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

https://newrepublic.com/article/147849/will-hollywood-ever-make-another-children-men

(also the bobby more headline in the image at the top of that piece is extremely Real England)

https://images.newrepublic.com/8bedf9706b95ec9260b21cb3e623a36ffffa0fb7.png?w=1000&q=65&dpi=1&fit=crop&crop=faces&h=667

interesting take, similar to what I read after Blade Runner 2029 'bombed'...studios aren't going to invest that kind of money on that sort of thing at this point (expensive looking heady intellectual sci fi art films).

damn, look at all that world-building in those newspaper headlines (the art department spelled 'violence' wrong tho ffs)

i need to watch this again, one of my favourite movies of the 21st century

CHARLES SHOULD BE THRONE OUT

that, along with 'fa cup cancelled', suggest that there were at least a few bright spots amongst the unremitting misery of the film's alternate future

i've seen this film more times than any film I think... it's so good

it's so good that not even charlie hunnam can sink it

did i dream it or was there talk of doing a TV series?

that rings a very vague bell, but i don't think anything ever came of it

seems like the handmaid's tale would have stolen whatever sci-fi infertility-dystopia momentum it might have had, anyway

oh yeah

Which basically points up to the real outcome here. Yes, Children of Men could get made in 2018 ... as a Netflix series.

And Cuaron arguably knows it.

10 episodes with only enough plot for four

yes, and ugh

My second viewing of COM in December 2016 confirmed my affection, but the enthusiasm baffles me a little.

this is one of my favorite movies

i have so much affection for jasper, what a great character. i wanted to watch another hour of him and theo hanging out, listening to records and talking politics

love that he had Test Dept as his alarm sound

the enthusiasm baffles me a little

one of the things i love most about it is that it's such a great example of sci-fi not really being about the future but a reflection of the present - it shows a dying society which has entirely given up on maintaining a sustainable environment, where immigrants face utterly horrifying everyday hardships, where bombs in the street are so commonplace that an explosion in a coffee-shop you were just in can barely raise a shrug

it just feels like a really lived-in world, way more than a casual read of a plot summary would suggest, and it feels like it's just around the corner

the relative subtlety of the whole enterprise makes it something that's not wearying to be enthusiastic about, imo

xp More that everything is already long set in motion and there's no reversing it now.

yeah, that long slow defeated slump into oblivion just hangs over the film like smog

Also, the least happy "happy" ending since A.I.

have to admit i was nonplussed the first time i watched it. i was expecting something else. it really clicked the second time round

I've seen it twice. My enthusiasm dampened a tiny bit on the second viewing, and while I still think its a great film, it may be one of those where an initial viewing in the theater is essential.

i rewatched it the day after the brexit vote and it's been on my mind since.

jeez, that must have been a massive downer

i've probably said this before but i literally had no idea this movie existed and the only reason i saw it is because i'd locked myself out of my flat and my flatmate was actually at the cinema watching some crap called "children of men" and i BOUGHT A TICKET just so i could get my keys back, and it turned out i'd gotten there about 2 or 3 minutes after it started so i was like, i might as well watch it now. and, well, wow.

haven't seen this since 2007 and tbh scared to watch it again

The use of king crimson in this movie is so dope

no greater feeling than basically watching a great movie by mistake imo, envious of tracer's first-viewing story

yea but tracer did you miss the first scene? in the coffee shop?

saw that. missed the scene in his office.

yeah it was completely the best way to see it.

i've probably said this before but i literally had no idea this movie existed and the only reason i saw it is because i'd locked myself out of my flat and my flatmate was actually at the cinema watching some crap called "children of men" and i BOUGHT A TICKET just so i could get my keys back, and it turned out i'd gotten there about 2 or 3 minutes after it started so i was like, i might as well watch it now. and, well, wow.

the sum of all theaters

Ha, that one and True Lies are the rare action movies where they actually set off a nuclear bomb and, for that matter, that is not the end of the movie.

I'd read the P. D. James book back in 1993 or so, so I was eager and saw it in its first week. A rare sci-fi adaptation that improved on its source material (I'm looking at you, Never Let Me Go). 2006 was really an outstanding year for films in my wheelhouse. Recall seeing Pan's Labyrinth, The Fall, The Fountain, The Science of Sleep, A Scanner Darkly, Perfume in theaters, I'm not sure I've been to theaters more than 2-3 times in the years since.

Ha, that one and True Lies are the rare action movies where they actually set off a nuclear bomb and, for that matter, that is not the end of the movie.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, April 25, 2018 12:21 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i rewatched this recently for the first time in at least 15 years and i completely fucking forgot a nuclear bomb goes off on an island in the florida keys

it’s a bold choice!

oh there's a bomb at the heart of True Lies alright

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5424b4c0e4b0dd777eb2ebe1/t/543074a6e4b0467040205114/1412461735624/

that's the stuff

on rewatch i thought true lies was a tremendously entertaining collection of action setpieces threaded together by the grossest plot imaginable

loved it when i was a kid ofc

still, v charmed by how ridiculous that scene is

Because if it's not love
Then it's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb
That will bring us together

on rewatch i thought true lies was a tremendously entertaining collection of action setpieces threaded together by the grossest plot imaginable

loved it when i was a kid ofc

this is my exact memory of seeing it as a kid

with additional "hey is Tom Arnold actually funny or is Cameron et al editing successfully around an ongoing coke frenzy"

lmao otm

haha