Knowing what I know now about ‘Knowing’

Knowing what I know now about “Knowing”, I would have known to go into it better prepared for the whoooopash! whiplash curve ball of aliens being in the plot.

Where the #@$!@ did that come from?

I thought we were watching some freaky, creepy, numerology thing.  And I have to tell you, you had me hooked Mr. Cage.  Very cagey of you.  I was into it.  And I was freaked out.

Anytime some dude just stands there in the woods and he kind of looks like David Bowie and/but he has a clean black suit/outfit on and there’s fog and especially because he doesn’t speak or make any sounds, I’m a freakazoid.  I’m a superfreak.  Superfreak.  Superfreakahhhhhhh.

But then ya’ll went all crazy and went the aliens route?  What the $@!% just happened?

I thought I was watching some type of pyschic, number crunching thriller, and then you bring in the aliens?  Come on man.

I’m all about science fiction.  I love a good sci-fi.  BattleStar Gallacticarattattack at ya!  But this just had too much of it in the soup.  And I would have appreciated a little more lead-in to the whole sun thing.  Maybe it was in there and I didn’t catch on it.  I heard the parts of the newsbroadcast talking about solar flares and such.

But here’s my main problem with the movie: aliens in nice dark suits are feeding the whispering coordinates and numbers to people who will listen.  That’s not my main problem with it.  This is my main problem with it.

They feed these numbers and coordinates in the 1950s for future events.  So the aliens can see into the future?  So far into the future that they can see the end of it all?

Now let’s assume within the movie that the aliens have the technology to measure the impending sun flare devastation.  Fine.  Good with that.  But what about all the other disasters that happen?

A fellow viewer to the movie said, well its the ‘ole time-space continuum.  The aliens must have been able to travel through time.  Aw man.  I’ll give them that.  Because they got bigger spaceships than we do.  But it was never brought up, or even suggested in the movie.  So as a viewer, I have to go through many assumptions and thinking to get where I can allow the aliens a chance to do what they are doing.

Secondly, I always like realistic items in movies.  I like plausible events.  So in a movie like this, I am glad to see that no one was able to fly a ship out into space and nudge the Earth out of the way of the solar flare or something preposterous like that.

However, with an ending like this in “Knowing”, I am incredible depressed.  On the one hand, I want it to be plausible.  I don’t want a Macintosh laptop to deliver a virus into the Mothership.  But at the same time, when they deliver the plausible ending within the structured story, and the whole mother@!#@$ Earth burns, and they show the god @#@!# thing. . . I have trouble settling down after a long day’s work on the data farm and getting to sleep then.  I’m supposed to escape within the movie not be traumatized by it.

All in a all, a good film.  One I’d watch again.   I wouldn’t pay for it again (it was an on-demand thing at Grandma’s).  So I guess I should say, I wouldn’t make Grandma pay for it again.  But it is a cable rerun worth viewing.

But watch it early in the night.  Its too upsetting for before bed viewing.