damn, look at all that world-building in those newspaper headlines (the art department spelled 'violence' wrong tho ffs)
i need to watch this again, one of my favourite movies of the 21st century
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
CHARLES SHOULD BE THRONE OUT
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
that, along with 'fa cup cancelled', suggest that there were at least a few bright spots amongst the unremitting misery of the film's alternate future
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link
i've seen this film more times than any film I think... it's so good
― brand new universal harvester (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
it's so good that not even charlie hunnam can sink it
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:08 (six years ago) link
did i dream it or was there talk of doing a TV series?
― brand new universal harvester (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:10 (six years ago) link
that rings a very vague bell, but i don't think anything ever came of it
seems like the handmaid's tale would have stolen whatever sci-fi infertility-dystopia momentum it might have had, anyway
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link
oh yeah
― brand new universal harvester (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:16 (six years ago) link
Which basically points up to the real outcome here. Yes, Children of Men could get made in 2018 ... as a Netflix series.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
And Cuaron arguably knows it.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
10 episodes with only enough plot for four
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:23 (six years ago) link
yes, and ugh
― mh, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
My second viewing of COM in December 2016 confirmed my affection, but the enthusiasm baffles me a little.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
this is one of my favorite movies
― marcos, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
i have so much affection for jasper, what a great character. i wanted to watch another hour of him and theo hanging out, listening to records and talking politics
― marcos, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link
love that he had Test Dept as his alarm sound
― sleeve, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
the enthusiasm baffles me a little
one of the things i love most about it is that it's such a great example of sci-fi not really being about the future but a reflection of the present - it shows a dying society which has entirely given up on maintaining a sustainable environment, where immigrants face utterly horrifying everyday hardships, where bombs in the street are so commonplace that an explosion in a coffee-shop you were just in can barely raise a shrug
it just feels like a really lived-in world, way more than a casual read of a plot summary would suggest, and it feels like it's just around the corner
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link
the relative subtlety of the whole enterprise makes it something that's not wearying to be enthusiastic about, imo
― mh, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
xp More that everything is already long set in motion and there's no reversing it now.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
yeah, that long slow defeated slump into oblivion just hangs over the film like smog
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
Also, the least happy "happy" ending since A.I.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
have to admit i was nonplussed the first time i watched it. i was expecting something else. it really clicked the second time round
― brand new universal harvester (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
I've seen it twice. My enthusiasm dampened a tiny bit on the second viewing, and while I still think its a great film, it may be one of those where an initial viewing in the theater is essential.
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
i rewatched it the day after the brexit vote and it's been on my mind since.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
jeez, that must have been a massive downer
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
i've probably said this before but i literally had no idea this movie existed and the only reason i saw it is because i'd locked myself out of my flat and my flatmate was actually at the cinema watching some crap called "children of men" and i BOUGHT A TICKET just so i could get my keys back, and it turned out i'd gotten there about 2 or 3 minutes after it started so i was like, i might as well watch it now. and, well, wow.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 16:56 (six years ago) link
haven't seen this since 2007 and tbh scared to watch it again
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
The use of king crimson in this movie is so dope
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
no greater feeling than basically watching a great movie by mistake imo, envious of tracer's first-viewing story
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
yea but tracer did you miss the first scene? in the coffee shop?
― marcos, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
saw that. missed the scene in his office.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
yeah it was completely the best way to see it.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
the sum of all theaters
― mh, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
Ha, that one and True Lies are the rare action movies where they actually set off a nuclear bomb and, for that matter, that is not the end of the movie.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
I'd read the P. D. James book back in 1993 or so, so I was eager and saw it in its first week. A rare sci-fi adaptation that improved on its source material (I'm looking at you, Never Let Me Go). 2006 was really an outstanding year for films in my wheelhouse. Recall seeing Pan's Labyrinth, The Fall, The Fountain, The Science of Sleep, A Scanner Darkly, Perfume in theaters, I'm not sure I've been to theaters more than 2-3 times in the years since.
― Zhoug speaks to you, his chosen ones (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
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i rewatched this recently for the first time in at least 15 years and i completely fucking forgot a nuclear bomb goes off on an island in the florida keys
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
itβs a bold choice!
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
oh there's a bomb at the heart of True Lies alright
― songs by bands by Sondheim (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5424b4c0e4b0dd777eb2ebe1/t/543074a6e4b0467040205114/1412461735624/
― omar little, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
that's the stuff
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link
on rewatch i thought true lies was a tremendously entertaining collection of action setpieces threaded together by the grossest plot imaginable
loved it when i was a kid ofc
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link
still, v charmed by how ridiculous that scene is
Because if it's not loveThen it's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bombThat will bring us together
― nickn, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
on rewatch i thought true lies was a tremendously entertaining collection of action setpieces threaded together by the grossest plot imaginableloved it when i was a kid ofc
this is my exact memory of seeing it as a kid
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
with additional "hey is Tom Arnold actually funny or is Cameron et al editing successfully around an ongoing coke frenzy"
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
lmao otm
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
haha
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 23:52 (six years ago) link
I was old enough when I saw True Lies that I found it infuriatingly offensive and beneath Jamie Lee Curtis and esp. Cameron (who at that point was more or less all killer, no filler). I guess it's "fun" in the "hey, it's locker room talk, we're just guys" sense.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 April 2018 00:04 (six years ago) link
sic otm although it was his sister who was apparently at the center of a large drug operationenterprising lot, those arnolds
― mh, Thursday, 26 April 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link