'Children of Men', the new Alfonso Cuaron sci-fi flick

"get psyched" is fine, cad.

btw, my top 10 of '06, at the time...

Inland Empire (David Lynch)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
The Joy of Life (Jenni Olson)
Kekexili (Mountain Patrol) (Chuan Lu)
Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas)
Gabrielle (Patrice Chéreau)
Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou)
My Country, My Country (Laura Poitras)
4 (Ilya Khrjanovsky)
Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme)

CoM, your typical merchant-ivory production

Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou)

the only other movie on your list I saw (thought it was awesome)

"the violence is just so OTT"

please watch "shoot em up" the pro-gun control bulletfest movie and report back with comparisons.

Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme)

haha waht

yeah, WAHT?

I haven't thought about this one in a while, but I think I remember the Michael Caine scenes, and the reveal of the pregnant girl, the refugee family that takes them in, etc. better than any of the action.

Yeah, the liberal humanist stuff.

I need to see Heart of Gold in its entirety. Every once in a while I pick up a half hour here or there on Sundance/IFC but never get around to finding the DVD.

s1ocki i hear you too but that sounds sorta like the apologist defense of irreversible

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:41 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

weak

really, though, s1ocki nailed it. it's a great movie and i'm an awful wuss.

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:11 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

im sorry i resorted to wuss-calling dude that was lame of me

still stand behind the rest of my argument tho

still tho one of my favorite lines from this movie was "baby diego, c'mon the guy was a wanker"

ok so morbs can we agree that the line between 'batshit-overpraise' and 'get psyched' is a moving target most of the time.

i was totally pumped when i saw CoM (i would never think in 'movie of the decade' terms, but def one of my favs of that year) but admittedly haven't given it much thought since then. people tend to moderate their reactions w/time and distance and stuff.

in fact I saw it twice in the theaters, very rare for me

Along with all the Pink Floyd stuff, did anyone else notice the Magma reference? The bit where they're all staying w/ Michael Caine and Miriam sees Kee outside exercising and asks "Is she doing Udu Wudu?". I think I heard that bit right anyhow...

a lil hut covered in newspapers. newspapers. in the 2020s. hmmm.

wish i saw this in theaters, i blame the shitty trailers for keeping me away

I never saw Erin Brockovich, but I did just have fun visiting our old thread for Master and Commander, still my ultimate mindblowing example of how films suck at telling stories:
"Hello, doctor, we are passing the Galapagos Islands."
"Oh! I never mentioned this before, but did you know that my character I am an avid naturalist, and would really like to see the Galapagos Islands?"
"I'm sorry, but we're in pursuit of a ship and can't stop."
"Well then be advised that this is a very dramatic moment, and a conflict now exists between the two of us."

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:04 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

heh, i like to imagine nabisco quit posting out of shame when he was decisively proven wrong about Master & Commander

don't you see nrq, once the earth's population got old they wanted ink on their hands again.

Watched this for the second time last night. I must've REALLY not been concentrating the first time round because really, I don't remember half the stuff. If anything this film's improved with age because it predicts so much.

If I were to change anything, I'd have left out some of the pop music in the first half. While the tracks were great, they felt crowbarred in and kind of detracted from what was going on. I realise Caine's character is supposed to be a sort-of sixties hippie equivalent, so there is a LOL element to him playing Radiohead and Roots Manuva in the same way some ageing dopesmoker might Grateful Dead, but still.

<3 this movie. need to see it again.

Haven't seen it since the theater. Time to revisit for sure.

what is happening w/ this dudes other movie!

This movie is a masterpiece. I left the theatre way back when in a mix of awe an shock. Makes me want to be a better person.

It says so much about Hollywood that it took "The Dark Knight" getting snubbed to expand the Best Picture slate to 10 films, but not this one.

The whole thing about the ceasefire and mouths agape thing was kinda clever imo. While it wasn't necessarily realistic, it did highlight an important point in that the fishes/army were only using the newborn as a macguffin - an excuse to blow the shit out of each other. This is highlighted by them continuing to fight as soon as Theo and co are a gnat's hair away from ground zero.

One of the most disturbing bits was with the teenager on the invisible console - to start with it looks as though he's mentally disabled, or somehow wired into a computer that's controlling him, but then you realise he's just playing a game. The way his Dad shakes his head as if to say "the kids of today" but also "what's happened to my son?!".

http://jordan.thefilmstage.com/post/29062079674/seen-this-film-at-least-a-dozen-times-and-never

ha!

amazing

what year did london win the bid?

2005. He's not Nostradamus

meh, coulda gambled if it was in preparation.

so... what's the big deal?

like if I was setting an apocalyptic film in 2027 I might have a guy wear a CUOMO/STABENOW 2016 shirt.

I think it's just a prelapsarian thing but yeah, i don't see why it's so amazing

The shirt itself isn't what's amazing. It's the forethought (which i still wouldn't qualify as amazing, but really thorough).

i noticed it in real-time! no way he could have guessed the logo, which i remember pedantically thinking

just thought it was a cool detail

come to think of it there's a lot of focus put on owen's clothes in general. like when dude at the hideaway asks him what to do about the blood stains on his suit and he's all "throw it away" and ends up changing into raggedy hand me down duds from the compound, or the bit where he's wearing a 2012 london olympics sweatshit courtesy jesper, or how he lays down his coat for kee to have the baby.
totally need to see this again!

― m@p (plosive), Monday, January 8, 2007 4:09 PM (5 years ago)

"2012 London Olympics sweatshit"

2 other mentions of it upthread... *yawns, looks at watch*

>just thought it was a cool detail

otm. never spotted this in the film before, and somehow managed to miss the single ref to it upthread from five years ago.

A little something

http://io9.com/this-iconic-scene-from-children-of-men-was-actually-an-840211730

i know a lot of people hate on children of men, but i loved it (only saw it once), and that scene is incredible.

I enjoyed The AV Club's contrarian take on that scene from a few years back.

I appreciated it, even if I think any rational person would disagree with it. Watching a movie is by definition an act of suspending disbelief and if you can't get with it, get the hell back in the kitchen.

how do you disagree with a scene?

or, do you just mean that it's unrealistic?

Disagree with the takedown, not the scene.

takedown is dumb