indianasmith
Archeologist, Theologian, Elder Scrolls Addict, and a
B-Movie Kraken
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A good bad movie is like popcorn for the soul!
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« on: July 09, 2009, 04:27:48 PM » |
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I watched both of these the other night and really enjoyed each of them.
KNOWING is an honest-to-gosh end of the world movie. No launching a nuke at an asteroid at the last minute, or anything else, this is bend over, humanity, and kiss your butt goodbye! I really enjoyed this flim. The plot was fast-moving, the scares worked, and Nick Cage, as always, was brilliant. The plane crash right next to the freeway impressed me as much as any scene I've watched in a long time. And the sinister "whisper people" definitely made the film worth watching. If you don't mind a bit of a downer ending (Well, personally, I consider global annhilation a little depressing), this movie is definitely worth renting. The plotline? In 1949, an elementary school marked the dedication of a new building by burying a time capsule full of the children's pictures of what the future would look like. But one of them buried a page covered with columns of numbers. Fifty years later, when the capsule is opened, the envelopes are given out to modern students - and one of them is the son of astrophysicist Johnn Koestler, played by Cage. By pure chance, he notices one set of numbers - 9/11/01 2996 - that is, the date and casualty figures of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history. He correlates all the other numbers with other famous tragedies, including three that haven't happened yet . . . and then things start to get weird.
UNBORN (UNRATED) was a bizarre, strongly Jewish horror film about a disembodied spirit seeking access to our world through a teenage girl, whose twin brother had died in utero years ago. This movie features dogs with upside down heads, creepy little kids that stab people, and poltergeist like disturbances. I rather enjoyed it, some of the scenes were genuinely creepy. Gary Oldham falls a bit short as a Jewis rabbi, and of course the Christian priest was not only helpless before the evil entity, but acually got possessed by it, but still, it was better than most of the recent horror films I've watched.
My weeklong movie extravaganza is drawing to a close, but I have one more trip to Hasting's planned this evening, so watch for another post this weekend!
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