also blade runner is kind of boring tbh
― marcos, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
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
― marcos, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
not otm imo - blade runner is tense + compact xp
― Mordy, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
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
― marcos, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
so many great little moments in this film too. clive owen with 2 pints (or was it 3?) at the pub was great
― marcos, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
it was three pints definitely
that's one dystopia where you kinda have to be drunk all the time to get through the days
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
kinda like the one we live in :(
― Mordy, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
yeah god this is so good
― gbx, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
charlie hunnam is good at playing hateable characters (cf here and sons of anarchy)
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
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
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
Yeah. I really love this movie.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 02:31 (nine years ago) link
'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...
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 09:48 (nine years ago) link
Top five for me.
― dan selzer
Of the 00s certainly.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 10:01 (nine years ago) link
people who like this should play The Last Of Us on Playstation 3/4
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 10:35 (nine years ago) link
Charlie Brooker's BLACK MIRROR [Started by Walter Galt in February 2013, last updated 24 minutes ago by tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins)] 16 new answers'Children of Men', the new Alfonso Cuaron sci-fi flick [Started by chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap) in July 2006, last updated 1 hour ago by TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand)] 24 new answers
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:37 (nine years ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:40 (nine years ago) link
I haven't seen this since it came out. I just remember great long takes and someone playing Aphex Twin.
― fgti jaq, it's chinavision! (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
#longtakes
― Gland Of Horses (sic), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 04:14 (eight years ago) link
i was just thinking about this film yesterday, it is really really good
― marcos, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 14:10 (eight years ago) link
it's true, it does get better and feel more relevant each time i see it.
― cod latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link
seeing it in the theatre was pretty heavy, i felt pretty shaken up for a few hours after
― marcos, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 14:24 (eight years ago) link
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.
― cod latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
Game On.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 18 July 2016 23:49 (seven years ago) link
?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 08:47 (seven years ago) link
The future Britain depicted by Children Of Men seems increasingly realistic, I think jed means.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 11:54 (seven years ago) link
Except it hasn't taken anything as dramatic as a global infertility crisis to get there.
― chap, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 11:59 (seven years ago) link
But it is transpiring in one long uninterrupted take.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 12:01 (seven years ago) link
I gotta admit when the Zika virus started spreading this movie was the first thing I thought of
― poolboy skew (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 12:57 (seven years ago) link
Yes sorry Tracer and thanks Kraków. Game on was a stupid phrase to use. I meant something else but couldn't think of it.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
Good post as well Josh.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 23:11 (seven years ago) link
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.
― a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 23:16 (seven years ago) link
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.
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Saturday, 31 December 2016 03:06 (seven years ago) link
Masterpiece, prolly.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 31 December 2016 03:14 (seven years ago) link
Definitely.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 31 December 2016 03:15 (seven years ago) link
Currently on HBO Go
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 31 December 2016 03:21 (seven years ago) link
Had no idea it was a financial failure
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 31 December 2016 03:35 (seven years ago) link
overrated (by me at first too)
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 31 December 2016 03:51 (seven years ago) link
i havent see this movie in ten years and it still haunts me
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Saturday, 31 December 2016 04:01 (seven years ago) link
^^^ the ambush scene on the road
― sleeve, Saturday, 31 December 2016 04:06 (seven years ago) link
on some weird instinct i watched this like 3 or 4 days after the election and my unconscious otm
― Clay, Saturday, 31 December 2016 04:10 (seven years ago) link
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)
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Saturday, 31 December 2016 04:12 (seven years ago) link
incredible film
― marcos, Saturday, 31 December 2016 04:12 (seven years ago) link
"overrated (by me at first too)
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius),"
why am I not surprised
― akm, Saturday, 31 December 2016 04:34 (seven years ago) link
Watched it again this week. Still love it.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 31 December 2016 05:03 (seven years ago) link
so glad this piece reminded me of that sigur ros song that was in ALL the ads
― flappy bird, Saturday, 31 December 2016 05:25 (seven years ago) link
Even a big screen TV diminishes the impact slightly vs. seeing it in the theater.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 31 December 2016 05:58 (seven years ago) link
Was Saving Private Ryan the first movie whose sound design mimicked ear damage from a loud explosion, a high-pitched buzz or ring? Obviously this movie does it, too, but it shows up in pretty much every action movie now.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 31 December 2016 14:21 (seven years ago) link
Come And See did the same kind of thing in 1985.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Saturday, 31 December 2016 14:25 (seven years ago) link