was it that cheesy though? there were cheesier bits. i dunno, i didn't leave with much of a feeling of hope, even once she'd been picked up. who are these human project people? they might be just as bad as the fish. or they might just be useless.
It had me in tears in points. I know I don't see films as often as other people, so they tend to affect me more.
i dunno if it's anything to do with seeing less films... i see quite a lot and i was in tears pretty much the whole way through! i think it's just that it's an incredibly well-made, timely, insightful, powerful film that chimes with modern fears and is realistic enough to upset us in a non-escapist way.
― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost - soldiers be following orders.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link
also it's not been said yet how totally hott Owen is in this.
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Err, yeah. I didn't want to be the one to mention it, though. I was watching the whole film going "err, is it me, or is Clive Owen really hott in this? Coz I didn't think he was all that in King Arthur, but errr, hottt."
x-post yes, I laughed out loud at the Banksy in the Tate. (And it was the Tate for that sequence, weirdly, even though the outside was Battersea Power Station.)
― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link
(xposted to fuckery :)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost kate - the soldiers were just fighting to suppress the fishes; the fishes had blasted into bexhill to get the baby in order to lend mystical authority to the anti-government/pro-immigrant uprising they wanted to trigger; it turned out that the blast triggered the uprising, which i'm not sure they were counting on... anyway i think the only people "fighting" over the baby were the fishes?
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link
xp
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link
"i just [pops pill] don't think about it"
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/images9/children_of_men_poster.jpg
― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 January 2007 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 4 January 2007 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 08:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 4 January 2007 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 4 January 2007 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000J4P9YO.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V34326216_.jpg
― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 4 January 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link
I'd say so -- along with the rest of that sequence.
But the movie did not need another half hour.
pity I don't know who you are, farrell (most folx only get interesting when they talk shite about oneself).
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― lex pretend (lex pretend), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link
As someone who doesn't like Julianne Moore's work that much, this film used her exceptionally well!
― Pete (Pete), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Will probably go see this next week. Oscar noms for this then?
― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Best bet is technical awards like cinematography and art direction. Maybe adapted screenplay -- but I doubt it'll get anything more major than that.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
OTM.
― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Ditto on jaymc -- Lubezki's cinematography seems certain (he was nom'd for New World which died at the box office) and maybe editing as well as adapted screenplay, i.e. nothing the general public cares about. Universal is generally thought to be dumping it in the US, though it's opened well in 16 theaters so far.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Jesus
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Plus I can't seem to watch TV without seeing an advert for it.
― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link