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RStar
03-22-2009, 03:34 PM
All I can say is WOW!
Knowing is one heck of an action/disaster flick. It is quite graphic, and the end is a bit questionable but I liked it.
I give it 4 out of 5 tikis!
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innerSpaceman
03-22-2009, 04:03 PM
I guess I'll know all about knowing once I know it's available via Netflix, since I was just thinking as I watch my latest queue delivery how i NEVER get to the movies anymore.
It was ok. We saw it at the drive-in since it seemed to be the appropriate level of bad that can be fun when seen that way.
It was bad. But it thought it was being bad in pursuit of something very deep. The two catastrophe set pieces are well over the top but the emphasis on people running around screaming on fire was a bit annoying.
The ending makes sense in that you know what is happening but doesn't make sense in that there is no logical reason for what is happening to be happening.
I give it 1.5 tikis. Go see it if you love Nic Cage despite his recent obsession with schlocky sci-fi, if you want to see a really bad lecture on what "determinism" means vis a vis "randomness", if you love montages of newspaper headlines, or if you can't get enough of explicit yet still thoroughly unreal airplane crashes.
SzczerbiakManiac
03-22-2009, 07:11 PM
A drive in?!? Those still exist? I haven't even seen one in at least 20 years and it's been 30 since I saw a movie in one. wow
There are two drive-ins open in the Bay Area and a third in Sacramento (all now owned but these people (http://www.westwinddriveins.com/)). We usually go once or twice a year.
You have at least one down your way (assuming you're in the LA area), in Glendale.
SzczerbiakManiac
03-22-2009, 08:42 PM
That Glendale is in Arizona. I see there's one in Goleta, but that's about 100 miles from were I live. Good to know the option is there though, thanks!
I thought I remembered people talking about going to a Drive-In up Glendale way last year and when I saw it on the list I assumed that was it.
But some quick searching suggests there is an active drive-in in City of Industry.
Cadaverous Pallor
03-23-2009, 07:54 AM
He's right! (http://www.movietickets.com/house_detail.asp?house_id=2779)
It's a ways for me to drive for a movie but perhaps this would be worth a swanking sometime.
flippyshark
03-23-2009, 08:05 AM
For us Floridians, there is a very nice Drive-In about 40 minutes away in Lakeland. (The Silver Moon) I go there two or three times a year, because admission is cheap ($4 a person), you get a double feature, and the snacks are also very reasonably priced. On the downside, there are mosquitos in summer, the sound is delivered over tinny speakers or one's own car radio (this isn't so bad, really) and the theater is located right next to a train track, so sometimes, a big honking locomotive interrupts the movie.
As far as Knowing - well, I just can't watch Nicholas Cage anymore, in anything. His every utterance is rendered hilarious by my memories of hearing him shout, "Not the bees! Not the beees!"
RStar
03-25-2009, 01:09 PM
It was ok. We saw it at the drive-in since it seemed to be the appropriate level of bad that can be fun when seen that way.
It was bad. But it thought it was being bad in pursuit of something very deep. The two catastrophe set pieces are well over the top but the emphasis on people running around screaming on fire was a bit annoying.
The ending makes sense in that you know what is happening but doesn't make sense in that there is no logical reason for what is happening to be happening.
I give it 1.5 tikis. Go see it if you love Nic Cage despite his recent obsession with schlocky sci-fi, if you want to see a really bad lecture on what "determinism" means vis a vis "randomness", if you love montages of newspaper headlines, or if you can't get enough of explicit yet still thoroughly unreal airplane crashes.
If you WANT to SEE a movie, a drive-in is the worst place to go. Perhaps if you went to a good theater you would have liked it better? Just a thought. And yes, the people on fire part was a bit much. And I kept thinking, why did Nick Cage get there so much faster than all of the emergancy people that were on the sceen?
I like Nick Cage, so that did help. Yes, the ending was trying too hard to be extra deep. But it was a disaster movie in my mind, and it was a good one for me. I never take them too seriously in the first place.
No, I think I liked it better because I saw it at a drive-in. Heck, the drive-in almost made The Brothers Grimm worthwhile.
It's ok if we disagree on it. I'm not saying you're wrong for liking it. Rather, you're wrong for disagreeing with me.
RStar
03-25-2009, 04:44 PM
Rather, you're wrong for disagreeing with me.
That's ok. You're a critic, it's natural.
(Insert smilie here)
I had a pretty un-fun time the last time I went to a drive in. People left their headlights on, driving in and out all through the movie, leaving their foot on the brakes while sitting in front of me, talking loud while walking by, etc. I vowed to never go to another one again, unless I wanted to go to experience the drive-in rather than enjoy a movie.
blueerica
03-25-2009, 06:59 PM
We have a drive-in about a block away from our apartment.
I have yet to see a flick there.
Deebs
03-25-2009, 07:22 PM
I have not seen Knowing, I should say from the outset.
The last movie I saw at the drive-in was that black & white Prince movie... I can't remember what it was called. I also remember seeing Star Wars at the Burlingame drive-in, bundled in a sleeping bag in the back of my mom's orange & white Pacer.
I'm glad everyone is calling it the drive-in; I had a heated debate once with someone who insisted the correct name is motor-movies.
Under the Cherry Moon! Thank you, Google.
flippyshark
03-26-2009, 12:37 PM
Motor-movies?! Wow, I've got no less than three different coffee table books about drive-in theaters, and I don't recall that showing up in any of them.
My favorite synonym for the drive-in - Passion Pit!
Moonliner
03-26-2009, 01:19 PM
I'm glad everyone is calling it the drive-in; I had a heated debate once with someone who insisted the correct name is motor-movies.
Was the "someone" in question British by any chance or from Hayward, CA (http://www.drive-ins.com/theater/catmot8)?
Deebs
03-29-2009, 09:43 PM
Was the "someone" in question British by any chance or from Hayward, CA (http://www.drive-ins.com/theater/catmot8)?
Neither, but that is really interesting. Thanks to you, I found it. (http://www.drive-ins.com/theater/catstoc) And it sure was called the Motor Movies. :blush:
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