Director: Alex Proyas
Release Date: 20 March 2009 (USA)
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Plot: A teacher (Cage) opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.



Cast:
Nicolas Cage
Rose Byrne
Chandler Canterbury
Ben Mendelsohn

Trailer

IMDB

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Is it just me or does this look like Shyamalan minus Shyamalan? Not that that might be a bad thing, and I am waiting for a Proyas film to match Dark City, but I'm getting tired of watching the world getting destroyed.

Plus, I can't understand how Nicolas Cage still gets work.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/...ghlight=proyas

Ughh. Nicolas Cage again!? I'm so sick of him.

Simple for every bomb he has (Next, Bangkok Dangerous, Wicker Man) he has a commercial or critical hit (National Treasure 1&2, Adaptation, Matchstick Men)

Not a huge fan, but he does hit every now and then.

Searching for "Knowing" and "Know1ng" turned up nada.

Didn't try "Proyas" eh? You would've found it

Yeah, the search function isn't the best and you gotta try a couple different angles.

Looks like the Sixth Sense and Signs all rolled into one.

Never use DVD Talk's search engine, it's terrible. Use Google.

Of all the films you named, only "Adaptation" and "Matchstick Men" are one's he should be proud of. And "The Weather Man". All the others just plain suck and are embarrassing given what a good actor he can be.

Nic Cage

This guy.

As bad as a hefty portion of his (particularly recent) films have been, I can't recall ever thinking that a movie was made any worse by his presence.

The confusing thing is how, at this point, he isn't better able to navigate between the good scripts and the bad ones -- I don't think anyone would put forth that something like Next or Bangkok Dangerous would've been a masterpiece if only the casting were different.

Fanboy, do you use the same spell checker as Usainuk?

Didn't they already make this movie, called The Number 23?

Seriously though, I think I'm one of the few people who like Nic Cage and this looks interesting.

"I'm a LITTLE TIRED, and I'm a LITTLE WIRED!"

= J

Nic Cage is a good actor - he just has had some really shitty movies over the past 10 years. I doubt this will be any different.

It's the quotes. For some reason the search function sees " as part of the word. So if the title is "Knowing" it won't find it by typing in Knowing.

I'm up for anything by Proyas, but I'm still on the fence about Nic Cage in this.

I'm still waiting for Cage as Fu Manchu. Yeah, that.

Truth be told, I didn't know it was Alex Proyas until I had already created the thread.

I found out when doing the IMDB search.

Don't blame me! Blame the studio execs who wanted to make the movie "relevant" or whatever.

He's ugly. Some of his movies are okay though.

There you have it.

4 stars from Roger Ebert:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...IEWS/903189991

Ebert has such a hard-on for Proyas

I forgive him for I, Robot.

Yeah, I'd take his review with a grain of salt... I'll still be there tomorrow but my expectations are in check.

I haven't been a fan of Cage's recent movies -- I do plan on checking this out though.