― The Yellow Kid (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Second thoughts: Well, yes, there are certain flaws.
Resolution: Grafts everything I liked about War of the Worlds (panic, confusion, brutality, relentlessness) with practically everything I liked about Titanic (same as above, only with unapologetic sentimentality), and it's a goddamned miracle that something of that sort could be so widely and rightly beloved.
My worst fears about it (i.e. the cinematography being so ostentatious that it grabs you by the lapels and shouts "I. AM. CINEMALANGUAGE.") were wiped away once I'd realized one shot had been going on for five, six minutes without my knowing it. Which certainly puts it above the one epic shot in The Black Dahlia.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link
(all of 2006, too)
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Which certainly puts it above the one epic shot in The Black Dahlia.
I just saw this last night and it's so fucking terrible (the movie, not the shot) that children of men seemed like citizen kane in comparison.
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link
only 20 minutes take place in london!
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Two days later I'm also wondering if Clive Owen's going barefoot or sandal-clad is an allusion to Die Hard (Owen's feet are more attractive than Willis', though).
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link
the long tracking shots are unreal. the action sequences are great because, while they owe a slight debt to Saving Private Ryan, they aren't indulgent; they aren't Michael Bay'd to death.
The only thing I didn't like was the ending. But it's one of the better movies I've seen in a long, long time.
― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 8 January 2007 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 8 January 2007 05:01 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah, i don't think this was a showoffy film at all, by contemporary standards.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 8 January 2007 05:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― max (maxreax), Monday, 8 January 2007 05:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 8 January 2007 05:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Monday, 8 January 2007 07:29 (seventeen years ago) link
Why was Julianne Moore so clean while everyone else was so grubby?
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 8 January 2007 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 8 January 2007 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link
the "Ruby Tuesday" cover was nowhere as cloddish as TOMORROW, tho.
I'm eager to see it again.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link
As for glamour, her teeth weren't capped.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
I mean, it's a (mostly) non-cheeseball metaphor about the endurance/function of hope in a seemingly hopeless world. And that's an incredible feat in itself. And I don't know that I've ever seen a movie that depicted the horrors of war as being so emotionally horrible. So desperately sad and gut-wrenchingly brutal at the same time. The movie basically seems to argue that modern life is a collective failure of imagination, compassion and humanity.
And I think that's why it's being "dumped" in the U.S. It's a withering indictment of American foreign policy (check the Abu Ghraib/Guantanamo scene at the entrance to the 'fugee camp), and it ultimately asks you to sympathize with terrorists. Or terrorists-by-association, at least. It's everything V for Vendetta promised and failed to deliver. Subversive, brave, smart and furiously engaged.
Best movie I've seen in the theater in ages.
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link
This may be changing -- full page ads running in NY papers, and it was #3 ($10.3 million) this weekend in going wide. The critics may have rescued this one, but we'll see if it has legs.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link
That's nice to hear.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link
That said, there wasn't a single empty seat in the house when I saw it on Friday night.
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link
this superbly crafted action thriller is being treated like a communicable disease.
Ever sensitive to buzz, critics have gotten the message and are steering clear. When the New York Film Critics Circle met last week, Children of Men got only a handful of votes, mainly for Emmanuel Lubezki's sensational cinematography. Earlier this month, The New York Times imagined Academy members in surgical scrubs, with a "news analysis" noting the unusual goriness of the year's Oscar contenders: The Departed, Flags of Our Fathers, Blood Diamond, Apocalypto, and The Last King of Scotland. A more resonant and gripping movie than any of these, Children of Men wasn't even mentioned.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
I did think that she'd never looked better than in the scene in the newspaper hut. Moore should walk around with a big halogen light next to her all the time.
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Dreamgirls is not part of the particular equation being addressed there (melisma is the musical equivalent of gore).
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
saw this on Friday, if it counts as a 2006 movie it was my favorite movie of 2006
― dmr (Renard), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― dmr (Renard), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link
At various times in the first third of the movie, mention is made of a upsurgence of people joining radical end-of-the-world Christian organizations in response to mankind's infertility; I think it is safe to extrapolate that there would be a coincedent upsurgence of people joining other religions, Christian or otherwise. The two soldiers who drop to their knees and cross themselves strike me as a confirmation of this assumption.
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link
One of the things I loved was how unobtrosive the long uncut scenes were. They weren't showy so they managed to bring a sense of immediacy and naturalness to the film. I was increasingly drawn into this film. It was so physical and the narrative was a simple alegory, but the details were beautiful.
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link
2 things:
1. anyone care to speculate on cuaron's preoccupation w/ feet?2. "marichka" (pronounced, best i can remember, as "marika") = america? or is that a stretch?
― m@p (plosive), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link