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		<title>Ray Stunned By KNOWING!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray DeRousse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have studied the Bible, the Qur'an, and even bits and pieces of the Book of Mormon. All major religions have some sort of belief in apocalyptic events that will end the world as we know it. In light of that background, it's been interesting to see how horrific spectacles like the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America have influenced the arts, and in particular, movies.

Since 2001, we have seen a rush of films that have played on the fears that such beliefs and events conjure in our psyche. We can't just have a movie that features a villain ... now the villain is Armageddon, or an unstoppable force ready to destroy mankind. It's as if the stakes need to be raised to the greatest degree in order to have any impact anymore; we've already seen monumental and cataclysmic nightmares play out on our television screens, so anything at the movies needs to be even larger and more terrifying.

Even though we've recently had several years of Hollywood-sized, Earth-threatening disaster movies at the multiplexes, I would venture that none of them can compare to the pure nerve of the new Alex Proyas film Knowing.



Jeffrey Wells over at Hollywood Elsewhere correctly called it ...]]></description>
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		<title>Just as he did for DARK CITY, Roger Ebert geeks out over KNOWING!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just over ten years ago, heads in the critics circle were turned when the great Roger Ebert proclaimed the so-so reviewed science fiction movie DARK CITY from director Alex Proyas as being the best film of 1998. 

He was pretty much the only critic in the universe who lauded the film with high grandeur, saying "it stirred my imagination like ``Metropolis'' and ``2001: A Space Odyssey.'' and "that it was a triumph of art direction, set design, cinematography, special effects--and imagination".



He would again review the film in 2005 as part of his "Great Movies" series and after so much time had past, he had the same reaction to the film which had pretty much by then fallen into geek obscurity.
I believe more than ever that "Dark City" is one of the great modern films. It preceded "The Matrix" by a year (both films used a few of the same sets in Australia), and on a smaller budget, with special effects that owe as much to imagination as to technology, did what "The Matrix" wanted to do, earlier and with more feeling.
Ebert would record not ONE but TWO audio commentaries for the film's dvd release (both are a delight to listen to, if nothing ...]]></description>
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		<title>KNOWING poster certainly knows WAR OF THE WORLDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still carrying the worst tagline in movie history...
"What happens when the numbers run out?"
which I can still hear in a monotone Nicolas Cage line reading from the trailer, is the first official poster for KNOWING, next March's disaster epic which reminds me of Steven Spielberg's WAR OF THE WORLDS poster.



Not a complete rip-off but you will admit that similarities do exist?



Really disliked the trailer and I feel like I've seen enough of these cryptic, end of the world conspiracy theory movies. Putting Nicolas Cage's character from NATIONAL TREASURE into the sci-fi/disaster environment doesn't excite me one smidgen.

But the attachment of director Alex Proyas (DARK CITY, I, ROBOT) gives me hope. I once called him the only saviour of sci-fi in modern day filming (that was during James Cameron's break from movie making), lets hope that statement carries some vindication.

source - aicn

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		<title>What happens when good sci-fi directors work with Nicolas Cage&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would appear that not even good directors are not immune to the Nicolas Cage infection of studio hackery. The great sci-fi director Alex Proyas (Dark City, I, Robot) looks to have churned in his most banal and redundant effort to date, with Cage once again giving us a one-note performance with his monotone voice.

It's pretty clear that without the likeable Will Smith covering up any problems with his last sci-fi effort, Proyas is not going to have the same kind of luxury here.

This is what I said back in March when I briefly talked about the film...
For my money there isn’t a more boring lead actor on the planet right now than Nicolas Cage and his inability to get through expedition dialogue without making you fall asleep has always been his big hindrance in this genre.
Now you watch this trailer below and you tell me if that statement is not 100% true. His voice can't see him through plot dialogue, why do the trailers for his films always sound like spoofs?

National Treasure meets The Number 23? What a horrible thought.
"What happens when the numbers run out?"
Has their been a more boring and pathetic end trailer tease this year?
This movie ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rose Byrne joins Nicolas Cage in his NATIONAL TREASURE/NEXT hybrid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Proyas' next movie - the sci-fi thriller Knowing which see's Nicolas Cage star in a role that is an exact blending of his parts in both last year's National Treasure 2 and Next, has found a female lead.

The Hollywood Reporter say 27 year old Australian actress Rose Byrne who had a good 12 months with her solid performances in 28 Weeks Later and Sunshine has been cast, with filming set to begin at the end of the month.


Byrne will play the daughter of a woman who buried a 1962 time capsule bearing the dates of the assassinations of historical figures, the hotel fire death of the wife of a professor (Cage) and an imminent world apocalypse. After the professor discovers its contents and alerts her, the initially skeptical Byrne begins remembering strange incidents from her childhood.
For my money there isn't a more boring lead actor on the planet right now than Nicolas Cage and his inability to get through expedition dialogue without making you fall asleep has always been his big hindrance in this genre. The script which has gone through more re-writes than bad Cage performances (which is never a good sign for this type of movie) has ...]]></description>
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