Children of Men

BeautifulBurnout · #1 09-23-2006, 12:45 PM

Anyone seen this yet? Every clip and every review screams out for me to see this asap. Clive Owen's role has been described as his best ever, and Michael Caine as an old long-haired hippy is just too tempting a prospect for words.

PD James was always a good writer. I haven't read this book but it will be interesting to see how she translates to the big screen. She is most famous for her Adam Dalgleish detective stories which do well on the TV here.

GoatSucker · #2 10-07-2006, 05:28 AM

Saw this last night and can definitely recommend it. Clive Owen and Michael Caine are excellent and the film portrays a genuinely believable future.

Bargo · #3 10-29-2006, 11:14 PM

I saw this on the weekend and I have to say it's definitely my #1 movie for 2006 unless something comes later to bump it off (The Fountain, perhaps).

Some of the action and suspense scenes were just mind-blowing, most of them done (or appearing to have been done) in just one take. I've got to give particular mention to the roadside attack, and the way the camera swirls around inside the vehicle (rather than cutting) to show the different perspectives of its passengers whilst absolute chaos goes on outside.

Great soundtrack, too. Michael Caine's character has some good taste.

b.miller · #4 10-30-2006, 11:59 AM

i really really really want to see this but won't get the chance for about a month. I think it plays just about everywhere else in the world before here in the States (damn oscars)... looks great though.

grady · #5 10-30-2006, 12:41 PM

This is one of those films that I'm itching to see at the moment and thanks to the wonderful late release as others have mentioned, we get it here in the states last.

I just wish the trailer didn't reveal so much(I presume) of the story. I might be wrong, but perhaps some of those who've seen the film can verify whether my assumption is correct or not.

b.miller · #6 12-14-2006, 02:27 PM

resurrecting since I think i'll be out in the states before too long.

This movie really blew me away. Don't mind the trailer... don't even watch it if you've been lucky enough to dodge it. the trailer's wrong. this is a very very very good movie.

Emmet · #7 12-24-2006, 05:15 AM

possibly my favourite film of the year

viddy · #8 12-27-2006, 07:16 AM

Good movie, but not great. The trailer had me excited since last July. **Spoilers ahead**

The pacing was slow to me. I kept waiting for more action, I wasn't satisfied till the last quarter of the film. There just seemed to be too much blah blah blah talking and not enough action. I kept waiting for Clive Owen's character to grab a gun. I was waiting for him to really get pissed off and lean over and grab a rifle off the ground and start firing back, or at least carry a weapon for protection. But he just kept being taken advantage of by just about anyone else (who was carrying a weapon).

When the action was there it was fantastic. I loved the very long takes and/or the blending of multiple takes into one seamless shot. Very impressive from a filmmaking standpoint. The filming locations/set design were also a great achievement; it's such a difficult look to pull off with the amount of different locations I saw.

I also could have felt more for the characters. I didn't get to know them enough so I didn't really care for them all that much. They didn't get built up enough before diving into the journey. The best part for me was when Clive and "Key" were walking out of the building in combat with the crying baby, how everyone just froze. It was a chilling and sad moment. Excellent.

I wanted this to be the best film of the year, I wanted it to hit me like all the reviews said it would, but it just didn't have the impact I was hoping for. But like I said, when it was good, it was good.

p.s. very Half Life 2-ish indeed.

GforGroove · #9 01-01-2007, 11:06 PM

I didn't knew anything about this movie and it really blew me away too.

For the most part was incredible i mean *incredible*. i just wish the end wasn't that chessy. All the politic plot around immigration and terrorism is really good together with the beatiful production design. This movie LOOKS just soo good. Huxley reloaded

How about the book? Does someone read it before?
I want to read this so much now.

*spoiler*

Michael Caine a la John Lennon is the best part of Children of Men. OMG that is THE ROLE!!!

chino · #10 01-07-2007, 07:20 PM

My 2006 fave film. I had heard about it, but when I finally saw it, some weeks ago, I was really pleased about how a good film has to be.

Very sad, melodramatic and I liked the end, I guess it could have other options, but finally I liked the complete story.

I don't fucking care about the director's nationality, here in Mexico, the film marketing was based upon the fact, that we had to support mexican stuff created on Hollywood, but I think that is great to have such great directors, but the final product is everything but mexicanl. As many other interesting people, Cuaron is just a citizen of the world.