Apocalyptic Movie Reviews
by Donald E. Hester
on Mar 22
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Donald E. Hester
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Knowing & The Day the Earth Stood Still
So far this is my favorite. Knowing was a great movie - go and see it! Finally an apocalyptic movie that actually delivers. There is no last minute salvation, so to speak. I love the cinemagraphics in the movie. Planes crashing, train derailments, the earth going up in smoke and everything else is spectacular. Toward the end a number of scenes are very artistic. The one with Nicolas Cage laying on the rocks was dam near poetic!
If you are religious or not the movies conclusion leaves enough to interpretation that you will go away feeling it agrees with your point of view. It covers the Aztec destruction by fire that the world will supposedly happen soon. It uses the vision of Ezekiel in the Bible. And for the Atheists, it has aliens. Or are the aliens really angels? The chosen where take away like the Rapture. I mean this movie has it all, a new heavens and an new earth and maybe even a new tree of life.
With the 2012 close of the Aztec calendar I except a number of apocalyptic movies to come in the next few years.
I really think that we are lucky a super solar flare has not happened in the billions of years of our evolution otherwise we would not be here. One more factor in calculating the probability of evolution or creationism or other.
The one thing about this movie is it reminds me how precious and fragile our lives and planet are. More love less hate for we could all die very soon.
The Day the Earth Stood Still was a let down. The last minute save and hope. Blah, an apocalyptic film should be about the end not a 'near miss.' Keanu Reeves plays a great alien by the way. Mostly because he can't act like a normal person, so when he ask like an alien he really pulls it off. Great message about environmentalism.
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