and a currently active track record of shaping national policies in this world. One of them is no longer moderated enough to control it's extremist element, which can and will happen with any religion, the more that it is permitted to control the thought processes of it's followers (Christians hate scientific understanding so much that they are making all these expensive movies to discourage it). Now the mullahs are sending their followers to kill every Westerner (enemies of Allah) who they can touch. Terror at the hands of religious wackos is an embarrassment to all fundamentalist religious leaders, and they lead millions of them here in America. If America had time after to think after 9/11, their livelihood could have been damaged by this. So, they immediatley took their pulpit in front of every available camera as the "shepherds" to lead us through these stressful times. They set their threats of hellfire and brimstone quietly on the shelf, or at least held off directing them at Americans for awhile (this is how every surviving religious movement adapts), and pretty soon they had enough money from increased tithing church attendance to buy Hollywood. Oh, I'm aware that some churches (Catholic for sure) are hurting, but there are brand-new idiot-corrals with names like "Rescue Mission" which are spending more money than ever to pollute my mailbox, and on summer carnivals for the brainwashing of the next generation. Even if the leaders of movies like "Knowing" (there have been several like this a year recently) are getting poorer, it's just the sort of Hail Mary pass which should be expected. That's right, it's your money, which you entrusted to your god, but it's still the grubby paws of top church leaders which control it. If it's clothing fewer of your poorest church mates, and fewer mouths are being fed, it's because nothing, but nothing, is more important to men such as these than their own @ss. Welcome to Real Church, Real Business 101!
Finally, while speaking of business, there is simply nothing better for capitalism than the indoctrination into the heads of every American that they can, and should, consume like there is no tomorrow. How pitiful the ways in which so many help the no-turban American mullahs create the end of this world in their own image!
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Jerry 08/16/2009 10:19:00 PM
This film was not preachy in the least. No references to individual sin were given, no exaggerations of personal responsibility, or promises of the deceased winding up in an eternal hell (though this commentator believes so). Just a very well directed film depicting one of several views regarding revelational eschatology. I am sure that you went in to the movie with some general prejudice against a film with any honest biblical tones. But would it be too much to ask that 1 out of 100 movies in this genre would actually try to keep true to possible end times events, as portrayed in scripture, probably not. I think it was a nice, well done piece of cinema. And for once, aliens were not the moral superiors who have come to teach us of our evils. More than likely, they will have issues of their own.
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Johnny Five 07/26/2009 9:30:00 AM
This is a good movie. I am a liberal (I guess) and Christian (definitely) and I am amused at how people who support tolerance for everything else get irate over Christians and Christianity. When I left the theater, I was thinking to myself how surprised I was to see a Hollywood movie that portrayed faith in a positive manner. The movie is respectable.
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Jason 07/12/2009 9:45:00 PM
J,
You're a whackjob. This is demonstrated by your claim "aliens don't have wings, angels do!". You've seen aliens, have you? All of them, to say that none of them have wings? Or perhaps your imaginary friend in the sky confirms it?
Ldeux,
As long as it piggybacks off of Christian beliefs, it must be a good movie, amirite? [face_crazy] I mean, The Omega Code was a box-office smash!
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Aaron 05/16/2009 2:54:00 AM
My impression was that the christian symbolism and alien bullshit was a way to Hollywoodize a movie that was about global warming - the black rocks as the trail to figure the thing out (oil obviously), the idea that the sun was the root of the disaster, the fact that Nicholas Cage was some type of climatologist or physicist and that whole opening scene of all the cities of the world lighting up and industrializing - I'm sure there were more that I've chosen to forget from this awful, awful movie - maybe someone else can debate my interpretation?
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Jane Quatam 04/28/2009 12:35:00 AM
Knowing was like "Leaving Las Vegas" in reverse, Cage starts out as a depressed alcoholic with zero libido and as things progress he almost emotes once or twice and then instead of burning down his apartment, he burns down the world.
I thought it was bad as I watched it, but after thinking about it I'm sure it was very terrible. The loopy story line is full of holes, and Cages' depth of expression ranges from bored to boring, and the ending looked like a bad Discovery channel docudrama on solar flares.
I'd put this up against "the Core" any day, which was my previous benchmark for terrible cinema. This film is not just bad, it is a crime against humanity. This may fall under the Geneva conventions definition of torture, audiences should be warned.
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J 04/24/2009 6:01:00 AM
Oh my gosh... that is right. Nonbelievers won't get it.
So many ppl think it's aliens. I was astonished. :|
They aren't aliens, aliens don't have wings and i think this movie was so amazing because in the bible it says jesus will come and take us to a new world or planet or something i forgot.
But the spaceship-like things were prolly just because they were probably trying to portray it in futuristic terms, and make it more interesting to viewers than just floating away.
I really recommend this movie because it was a great example of what might happen.
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Ldeux 03/23/2009 9:10:00 AM
I agree this was a great movie but I don't expect unbelievers to understand. They will one day but it might be too late.
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Kal 03/21/2009 7:59:00 PM
What? You have to be kidding me. This was a great movie. Just say it yesterday. Don't let this critic's over-the-top negative review hinder you from watching this movie!
