Children of Men

[viddy]

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.

[Cranks]

Does anyone know when this opens Nationwide here in the U.S.? I looked on both the Universal website and The Children of Men site, but didn't see any info. Thanks in advance.

[viddy]

Originally Posted by Cranks

Does anyone know when this opens Nationwide here in the U.S.? I looked on both the Universal website and The Children of Men site, but didn't see any info. Thanks in advance.

I don't know, but when I saw it on Christmas it was only playing in like one theatre in all of Illinois, literally.

[Cranks]

Well, I saw a trailer for it on tv today, it's opening across the U.S. on Jan. 5

[GforGroove]

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]

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.

[GreenPea]

I liked it a lot mainly because it was violent and depressing as fuck and the depiction of anarchy and social decay was great. Some things did rub me the wrong way though, like some of the final scenes with the baby that were too cheesy, actually the whole ending was bleh. Also athough the depiction of a fascist UK was pretty cool some of the insertion of current events into the movie seemed really forced (like some rally at the refugee camp that looked like Hamas). I actually wonder what this movie would be like without the sci-fi element or if they had taken the sci-fi element to the extreme (like mother nature taking revenge on us and there is no hope/baby).

I dunno I don't see it as prophetic as some people do, nor did I care about the serious topics as adressed in the film (immigration, pollution, totalitarianism) as it seems that the conections to current events were forced to make it look prophetic/scare us. But the depiction of anarchy and the end of civilization is the best I've ever seen on film.

Michael Cane did look like John Lennon, but I can't say I cared about his glorified hippie character much :P

[Aaron Contreras]

The only important film I've seen since...

...okay, I can't remember the last important movie I saw in the theatre. Required fucking viewing as far as I'm concerned. People (including my date, ouch) were crying after it ended. I think this is the first movie I've seen as an adult...maybe the first movie that speaks to the burden of my generation?

I found it pretty fucking hilarious, too - there are lots of funny moments in the apocalypse, just you wait.

[GreenPea]

Originally Posted by Aaron Contreras

I found it pretty fucking hilarious, too - there are lots of funny moments in the apocalypse, just you wait.

Yeah, they had to do this to break some of the tension. I feel if they hadn't inserted some jokes people would have walked out.

[koisk]

Originally Posted by GreenPea

Yeah, they had to do this to break some of the tension. I feel if they hadn't inserted some jokes people would have walked out.

I just saw it, and yes - it helped! This movie was incredible as well as horribly depressing.

SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!!!!
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[/COLOR][COLOR=SandyBrown]The action scenes where some of the best I've ever seen in a movie. The attention to detail and the realism was mind blowing - example: The way the motorcycle not only gets knocked away but hits the hood of the car (ka-chunk!) was very well done. (Also, the getaway was the best 'oh-god-the-keys-won't-work-oh-god' type of getaway outside of Cujo.

After the thing was over I felt like taking some of those Quietus pills myself.[/COLOR]

END SPOILERS!!!!!!!!