How has no one mentioned Cage's performance in Matchstick Men? That was a great movie. And to Nick V. and others who are pretending Cage has not become a paycheck actor, I hope you're right, but frankly I doubt it. No one's denying his talent, but his recent choices have been clearly focused on money more than content in my opinion. Maybe I'm wrong though and he just likes big blockbusters that depend far more on special effects than plot. The take home here is that we want our H.I. McDunnough back!

HI there everyone i knwo theres so many other reviews out there for this movie and yeah no one will pobably ever read mine but we just went and saw this movie.
Yeah there is some stunning visual effects such as the plane crash that blow youu away but did anyone else feel pissed when it turned out to be aliens?
I mean who do they get to research their films?
They couldndt even refrence to the bible correctly!
1 corinthians 12 has nothing to do with PROPHETS, WHAT A LOAD!
And WHY aliens? COme on they could of made it better then that crap!
ITs funny there never seems to be many good movies untill the mid time of year and end of year.
Cant wait to see the delayed Star Trek and Terminator
You can allways tell if a movies good by the amount of people who try and copy it to download etc,
Nick cage was ok in acting but yeah they aliens jsut ruined the movie for me
Sorry guys
Cheers
Steve

What's so wrong with just going to a big dumb movie for the fun of it and to be entertained? What the large majority of movie goers actually enjoy and critics usually hate.. Sci fi's always a winner and by it's nature there's always a fair bit of suspension of disbelief required. Seriously does anyone go to these films to watch Actors acting? People deserve a bit of escapism at the moment.
Re Nic Cage. If he was a company I'd like to own shares! Always entertaining, the guy can act and since when did being in box office hits become such a "sin" for critics in the film business. After all "it's just a movie". People involved in the movie business and critics especially take themselves and films generally way too seriously. Make a movie, tell an interesting story and make it entertaining. There's room for all different kinds of films for all tastes and maybe films should be judged by how successful the film makers are in meeting their intentions rather than the amount of money they make. This usually seems to form a judgement of value somehow? Crazy. I guess that's why it's called the film business..

What does everyone think of Nicolas Cage in "Bringing Out the Dead" ??

Midlife crisis has hit and his career, most likely, is on the downslope. He's probably thinking that he should get in one as many money makers as possible, despite the quality (i.e. the aquamans), and fill his treasure chests before opportunities run out. Sad, but I can't say I wouldn't do the same. Hopefully he makes enough money from these cows that he will start mixing it up with some more challenging performances.

The Watchmen and Knowing I fell asleep through the first half hour. I wish I could have formed an opinion about either movie.

I Love You, Man was hilarious, but maybe its fault was that people thought it was just another JA like film? I just watched Raising Arizona the other night, and I realized that Cage is pretty much the exact same actor, just with worse scripts! It's a shame I Love You, Man didn't get first, but maybe people just have an innate love for crap this year? We're in a shitty economy and movies are easy entertainment, especially if they make things so bad that we feel good about our lives...Anyways, as bad as Cage's recent films have been, the Wicker Man is so bad it's fucking hilarious! Funniest awful movie I have ever seen that had no intention of being funny.

For the life of me, I cannot understand why "Knowing" has received such scorn from critics at large. I think it's intellectually stimulating and grip-the-arms-of-your-chair suspenseful. And while Nicolas Cage has churned out his share of howlers in recent years, by no means has his talent diminished. I'd like to use this opportunity to commend one of his most criminally underrated films/performances: "The Weather Man" (NOT to be confused with the admittedly disastrous "Wicker Man"). And "The Weather Man" was released four short years ago. With cage, the good is so good that I'll take it with the bad. That's the risk a truly daring actor takes.

I've seen Watchmen, Duplicity, and Knowing within the last week. Watchmen left me high and dry, with gratuitous violence/gore which detracted from the semi-plot of the movie and the eventual villain which was about as transparent as a pane of glass. Duplicity, while I enjoyed it, was extremely confusing if you weren't focused in on everything. If you wondered why the poor return from the box office, all you had to do was listen to the comments of the people leaving theater. Word of mouth is the greatest advertisement for a movie, so don't expect Duplicity to pick up in the ratings. Knowing was a bit mind numbing, but I don't go to the movies to be enlightened. It's pure and simple entertainment - which is why 90% of the public goes to movies. I don't discount there are movies that are great testaments to heroic deeds of individuals or groups of people, but if you read the movie's synopsis prior to going, don't feign that you were 'surprised' by the lack of depth - for crying out loud, it's Hollywood - not the New Testament.

This weekend like almost all the weekends so far, nobody is a winner. It has been week after week of dreck. Most people have been wisely avoiding the theater because of it. The only exception has been "Watchmen". Which my explain why it has been the biggest grossing movie so far this year.