Knowing Movie

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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Knowing

I’m defenitely going to go see Knowing when it comes out friday March 20, 2009. Probably not that day but next week. Tell me what you think of the preview?

I found a sneak peak clip of the movie and it’s train related. It’s the subway clip. It’s about a 1 min and 30 secs long. I thought it was very cool.

Here’s the subway clip: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2955608857/

Here’s all the other previews that go along with this movie, some of them are the same, some are different, but enjoy anyway: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448011/videogallery

After seeing these previews, I’m defenitely going to go see this movie.[8D]

What do other people think?

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I hesitate to go to main-stream media movies involving trains. The obivous errors and inconsistancies ruin the enjoyment of the movie for me.

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On the other hand, sometimes that’s the most fun part of watching the movie…[:)]

I think we did a thread some time back on movie bloopers and obvious inconsistencies as they involved trains.

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Not for my wife![:(!]

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Yes, we did. That was pretty amusing to read!

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I think I have seen a preview for this, I know I saw something with a train. Caught my attention fast, not sure if the rest of the movie intrigued me.

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I belong to a Science Fiction Club. Some of them go to SF movies with a notebook and record every technical and continuity error they see. Then they get together and argue about them. “2001, A Space Odyssey” got top honors. They spotted only one technical error. The first “Star Wars” had so many some people ran out of paper.

Jack

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Ok… Just out of curiosity, how do you spot technical errors in a Science FICTION movie?

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You think that’s bad, try going with the continuity factor with any long running Science Fiction series, ala Star Wars or Star Trek. But if you know what to look for it sounds like it could be interesting. I think many of us pick movies apart for the sake of discussion.

Although the previous post also brings up an interesting point.

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Am I the only one that sits back, suspends my disbelief, and gets entertained for 2 (give or take) hours? Films (and plays, and operas, and etc etc etc) aren’t graduate dissertations: They’re entertainment. Why not just enjoy them for what they are?

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I always count up the mistakes about railroading in movies. Some have quite a few. the moat accurate movie I saw was narrow Margin.

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Well said and AMEN!

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I’m guessing it’s not so much “technical errors” as it is continuity errors - the star holds his weapon in one hand, then in the very next camera shot (supposed time elapsed = zero) he’s got it in the other hand.

I have the “boxed set” of seasons one, two, and three of “Emergency.” Since the actual episodes, minus commercials, etc, are only about 40 minutes, it’s easy to sit through three in a row. It’s funny how the squad manages to travel down the same street at the same time, passing the same parked car, three episodes running.

A couple of years ago I found out why Roy always drove the squad - he was driving when they filmed the “stock” shots, so for the rest of the series, he always drove…

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Espiacially the ones with model railroading. If you ever watch them a car or wheel comes off the track and they keep the film of that and put it on TV. Prime example of that was when I was watching a commercial for The Greatest Hobby In The World for the IX Center in Ohio they had an HO Coal Train and one of the wheels of the coal cars were off the rails. I saw that right away when I saw the commercial.