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Seriously. It’s a nativity story. It’s incredibly well paced and structured. The one take scenes arent just showing off- it’s all in service of taking what would be a “gently caress yeah!” scene in an action movie and turning it into “gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress” The tension builds but there’s no release valve. Also Clive Owen is great in it and this movie is why I will watch basically anything he’s in. Anyway this movie is 15 years old today. If you haven’t seen it- watch it. If you have seen it- watch it with someone who hasn’t so you can experience their reactions to seeing it the first time vicariously.
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Dec 25, 2021 06:16
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I watched this movie for the first time on a New Year's Eve and it is a very good movie and also ruined the entire night would recommend A+
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Its a Christmas movie? If so then yea totally
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Seriously. That was me watching the DVD of this that I got from the bad McDonald's redbox down the road, viewing on a lovely computer monitor in the 300 dollar a month studio apartment in my alcoholism days, just letting my cigarette burn down because I was agog at that specific part in the car backing away scene, just, MAN All the details of my life are very vivid outside of that moment in the movie, it's been a long time since a movie struck me like that
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Dec 25, 2021 06:27
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I get depressed enough on Christmas, are you trying to send me into some kind of darkness spiral
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I enjoyed this movie when it came out but I don't really have any desire to revisit it.
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Dec 25, 2021 06:31
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I rewatched this recently and it still holds up despite the heavy Bush-era overtones. I also realized the dreadlocked douchebag guy is played by Charlie Hunnam. One thing that hasn't aged well is the cgi newborn. Probably the most realistic preview we have of the sociopolitical havoc global warming is going to wreak in the coming decades, even though global warming isn't the factor that upends society in this story.
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The scene where they're on the bus going through the refugee camp and their handler gets taken off and black-bagged is absolutely horrifying. Also lmao yeah Hunnam as the incompetent wook freedom fighter is hilarious. I can't remember if he gets gunned down in the street, or makes it into the apartment building and gets blown up by a tank round?
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rotinaj posted:I get depressed enough on Christmas, are you trying to send me into some kind of darkness spiral Yes. Floodixor posted:
I like how Theo lights a shitload of cigarettes through the movie but never gets to finish a single one. Best example is after they bury Julian after that part and he starts one, absolutely loses his poo poo crying, and then is interrupted because they have to leave.
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Its actually Home Alone 1 and 2
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Caesar Saladin posted:Its actually Home Alone 1 and 2 Does Kevin kill a guy with a car battery in one of those or is it that Children of Men?
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Mister Speaker posted:The scene where they're on the bus going through the refugee camp and their handler gets taken off and black-bagged is absolutely horrifying. Isn’t he blown in half in the apartment leading up to the “CEASE FIRE! CEASE FIRING!” scene or is that the other guy?
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I think you're right, but can't recall exactly. It's definitely Chiwetel Ejiofor who gets blown up by a tank round, but I don't remember much else around that scene apart from how absolutely emotionally wrecking it is when the baby starts crying and everyone just stops fighting, only to start back up again a moment later.
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I know what a child is like. I can't i,magine what potty trainging is like.
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Mister Speaker posted:I think you're right, but can't recall exactly. It's definitely Chiwetel Ejiofor who gets blown up by a tank round, but I don't remember much else around that scene apart from how absolutely emotionally wrecking it is when the baby starts crying and everyone just stops fighting, only to start back up again a moment later. Ohhh wait IIRC he’s executing people in the street and then gets shot out of nowhere as poo poo continues to hit the fan
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Mister Speaker posted:Also lmao yeah Hunnam as the incompetent wook freedom fighter is hilarious. I can't remember if he gets gunned down in the street, or makes it into the apartment building and gets blown up by a tank round? Dies in the apt from gunfire from the soldiers outside. Recently rewatched and while grim forgot they did include some upbeat notes. After the baby is born they take shelter in an apt in the refugee camp and the elderly woman is able to dote on the baby and gives fresh fruit to Kee, probably not easy to get. Possibly best world building in a film, especially showing how self defeating the government policies are. In Theo’s office many of the work stations are under dust covers as they probably can’t staff properly or replace anyone who leaves, and one of the Fishes who is a refugee clearly has advanced medical training (at the farm) but nope zero tolerance.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:
Two things always stood out to me: -the graffiti and newspaper bits -the whole “gently caress this, why bother” attitude of the entire world. I have never seen a movie where everyone who is not involved in the main plot is that level of checked out. Not in a bad way, not like the extras didn’t give a poo poo, but the opposite. No one sees any future so they’re all in that same kind of attitude you had if you were 25, unemployed, and didn’t see any option for things to get better… but there’s no one under like 30 in the movie. Everyone in even the background sells the poo poo out of the overwhelming despair of the setting.
