Comments on: Marc Oromaner’s Lost In Myth: Does “Knowing” Know Something We Don’t Know About LOST?

By: ilovecress

ilovecress — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:43:30 +0000

Except Cloverfield was written by one of the Lost writers, and produced by JJ Abrams.

By: Benmanben

Benmanben — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:52:51 +0000

Can you not see the burning similarities!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Honestly, a plane crash, numbers predicting the end of the world, and mysterious whispers a definitly done purposfully!

By: Benmanben

Benmanben — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:48:59 +0000

30 ROCK

I first noticed it when they kept mentioning the movie “Some Like it Hot” about a week after the episode of LOST “Some like it Hoth” aired. Then I was really suspicious of the missing runaway father story. The Kidney story just solidified it all…

Are they trying to give us clues through other shows????????

By: Jack Daniels

Jack Daniels — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:43:15 +0000

Perhaps the 9/11 terrorists had watched movies such as Armageddon, Godzilla etc. and decided that since Hollywood were obsessed with creating films that depicted major American cities being levelled they would use that as a basis for their attacks.

PLEASE NOTE: This is not not an anti-American sentiment, as I don’t have any, and even if I did I would not use a LOST blog to air them, I’m simply pointing out that nobody seems to have thought about it this way.

By: nawawala

nawawala — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:01:04 +0000

Thanks for the article, Marc. As usual, it was awesome and offered a different perspective on Lost. Regarding the similarities in movie themes, I remember it was 1999 when the movies “The Sixth Sense” and “The Others” both came out which coincided with the public having a higher knowledge and understanding of paranormal. I’m not sure if the theme of these movies became a result or the cause of this evolved consciousness, but I thought its worth sharing.

By: johr77

johr77 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:08:39 +0000

I watched this movie a few weeks ago,
I enjoyed it.
I did notice some similarity’s to lost
but i think they were more just similarity’s to SiFi.

enjoyed the article.

By: Dolce

Dolce — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:09:00 +0000

Spiderman was actually already done most of the filming when the events of 9/11 occured. In fact they had to remove a scene that included the WTC. However, the timing of it’s release could not have come at a better time, because, yes, super hero movies do comfort us in times of stress. Certainly the wild success of the film and the new post-9/11 world led to the avalanche of films in that genre that continue to be successful to this day.

By: grasspike

grasspike — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:29:49 +0000

Bad Robot is the production company owned and run by J. J. Abrams. J.J. is a co-creator, writer, executive producer, and director for Lost.

To say that the Bad Robot team does not bring is us Lost is totally incorrect

By: whateverhappenedhappened

whateverhappenedhappened — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:26:43 +0000

Each to their own.

By: whateverhappenedhappened

whateverhappenedhappened — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:23:04 +0000

I suppose it depends on which way you look at it. In many ways, yes, you are very right: Cloverfield is extremely post-9/11 (probably in more ways than it isn’t). But what I was getting at was that pre-9/11 cinema was much more free to show cities being destroyed (independence day, godzilla) and now that is quite a rough terrain. Yes, it has been done in Cloverfield and other recent films, but it is un-debatable that since 9/11 this kind of film has decreased and, fundamentally, changed.

By: Ament

Ament — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:08:13 +0000

WILSON!!!
WALT!!!

By: Ament

Ament — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:41:38 +0000

Hollywood creativity is in short supply, we all know that and can see it with remakes of remakes…how many part 3 and 4’s are coming out next summer. “The Simpsons” great show but lets face it “The Flintstones” came out years before, which funnily enough was an animated prehistoric version of “The Honeymooners”.

Let’s just say “Knowing” got some ideas from “Lost” are we saying nothing impacted the thought behind “Lost”? Anyone see “Castaway”?….plane crash….making use of salvage….building a raft…..emotional connection to the island. All you needed was the fire making scene in “Lost” and “Castaway” can be a “Lost” recap episode for season 1. “Lost” adapted and became unique, thats why it will be my favorite.

By: thorsten

thorsten — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:25:08 +0000

Damon and Carlton refer to the zombie season quite often, it reminded me of Robert A. Heinleins story ‘—All You Zombies—’ from 1958, which has it all. Time travel and fertility paradoxes…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Zombies—

By: Marc Oromaner

Marc Oromaner — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:31:21 +0000

Nearly all Dr. Seuss stories were parables aimed at teaching a complicated lesson in a way children could understand. Kind of how LOST explains complicated spiritual and religious concepts by using an island as a microcosm of the world we live in, and its inhabitants as archetypes of all of us. There, I saved you some time. The moral of the story is nothing is pointless. Even your belief that something is pointless has a point. Your screen name, Wintermute–winter is a time of death, mute is silence. Your avatar is the angel of death or ghost of X-Mas Future (mute) or iconic representations of them. If you haven’t already seen “Harold and Maude,” check it out. I think you’ll enjoy it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067185/

By: Marc Oromaner

Marc Oromaner — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:21:28 +0000

I agree that super hero movies come out to comfort us in stressful times. However, I also believe that writers are modern-day shaman that pick up on events that have yet to “happen.” I use that term coming from our perspective because I believe that time is an illusion that there is actually only one moment. It’s kinda like a CD-ROM video game. From the perspective of the character, there are events happening in time. But we know it’s all been coded and can take out the disc and hold the characters whole story in our hand at one moment. I believe our world works similarly. I’m in the multiverse camp where there are an infinite number of universes and we simply pop into the ones where our thoughts are taking us.