Thriller "Knowing" tops weekend box office in N. America

thought it was good, Nick Cage even lost weight to look like the alcoholic, depressed widower. Kept my attention, even though it was very long. Didn't like the "bilbical ending", prefer to think it was an alien life form more advanced than ours, knowing that the earth was in trouble and trying to save us.
the only big problem: it was way too LOUD....would prefer to rent it so you can turn down the volume on the disaster scences.
Special effects were excellent...esp. the one in the subway!

Knowing (2009): D -

What if we could predict bad things? Impossible,... 'cause I would've prevented this Rapture-ific movie from being made. Nicholas Cage does the same shtick he always does,... and he and everyone else are highly unconvincing. And, there is no surrounding help; real messages are trumped by poor storytelling,... it's clouded with Biblical themes,... there's elevator music,... the cartoony effects just aren't "special",... only 15 minutes of it are interesting,... the direction is unimpressive,... a global warming theme is omitted,... it took 7 people to write it,... the screenplay is clumsy,... and it's anti-climactic. Ironically, I predicted this would rub. See it - Never.

Hmm, well the budget for the film was $50 million so they're halfway there, but its probably going to be a fiscal decline of revenue from here on in, lets see......who wants to bet they wont break 50 mill by next weekend? I've got 25 cents that says they wont HAHHA

My mom saw it. Said it started out good. Then it got weird. She came home and simply said it was weird. Couldn't even explain it. I think the problems lie in the flow of the movie..not necessarily a bad story line.

I Love You, Man will out do this movie, in the end. Because that's how it'll work.

Knowing was just so boring and predictable and annoying.

What are you talking about!?!?!.. this movie was amazing... you dont watch movies for intellectual purposes... you watch them for entertainment.. read a fucking book..

Granted the number thing wasnt as eleborate as it could have been but that wasnt the point of the movie.. it was about the relationship between the two and the world's end ..

Due to the persistent urging of my sister, I quite begrudgingly saw this movie over the weekend. I'll try not to deviate into some played out stereotypical film connoisseur tirade about how Hollywood sucks. For the record, I truly like films, I'm just trying to adopt a "do something or shut up" attitude. Anyhow, I didn't want to see this flick to begin with, so if it was bad, it would've been of no shock to me. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be though. But was it good? Haha, No! But I never got frustrated or angry watching it, which happens a lot to me when I see shitty movies. The aforementioned plane crash scene I did find pretty awesome, but I watch a lot of exploitation flicks, so stuff like that will keep me minimally happy. It's one of those movies you pretty much have figured out about 30 or so minutes in (like, lets say.....every Saw film after 1), so you're never really surprised by anything that happens. Like I said, it's not good and the Christian allegories were a bit much (angels or aliens? blatant Adam and Eve references? does God have a fleet a starships?), but I've seen soooooo much worse, the smell of this one didn't get to me. I'm just glad my sis payed for the ticket, because movies are not cheap these days my friends. And most importantly, good or bad, it wasn't a remake.

Yeah guys, you're both right on.

Maybe the box office take wouldn't be so anemic this year if "Hollywood" actually released a couple of good movies.

And for that matter, Duplicity? Really? Who actually goes to a film to see Julia Roberts act sexy anymore?

I saw "Knowing" on the weekend with my grandson and was again astounded at the derivative pap being foisted on uneducated children these days. Starting with the hoary old standby "man/child loses wife/mother," the audience is once again asked to put all their confidence in the wacky world of numbers. This time around, a clairvoyant kid from fifty years ago has determined exact locations and dates of future disasters. Too bad she didn't have a racing form fifty years hence! Because all bets are off when this turgid thriller starts racing towards its absurdly realized biblical ending. With aliens looking like they just got off a rock video set, an untalented lead child actor and black pebble calling cards, it's no wonder Cage was drinking throughout the picture. Hope the scotch was real, Nick, to dull the pain of being in another "I'm only doin' it for the money" movie. The most disturbing aspect of this film was the spectacular realization of accidents,( plane crash, car crash,etc.) that directors throw at unsuspecting children watching, as if to wake them up once in awhile from the lugubrious quality of the acting. It's a shame that kids are now so used to seeing burning people, twisted metal and all sorts of mayhem that the most they can say is "Cool" when they see tragedies on-screen. And a small coke and popcorn cost $10.50! I'll stay at home, thank you very much!!

Oh, God. Someone just firebomb Hollywood already. I'm sick of them lowering the intellectual expectations of the mob with this bang-two-trashcans-together bullshit. It's watering down our culture, and our culture can't afford to be watered down any more than it already is.

Seriously though - who the fuck actually goes to see Nicholas Cage movies anymore? Hasn't anyone noticed the stench? No number of burning gasoline cans or barely modified main characters can cover that up.