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Children of Guys Dude, where's my child?
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Scrunch your toes if you feeling wasted. drat good advice.
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genuinely one of the greatest movies of all time but is it set during christmas?
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I recall watching it and not being very impressed.
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Beartaco posted:genuinely one of the greatest movies of all time but is it set during christmas? They spend some time with a fun grandpa and then are either explicitly drunk or miserable, so probably.
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That child? Jesus. And those men? Why it's the old man an the holy ghost themselves!
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Excellent movie that also made for a terrible date movie.
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More like Man Children amirite? I understand that it did a lot of technically great things with the screentime it had but I bounced off of it hard. I think if it hadn't been super hyped up to me before I watched it I might not have been disappointed by it. ...yippee kay yay, motherfuckers. chainchompz fucked around with this message at 08:46 on Dec 25, 2021 |
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Vernii posted:Excellent movie that also made for a terrible date movie. I think it somehow manages to top talking about your idea for an NFT and making GBS threads your pants at dinner as far as mood killers go.
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I got the book it was based on expecting more Children of Men goodness, because what book is worse than the movie. Turns out this one is. It’s so bad I can’t even figure out how someone read it and was like “we gotta make a movie out of this.” As I recall it ends with the main character taking a ring from the evil Prime Minister, and because he has the ring he’s now in charge of Britain. That could be wrong, though, because by that point I was possibly imagining new poo poo to improve the book.
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Smeef posted:I got the book it was based on expecting more Children of Men goodness, because what book is worse than the movie. Turns out this one is. It’s so bad I can’t even figure out how someone read it and was like “we gotta make a movie out of this.” As I recall it ends with the main character taking a ring from the evil Prime Minister, and because he has the ring he’s now in charge of Britain. That could be wrong, though, because by that point I was possibly imagining new poo poo to improve the book. They just took the concept and were like “that’s cool, let’s not waste it on a bunch of dumb bullshit”. PD James is usually good even but drat that book sucked.
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Smeef posted:I got the book it was based on expecting more Children of Men goodness, because what book is worse than the movie. Turns out this one is. It’s so bad I can’t even figure out how someone read it and was like “we gotta make a movie out of this.” As I recall it ends with the main character taking a ring from the evil Prime Minister, and because he has the ring he’s now in charge of Britain. That could be wrong, though, because by that point I was possibly imagining new poo poo to improve the book. Alfonso Cuarón had read about the premise of the book and wrote an original screenplay without having read the book itself. He had a writing partner who was more familiar with the book and injected names and references from it, but other than "we're in fascist britain and humans can't make babies no more" they have very little in common.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Two things always stood out to me: Oh yeah for sure, like early when Theo is kidnapped in the middle of the day and stuffed in a van nobody passing by tries to help or acts alarmed. Plus how the upper class part of society has walled themselves off to pretend stuff is ok and to just “not think about it.”
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SCheeseman posted:Alfonso Cuarón had read about the premise of the book and wrote an original screenplay without having read the book itself. He had a writing partner who was more familiar with the book and injected names and references from it, but other than "we're in fascist britain and humans can't make babies no more" they have very little in common. I don’t think anyone but Cuarón could have pulled the premise off, either. Someone upthread mentioned the worldbuilding , which usually is something tedious authors use to jerk off, but he nailed it. The world set the tone, the tone set the story, and the characters set the world. Cuarón loving rules at using set dressing and costuming to give just enough the actor can make the role their own, and then the viewer fills in the rest. The making of stuff for this movie is one of the rare making if’s that actually had me appreciate the movie more- there’s so many small details that the film pulls at but doesn’t beat you over the head with.
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Zeluth posted:I know what a child is like. I can't i,magine what potty trainging is like. It's going to be near impossible to find a book on it that's for sure
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Dec 25, 2021 09:47
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2006 and 2007 were some banging years for movies
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Milo and POTUS posted:2006 and 2007 were some banging years for movies I’d even push it to 2005-2008 tbh. If you liked dumb b movies there was good poo poo there. This was just on another level.
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You can watch anything with Clive Owen because he pretty much gives the exact same one note performance in everything he is in. Any dimension in his acting is a by-product of americans thinking english people are smarter than them, which is unfortunately true.
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