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
Huh, don't know that one. Did any film that you know of do it between Come and See and Saving Private Ryan? How did the sound design of Come and See, well, sound? Are there clips?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 31 December 2016 14:47 (seven years ago) link
Here it is!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMxI6YERzQU
Around the 40 minute mark, maybe?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 31 December 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
Man I've been wanting to see Come and See for years. Not going to watch it on youtube though.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 31 December 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
oh I can rent it on amazon. SD though.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 31 December 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
Good movie.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 December 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
"Soviet Definition"
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Saturday, 31 December 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
Even scrubbing through it on Youtube I can tell that's not a film I need to watch right now in my life
Come and See is certainly a bucket list film, and I still remember scenes like Glasha's dance in the woods or the einsatzgruppen commander putting his helmet over his marmoset clear as day a dozen years after my last viewing.
What I remember from Children of Men at a similar remove are the two extended single takes (the ambush, & finding preggo Joy in the Bexhill tenement under attack), and an attention to background detail that's up there with Gilliam. Its the background detail fleshing out the world that rewarded a second viewing at the time. nerdwriter1 did a recent praise video on this, in fact:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-woNlmVcdjc
― Least-satisfying overall (Sanpaku), Saturday, 31 December 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
The aforementioned reappraisal brings that up, how Cuaron wanted to include background stuff in every scene to avoid awkward exposition, which always seems to sink dystopian stuff.
Together, they hit on the idea of loading up the background with information — graffiti, placards, newscasts — and thus limiting the kind of expository dialogue that often plagues dystopian stories. Cuarón recalls Lubezki declaring, “We cannot allow one single frame of this film to go without a comment on the state of things.”
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 31 December 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
Rewatching it again recently, knowing the plot and dialogue very well made it easier to pay attention to all those details.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 31 December 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, December 31, 2016 8:47 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Cop Land does, Stallone's character is already deaf in one ear and someone shoots a gun next to his other one
― mh 😏, Saturday, 31 December 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link