While the movie shows a nice zoom of earth at night at first, it becomes ridiculously soon after. A small girl suggests to create a time capsule at her school and then seems to write numbers down like a remote controlled robot. No one cares. The teacher just collects the pictures from the other pupils and whatever. I bet if a girl behaves that psychotic even the laziest teacher would call the psychiatrists. Why did she want to bury her future prediction anyway?
*timewarp*
A physics professor at the MIT gives a seminar at elementary school level with some soft philosophical touch that everything may be deterministic. We don't have any power about what is going on or the universe is purely chaos and completely unpredictable. Of course there is no in between because he is so sad he lost his wife.
They dig the time capsule and the astrophysics professor completely loses it thinking that the girl predicted the future and wrote it down in a numerical code. That reminded me of the documentation about the believer who thought he can predict catastrophes with the Tora's text when reading the letters like a cross-word riddle and the professor showed him that given enough words you can find anything in Tom Sawyer if you search hard (with computers).
But it gets worse. Everything comes true which are just some events left on the list that fit conveniently into ~50 minutes of Hollywood catastrophe movie. It seems like the "plot" was just an excuse for the SpecialFX department to get to work. The effects are impressive, but the events are completely random. It then goes X-Files style with mysterious black men which later become aliens that pick some animals including chosen humans onto a new planet with many explicit allusions to the Christian bible.
The movie ends with some people looting in an apocalyptic setting, father/son reuniting and the sun burning everything down. So what? Aliens mind-controlled the bible writers and keep order in the universe including the fate of every human being? They may sound totally plausible to people thinking Yahweh created the world just for them, every word in an ancient story book is true and they have to pray all the time so he adjusts reality in their favor. For every clear minded individual this is just plain nonsense if not religious propaganda.
Please don't do movies like that. They are not enjoyable at all plus they are spreading pseudo-science and uneducated mysteries. If you hear voices in your head, please consult medical treatment. Aliens will not save you when earth is destroyed. Thank you.
*timewarp*
A physics professor at the MIT gives a seminar at elementary school level with some soft philosophical touch that everything may be deterministic. We don't have any power about what is going on or the universe is purely chaos and completely unpredictable. Of course there is no in between because he is so sad he lost his wife.
They dig the time capsule and the astrophysics professor completely loses it thinking that the girl predicted the future and wrote it down in a numerical code. That reminded me of the documentation about the believer who thought he can predict catastrophes with the Tora's text when reading the letters like a cross-word riddle and the professor showed him that given enough words you can find anything in Tom Sawyer if you search hard (with computers).
But it gets worse. Everything comes true which are just some events left on the list that fit conveniently into ~50 minutes of Hollywood catastrophe movie. It seems like the "plot" was just an excuse for the SpecialFX department to get to work. The effects are impressive, but the events are completely random. It then goes X-Files style with mysterious black men which later become aliens that pick some animals including chosen humans onto a new planet with many explicit allusions to the Christian bible.
The movie ends with some people looting in an apocalyptic setting, father/son reuniting and the sun burning everything down. So what? Aliens mind-controlled the bible writers and keep order in the universe including the fate of every human being? They may sound totally plausible to people thinking Yahweh created the world just for them, every word in an ancient story book is true and they have to pray all the time so he adjusts reality in their favor. For every clear minded individual this is just plain nonsense if not religious propaganda.
Please don't do movies like that. They are not enjoyable at all plus they are spreading pseudo-science and uneducated mysteries. If you hear voices in your head, please consult medical treatment. Aliens will not save you when earth is destroyed. Thank you.