'Children of Men', the new Alfonso Cuaron sci-fi flick

Definitely in my top five dystopian films but I don't know about beyond that...

top 5 dystopian films:

blade runner
akira
children of men
brazil
strange days

Yeah such a great film. Last time I can recall being knocked out in the theater by a big studio flick. "Gravity" such a wet rag in comparison.

Akira freaked me out too much to watch all the way through, Blade Runner I haven't seen recently enough to be objective about, Brazil I still need to say, Strange Days good call

still need to SEE

Last time I can recall being knocked out in the theater by a big studio flick. "Gravity" such a wet rag in comparison.

OTM on both fronts

also blade runner is kind of boring tbh

i saw BR for the first time at a midnight showing though after drinking a lot at a party, so that could be why i thought it was boring

not otm imo - blade runner is tense + compact xp

but yes children of men is amazing. cuaron did a wonderful job. so bleak, and so many good characters. i want to smoke weed at jasper's house. that whole set at his place was designed SO well and the character written and acted wonderfully

so many great little moments in this film too. clive owen with 2 pints (or was it 3?) at the pub was great

it was three pints definitely

that's one dystopia where you kinda have to be drunk all the time to get through the days

kinda like the one we live in :(

yeah god this is so good

charlie hunnam is good at playing hateable characters (cf here and sons of anarchy)

We're talking movies but this is a freaky as fuck book about another kind of dystopia (spurred by a plague):

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/06/285740456/-black-moon-imagines-a-sleepless-american-nightmare

I want to see this again. For a movie I only saw once, a lot of it has stuck in my head.

There's a cool philosophy book that came out recently that was inspired by Children of Men, called Death and the Afterlife, by Samuel Scheffler, which has as its principal thought experiment: How would your basic attitudes on life be different if you knew for a fact that mankind as a whole would not long outlive your own death? He uses Children of Men as a case study of how this might lead to a kind of generalized society-wide doldrums and inability to find significance in life, so that a main function of society becomes easing people's pain. I'm not so sure that we wouldn't just get used to the idea after a few months.

Yeah. I really love this movie.

'She's not gon' ta puke is she? Puking's bad. Very very bad'.

Yeah this is in my very top films. Can't believe it made such a small impression the first time I saw it. The second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth times though...

Top five for me.

― dan selzer

Of the 00s certainly.

people who like this should play The Last Of Us on Playstation 3/4

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But I'd give it a re-watch to see Clive Owen (surely one of the v few English actors who managed to put a good run of films in the last few years?? I don't really track this too hard) and Julianne Moore.

I haven't seen this since it came out. I just remember great long takes and someone playing Aphex Twin.

#longtakes

This is more relevant now than it has ever been. It seems even better too, and that's not faint praise. So many perfect and vivid details. I suppose the most amazing thing about it is that is seems a hair away, rather than a world away, from where we are now.

i was just thinking about this film yesterday, it is really really good

it's true, it does get better and feel more relevant each time i see it.

seeing it in the theatre was pretty heavy, i felt pretty shaken up for a few hours after

i didn't 'get it' the first time i saw it for some reason. maybe i was expecting something else, i dunno? must have seen it about six or seven times since and it shakes me up each time.

Game On.

?

The future Britain depicted by Children Of Men seems increasingly realistic, I think jed means.

Except it hasn't taken anything as dramatic as a global infertility crisis to get there.

But it is transpiring in one long uninterrupted take.

I gotta admit when the Zika virus started spreading this movie was the first thing I thought of

Yes sorry Tracer and thanks Kraków. Game on was a stupid phrase to use. I meant something else but couldn't think of it.

Good post as well Josh.

somebody tweeted the other that (paraphrasing) "i feel like we're living in the opening of a dystopian sci-fi movie where they show you news clips of how everything went to shit" and it barely registered as a joke.

Nice little history

http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/children-of-men-alfonso-cuaron-c-v-r.html

this movie is so good. I can't believe it tanked. Ahead of its time.

Masterpiece, prolly.

Definitely.

Currently on HBO Go

Had no idea it was a financial failure

overrated (by me at first too)

i havent see this movie in ten years and it still haunts me

^^^ the ambush scene on the road

on some weird instinct i watched this like 3 or 4 days after the election and my unconscious otm

I watched it with the film class that I'm TA'ing a few months back, and while I acknowledge that a second viewing cannot possibly have an impact that an initial one does, I still think its a masterpiece.

(on the whole, my students didn't seem too wild about it, though)

incredible film