I heard this was a fantastic flick, and quite possibly the best Cage movie since the mid 90s! Thanks, daggers, I'm excited about seeing this one.

Hm, I don't know. But Roger Ebert loved it.

Do I get free charter if it sucks?

I liked it quite a bit. I was glad to see Nicholas Cage in a movie I find good again. Of those two of his movies, I would prefer Dark City, but probably just because of the visual world building to the straight modern-day sci fi thriller.

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It was a bit more Hollywood than Dark City. The CGI - while technically amazing- was nightmarish and almost too much. But I think the solid SF story carried this movie. Kudos to the writers.

I think Nicolas Cage was in full on Wickerman mode. I was half expecting him to punch out women and be scared of bees in this flick. There were some things I liked and some I didn't, but I suppose the crappy cam version I saw didn't do it justice.

I read the synopsis of the script years ago and couldn't wait for it to be turned into a movie. Now that it's here I kinda don't care about it anymore. It does look like a solid movie, but not like anything special. I'll probably go watch it as I really like Dark City and there aren't too many good mainstream movies anymore.

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^That's how I would describe it - a good mainstream movie. But there are so few good ones in the SF genre these days that it made me very happy.

It's a little like "The Day the Earth Stood Still" for people who graduated from primary school.

I saw it tonight. Very, very good.

It has Nicolas Cage?

- 10 right off the bat. But will see it.

wow, blankfist, you too? I might actually see it then, since I'd pretty much written Cage off for good by now, but I'd very much like for him to redeem himself. Hope it's a "good mainstream movie" in a similar fashion Taken was.

Yeah, pretty much when I see Cage in a film these days, I tend to skip it, but he did a pretty awesome job in this one. He still has his Cage-isms, but they're not annoying in this movie. This is the movie he needed to do.

Also knowing it's a sci-fi going into it will make you appreciate it that much more, because the beginning of the movie makes it feel like it's setting up a M. Knight movie or possibly The Ring, and I think that switch in tone is the reason why people are writing bad reviews for this movie. It got 31% on rotten tomatoes. WTF?!

Nicolas Cage is one of the best actors of our generation, he proved that with Leaving Las Vegas, for me he doesn't need to do anything else. I think the point is, is he just doesn't give a fuck what he does, which I kinda think is cool

^Oh I disagree. He gives a great many fucks about what he does. He does the ones that he thinks will make the most money.

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I agree with Blankfist that the dislike by many people could be due to a mismatch of expectations.

It appears like a supernatural numerology movie for about 30 minutes. I was very happy that it wasn't - but I suppose if I liked that stuff and came in expecting it - and it turned into an SF movie I would be disappointed.

But I wasn't.

FYI all, my name is blankfist with a lowercase 'b'. It's not a proper noun, so no need to make it uppercase. So, remember that DagGErS!

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I fart in the general direction of your puerile text affectations. Do you make the dot on the "i" into a love heart as well?

I don't know. I saw it and overall thought it was an alright flick, but nothing to write home about.

The main things that dropped my rating of it were those that failed to provide an explanation. I'll try to be vague about it, but stop reading here if you haven't seen it yet.


If the story had stopped at the end of all humanity I might have liked it more, but the addition of the saviors made me ask a lot of questions like: Why? Why were they so interesting in being so helpful? Why did they choose just a select few? Why did they decide to choose who they chose? If they knew for 50 years that day was coming and they were so interested in helping, why not just spend those decades taking as many survivors as possible?

I know there are some answers that could be dreamed up to adequately answer those questions, but without the film providing any indication it's all just speculation. I think the difference in overall opinion of the flick varies greatly depending on your personal relationship with sci-fi. I'm also not an enormous fan of the notion that aliens are altogether the true God who drop us off on a planet for a million years until we're all about to die, then they take a few dozen to some other planet just to start it all over again for their continued amusement.