Knowing - The movie

[mrs_hower726]

DH and I agree with everybody else with the ending. It was too sci-fi for my blood.

 

[mumom95]

I really liked this movie up until the alien encounter at the end. I was hoping there was a way to avoid the disaster.

I agree, good movie until the end.

My dh also mentioned the angel theory that someone else posted, because the people looked like they had wings, then the boy and girl were in a place like the Garden of Eden at the very end. He thinks maybe it's supposed to illustrate more of a biblical end to the world as we know it versus an alien end to the world.

 

[phamton]

IMO, I thought the Garden of Eden at the end was to represent how aliens have started every new world (including Earth). Now they have transplanted a new Adam and Eve unto a safe new world to begin life again just as they did for earth thousands of years ago.

That concept has been around for awhile that humans were placed here on Earth by aliens from another planet (thus no missing link.) This was touched on in Carl Sagan's book "Contact." There are even a few religions that teach that we are a product of human genes mixed with aliens.

Just a disclaimer: These are not my personal beliefs.

 

[alizesmom]

I actually am leaning toward the angel theory mostly because I want to. The angels didn't need the ships but the children did.

 

[PatsGirl]

I thought the movie was just okay but it was a great "entry level" movie for my DD12 who refuses to watch anything remotely scary. At one point, she was going to leave the room for fear of nightmares but decided to stay (with only one eye open). I figured out pretty quickly that these were good angels/aliens and thought it was a nice way to transition her from PG to PG13 movies.

FWIW, a spoiler in the THREAT TITLE is common courtesy. Sorry that the film was ruined for PP

 

[ead79]

I agree with the others posters--it was a good movie until the end. I just thought the end was cheesy and odd.

 

[hulagirl87]

I just finished this movie, got it from netflix. Honestly, it scared me! It doesn't show it from the trailer, but I was watching it by myself and really freaked out by it! I never would have anticipated the alien/angel thing or the fact that the world came to an end. And the accident scenes were disturbing. The plane crash and the subway crash. Makes me never want to leave my house

 

[IDoDis]

I thought the movie's plot was somewhat similar to the movie "Signs."

 

[DWGal210]

I thought it was OK - the part that started to lose me was at the beginning, when Mr. Cage placed his boozy beverage on the paper and in the condensation ring, it circled the "9/11/01...." information.

But I was also disappointed at the ending - I guess I wanted a "nice moving ending" and didn't get it, oh well.

 

[Belle2667]

Here's something interesting, I had a conversation with a teenager the other day about this movie and the group she was with saw the creatures as angels and not aliens. I don't remember the movie that well, as I saw it right when it came out, but could the perception of the beings be influenced by your own beliefs?

She was certain she saw angels, and I certainly remember seeing aliens and thinking it would have been more interesting if it had been angels!

My DS18 saw the movie when it was in theaters and loved it! He counted down the days until it came out on video and bought it as soon as it came out.

He, too, thought the aliens were angels. I was hoping it would be angels at the end, but was disappointed with the aliens. I do, however, believe that if God could put us here, he could put aliens on other planets, too, so the whole thing wasn't totally off-base for me.

 

[BellvilleDad]

Judging by the size of the spacecraft in the end, how would it hurt to allow the Father (Nick Cage) to come along with them to safety? It's not like there appeared to be a shortage of room on board.

I agree with this. Since he couldn't hear the alien "telepathy", he was disqualified? Maybe, for some reason, only children could go? There were many ships leaving the planet after the kids were dropped off. And were they just left on this planet to fend for themselves?

I like sci-fi, but there were still too many questions left.

ETA: The plane crash alone was worth the cost of the rental!

 

[Feralpeg]

I saw this movie in the theater. I really liked it. I even liked the ending. I also lean more toward the angel idea. The children arriving in pairs on the planet and running toward the big tree really gave me the Adam and Eve vibe. Of course, I'm a huge Nicholas Cage fan. He did not disappoint.

 

[rigs32]

I was happy that there WASN'T a happy movie ending for once.

As for spoilers, many browsers show you the first few sentances of the first post WITHOUT having to click anything. That is what happened to me with this post - I saw the entire first post without clicking the link.

 

[2bearsmom]

While the movie was not considered scary/thriller I found it scary! When you would see the alien/watcher out by the woods from the window I got creeped out. I would not let the dogs out after we watched that movie, especially since one of them always goes strait for the edge of the woods, I made my dh to do it. Then I would turn around and he'd just be starring at me, creeping me out!

 

[Teacher03]

I must be in the minority but I hated this movie! Beginning, middle, and end! My DH and DD felt the same. We saw it in the theater, but maybe I should rent it and give it another try.

 

[teacherforhi]

I didn't like it either. Especially since the aliens (or angels) apparently drove the little girl in the beginning to commit suicide because of the voices in her head, and yet didn't come to fetch the children for another 50 years. What was up with that? They know the exact date of the destruction of the Earth but chose to torture little children for jollies?

 

[Kickapoo Joie Juice]

You can file this under another KJJ "Hated It" movie.

I'm a big fan of sci fi, and the sci in this movie was ludicrous.

Here's why: Aliens who are so advanced they arrive in flying sparkly pincushions using a gravity-defying form of non-incendiary propulsion whisk some kids away using faster-than-light technology, and they can't manipulate the sun (which is simple nuclear fusion which converts hydrogen into helium) to aim the solar flare away from the earth or even put it out.


Yeaaaaahhhhh, suuuuuuuure.

oh, and the super advanced aliens had to haul *ss in a Mazda3 hatchback to get to the spaceship on time. Because that's where the rocks were.

Yeeaaaaahhhhh, suuuuuuurrre.

But it's ok because two bunnies and two kids get dumped on a weird alien planet. Evidently without any knowledge or information of the history of their birth planet, Earth. Which, by the way, got fried.

But that's ok because 8 year olds are so freakin' adept at world building.

Oh yeah, don't even get me started at how smart are the aliens to only talk to a little girl and tell her to hide the next 50 years worth of tragedies in a time capsule, rendering it completely useless and destroying both her life and the life of her daughter. Geez.

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

I really liked it and love the symbolism of the aliens/angels. You have to look closely ,but they purposely animate the "aliens" to have wings like angels. It definitely has a Contact feel about it. A sort of combo alien/higher power. I do wish the father could have gone with them sinceh e was the one who figured it out, but I guess it's kind of like Moses not being abel to enter the Promise Land. As the angels (as I think of them) said, "only those who hear the call can come."