My coworker has recomended to watch this movie. I can only say that, I hated it, almost wanted to leave half way through. Story about nothing, pointless plot… Nothing to really care about.
And suprised to hear that, many thing its fantastic and great movie.
:? 
i thouht it was the best film i saw all year. great film making, simple and effective, adapted from P.D. James novel.
i know everyone willhave different views, but the acting was superb (Michael Caine, legend), the sets and action were very well put together, no alterior motives, no flag waving, no happy endings, no overly soppy bits. A good British film IMO. 
(even if the Director wasnt 
)
and best of all no three hour Hollywood ending, explaining life the universe and everyhting, and charting the next ten years of every character, so we cna make sure they truley are happy.
lol
v-for vendetta, the awsome Alan Moore novel, should have been more like this, and missed the mark with some crappy Holywood-isation.
:lol:
Havnt seen it yet.
But his is somewhat interesting
Also its current rating on IMDB is 8.1
best film I saw last year aswell, totaly transfixed from beginning to end.
havent seen this yet, might check it out this week…
that article is really interesting, good find! its a good example of the cool camera work.
there is a bit in the film, probably coolest geek bit, where blood from an explosion slops over the camera, no attempt to remove it, which is a nice touch. goes after the next cut, but its the sort of thing that really pulls you into the action.
i feel like im trying to sell it! lol…
Re: Children of Men - your thoughts?
on cgtalk people are also in love with this movie. But I… man this movie sucks badly. I don’t know I think it’s for some sensitive people who are doing nothing but thinking all day ong about life and so on 
Before this shit move I saw Rocky Balboa and this was something to see!
Re: Children of Men - your thoughts?
Mh, yeah.
I heard somewhere there’s even people who read books, and don’t look upon male hormons like they were the solution to all of life’s issues.
Few, mind you.
Precious few, though, if you ask me.
Lele
Yeah, I agree with you Lele. Frack Balboa!
Re: Children of Men - your thoughts?
Maybe it’s becasue I don’t read too much but I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.
AHAHAHAHAHHA
Seems like maybe it’s one for the Brits then, because it was definitely my favourite film of last year, when it really blew me away. The vfx were very well executed without being in your face, the camera work was flawless, and the sound design was incredible - especially when seen at the cinema in the sequence where the motorcycle is chasing the car in the forest. All in all, I loved how it was so low key and under played.
A friend told me that in the US, the marketing is pushing the film as the Blade Runner for the 21st Century. There are some obvious similarities main character traits, the setting of the dystopian near future, the idea of retro-fitting, etc, but on the whole I don’t agree with comparisons like that as they imply the film is somewhat derivative.
Watched it again on DVD last night, and though it had obviously lost a lot of impact from the cinema, I still thought it was stunning. Just my 2 cents!
Andrew.
i just saw “in persuit of happyness” now that was an awsome film.
hehe elf…
ok, lets put the VFX, the camera work and other fx aside. This movie has a story… women have stopped getting pregnent…why? no one knows. Why did this one woman get pregnent? no one knows. What is the human project? no one knows. Why do we have to care? I dont know, I didnt care… Bullshit. Too many questions to answer them all. I think that this movie is like war of the worlds. Those who read the novel loved the movie because they filled in the gaps with the book. I didnt read, so to me a lot is unexplained, movie like ended in a foggy dream.
I think all north americans loved this movie. But europeans did not…ahhahhaha
Lux :twisted:
I didn’t read the book and I loved it. I was able to fill in the holes and it didn’t bother me and I didn’t see them as holes but just part of a story that was too large to have it boiled down to 2 + hours. What I loved was the attention to detail every room had a smell a texture and I felt like I knew these people. My wife and I loved it but both of us thought it would be hard to recommend to anyone.
Women stopped getting pregnant because of state enforced “fertility tests” (advert in the movie). Michael Caine does make a few hypothesis on it, but they’re treated like plausible fantasies by himself.
She says she didn’t know how she got pregnant (she doesn’t know the father) but sex seems throughout the movie as one very plausible niche of fun people can still have.
Nature does do that when reproduction is at stake (see endangered species where females self-conceive: she also makes a joke about her being a virgin).
The human project is a “safe harbor” and a way to get fertility back to humanity, and a “community” (“It’s the human project real?” “it’d better be!”).
The ship that rescues her it’s called “Tomorrow”.
What else is needed?
I loved the movie deeply, and would recommend it to anyone that thinks ideals still have some power, or love strawberry flavoured grass :lol:.
Lele
changing the subject
watch ‘primer’. a bugjet film done by a few guys in texas. Its really really nice, and an inspiration on what you can get done with no money.
again its a plot that takes some thought, so im sure it wont be for everyone, but it was my most favourite film this year until Children of Men.
I watched this last night - one of the best films I’ve seen in years.
In fact the only real flaw with it was the scene where you have some fairly second rate actors discussing what to do in the farmhouse. Other than that it was all just excellent…
Excellent.
Thanks for the link. I was totally amazed by the camera work they achieved in that film, and couldnt work out how they managed to film that sequence… or the end fight sequence either (sadly no discussion of that shot in the article).
I am a total sucker for long takes (“Funny Games” anyone?), especially when they include loads of effects and extras… the logistics must have been unbelievable. That end sequence was insane!
I did think the plot was a little shallow… but the attention to detail in the enviromnent and the camera work carried it for me. I hate the lead actor, and in the scene with the birth I felt he destroyed the gravity of it for me… and the baby was cgi!? amazing fx again.
As for the cause of the childlessness… I thought it was a global phenomenon, so how could it have been a state enforced problem?