Knowing

[Toe Jam]

This movie comes out next weekend. Looks good. Of course, I'm a big fan of disaster epics.

Here's the synopsis from Yahoo! Movies:

n 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead.

Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler. But it is Caleb's father, professor John Koestler, who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years.

As John further unravels the document's chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional events -- the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve John and his son. When John's attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place.

With the reluctant help of Diana Wayland and Abby Wayland, the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased author of the prophecies, John's increasingly desperate efforts take him on a heart-pounding race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disaster -- and the ultimate sacrifice.

Anyone else going to catch this?

[Toe Jam]

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR126...ge&feature=pyv

[Mark The Homer]

Yeah, but can the mysterious girl predict snow in DC?

Probably not.

[Califan007]

A few years back Richard Kelly was supposed to be directing this, but ended up passing...I really liked the idea behind the plot. I just hope it's able to be pulled off...I don't have a whole lot of faith in Nic Cage movies anymore lol

[THEREALTOR1]

Looks ok, don't know if i'd spend the money to go see it in a theatre, but it might be cool. Not a big fan of Nicholas Cage. He starts to annoy me after awhile.

On a side note, I just watched the trailer on imdb, and the part that shows the plane crashing on the highway, I had a dream about 2 weeks ago of me on a bus, like a greyhound bus on this highway overpass like 200 ft. above a ravine, and a plane was coming at the bus just like in the movie. The bus driver jerked the wheel of the bus, and we went over the guardrail into the ravine. I watched the plane miss a school bus, which I thought was cool, but I watched it crash into the ground just before I woke up. I remember being very pissed off that I was stuck in this bus, knowing i'm about to die, after avoiding a plane crash. I kept thinking I know this is going to hurt, I don't want to die this way. It was a ****ty dream. I'd forgotten about it, but watching that trailer just reminded me.

[Toe Jam]

Looks ok, don't know if i'd spend the money to go see it in a theatre, but it might be cool. Not a big fan of Nicholas Cage. He starts to annoy me after awhile.

On a side note, I just watched the trailer on imdb, and the part that shows the plane crashing on the highway, I had a dream about 2 weeks ago of me on a bus, like a greyhound bus on this highway overpass like 200 ft. above a ravine, and a plane was coming at the bus just like in the movie. The bus driver jerked the wheel of the bus, and we went over the guardrail into the ravine. I watched the plane miss a school bus, which I thought was cool, but I watched it crash into the ground just before I woke up. I remember being very pissed off that I was stuck in this bus, knowing i'm about to die, after avoiding a plane crash. I kept thinking I know this is going to hurt, I don't want to die this way. It was a ****ty dream. I'd forgotten about it, but watching that trailer just reminded me.

Damn.

And here I am about to hop on a Greyhound later this week.

[THEREALTOR1]

Dont do it!!!

J/K

But it made me wonder if its possible to buy cyanide caplets, like spies supposedly used to carry. I think if I was in that situation, falling to my death, I would rather pop a pill and be done, rather than splatter all over the unfortunate soul sitting next to me.

EDIT: Of course i'm still gonna splatter all over that dude, but at least i'll be dead before that happens.

[Big Mac Patty Wack]

It looks really contrived. A set of numbers to predict the future. From an alien? And Nicholas Cage has to be one of Hollywood's worst. Ever notice he's in the crap movies.

[Califan007]

Dont do it!!!

J/K

But it made me wonder if its possible to buy cyanide caplets, like spies supposedly used to carry. I think if I was in that situation, falling to my death, I would rather pop a pill and be done, rather than splatter all over the unfortunate soul sitting next to me.

EDIT: Of course i'm still gonna splatter all over that dude, but at least i'll be dead before that happens.

I don't think you'd actually have the time or the presence of mind to pop those pills if you were falling to your death, though lol

[skinfan2k]

Definitely. I really lke Nicholas Cage!

[THEREALTOR1]

I don't think you'd actually have the time or the presence of mind to pop those pills if you were falling to your death, though lol

I wondered about that also (I'd probably put it in my fifth pocket, but sometimes it's hard to get stuff out of there ). I'd be screwed either way. I remember my abs were hurting when I woke up I was tensing up so bad. Ugh what a ****ty way to die.

[Califan007]

I wondered about that also (I'd probably put it in my fifth pocket, but sometimes it's hard to get stuff out of there ). I'd be screwed either way. I remember my abs were hurting when I woke up I was tensing up so bad. Ugh what a ****ty way to die.

You just gave me a thread idea lol...a morbid one, but one just the same.

[China]

"You don't know. You just don't know. You may think you know, but you don't know. And you never will."

- Jim Mora

[Califan007]

It looks really contrived. A set of numbers to predict the future. From an alien? And Nicholas Cage has to be one of Hollywood's worst. Ever notice he's in the crap movies.

The "alien"-ish part of the trailer was the only turn off for me (well, besides seeing Cage's deadpan, morose expression and vocal delivery lol)...the "whisper people" and the floating rocks and all that **** made me groan.

The idea of some kid 50 years ago being a Nostradamus and predicting future events leading up to the end of the world, and nobody realizing it until it's too late, is a good one for a movie.

[spjunkies]

I'm one of the final Cage fans so I'm definitely looking forward to this one.