Knowing Trailer
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:36 pm
Kimberly's hooked on "end of the world" movies, so when we saw this trailer she got really excited. Long story short, some kids in 1959 put a whole bunch of crap in a time capsule; when they open it in 2009, one of the things is a list of numbers. Nick Cage takes the list home, and figures out that it lists, in order, the dates and casualties from every major catastrophe in the previous 50 years. So he looks at the next numbers in the list, and starts (apparently accurately) predicting disasters.
Of course, there's the obvious question in the trailer, "What happens when the numbers run out?" I predict that there's almost some apocalypse, but then everyone survives after all... even so, it looks like it should be worth watching once or twice.
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And speaking of counting and the end of the world, I was reading recently about the Mayan calendar, and how it "ends," and how a lot of people think that means it's the end of the world. Anyway, it turns out that it's just the digits rolling over, and the Mayans believed it had already happened 3 or 4 times... they just started over at year zero, and didn't think twice about it
Of course, there's the obvious question in the trailer, "What happens when the numbers run out?" I predict that there's almost some apocalypse, but then everyone survives after all... even so, it looks like it should be worth watching once or twice.
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And speaking of counting and the end of the world, I was reading recently about the Mayan calendar, and how it "ends," and how a lot of people think that means it's the end of the world. Anyway, it turns out that it's just the digits rolling over, and the Mayans believed it had already happened 3 or 4 times... they just started over at year zero, and didn't think twice about it
