Children of Men

[Anne Hog]

Has anybody seen it? I'd like to get an opinion before I might go to see it. It's directed by Alfonso Cuaron, who also directed Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Y Tu Mama Tambien.

[Chelpo]

I love Y To Mama Tambien! But yeah, I don't know anything about this movie.

[Anne Hog]

From what I hear, it is a somewhat disturbing movie, but many people have said its one of their favorite movies of the year--pulling you into the story.

[Chelpo]

Cute story: I post that last comment where I say I don't know anything about the movie, I shut off my computer, walk out of my room and my roommate immediately says, "Hey, wanna go see a movie? We're going to see Children of Men!"

I enjoyed it -- it was almost really good. The premise and the ideas in it are really interesting, but there were a few too many explosions and a few too many cliche, predictable moments. [spoiler]The Loveable Hippy Man dies.[/spoiler] I feel like I shouldn't have spoilered that because it's obvious it will happen right from the start, even though it's presented as a huge plot twist. Every time I hear the line [spoiler]"We're safe now. We're safe."[/spoiler] spoken like it's the most profound thing in the world I want to throw things at the screen. It was a movie that would have been more effective without a clear bad guy, since the themes were more complex and more interesting than good vs. bad.

I thought the direction was amazing though. I loved that none of the main characters ever had weapons. It added a lot of tension to the otherwise long explosion/shootout scenes. I've never seen a car chase that made me feel like I was in the car being shot at quite like that before. There was a bit too much violence and it distracted from the less conventional parts of the movie, but it was done really well.

It was frustrating how close it came to being an amazing movie. Definitely worth seeing.

[novel idea]

Quality review, Chelpo; much thanks in your general direction. Will wait for this one to come out. I feel I will be dissapointed in it.

[Chelpo]

Yeah, it's one of those movies where you might be disappointed if you have high expectations, but if you expect if to suck you'll probably be pleasantly surprised.

[Hop on]

I saw this movie because my friend's brother said it was good. Considering my friend and I both work at movie theatres, we see movies based on any whim.

I didn't really know much about it. I feel like with the premise it should have been better, but was still worth seeing. I agree that it was really violent, which made it so much funnier when the girl next to me said, "ew!" when Theo walks in the mud with no shoes on. Like that was the only thing in the movie she found gross.

[byron]

I saw this over the weekend, I agree with Chelpo's review. Especially about how close it came to being an amazing movie.


I loved the use of King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King" when Theo is arriving at his cousin's, uh, palace. I don't think they could have chosen a better piece of music.

After watching it, I felt like there was alot going on in a short time frame and that I missed somethings. I'll probably watch it again soon.

[tehMick]

I saw the movie the other night and I thought it was pretty good.
The thing I liked most about the movie was the way it was shot.
I really enjoyed the long shots.
Especially the one at the end.
I call it the "Gears of War" scene.
Anywho, the movie definitely had promise of being great.
Unfortunately, it fell short.

[OceanWalker32]

I thought it was a good movie, just a very grim and dark one. The whole idea of it is interesting, and it's brilliantly directed - especially the scene with the camera in the car. It's worth seeing, but it's not really a great movie.

[Nicholas Angel]

I didn't love it as much as some other people, but it's still a great movie. The last 45 minutes are absolutely fantastic, the film is just pretty good up until then, but once it got to that point, that was when I started loving it.