Movie Review Of The Month
Sunday, September 13, 2009 9:24:23 PM
I think it's funny that we use the word "movie" these days. Movies were before Talkies, so why don't we use "Talkies"? Anyway, film, movie, talkie, whatever you wanna call it, it's a moving picture with words. We watch, sometimes to learn, but mostly to escape into fiction.
I don't see movies on or near release day. I see them when we make it to the DVD rental place, and I can be bothered to watch. It's a good thing.
September's Movie:
What's it called? Knowing.

Who's in it? Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, other people.
What's it about? A time capsule is unearthed from a school, whose students, years ago, had put pictures they'd drawn into it. One drawing is not a drawing at all - just a series of seemingly random numbers scrawled hurriedly by one of the pupils. John Koestler's (Nick Cage's) son recieves the paper with all the numbers on, and John discovers that the numbers turn out not to be random at all, but accurate predictions of events throughout the fifty years passed, and also the future...
What's good about it? The first three-quarters of the film. Suspense, creepiness, mystery and big-budget kaboom mix well to be very entertaining. The plot seems to progress so very well, but...
What's wrong with it? ...the ending sucks. Total cop-out, idiotic, stupid ending. It ruins the entire movie. Had me shouting at the television screen in anger for wasting my interest on a film just to have it end so moronically. I'll put it this way - if they had to go along the same "route of thinking" for the end, I've got one that's better - the thing at the very end should've been used to avert the disaster, for sacrifice. It would have been just a little less idiotic.
So, should I see it? I wouldn't recommend it. I give it 1/5, because the ending ruins the whole thing.
I don't see movies on or near release day. I see them when we make it to the DVD rental place, and I can be bothered to watch. It's a good thing.
September's Movie:
What's it called? Knowing.

Who's in it? Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, other people.
What's it about? A time capsule is unearthed from a school, whose students, years ago, had put pictures they'd drawn into it. One drawing is not a drawing at all - just a series of seemingly random numbers scrawled hurriedly by one of the pupils. John Koestler's (Nick Cage's) son recieves the paper with all the numbers on, and John discovers that the numbers turn out not to be random at all, but accurate predictions of events throughout the fifty years passed, and also the future...
What's good about it? The first three-quarters of the film. Suspense, creepiness, mystery and big-budget kaboom mix well to be very entertaining. The plot seems to progress so very well, but...
What's wrong with it? ...the ending sucks. Total cop-out, idiotic, stupid ending. It ruins the entire movie. Had me shouting at the television screen in anger for wasting my interest on a film just to have it end so moronically. I'll put it this way - if they had to go along the same "route of thinking" for the end, I've got one that's better - the thing at the very end should've been used to avert the disaster, for sacrifice. It would have been just a little less idiotic.
So, should I see it? I wouldn't recommend it. I give it 1/5, because the ending ruins the whole thing.








MarikeMarike79 # Sunday, September 13, 2009 9:42:03 PM
Dacotah # Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:51:15 PM
Good post Kimmie.
Flamingo Rinseflamingo-rinse # Monday, September 14, 2009 12:52:30 AM
Dark FurieFurie # Monday, September 14, 2009 2:11:14 AM
Flamingo Rinseflamingo-rinse # Monday, September 14, 2009 2:25:46 AM
Having said that, I'll probably see it anyway...and the ending won't be spoiled now because I'm looking forward to hooting loudly with derision and hilariously speculating, for a good 30 minutes, on ridiculously over-stretched other possible endings
Gavin Tripp-Sheedygarlingmatthews # Monday, September 14, 2009 8:32:15 AM
Spaggyj # Monday, September 14, 2009 8:37:52 AM
Carol - Yeah, the trailers are good, the film is really good itself until the ending, that ruins it
Nick, Gavin - Hmmm, you know, I don't know if the ending was written that way originally or not. Methinks it's time I visit Wiki and find out
Spaggyj # Monday, September 14, 2009 9:04:03 AM
r♡serose-marie # Monday, September 14, 2009 11:04:56 AM
Cleanclean # Monday, September 14, 2009 11:16:24 AM
Spaggyj # Monday, September 14, 2009 11:48:22 AM
KittyliciousZaphira # Monday, September 14, 2009 1:53:33 PM
However, it's even worse when they manage to ruin a pretty good film with giving it a crappy ending. I saw it in "Perfume" and in ... umm... *thinks* the Jodie Foster one on a plane... *grumbles* "Flightplan", I think.
Spaggyj # Monday, September 14, 2009 1:57:23 PM
Dacotah # Monday, September 14, 2009 2:08:52 PM
I'd curse at the screen too.
Darkogdare # Monday, September 14, 2009 5:01:53 PM
Flamingo Rinseflamingo-rinse # Monday, September 14, 2009 9:01:39 PM
Mad Scientistqlue # Monday, September 14, 2009 10:22:46 PM
of course, I also enjoyed "Falling Down", "Grand Canyon"(all four hours of it), "Smoke" and "Twelve Monkeys".
Which just proves that I'm an
Flamingo Rinseflamingo-rinse # Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:33:37 AM
Dark FurieFurie # Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:56:35 AM
Flamingo Rinseflamingo-rinse # Tuesday, September 15, 2009 3:04:46 AM
Darkogdare # Tuesday, September 15, 2009 5:20:14 AM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245562/
Dark FurieFurie # Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:35:31 AM
Mad Scientistqlue # Tuesday, September 15, 2009 5:04:12 PM
They're merely examples of the kind of movies I enjoy.
Skop, skiet en Donder movies generally don't impress me.
Dark FurieFurie # Tuesday, September 15, 2009 6:25:16 PM
MarikeMarike79 # Tuesday, September 15, 2009 7:02:41 PM
MarikeMarike79 # Tuesday, September 15, 2009 7:07:14 PM
Mad Scientistqlue # Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:39:46 AM
Perhaps 'salivate' would be a more fitting expression of that particular concept.
Gavin Tripp-Sheedygarlingmatthews # Wednesday, September 16, 2009 8:30:58 AM
theoddbod # Wednesday, October 7, 2009 6:00:36 PM
This film sounds like someone needs a slap