{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"#49: Savages\/Knowing (with Knowledge Fight)","description":"You know, every day it seems like we\u2019re hurdling ever closer to the end of the world \u2014 so it\u2019s fitting that we\u2019ve got a double feature to match! This week, Dan and Jordan from Knowledge Fight take a little breakie from sifting through the purestrain nonsense of Infowars and Alex Jones to talk with us about Savages and Knowing! In Savages, Oliver Stone adapts a tawdry crime thriller about what happens when a pair of hunky poly Laguna Beach weed entrepreneurs (Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Taylor-Johnson) have to rescue their third (Blake Lively) from a scary Mexican drug cartel led by Salma Hayek and Benicio Del Toro. The results are long, washed-out, and obnoxious, to the point where not even a go-for-broke Travolta can save it in a supporting role as a corrupt DEA agent. Ironically, things start to look better as the Earth nears apocalypse, with Alex Proyas\u2019 deceptively earnest sci-fi drama Knowing. Nic Cage plays an astrophysicist who suddenly has to face the possibility that the world\u2019s going to end (slash discover a sense of faith?) when his son comes into possession of a series of numbers that predict the destruction of the planet. It\u2019s a neat little throwback to the conceptual sci-fi pictures of the \u201850s and \u201860s, and Cage is remarkably restrained. Give it a look (and give us a listen!) ","author_name":"Travolta\/Cage","author_url":"http:\/\/www.nathanrabin.com","html":"