When I first saw the previews for "Knowing", I was thinking "Jeez, not another Nicholas Cage nice guy hero movie!". I wasn't even planning on seeing it, but the wife brought it home and we wanted to watch a movie and there was nothing else to watch so we popped it in.
Little was I prepared for a very surprising movie, and the Jet Plane crash was an amazing effects sequence. It takes a lot for me to be "wowed" by special effects, but I literally said "holy $h1t!" a couple times as it was happening. I mean, it's not the effects that are really incredible, it's the realism and the fact that it was ONE CUT for the whole crash sequence!
One thing I have discovered while learning motion graphics and special effects the past few years, is that there is a huge difference in difficulty between a 1 second effect and a 10 second effect. It works just like the Richter scale. Most of the big special effects (explosions, fire, heavy action) that you see in the movies is heavily cut into easily manageable 1-2 second scenes. But when you have an entire scene full of explosions, people on fire, an entire CG plane ripping across the landscape and interacting with it, and it's 2 MINUTES LONG... that's a LOT of work!
This scene could of easily have been several 5-10 second cuts fit together, but it wouldn't have been 1/10th as impressive is it is. Kudos to the team that was able to put this together, enjoy:
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