fish wrote:Don't hold back there Bruno, tell us what you really think.
LOL, I will do it.
The plot is (from wikipedia, shortened): in 1959, at an Elementary School, a time capsule containing students' drawings of their ideas of the future is buried and set to be ceremoniously opened 50 years later. A girl named
Lucinda Embry contributes a page full of seemingly
random numbers although she is stopped before she completes the page. That night, she is found in a school closet, where she has scratched the remaining numbers on the door with her bare hands, and she has complained about hearing voices in her head.
In 2009, the time capsule is opened and a boy named
Caleb receives Lucinda's envelope. His father,
John Koestler [Nicoals Cage, ex young actor wonder], takes interest in the paper and soon realizes some of the digits represent the
dates and
death tolls of every major disaster over the past fifty years, and suggests three disasters still to come (but a friend scientist says he's nuts). Meanwhile Caleb begins receiving visits from mysterious figures in overcoats, "
The Strangers". During these encounters he hears their overlapping telepathic whispers - everyone understand from minute one the STRANGERS are aliens, I think, but let's go on.
John witnesses a commercial plane crash on the date that the paper had next predicted a disaster would occur, and he discovers that the unexplained digits on the paper are the
geographic coordinates of the events. He investigates..... He then meets Lucinda's daughter,
Diana, and together they go to investigate Lucinda's old remote mobile home.... further clues in Lucinda's home lead John and Diana to realize that the world is about to f***ing end because the mother of all solar flares is coming!..... It is revealed that Diana's daughter
Abby can hear the Strangers' eerie whispers as well.
John decides to find a refuge from the impending disaster.... in panic they separate and Diana dies in a car crash (Lucinda foretold that many years before, to Diana obsession, yes Lucinda was a nice mom, huh?)
John with the children encounters the Strangers as a glowing vessel descends from the sky. The Strangers invite only those who can hear their whispers to leave Earth with them (Caleb and Abby). John convinces Caleb to go with them, then he travels to Boston to be with his sister and parents. John reconciles with his estranged father, the solar flare strikes Earth, vaporizing the ozone layer and (finally!!) incinerating all life on the planet. Elsewhere, Caleb and Abby are dropped off in an otherworld.
So, why the f. the aliens go on 50 years whispering in the ears of people? and making them write strings of numbers? and generally playing silly games with humanity? If they want to save somenone, can't they just pick them up and go without waiting the last day? What the scope of Koestler investigation if he can't do nothing about the solar flare? Why all the strange and terrible mistery,
when you see the disaster announced on TV (!!) beforehand and everyone scavenging for food and running to useless shelters? To sum all together, why the film is such a **** ??
