Knowing – I watched the Blue-Ray version of the movie Knowing the other night and was not impressed. I can’t believe how much money Hollywood is wasting on film these days. I have spent more enjoyable time on YouTube. Don’t try to blame Nicolas Cage it was not his fault at all. The story had nowhere to go except where it ended. There were just not any real surprises. The Aliens made no sense appearing and disappearing and watching, what for? In the end they just took the kids anyway so why the cat and mouse? Why drive people crazy with incoherent whispering and numbers if you don’t really care if they are going to understand? You are just going to take them anyway, right? The spaceships were very lame and there were presumably hundreds if not thousands. Did they drive all of those people crazy for 50 years and then torture their kids with whispering and number carving just to kidnap the kids in the end? Figuring it out or “knowing” didn’t and couldn’t save anyone. I just didn’t get the script, who wrote this crap? One more thing, why was some of it shot in Australia? This is another stupid trend. I watched New in Town a week ago and it is set in Minnesota but they filmed it in Canada.
If you have a choice you should watch New in Town rather than Knowing. It’s corny, predictable, and a cookie cutter chick flick but it doesn’t try to be anything other than what it is. Harry Connick Jr. does a great job too.