I kind of liked Knowing, but I think Nick brought nothing original to the role. I can see some other stars doing that movie where it would be a lot more interesting and visceral than it was with him doing it.
Dark Water was almost completely forgettable, which is good in some cases.
Lost was nothing I could stomach for very long, sorry all you Lost fans out there.
For me, the ending to a movie or TV series is like the last bite of your meal. If you bite into cartilage or find a hair in it or something gross, it ruins the entire meal. Likewise with movies. Knowing killed me because it started out as a horror movie - creepy little kid doing creepy things, creepy scary scenes, and then...oh hey, everybody died. Because the aliens knew the sun was going to explode for 50 years but only saved like 10 people. It is the only movie I have ever publicly booed at. I turned around and booed the people who were clapping at the end :biggrin:
Dark Water, same thing. Stupid ending. If you're not going to give me a happy ending to a movie, at least give me a satisfying ending that I can make my peace with. Nope, deadsies. Stupid. Same with Lost - LOVED the first two seasons, but it just went into a repeating loop after that, and then finished in the dumbest way possible, even after the writers said they weren't dead or in purgatory. Garbage!
See, I don't mind it if a movie comes off as bad. Like going into something like Sharknado or Warehouse 13, you know what to expect, and you enjoy it because you're not expecting a gourmet meal, you're expecting fast food, and you get fast food. People loved Sharknado because it was advertised as campy, it
was campy, people came ready for campy, and people got campy. Boom. That's actually one of the reason I like M. Knight's "The Village" - they mis-advertised it as a horror movie, and people saw it and were disappointed, so by the time I got around to seeing it people told me it was more of a somewhat suspenseful movie, so I went in with different expectations and wasn't disappointed that it wasn't a crazy scary movie.