even if I believe to my core that the essential power of cinema lies in how shot A cuts with shot B.
Which, ahem, the "one-take" scenes in CoM also demonstrate the artistry thereof.
― Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Friday, 19 July 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
lol that guy's full of it from so many different angles
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 19 July 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
I much prefer his piece on how many damned cats there are in L'Atalante.
― Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Friday, 19 July 2013 19:13 (ten years ago) link
i wonder if he thinks haneke's single take scenes are "just showing off" too
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 19 July 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
showoff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oubsaFBUcTc
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 19 July 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
ISTR Ebert once making a similar complaint about some movie scene with a boat, and trying to figure out how they had captured the scene without getting the camera boat's wake in the shot, and it took him out of the movie. Maybe I'm thinking of somebody else.
― it itches like a porky pine sitting on your dick (Phil D.), Friday, 19 July 2013 19:20 (ten years ago) link
Anyway in re the AV Club thing, I liked reading it because that's an almost universally-acclaimed scene in an almost universally-acclaimed movie, and this dude's all WHERE'S YOUR CLIVE OWEN NOW, MOSES?
― it itches like a porky pine sitting on your dick (Phil D.), Friday, 19 July 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79ditPebZ8g
unseemly showmanship from Tony Jaa
― what makes a man start polls? (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 July 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
haha
― call all destroyer, Friday, 19 July 2013 19:36 (ten years ago) link
It was this one.
― Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Friday, 19 July 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
Watching a movie is by definition an act of suspending disbelief
no it isnt!
― mundane peaceable username (darraghmac), Friday, 19 July 2013 23:44 (ten years ago) link
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Friday, July 19, 2013 3:12 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
nice
― 乒乓, Saturday, 20 July 2013 00:58 (ten years ago) link
http://vjmorton.wordpress.com/2006/12/26/a-gelded-orphan/
― Gukbe, Saturday, 20 July 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
I'm always suspicious of critiques that rely on direct comparisons with source material, especially when they're of a different medium.
― Simon H., Saturday, 20 July 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
SO. FUCKING. BLEAK.
Amazing how key footwear becomes in this movie
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
Top five for me.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
Top 5 of all time, really?
RIP PD James too,
― Nancy Whank (jed_), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
Definitely in my top five dystopian films but I don't know about beyond that...
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
top 5 dystopian films:
blade runnerakirachildren of menbrazilstrange days
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
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
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
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
― marcos, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
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
― 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
― 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