KNOW1NG with Cage...

[Craig]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 2:18pm

Saw the movie. A pretty good popcorn movie - but have to warn you that there are some very disturbing sequences/images in the film.

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 3:17pm

It's rated PG-13, I think. I haven't heard any critics talk about the images. Are they just numb to it?

[TimeSquare3]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 3:21pm

With all the "end of the world" movies lately, I'm getting paranoid. Does anyone think that it's a little f*cked up to cash in on the end of the world?

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 3:23pm

Cash in, before you "cash out."

[scott68]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 3:33pm

It absolutely boggles my mind that Nicolas Cage is still (or was ever, really) capable of opening a big movie. I've just never met a single person who's ever found him the slightest bit appealing.

[Craig]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 3:35pm

I don't want to give any spoilers.. but there are at least 4 sequences which would concern me if I was bringing someone too young. It definitely pushes any PG-13 envelopes as far as content. And I'm not talking about sex or language.

In short - this movie would NEVER have been made or released just after 911.

As for the critics - maybe they don't want to spoil anything and don't know how to talk about the imagery without giving anything away.

It's definitely not the best movie. But it's intriguing and clever enough. And when it's all done, it does raise some interesting questions which are posed amongst the characters in the first 30 minutes of the film.

Besty - let me know if/when you see it and I'd love to have more of a discussion about it

[skb2010]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 5:03pm

I thought it was great. I went last night, and there were five year olds sitting behind my friends and me. They started crying at parts. I felt bad, but was really mad at the parents for bringing them to the movie.

[Biff AKA Levi]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 5:19pm

I saw bits of this the other night while I was working. Cage can't act his way out of a paper bag. The last scene with him and the kids was TERRIBLE. He should be shot for being so bad.

He's the worst actor in the history of acting.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 5:22pm

"but there are at least 4 sequences which would concern me if I was bringing someone too young."

Some parents brought a little girl who couldn't have been older than three or four to the showing of WATCHMEN I saw last night. I couldn't believe it. I half wanted to take her from them and go with her to a showing of that RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN movie.

It boggles my mind how parents (no matter how young they are...and they did look about my age) could be so clueless, dumb and selfish. If you want to see WATCHMEN that badly, hire a babysitter. If you can't afford one, wait until it comes out on DVD. Or, better yet, just buy the graphic novel and take your child to another movie.

[TimeSquare3]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 6:30pm

I went to see R rated movies when I was 5. I turned out fine.

[wicked_beast4]

Posted: 3/22/09 at 6:34pm

No child should be taken to R, even some PG-13, at 5 or any really young age. Why expose your children to those problems and horrible, disgusting, mature situations at such an innocent, young age?

[Biff AKA Levi]

Posted: 3/23/09 at 4:12am

There was an infant when my ex and I saw SAW 3.

Yes, an infant.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 3/23/09 at 9:19am

I don't know if I could see this movie. The trailer alone gets me creeped out and nervous (especially that image of the *SPOILER..?* subway car running off the tracks and crashing *END SPOILER*).

[skb2010]

Posted: 3/23/09 at 12:13pm

Yeah, it's creepy. but (I thought) the end was worth it.

[pushdabutton]

Posted: 3/23/09 at 11:33pm

I'm looking forward to seeing this movie. Does the story get very religious?

[skb2010]

Posted: 3/23/09 at 11:45pm

I would say kind of.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 3/24/09 at 12:10am

I can't wait to see this movie. I'm not a huge fan of Nicolas Cage, but I have enjoyed his work in the National Treasure movies so I'm looking forward to this one.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/24/09 at 7:39pm

Remember when popcorn cheese--even crap like DREAMSCAPE--were entertaining rather than bludgeoning? Exhilirating rather than exhausting? Fleet rather than morose?

[wonkit]

Posted: 3/24/09 at 10:25pm

Saw this today and I agree that some of the catastrophic event scenes were too realistic - even for me. Especially the first one.

That said, the movie was not at all what I expected -thought it would be intriguing and clever - with an interesting outcome. I found it to be an obvious plot with no appealing characters and the end was a cop out. My husband slept through the last 25 minutes.