The Movie That Was Advertised Vs. The Movie We Saw

Rating: 1/10 (4 September 2009)

The Movie That Was Advertised: Fifty years ago, a bunch of schoolchildren are given an assignment to draw a picture about what the world will be like fifty years in the future. They all draw their pictures, throw them into a time capsule and it's sealed up. Fifty years later (present day) the capsule is opened and one of the "pictures" is a page full of digits -- who put it there or what they mean is a mystery. Nick Cage get a hold of the page of digits and after pouring over it and much research discovers that it's a list of the dates and number of people killed in every major disaster in the past fifty years, plus there are a few disasters yet-to-come that he has to try and stop. Who could have put this in the time capsule? How was this possible? Why?
Sounds like a pretty cool premise for a movie, right? I thought so as well. Unfortunately, that's not the movie we got to see. What we saw was this:
Fifty years ago a really freaky and disturbed girl who hears voices suggests to her school that they create a time capsule. The other kids all put drawings in, but she puts in the aforementioned list of numbers, and then proceeds to go hide in the basement. Fifty years go by, the capsule is opened, Nick Cage gets the sheet of numbers and after about ten seconds realizes what it is. He finds the freaky girl's daughter and granddaughter (the freaky girl herself is long dead) and realizes that while the freaky girl was hiding in the basement, she scrawled GPS coordinates of where to go when the apocalypse comes on the basement door (no really). They go to these coordinates where aliens take the granddaughter, Nick Cage's son and a pair of rabbits to a new planet so they can re-populate (really, I'm not making this up). Then the apocalypse comes and everybody else dies.
Too bad. The movie advertised in the trailer looked intriguing. Perhaps somebody will actually make it someday.