You won’t “Know” what to expect
Nicolas’ Cage new movie, Knowing, is surprisingly good. The movie focuses on Cage’s character finding the truths to disasters through numbers. While the premise of the movie isn’t unique by any stretch of the means, it does weave a fairly good, unpretentious storyline. If you have seen Alex Proyas’ other directed movies, such as Dark City, you will know the tone of the movie. The movie is not inundated with non-hysterical one-liners, nor does it try to stand on star power alone. The story slowly unravels little by little in the movie which leads to a very surprising ending. The ending, I will warn, if not watched carefully, can be confusing. There is much dialog that needs the proper attention paid to it. To go with a well crafted storyline, prepare your mind to analyze many aspects of the movie, particularly the ending. This isn’t just an ordinary Scifi/Thriller/Action-Adventure. It’s philisophical, haunting, thought-provoking. I never thought I’d say that for a Nicolas Cage movie. On a scale of 1-10, I give it an 8.
My Five Predictions for the Final Episodes of Battlestar Galactica
With the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica upon us, here are my five predictions of what will happen:
1) Admiral Adama gets assassinated. By who else, the fifth Cylon, which is;
2) President Roslyn. Don’t put too much stock in this. I say this because when you think you know who it is, the character dies or shows you something that disproves them being a cylon. As close as Roslyn and Adama have been, one of the two has to be not who they say they are. Adama is the shining hope for the survivors.
3) Sharon Agathon is not as she appears to be. Her actions may seem pure, but her ability to smooth talk will have a purpose. What purpose? Conspiring to assassinate Admiral Adama.
4) The Cylon/Human war never ends and will lead into a final movie to tie up all the loose ends, much like Stargate SG-1.
5) Finally, more humans will be found. The writing isn’t as obvious at this point in the series, but we know the Cylons supposedly rid the planets of human life and the survivors are where the writers have us believe they are; however, it has never been mentioned that the entire galaxy has been searched. I’m probably stretching, but as a writer myself, the propensity to leave out, albeit as small detail like that, is intentional for a blockbuster ending.
There you have it. Like I said, it’s just conjecture. As a fan of the show, I can only hope it ends on a great note and out of the thousands of theories out there, don’t be surprised if mine don’t happen. We’ll find out soon enough. Happy viewing.