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Intelligent Design? Hardly

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Brian A

In Reply to: RE: "Knowing:" entertaining ID propaganda. Someone must be behind the posted by tinear on March 27, 2009 at 19:29:04

I cannot imagine where you got that from. It actually implies God and the Angels are simply aliens.

I did enjoy the movie. I was fascinated by the numbers and couldn't wait to see what it all meant. And poof! The first 100 minutes of the movie were worthless, had no meaning. This is just about the biggest Hollywood plot hole I have ever seen. The aliens could have simply scooped up the kids. All the business about the tortured girl of 1959, the father's journey the last few days, all amounted to nothing and no effect on any thing. He should have chucked the note and have dinner with the double D's.

We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along

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Agreed (spoilers). - oscar 10:23:30 04/06/09 (0)
Special effects were excellent. THe ending was a bit hoakie for my tastes.

As far as plot holes, it might have been justified by the children actually having to agree to leave their parents, though even then, are the children in any position to make "informed" decisions ? Or, the aliens did not really want their presence known to a wider audience until the very end.

The bit about predictability of specific disasters (e.g. airplance/train crashes) had to have a supernatural connotation. Although the biggest disaster at the end might have been predicted by (Super) Science.

The "super flare" itself was a huge hole scientifically. If such a flare had occurred anytime within the past billion or two years ago, life would not exist on Earth today, at least not without massive "intelligent intervention". The geological record doesn't suggest hyperflares have ever occurred.

OTOH, this "superflare" could have been induced by "aliens"/"God"(?) as part of a plan to "reboot" the human race....
How about putting 'Spoiler Alert' in front of posts like this from now on. - Tony D. 18:25:53 03/30/09 (1)
Some of us have not seen 'Knowing' and it would be nice to have at least a few surprises when we do.

Thanks in advance.

J.B.
- That's why I stopped reading after the first sentence, - NuWave 11:20:11 03/31/09 (0)
  It looked like too much was being said, so i looked away and was only 'partially spoiled' :-) I'd like to see it also.
You must have slept through Cage's comments about how it - tinear 19:07:38 03/29/09 (0)
couldn't be random. I didn't hear any mention of God or angels, though I could have been idly waiting for the next thrilling Fx.
That, to me, is why the film is worth seeing: by far the best Fx I've ever seen. Bar none. Those guys on fire after the plane crash--- which was pretty friggin' unbelievable itself--- were absolutely realistic.
Definitely a large screen experience. I'd actually be more prone to see this one again than that "Watchmen" thing.
Depends on who you think the Intelligent Designer was...(nt) - mkuller 11:53:36 03/29/09 (0)
(nt)

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